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We study design support for a virtual organization: how to organize production among the set of distributed cells to meet a given production goal. Each cell has a certain capacity to store, manufacture and deliver products, and interacts with other cells by means of information and logistics networks. The goal specifies the product and the volume required. To solve this problem we propose a protocol which given a goal and a cell attempts to generate a sequence of operations on the cell to implement this goal. Lacking the resources locally the protocol generates some auxiliary goals which it communicates to other cells, involving generating (recursively) more processes and goals etc. We formalize the problem and its solution, offer correctness arguments and discuss an email-based implementation.
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Janowski, T. (2000). Distributed Production with Specification-Generated Processes. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Erbe, HH. (eds) Advances in Networked Enterprises. BASYS 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 53. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35529-0_9
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