One of the key problems with virtual organizations in the context of the (Semantic) Grid is we don’t know how to describe the components used in virtual organizations because the...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
In this paper we propose a conceptual model of virtual organizations as normative multiagent systems. The dynamic aspects of virtual organizations are modeled using aspects of spe...
Guido Boella, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert W. N. van d...
In this paper we propose a security architecture for Virtual Organizations for businesses. The Virtual Organizations we consider are based on web service technology to address int...
Rafael Deitos, Florian Kerschbaum, Philip Robinson
An important factor that needs to be taken into account by end-users and systems (schedulers, resource brokers, policy brokers) when mapping applications to the Grid, is the perfo...
A virtual organization is a temporary network of companies, which implies the potential opportunity to learn and share abundant sources of complementary and compatible knowledge p...
Grid computing supports shared access to computing resources from cooperating organizations or institutes in the form of virtual organizations. Resource brokering middleware, comm...
Norman Bobroff, Liana Fong, Selim Kalayci, Yanbin ...
Although virtual organizations and networks have been studied for quite some time, there is still need for research regarding their inner dynamics and the mechanisms of leadership...