@inproceedings{dff4e8d5bb9646eea54296b67a2570c5,
title = "A service oriented and agent-based architecture for the e-collaboration of SMEs",
abstract = "The concept of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to flexibly address business needs with the use of Information Technology (IT) is increasingly being recognized as important for a company{\textquoteright}s agility and responsiveness to change. A SOA approach can also help to design more agile web portals, in order to enable companies to increase their responsiveness and adaptability with regards to addressing a business opportunity as a collaborative Virtual Organization (VO). Value can be added to the operations of such a VO with the use of Intelligent Agents to automate the processes of finding collaboration partners and negotiating the creation of VOs based on user-defined business rules. This paper discusses these concepts and their benefits for Virtual Organizations based on the work of a European Union (EU) co-funded Information Society Technologies (IST) project examining these issues for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the European Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) industry.",
keywords = "Computer science and informatics",
author = "Ioannis Ignatiadis and Dimitrios Tektonidis and Adomas Svirskas and Jonathan Briggs and Stamatia-Ann Katriou and Adamantios Koumpis",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-0-387-85691-9\_11",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781441946720",
volume = "286",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "125--137",
editor = "Makoto Oya and Ryuya Uda and Chizuko Yasunobu",
booktitle = "Towards sustainable society on ubiquitous networks Volume 286",
address = "United States",
note = "8th IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Service, and e-Society ; Conference date: 16-09-2008 Through 24-09-2008",
}