In today’s competitive, dynamic, and changing business environment, being able to collaborate globally within and beyond the enterprise borders is critical. Inter-Organizational Collaborations (IOCs) have been proposed as a response to the characteristics of highly competitive global business environments. So far, a number of reference models, frameworks, and ad hoc architectures related to som...

In this paper, the stability analysis and control design of heterogeneous traffic flow is considered. It is assumed that the traffic flow consists of infinite number of cooperative non-identical vehicular platoons. Two different networks are investigated in stability analysis of heterogeneous traffic flow: 1) inter-platoon network which deals with the communication topology of lead vehicles and...

The aim of this paper is to discuss which factors can be seen essentially affecting a company’s learning ability through its organizational receptivity in inter-organizational knowledge transfer. This will be done by developing a typology of the factors affecting company’s organizational receptivity (and absorptive capacity) of new knowledge in inter-organizational knowledge transfer. Yet, only...

Communication and inter-organizational coordination in crisis management are of uttermost important for all processes and can lead to fast and effective averting or ending of a crisis situation. In this paper, a real world incident of a fire in the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol train tunnel was formalised, based on a public inquiry report, and subsequently, the emergency response to the incident w...

This article proposes and evaluates a comprehensive agent-based architecture for an Interorganizational Intelligent Meeting-Scheduler. The article extends and generalizes the Intelligent Meeting-Scheduler conceptual model [EXPERSYS 95-Proc. Seventh Intl Conf. Artificial Intelligence Expert Syst. Appl. (1995) 279; J. Organizational Comput. Electron. Commerce, 9 (1999) 233] which focused on intra...