E-Union: Concept and Framework of Open B2B e-Trading Marketplaces
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
A Flexible Personalization Architecture for Wireless Internet Based on Mobile Agents
ADBIS '02 Proceedings of the 6th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
HCM - A Model Describing Cooperation of Virtual Enterprise
EDCIS '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems
Dispatching Mobile Agents with Secure Routes in Parallel
ICICS '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Communications Security
Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management
E-Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
Agent Coordination Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises and Workflow Management
CIA '01 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents V
XML-enabled workflow management for e-services across heterogeneous platforms
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
A survey of distributed information management approaches for virtual enterprise infrastructures
Managing virtual web organizations in the 21st century
Towards Autonomous and Automatic Evaluation and Negotiation in Agent-Mediated Internet Marketplaces
Electronic Commerce Research
Distributed workflow upon linkable coordination artifacts
COORDINATION'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
Ensuring reliability in B2B services: Fault tolerant inter-organizational workflows
Information Systems Frontiers
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Electronic Commerce is expanding from the simple notion of Electronic Store to the notion of Virtual Enterprises (VE) where existing enterprises dynamically form temporary alliances, joining their business in order to share their costs, skills and resources in supporting certain activities. Two fundamental problems in VE are (1) how a VE is established and (2) how information is shared among the VE participants in a control and efficient manner. Currently, existing enterprises are using workflows to automate their operation integrating their information systems and human resources. Thus, in this paper, we view the establishment of a VE as a problem of dynamically expanding and integrating workflows in decentralized, autonomous and interacting workflow management systems. Its focus is on the idea of mobile agents called adlets and their use in establishing VEs that involves advertising, negotiating and exchanging control information and data as well as its management.