Collaborative Negotiation Platform using a Dynamic Multi-Criteria Decision Model

2. Collaborative Negotiation Platform

Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNOs) may be defined as networks of largely autonomous organizations, geographically distributed and heterogeneous (in terms of their culture, social capital, goals and operating environment), which collaborate to better achieve common or compatible goals using computer networks to support their interactions (Camarinha-Matos & Afsarmanesh, 2006). CNOs are composed of organizations adhering to a base long-term agreement and adoption of common infrastructures and operating principles (Camarinha-Matos & Afsarmanesh, 2006). Moreover, among CNOs there are usually temporary alliances between organizations that come together to share skills or core competencies and resources, in order to better respond to a collaboration opportunity. Those alliances dissolve whenever their goal has been achieved (Camarinha-Matos & Afsarmanesh, 2006). Networking and reconfiguration dynamics are the main characteristics of CNOs, which aim at enabling and supporting business environments, assuring cost-effective integration in useful time and preventing the risk of leakage of private information about products or processes.