Workflow in different styles of virtual enterprise
ITVE '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Information technology for virtual enterprises
Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Support Infrastructures: Applying Multi-agent System Approaches
EASSS '01 Selected Tutorial Papers from the 9th ECCAI Advanced Course ACAI 2001 and Agent Link's 3rd European Agent Systems Summer School on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Modeling and Analysis of Interactions in Virtual Enterprises
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
A Framework for Virtual Enterprise Support Services
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Elements of a base VE infrastructure
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
An adaptive model of virtual enterprise based on dynamic web service composition
CIT '05 Proceedings of the The Fifth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
A modeling framework for agile and interoperable virtual enterprises
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Advanced computer support of engineering and service processes of virtual enterprises
Challenging the interoperability between computers in industry with MDA and SOA
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Collaborative environments for concurrent engineering
Dynamic explicitly specified behaviors in distributed agent-based industrial solutions
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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In order for a virtual enterprise (VE) to be successful, effective synchronisation of processes between the member enterprises is a major challenge. To overcome this challenge, it is important to select appropriate member enterprises at the establishment phase of a VE that can cope with the business goal and constraints. In this paper, we propose a simulation-based method to evaluate and select proper candidate enterprises from a repository. A broker enterprise after designing a business process provides corresponding business requirements (abstract) to the candidates in the repository, and those candidate enterprises that meet the business requirements respond to the broker. The broker enterprise then simulates the business process (global simulation) considering global performance of the VE, whose results become detailed requirements for the candidate enterprises. The participating enterprises adjust their business conditions using their local simulation to cope with the business constraints. If the candidate enterprise cannot cope with the business constraints, a new candidate is selected from the repository, and the business process is simulated again. This procedure continues until an appropriate candidate is identified, and a virtual enterprise is then established. To support the proposed VE design process, OMG's Model Driven Architecture and the web services technology are employed. Finally, the proposed methods are conceptually illustrated for an exemplary VE.