Title
Use of Roles and Policies for Specifying and Managing a Virtual Enterprise
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/RIDE.1999.758604
RIDE
Keywords
Field
DocType
external aspect,virtual enterprise,virtual organisation,virtual hospital example,rm-odp framework,role-based approach,organisational role,distributed processing,couplings,distributed computing,open systems,specification,organisation
Iso standards,Virtual organisation,Computer science,Business data processing,Knowledge management,Open system (systems theory),Electrical capacitance tomography,Database
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0119-2
9
1.02
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emil Lupu11454127.76
Morris Sloman22531292.76
Zoran Milosevic354854.38