Toward Autonomous Virtual Organizations

The rapid advances in communication, information technology, and network technologies have had key role in emerging heterogeneous large-scale distributed systems. Besides, emergence of enterprise modeling and high integration of virtual organizations, proffesional virtual communities, and growth of number of practical cases on different forms of collaborative networks represent major trends and challenges in managing these systems. In a virtual organization, managing partners is crucial. An Autonomous System improves virtual organization functionalities and cope with complexity managemnt. Purpose of this paper is to present autonomous virtual organizations describing their characteristics, effects on quality factors, their building blocks architecture, and challenges. It then outlines this autonomous model for a virtual organization environment.