The deployment of HEP applications in heterogeneous grid environments can be challenging because many of the applications are dependent on specific OS versions and have a large number of complex software dependencies. Virtual machine monitors such as Xen could be used to package HEP applications, complete with their execution environments, to run on resources that do not meet their operating sy...

Electronic commerce enables organizations to form virtual organizations. Shifting between different linkages of the partners for satisfying a need is the major characteristic of the virtual organization, and meta-management beyond the individual organizational level must be applied in order to optimize the benefit for the entire organizational network. This paper proposes a meta-management supp...

Sharing information about profiles and offered competencies of individual members within an alliance of cooperating companies facilitates searching for potential members of Virtual Organizations. This paper presents a concept of structuring of the competencies as well as a prototype proving this concept. The prototype follows a naturally hybrid architecture of alliances that consists of mutuall...

In a Virtual Organization (VO) scenario the difficult to select the most appropriate logistic providers is even higher. Part of this is due to the intrinsic nature of a VO, which is a temporary and dynamic alliance of autonomous, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed companies (often small and medium enterprises) created to attend to very particular business opportunities, sharing costs, b...

Toni Jarimo (1), Peter Ljubič (2), Iiro Salkari (1), Marko Bohanec (2), Nada Lavrač (2, 3), Martin Žnidaršič (2), Stefan Bollhalter (4), Jiri Hodik (5) (1) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, [email protected], [email protected] (2) Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected] [email protected], , [email protected], [email protected] (3) Nova Gorica Polyte...

The business environment of the 21st century require organizations to respond quickly to market demands and thus traditional organization structures and strategy are no longer capable of sustaining the needs of this relentless pace. New forms of organizations in the form of virtual organization (VO) hold promise in the network world. Several organizations worldwide have already been experimenti...

In this paper we propose the implementation of a distributed architecture for product lifecycle management in Virtual Organization created to manage the Middle-of-Life phase. After a short introduction of the innovative PromisePLM system which support decision making process based on dynamic creation of knowledge, the application of the system to a case study for maintenance management demonstr...

Molecular docking experiments that simulate ligand and protein receptor interactions is a popular tool among biomedical researchers. These tests can be done using programs such DOCK which virtually screens for compounds with the highest binding affinity. By executing the docking program on a grid system composed of interconnected computers, individuals will be able to narrow down their desired ...

This demonstration concentrates on eServices (supporting electronic services) for Virtual Organization (VO) management support. The eServices are provided by the VOM toolkit (a suite of VO management tools), which was developed to support the VO manager in managing the VO throughout its life-cycle. In this demo the eServices related to all phases of the VO life-cycle are demonstrated together w...

In this note we present a top level overview of resource management in an an agent-based virtual organization. To illustrate its main features we discuss processes involved in a project being introduced into the