We began the call for papers for this special issue by implying that the foremost challenges to web-enabled virtual organizations were due to the need to spontaneously link different organizations: entities with different worldviews, different cultures, different processes, different descriptions for their processes and different and even divergent goals. Further, we stressed two points. First,...

In the age of the information and knowledge, organizations depend heavily on information systems to support regular operations, solve problems, and make flexible responses to the competition around the world. In the early stages, organizations tended to develop stand-alone systems for a single functional area or business unit; maintaining many different systems led to enormous costs. Organizati...

The study specifically described the socio-economic status of the people involved in the production, distribution and consumption of convenience foods in Lafia urban of Nasarawa State. It identified the factors that influence the entry into convenience food enterprise, factors necessitating the demand and supply of the products and examined the costs and returns of three convenience foods. The ...

This paper presents a novel generalized particle model (GPM) for the parallel optimization of enterprise computing*. Since enterprise computing always involves the resource allocation, task assignment, and behavior coordination, without loss of generality, the proposed GPM is devoted to the optimization of enterprise computing in the context of the resource allocation and task assignment in com...

As a dynamic, temporary alliance, virtual enterprise plays an important role for firms to face the global competition. Among many actions in the virtual enterprise running, virtual enterprise construction is the one which impacts virtual enterprise performance most direct and deeply, however, partner selection decision is the key of the virtual enterprise construction. This paper mainly helps t...

Specification of the context in which the system will operate, the purposes of the system, what operations the system must perform, and what quality of service the system must provide in achieving those purposes and rendering those services. A statement of properties that a system shall exhibit or shall not exhibit when completed. Note: requirements are derived from requirements in a many-to-ma...

Enterprise informatization is a large system including: input, output, feedback, operation inside, executive action and incentive measures. Inner-enterprise can be seemed as an artificially social organization unit composing of various agents in a rigid formation. This paper mainly proposes an enterprise informatization associated with rigid formation theory of multi-agent. The connection betwe...