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Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guidelines for Designing Virtual Organizations

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A guideline for designing Virtual Organizations, composed of a set of phases for requirement analysis, structure design and organizational dynamics design, is presented in this paper. It has been applied to a personalized information system, viewed as an open multi-agent system that acts as a regulated information meeting-point.

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Argente, E., Botti, V., Julian, V. (2009). Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guidelines for Designing Virtual Organizations. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_22

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