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| 5 | Objects, Components, and the Virtual Enterprise (OCVE) |
Adam's Mark Hotel Plaza Court 5 |
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We are currently witnessing a convergence of several threads of technology and business imperatives. The idea of a virtual enterprise - a business built from both organisationally and geographically distributed units - is becoming an area of increasing interest to both computer scientists and business people.
The idea that network based Virtual enterprises are becoming feasible is primarily based on several emerging technologies including CORBA, the World Wide Web, Java and component-based software; they are becoming attractive because of business trends such as corporate downsizing and business outsourcing. In realising such co-operative (mutually reliant) networked organisations of the future, significant challenges need to be satisfied. These include runtime negotiation of services to be delivered between the organisation (called service level agreements or contracts); service level agreement monitoring and enforcement; co-operative (inter-organisational) components; brokerage services; business process specification, communication and outsourcing management, trust and security management. However, in order to realise software infrastructures which can tackle these high level enterprise issues, current object oriented software technologies and concepts such as business object frameworks and facilities, workflow, policy based software systems and object component framework need to be enhanced. Such approaches tend to be applied piecemeal to address one more of the business imperatives, resulting in "creeping" virtual enterprises. Organizer: Dr. Paddy Nixon, Trinity College |
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