Institutional services for dynamic virtual organizations

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2005

Authors

Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Andreia Malucelli (Author) FEUP; Ana Paula Rocha (Author) FEUP; Eugénio Oliveira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS AND THEIR BREEDING ENVIRONMENTS

Pages: 521-528

6th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises

Valencia, SPAIN, SEP 26-28, 2005

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 11 Citations

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-5DR

DOI: 10.1007/0-387-29360-4_55

Abstract (EN): Electronic Institutions are comprehensive frameworks that may effectively help in the collaborative work of virtual organization activities. This paper focuses on an effort to create e-contracting and ontology-based services in the context of Electronic Institutions. The e-contracting services provide automatic specification of business agreements by formalizing them through e-contracts, plus the procedures for enforcing them. Moreover. ontology-based services enable the interoperability between agents representing organizations using different ontologies. Ontology services provide useful advices on how to negotiate specific items, leading to appropriate conversations and making agreements possible. We believe that the rendering of these services will provide a level of trust and normative behavior allowing the creation, through electronic institutions, of dynamic virtual organizations and their operation.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8