VirtuE: a formal model of virtual enterprises for information markets |
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Authors: | Alessandro D’Atri Amihai Motro |
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Affiliation: | (1) CeRSI, Luiss “Guido Carli” University, Rome, Italy;(2) Information & Software Engineering Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA |
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Abstract: | A vital part of a modern economy is an information market. In this market, information products are being traded in countless
ways. Information is bought, modified, integrated, incorporated into other products, and then sold again. Often, the manufacturing
of an information product requires the collaboration of several participants. A virtual enterprise is a community of business
entities that collaborate on the manufacturing of complex products. This collaboration is often ad hoc, for a specific product
only, after which the virtual enterprise may dismantle. The virtual enterprise paradigm is particularly appealing for modeling
collaborations for manufacturing information products, and in this paper we present a new model, called VirtuE, for modeling
such activities. VirtuE has three principal components. First, it defines a distributed infrastructure with concepts such as members, products, inventories, and production plans. Second, it defines transactions among members, to enable collaborative production of complex products. Finally, it provides means for the instrumentation of enterprises, to measure their performance and to govern their behavior. |
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Keywords: | Virtual enterprise Information markets Information manufacturing |
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