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A Non-functional Framework for Assessing Organizations in Collaborative Networks

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The French project OpenPaaS aims to support collaborative process by first deducing the process from the collaboration objectives and then orchestrating it. In order to design the process, a functional matching is established in order to find which sets of organizations are able to fulfil the objectives. Then a non-functional selection has to be executed in order to find the “best” process, with the most adapted partners. This paper presents a framework that has been settled for evaluating the organizations through non-functional criteria. Based on various cases of partner selection, this framework is intended to be the most exhaustive possible: it should allow the system to evaluate organization as a human would do in the case of a request for proposal. A structure of framework is first proposed, that fits with the OpenPaaS utilization. Then, non-functional criteria are classified according to it.

Keywords

  • Non-functional criteria
  • Quality
  • Collaborative process
  • Partner selection

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to acknowledge the French Project OpenPaaS for its support. We also wish to acknowledge our gratitude and appreciation to all the OpenPaaS Project partners for their contribution during the development of various ideas and concepts presented in this paper.

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  1. Mines Albi, University of Toulouse, Campus Jarlard, Route de Teillet, 81000, Albi, France

    Aurélie Montarnal, Matthieu Lauras, Frédérick Bénaben & Jacques Lamothe

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  2. Centre Génie Industriel, École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, Albi CT Cédex, France

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  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain

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  4. Laboratoire de l'Intégration du Matériau au Système, Talence Cedex, France

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Montarnal, A., Lauras, M., Bénaben, F., Lamothe, J. (2014). A Non-functional Framework for Assessing Organizations in Collaborative Networks. In: Mertins, K., Bénaben, F., Poler, R., Bourrières, JP. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VI. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04948-9_21

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