Toni Jarimo (1), Peter Ljubič (2), Iiro Salkari (1), Marko Bohanec (2), Nada Lavrač (2, 3), Martin Žnidaršič (2), Stefan Bollhalter (4), Jiri Hodik (5) (1) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, [email protected], [email protected] (2) Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected] [email protected], , [email protected], [email protected] (3) Nova Gorica Polyte...

The business environment of the 21st century require organizations to respond quickly to market demands and thus traditional organization structures and strategy are no longer capable of sustaining the needs of this relentless pace. New forms of organizations in the form of virtual organization (VO) hold promise in the network world. Several organizations worldwide have already been experimenti...

In this paper we propose the implementation of a distributed architecture for product lifecycle management in Virtual Organization created to manage the Middle-of-Life phase. After a short introduction of the innovative PromisePLM system which support decision making process based on dynamic creation of knowledge, the application of the system to a case study for maintenance management demonstr...

Registration and management of users in a large scale Grid computing environment presents new challenges that are not well addressed by existing protocols. Within a single Virtual Organization (VO), thousands of users will potentially need access to hundreds of computing sites, and the traditional model where users register for local accounts at each site will present significant scaling proble...

In this note we present a top level overview of resource management in an an agent-based virtual organization. To illustrate its main features we discuss processes involved in a project being introduced into the

The organization of resources/peers in communities is suggested to be an efficient way for resource discovery, but effectiveness of proposed communities depends on the active role and responsibility of a “Community Coordinator”. Communities are pools of diverse peers/services sharing and controlling resources and which have “agreed” to co-operate to enhance their usability; such co-operation ne...

The intense use of Information technologies in various functions caused many changes on organizations. The utmost in terms of technology usage are the virtual organizations: operating with virtual processes globally, by means of networks. This paper has the objective to present organizational theories and try to identify aspects which can be applied to virtual organizations and the ones which n...

In the current fast-paced world, organizations do not have time to postpone ideas due to the lack of suitable technical and scientific supports that can help them in a rapid connection establishment in order to develop collaborative works. This paper presents a methodology that aids the user to find the appropriated performance indicators that may be used to compare and after to suggest a suita...

The effective creation of Virtual Enterprises emerges of a previous work and environment called recently as Virtual Organisations Breeding Environment. The framework here proposed is one of the results of five years research project in the field of Collaborative Network Organisations. This paper describes a framework to create and support the Virtual Enterprises life cycle in the mould and die ...