Inter-organization Collaboration Management in Dynamic Virtual Alliances

The agility to collaborate in business networks has become essential for the success of both individual organizations and business value networks. The dynamic nature of alliances environment, the complexity of collaboration supporting in heterogeneous systems, and the autonomy of organizations all create new challenges for the operational computing environment. This paper describes a form of virtual alliance and proposes an integrated collaboration framework solution for inter-organization coordination management, including the using of ontologies-context pairing to support semantic level interoperability, and intelligent agent infrastructure to provide alliance life-cycle organizational autonomy.