The functions that the broker makes available to its clients: A/VE initiation; focused resources market creation; resources selection; resources systems selection; resources systems integration; resources integration scheduling; resources system reconfiguration; resources monitoring and reliability analysis; resources control; information dissemination; and virtual environment provider for the client’s level.
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Taxonomy of Broker's Functions in Virtual Enterprises
Paulo Ávila (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal), Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal), Maria Manuela Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal), and António Pires (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch212
Abstract
Not just with the emergence but also with the growing of the electronic market, that is, the growth of online suppliers of services and products and Internet users (potential consumers), the necessary conditions to the affirmation of the agile/virtual enterprises (A/VE) as a present and future enterprise organizational model are created. In this context, it is our understanding that the broker may have an important role in its development, namely, if the broker performs functions for the A/VE with better efficacy and efficiency. In this article, we will present first a revision of the broker’s models in a structured form. We present a taxonomy of possible broker’s functions for the broker’s actuation near the A/VE and then the classification of the literature broker’s models. This classification will permit an analysis of a broker’s model and establish a mainframe for our broker’s model according to the BM_Virtual Enterprise Architecture Reference Model (BM_VEARM).