This demonstration concentrates on eServices (supporting electronic services) for Virtual Organization (VO) management support. The eServices are provided by the VOM toolkit (a suite of VO management tools), which was developed to support the VO manager in managing the VO throughout its life-cycle. In this demo the eServices related to all phases of the VO life-cycle are demonstrated together w...

Locating suitable resources within a Grid system is a computationally intensive process, with no guarantee of quality and suitability of the discovered resources. An alternative approach is to categorize resources based on the services they provide – leading to the interaction of peers with common goals to form societies/communities. Organization of resources in different communities is suggest...

State Machines (ASM) are mathematically defined environment for high-level system design, verificationand analysis. In our previous work [1], a hybrid approach to specification, analysis and testing of grid statefulservices has been presented. This approach is based on using ASM, and allows for an easy integration of createdspecifications of developed middleware with existing compon...

Recently we observe a surge in new technologies that are expected to change the way we process information and support workers in an organization. Two of them that are very often mentioned as “disruptive technologies” are: ontologies and software agents. In our recent project we attempt at conceptualizing the way in which these two technologies can be combined and utilized in information manage...

The Virtual Organisation (VO) is a new phenomena in organisational design. A problem with investigating this new organisation form is that most authors use their own definition of a VO. Each definition has its own distinguishing characteristics, and when comparing the definitions there are, next to overlap, also contradictions. A negative effect of this is, that there is no clarity about the te...

Virtual forms of organization, including outsourcing, are expected to bring broad, structural transformations to American business. Yet, little is known about the formal response of U.S. Business Schools to the boundary-spanning challenges that virtual organization presents. In this study, key elements of Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST) are utilized as a means to investigate the effects of ...