A comprehensive modeling framework for collaborative networked organizations

Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.; Afsarmanesh, Hamideh

doi:10.1007/s10845-007-0063-3

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“…Several Approaches for collaborative Networks exist, especially for virtual enterprises, professional virtual communities or collaborative virtual laboratories [2]. Plisson present in [26] an Ontology for virtual organisation breeding environments (VBE) focused on organisational structures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To allow a collaborative partnership with cooperative aspects, it is necessary to set up transparent rules for cooperation with clearly defined competencies, rights and duties of the participants, therefore various project-specific organizational, process and product models are necessary. Organizational models have evolved from tayloristic, hierarchical organizational structures towards to new forms of organization, like Virtual Organization, Collaborative Networked Organization or VO Breeding Environments as can found in [2]. For the definition of organizational roles in the building industry, there are several classifications developed, such as IFC-Actor roles [3] and OmniClass [4].…”

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Context-Specific Multi-Model-Template Retrieval

Hilbert¹,

Scherer²

2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Although the construction industry, in contrast to the stationary industry, is characterized by One of a Kind fabrication, there can be found similarities in project, product, process and organizational structures. The focus of this paper is to identify relationships, roles and model types, which are often needed in a specific project context and summarize these similarities by the use of a collaboration ontology providing for Multi-Model logistics. Reference models on the one side and a model to describe the project context on the other side should ensure that all partners retrieve precisely situation-specific selections of the application models which are necessary for their tasks. Furthermore, a pilot scenario is presented, which evaluate this approach on an Azure Cloud collaboration platform. As a result, we obtain an approach, which allows simplified handling and reuse of complex project-, product-and collaborationmodels in order to support the collaboration within a virtual Organization in Construction Industry.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Context-Specific Multi-Model-Template Retrieval

Hilbert¹,

Scherer²

2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Here, the main types are defined as they already specified by the ARCON reference model [5]. The main features characterising these knowledge sources include their: (i) Heterogeneity -the ARCON reference model addresses a wide variety of heterogeneous concepts and aspects which comprehensively define VBEs, including the set of eight complementary dimensions of knowledge represented in Fig.…”

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Systematic Analysis of Information Management Challenges within Long-Term Collaborative Networks

Ermilova

2012

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Long-term strategic networks -the so called Virtual organizations Breeding Environments (VBEs) -support their members with formation of virtual organizations (VOs), aimed to address opportunities in market/society. But, both establishment and management of these networks are challenging. On one hand, VBE aims at guiding its member organizations to accumulate/share their abilities and resources and work together as one strong virtual company. On the other hand, attempts to aggregate their competencies and resources to both identify what they can jointly achieve and to represent them as a single strong entity in the market/society. These in turn require support for strong interaction and interoperability among VBE members, as well as preserving interdependencies among their variety of information. This paper systematically analyses the base requirements and describes foundational criteria for modeling and management of information in VBEs. Particularly, it justifies the need for development of a generic unified VBE ontology-based system, in response to the identified VBE information management challenges. Finally, it specifies the main research problem areas and questions. Forthcoming publications will focus on the next steps of this research and how the raised research questions are addressed by our designed mechanisms and developed systems.

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“…But SME organizations are increasingly interested in working together and joining their knowledge, skills, resources, capabilities, and capacities, and in establishing collaborative networks (CNs) [1]. One form of CNs, the so called Virtual Organization (VO), is usually established for one of the following two purposes.…”

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A Framework for Automated Service Composition in Collaborative Networks

Sargolzaei

Shadi

2012

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A framework for automated service composition in collaborative networksAfsarmanesh, H.; Sargolzaei, M.; Shadi, M. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Abstract. This paper proposes a novel framework for automated software service composition that can significantly support and enhance collaboration among enterprises in service provision industry, such as in tourism insurance and e-commerce collaborative networks (CNs). Sharing/integration of software services in CNs, as well as interoperation among implemented software services in this industry, are quite challenging. There is currently no machine readable standard notation that can unambiguously define the behavior of the software that implements the business processes, however typically enterprises in service industry formalize the definition of their on-line business services using standard business process modeling notation, such as BPMN. Our proposed framework is founded on service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm. In the proposed framework, software services implementing on-line business services that are provided by different enterprises will be formally defined, using an extended BPMN notation to capture their semantics and behavior, as well as the WSDL notation to capture their syntax. Furthermore, the syntax, semantics and behavior of these software services will be registered in a service repository for the CN, so service discovery in this framework can go far beyond the current practice of service search by name, and can be even based on actual service behavior. The paper addresses enhancement of automated software service integration in CNs, through the application of the Reo coordination language, which is used to formalize the interaction among the composed services. The main reason for using Reo in this context is that it supports separating the computations needed by software components in an integrated system from their interactions. The suggested framework provides more flexibility and adaptability as well as cost-effectiveness in service composition, as to be supported in collaborative networks.

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A comprehensive modeling framework for collaborative networked organizations

Cited by 170 publications

References 10 publications

Context-Specific Multi-Model-Template Retrieval

Context-Specific Multi-Model-Template Retrieval

Systematic Analysis of Information Management Challenges within Long-Term Collaborative Networks

A Framework for Automated Service Composition in Collaborative Networks

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