Virtual Enterprises are an emerging model for the organization of innovative enterprises. They are characterized by brief relationships and geographical dispersion of members. E-collaboration tools play a critical role in the integration of such organizational systems. In particular these tools support both cooperation and coordination. Cooperation has been defined as the problem of aligning go...

This paper considers a particular case of virtual organization composed of the following entities: institutions, online laboratories wishing to collaborate to share hardware and software resources. In the literature, cloud computing represents an implementation of the virtual organizations as grid computing. However, the benefits of the cloud are not used to the full in virtual organizations. T...

The reorganization of the supply chain in the aerospace industry has led to a new situation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The suppliers are forced to deliver completed systems instead of components and assemblies. In order to react to the changed requirements, one possible solution is the project-oriented and temporary cooperation of SME by building a Virtual Organization in ord...

SymposiumPlanner-2011 is the newest in a series of Rule Responder instantiations for the Questions&Answers (Q&A) sections of the o cial websites of the RuleML Symposia. It supports committee members via personal agents based on member-encoded rule knowledge. The personal agents are invoked by an organizational agent which selects them using a responsibility assignment matrix. This paper describ...

The paper reports results from a European Union (EU) project dedicated to Virtual Organization (VO) research. It aims to consolidate VO reference models and related modeling methodologies based on experiences acquired in thirty relevant EUfunded research projects. The research reveals the complex reality of deployment and adoption of VO practices and identifies a number of organizational, legal...

Remotely sensed satellite data can provide spatial and temporal coverage for global environmental monitoring. Calibration and validation are very important for more accurate satellite products and can contribute to the detection of climate changes on earth. Calibration and validation of satellite products normally use both ground-based and satellite-based data, which have geospatial metainforma...

Electronic commerce enables organizations to form virtual organizations. Shifting between different linkages of the partners for satisfying a need is the major characteristic of the virtual organization, and meta-management beyond the individual organizational level must be applied in order to optimize the benefit for the entire organizational network. This paper proposes a meta-management supp...

A Virtual Organization (VO) in the Grid is a collection of users and distributed resources, in which resources are shared by users. VOs are dynamically created for some goals and then disappear after the goals are achieved. Conventional Grid architectures have been proposed for a single or static VO environment. In this paper, we propose a ticket-based Grid services architecture to support the ...

In a Virtual Organization (VO) scenario the difficult to select the most appropriate logistic providers is even higher. Part of this is due to the intrinsic nature of a VO, which is a temporary and dynamic alliance of autonomous, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed companies (often small and medium enterprises) created to attend to very particular business opportunities, sharing costs, b...