|
Title:
|
INFORMATION MODELLING FOR FLEXIBLE INFORMATION PROVISIONING IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS |
|
Author(s):
|
Heiko Thimm, Karsten Boye Rasmussen |
|
ISBN:
|
978-972-8939-21-2 |
|
Editors:
|
Nik Bessis, Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
|
Year:
|
2010 |
|
Edition:
|
Single |
|
Keywords:
|
Virtual Organizations, Collaborative Networks, Virtual Enterprises, Active Information Provisioning |
|
Type:
|
Full Paper |
|
First Page:
|
3 |
|
Last Page:
|
11 |
|
Language:
|
English |
|
Cover:
|
|
|
Full Contents:
|
click to dowload 
|
|
Paper Abstract:
|
Successful collaboration in collaborative networks calls for network participants who are well informed about the many aspects of networks. This includes information about the network strategy, the members, the current network status, and collaborative business processes. Otherwise, a network can be threatened by distrust between the participating members and/or distrust to the idea and outcome of the network which can lead to a difficult collaboration climate in the network. Despite their natural interest in being well informed about all the different aspects of the network often limited resources e.g. time restrictions of the participants prevent reaching an appropriate level of shared information. An information provisioning service can offer a solution to this problem and through the obtained well informed network participants promote a prospering collaboration climate. We present an information modeling framework that is designed to enable such an active provisioning service. Our framework provides a predefined set of information object types that can be flexibly extended by new types in order to meet specific needs of networks. The predefined object types reflect network indicators and information about network business processes. In both information categories our framework provides aggregated information about the entire network and company specific information about a specific network member. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
