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This paper presents some first practical results obtained in the framework of the ongoing VEGA* project. It discusses the analysis of concrete business cases which have been used first in order to determine the potential of industry sectors for virtual organizations. These cases have also been exploited to determine, in a first iteration, the general requirements for virtual enterprises cooperating support systems and to find generic aspects which can be exploited in the specification of reference models. The analysis of the cases allowed us also to point to some very practical issues which have to be taken into account for the design of a systematic approach for designing and developing this type of systems.
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Probst, A.R., Bitschnau, JF., Griese, J., Suter, B. (1998). VEGA*: Cooperating Support Systems for Virtual Enterprises. In: Schönsleben, P., Büchel, A. (eds) Organizing the Extended Enterprise. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35295-4_6
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