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Establishing a virtual organization requires not only being able to identify individual member enterprises but also prescribe the roles they should play in the organization. This becomes a difficult task when selection is not only based on static competencies but also on how the enterprise is able to dynamically deliver services to its clients, within the area of its competence. In this paper we present a simple model which explains the behavior of a virtual organization in terms of the services it can offer to and receive from its environment, by means of the services by its members and service-based interactions between them. We also describe how the model could be used to define and automate the problem of partner selection: produce an architecture (members and their roles) to deliver the required service.
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Janowski, T., Yonghe, L., Biqing, H. (1999). Automating Partner Selection for a Virtual Organization. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 1999. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 27. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35577-1_31
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