This paper considers agent-based support of Virtual Enterprises within the context of an electronic market and in terms of web services. The current initiatives in these areas of work consider a VE as consisting of computational resources only and not as a combination of computational and human resources. Based on this observation, this paper outlines some of the challenges that arise in suppor...

today continuation of economic activities requires access to timely and adequate financial resources to provide working capital for enterprises, and any decision in this area  has a considerable effect on the operational efficiency of the business unit and will lead to changes in the value of the company and ultimately shareholders' wealth.       in current conditions, because of  the volu...

This study seeks to better understand the factors contributing to the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) as on-demand sourcing option. Grounded in transaction cost theory (TCT), we developed a research model for assessing SaaS-sourcing at the application level. Four hypotheses with three TCTbased constructs (application specificity, environmental uncertainty, and usage frequency) and one ...

The social media platform convenience users’ anywhere, anytime publishing and disseminating online complaints. Enterprises undergo huge losses due to the lack of suitable management mechanism for effectively dealing with online complaints. The knowledgeable users in social media platform is a vital resource that enterprises could take advantage of, however the question persists how to stimulate...

Electronic commerce becomes an important competitive advantage for small and medium-sized enterprises. Those enterprises therefore need a tool to easily exhibit and sell their products on the Internet. Electronic shops are the best solution to be accessible online but can be quite expensive. This paper presents eSarine, a Struts-based open source webshop, which is especially designed for small ...

The article proposes a way to improve reference models for the management of virtual enterprises. The pattern of management roles is based on enveloping each decision centre into an agent wrapper, using the same tools and algorithms. Using this approach enterprises (organization, networks, virtual enterprises) will have the emergent agent property – the ability to follow objectives, plan, and t...

There is a growing need for on-line file storage for smaller enterprises such as schools and small businesses. However, the existing solutions, such as JBOD and Amazon S3, are too expensive to afford for smaller enterprises. In this project, we propose three on-line file storage systems customized for small enterprises with lower expense. The first system is based on JBOD configured as RAID 5. ...

Many enterprises today struggle with the challenge of using the full potential of ICT for a rapid creation of global customer focused, efficient and effective virtual enterprises. This paper presents a Virtual Enterprise Reference Architecture (based on the draft international standard GERAM) to serve as a common integrating basis for these efforts, recognising the global challenge for common u...