A federated architecture for information management
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Information retrieval: data structures and algorithms
Information retrieval: data structures and algorithms
Semantics-based information brokering
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
Communications of the ACM
Managing process and service fusion in virtual enterprises
Information Systems - Special issue on information systems support for electronic commerce
Comparative analysis of six XML schema languages
ACM SIGMOD Record
E-commerce and the information market
Communications of the ACM
Workflow in different styles of virtual enterprise
ITVE '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Information technology for virtual enterprises
Introduction to the Special Issue: Communication Processes for Virtual Organizations
Organization Science
Inter-Enterprise Workflow Management Systems
DEXA '99 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Database & Expert Systems Applications
CrossFlow - Cross-Organizational Workflow Support for Virtual Organizations
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
Coo: A Workflow Operator to Improve Cooperation Modeling in Virtual Processes
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
Future Smart-Organizations: A Virtual Tourism Enterprise
WISE '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Elements of a base VE infrastructure
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
How deep should it be? on the optimality of hierarchical architectures
NGITS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
DMGrid: A Data Mining System Based on Grid Computing
ADMA '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Towards a shared software factory: an industrial experience
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement
Optimizing Procurement Decisions in Networked Virtual Enterprises
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology
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A vital part of a modern economy is an information market. In this market, information products are being traded in countless ways. Information is bought, modified, integrated, incorporated into other products, and then sold again. Often, the manufacturing of an information product requires the collaboration of several participants. A virtual enterprise is a community of business entities that collaborate on the manufacturing of complex products. This collaboration is often ad hoc, for a specific product only, after which the virtual enterprise may dismantle. The virtual enterprise paradigm is particularly appealing for modeling collaborations for manufacturing information products, and in this paper we present a new model, called VirtuE, for modeling such activities. VirtuE has three principal components. First, it defines a distributed infrastructure with concepts such as members, products, inventories, and production plans. Second, it defines transactions among members, to enable collaborative production of complex products. Finally, it provides means for the instrumentation of enterprises, to measure their performance and to govern their behavior.