Models, methodologies, and tools supporting establishment and management of second-generation VBEs

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 692-710

  Afsarmanesh, Hamideh ^a   Camarinha Matos, Luis M ^b   Msanjila, Simon Samwel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c MZUMBE UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Agreement negotiation; collaborative network (CN); competency management; databases; ontology engineering; reference framework; trust measurement; virtual organization (VO); virtual organizations breeding environment (VBE)

Indexed keywords

AGREEMENT NEGOTIATION; COLLABORATIVE NETWORK; COMPETENCY MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; REFERENCE FRAMEWORK; TRUST MEASUREMENT; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ONTOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TERRORISM;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 80052053111     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2010.2076326     Document Type: Article

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