State-of –the –Art of Virtual Organization Modeling

This paper presents the finding of the state-of-the-art of Virtual Organization Modeling in Europe, based on 30 European Virtual Organization research projects. The status of Virtual Organization research can be characterized as having achieved workable solutions on the level of well-defined domains or modules, e.g. modules for planning and control in the IT domain, or management models of broker functions. Nevertheless, The results show that the state of understanding and modeling Virtual Organizations has not yet reached architectural integration. Therefore to develop working solutions that include consistent business, organizational and human architectures for VO should the focus in the upcoming research framework.