Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management
E-Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
Virtual enterprise and emissary computing technology
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Policy interoperability and network autonomics
WAC'04 Proceedings of the First international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
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One of the problems faced by an organisation participating in a virtual enterprise is how to specify internal and external aspects of the organisation in terms of the organisational roles involved and policies applicable to the roles. Another problem is how to manage such a virtual organisation and guarantee that its operations are in agreement with the specification. In this paper we present two role-based approaches that address these problems. The first approach is based on the RM-ODP framework and can be used to specify structure and interactions in a virtual enterprise. The second approach was initially aimed at managing large distributed systems, but can also be used to specify and implement roles and policies relating to a virtual enterprise. We analyse the relationships between these two approaches and illustrate how they can be applied by means of a simplified virtual hospital example.