Analyzing virtual organizations’ formation risk in P2P SON environments

Abstract

Virtual Organizations (VOs) have emerged as a powerful enterprising strategy to leverage the activities of Small and Medium sized Enterprises, by providing a way of sharing their costs and benefits when attending to particular demands. Along with their numerous advantages, VOs also pose several challenges, including additional risks that need to be considered to ensure its correct operation. Proper risk analysis provides more solid means for managers to evaluate and further decide about the most suitable VO composition for a given business. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a mathematical method that analyzes and measures the risk in a set of partners, synthesized in the form of Service Providers, which will compose a VO in a P2P SON environment. By means of validation of the proposed method, a set of simulations were carried out and the results are presented in this paper.