Cooperative decision making in virtual enterprises

Abstract

Virtual enterprises provide an environment where flexible production and corresponding service delivery is cooperatively and efficiently carried out by involved stakeholders focused on utilizing their core competences. This unarguably promising approach raises many challenges - in this paper we focus on two. First we investigate how hybrid modelling approach can be applied to design amalgamated meta models covering artefacts required by the stakeholders within such a distributed environment - e.g. to design a distributed value chain. Second we propose how insights from other domains such as eHealth can be applied to solve the cooperative decision making challenge - e.g. fundamental due to having more than one process owner. We elaborate on three possible realization scenarios and select one to investigate how the previously designed meta model has to be extended to apply the proposed solution. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.