Research on workflow of virtual organization

Author

Zhang, Shao-hua ; Gu, Ning

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

106

Abstract

The organization model of virtual organization (VO) and the relationships with organization model of the participant organizations are analyzed. Then based on the interaction message chart (IMC), the workflow of VO integrating the workflows of participant organizations is presented, and its validity is researched. Finally, the workflow architecture of VO is proposed and the experiments and applications are introduced. The workflow of VO is easily implemented on the existing workflows of participant organizations using the method and architecture, and has the advantages of agility and scalability. The workflow of VO can strongly support the applications with the characteristics of VO such as cooperative design, e-commerce and grid computing and improve their efficiency.

Keywords

electronic commerce; grid computing; groupware; virtual enterprises; workflow management software; cooperative design; e-commerce; grid computing; interaction message chart; organization model; participant organizations; virtual organization; workflow architecture; Business; Communications technology; Computer architecture; Distributed databases; Grid computing; Information analysis; Information technology; Resilience; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2004. Proceedings. The 8th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7941-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CACWD.2004.1348997

Filename

1348997