Virtual organizations in their different forms are becoming more and more common. In this position paper we present the case of a virtual organization consisting of 200 Germany-wide distributed freelancers. The fact that the virtual organization does not have a geographical center, that the work and the local structures of parts of the organization are very heterogeneous and that the freelancer...

The purpose of this paper is to present the applicability of THOMAS, an architecture specially designed to model agent-based virtual organizations, in the development of a multiagent system for managing and planning routes for clients in a mall. In order to build virtual organizations, THOMAS offers mechanisms to take into account their structure, behaviour, dynamic, norms and environment. More...

The main purpose of this chapter is to present a possible alternative for optimization of supply chain management. The chapter discusses the virtual organization as an important tool for optimization of supply chain management. A simple model for discussing organization of supply chain is introduced, which serves as an important starting point for assessing the current organization of the suppl...

Virtual organizations that use email to communicate and coordinate their work toward a common goal are becoming ubiquitous. However, little is known about how these organizations work. Much prior research suggests that virtual organizations, for the most part because they use information technology to communicate, will be decentralized and non-hierarchical. This paper examines the behavior of o...

Virtual organizations (VOs) and their breeding environments are an emerging approach for developing systems as a consortium of autonomous entities formed to share costs and resources, better respond to opportunities, achieve shorter time-to-market and exploit fast changing market opportunities. VOs cater for those demands by incorporating reconfigurations making VOs highly resilient and agile b...

In this paper we present a proposed information infrastructure framework for supporting management of electronic virtual Ž . organizations. We identify the life cycle phases and their associated decision processes of virtual organizations, describe the requirements for an information infrastructure to support the management of virtual organizations throughout their life cycle, and discuss how I...

The e-value modeling tool was developed for the design of a value proposition for virtual organizations. However, it is less suitable for designing the control structure of the virtual organization. We show how e-value can be extended using legal concepts such as ownership, possession, usufruct and license. We also introduce value object transfer diagrams that show the transfers of value object...

This paper presents the finding of the state-of-the-art of Virtual Organization Modeling in Europe, based on 30 European Virtual Organization research projects. The status of Virtual Organization research can be characterized as having achieved workable solutions on the level of well-defined domains or modules, e.g. modules for planning and control in the IT domain, or management models of brok...

independently of historical and socio cultural contexts, does not exist (Barnard, 1998). But, even if designing, as any other activity, is constrained by the social and cultural role assigned to the designer in a given society (Dormer, 1990; Downton, 2003; Manzini, 1993), that does not mean that we cannot present a general So, although there are different areas of intervention for the designer,...

In this paper we describe a virtual cluster based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as an alternative to VMWare and Xen. Speci cally we show how the virtual cluster is built and tailored to t virtual organizations. The technique presented in this paper, known as the Virtual Organization Cluster Model, shows great potential for cloud computing. In our implementation, we used a minimalist...