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A Virtual Enterprise is characterised as a temporal alliance of enterprises that come together to achieve specific common goals and tasks. The main problem for a Virtual Enterprise is the identification of the suitable enterprises to form such an alliance to achieve the desired results. This procedure includes a number of distinct difficulties that should be tackled efficiently in the antagonistic environment of the evolving global electronic economy. In this paper, we propose an open framework for the formation of Virtual Enterprises over the Internet using the notion of Information Brokers. Our study shows that an Information Broker could be quite useful in this context by acting as the constructor and administrator of such an alliance.
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Harbilas, C., Dragios, N., Karetsos, G. (2002). A Framework for Broker Assisted Virtual Enterprises. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 85. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35585-6_9
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