In search for new organizational forms that incorporate the appropriate level of flexibility to offer a high variety of products and services, while keeping costs and lead times low, the virtual organization has emerged. The capabilities of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) enable the virtual organization to link and coordinate a wide variety of globally dispersed business partners. ...

Nowadays, organizations aiming to be successful in an increasingly competitive market tend to group together into virtual organizations. Designing the information system (IS) of such virtual organizations on the basis of the IS of those participating is a real challenge. The IS of a virtual organization plays an important role in the collaboration and cooperation of the participants organizatio...

If one is interested solely in processor speed, one must use virtually-indexed caches. The traditional purported weakness of virtual caches is their inability to support shared memory. Many implementations of shared memory are at odds with virtual caches—ASID aliasing and virtual-address aliasing (techniques used to provide shared memory) can cause false cache misses and/or give rise to data in...

In our work we consider resource management in a virtual organization. The proposed approach is based on utilization of ontologies to represent structure of the organization and its domain of operations, and software agents that support workers in fulfilling various roles within the organization. In this paper we consider processes involved in a generic Virtual Organization Agent taking up / ch...

The preceding chapters in this section have examined the notion of virtual organization in a number of respects. However, the predominant view is that of support for this concept. It therefore also seems appropriate to step back and take a critical perspective. Is the virtual organization the model for future corporate life or is it merely another management fad? This must be a substantive ques...

The grid has emerged as a platform that enables to put in place an inter-organizational shared space known as Virtual Organization. The Virtual Organization (VO) encompasses users and resources supplied by the different partners for achieving the VO’s creation goal. Though many works offer solutions to manage a VO, the dynamic, on the fly creation of virtual organizations is still a challenge. ...

Hybrid systems such as those that combine 3D virtual worlds and organization based multiagent systems add new visual and communication features for multi-user applications. In this paper we present a tool called Virtual World Builder Toolkit (VWBT) that can automatically generate a 3D virtual worlds (VW) from an organization based multiagent system (MAS) specification that establishes the activ...

“United we stand, divided we fall” is a well known saying. We are living in the era of virtual collaborations. Advancement on conceptual and technological level has enhanced the way people communicate. Everythingas-a-Service once a dream, now becoming a reality. Problem nature has also been changed over the time. Today, e-Collaborations are applied to all the domains possible. Extensive data an...

This paper makes use of a vertical integration model to explain virtual enterprises, analyses respective characteristics of virtual operation and internal integration, probes into the correlative factors of virtual operation. The paper points out that virtual operation and internal integration are two parallel ways which enterprises may choose to expand their organization. Virtual operation urg...