The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Distributed Enterprises Configuration: Orders Allocation within Networks of Firms
PRO-VE '02 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.5 Third Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises
Genetic algorithm solution for a risk-based partner selection problem in a virtual enterprise
Computers and Operations Research
Agent-based model for managing composite product information
Computers in Industry
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Small and medium-sized companies benefit from participation in collaborative networks that allow the companies in symbiotic collaboration to perform tasks that would be out of reach for any single company. An inquiry to the network has to be orchestrated into a virtual organisation where each of the selected companies delivers products and services directed towards the fulfilment of the request. The orchestration is performed by a moderator who faces the challenge to select members for a configuration (network actor set) that constitutes the 'best fit' to an obtained inquiry. The 'fit' is determined by complicated constraints. These constraints refer to the multitude of different conditions and preferences relevant to orchestrating a virtual organisation including factors of the given inquiry, the offerings and preferences of the single companies and also the economic and collaboration history of the whole network. This paper describes the basic algorithmic design of an IT solution that acts as decision support for the moderator of company networks.