Virtual Organizations as Electronic Services

Virtual Organizations as Electronic Services

Institutional Services for Dynamic Virtual Organizations

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, and fu...

Security as Immunity in Virtual Organizations

We are addressing the class of virtual organizations where an entrepreneurial or other activity acts as an interface between a number of existing remote services or applications and a number of customers that should interact with them in complex ways. For example, such activities include private e-Government middle services that specialize in carrying out complex tasks with many different state...

Virtual Organizations as a Challenge for UCD

Virtual organizations in their different forms are becoming more and more common. In this position paper we present the case of a virtual organization consisting of 200 Germany-wide distributed freelancers. The fact that the virtual organization does not have a geographical center, that the work and the local structures of parts of the organization are very heterogeneous and that the freelancer...

Ticket-Based Grid Services Architecture for Dynamic Virtual Organizations

A Virtual Organization (VO) in the Grid is a collection of users and distributed resources, in which resources are shared by users. VOs are dynamically created for some goals and then disappear after the goals are achieved. Conventional Grid architectures have been proposed for a single or static VO environment. In this paper, we propose a ticket-based Grid services architecture to support the ...