Virtual enterprise modeling and support infrastructures: applying multi-agent system approaches
Mutli-agents systems and applications
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
A survey of distributed information management approaches for virtual enterprise infrastructures
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Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
On the classification and management of Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
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To remain competitive in the aggressive global market, Tourism industry and service providers face the necessity to strongly collaborate and share their expertise and resources, as well as their costs and risks. The paradigm of Virtual Enterprises address the necessary base horizontal infrastructure needed to support such a collaboration framework. Designing a Web-based Tourism Information System (WTIS) as a virtual enterprise requires the proper infrastructure that supports enterprises' inter-operation, task sharing, and federated information management among others. This paper addresses the main requirements and research challenges, and describes reference architecture for the WTIS, focusing on a novel horizontal infrastructure to support the Virtual Tourism Enterprises and provide the necessary base for vertical value-added-services developed on top of the base infrastructure. A part of the work presented in this paper is also addressed within the recently initiated EC-funded 5FP project FETISH1.