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VE evolution deals with problems that happen during the VE operation and that put on risk planned results. This requires the application of problem-solving mechanisms to guarantee the construction of a new but feasible VE plan. Grounded on Project Management and Decision Support Systems foundations, this paper proposes a distributed collaborative decision support system to manage the VE evolution. Its main rationale is that VE’s members are autonomous and hence that all the affected partners should discuss about the necessary changes on the current VE’s plan. In the proposed approach, this discussion is guided by a decision protocol, and the impact of decisions can be evaluated. Results of a first prototype implementation are presented and discussed, with a special focus on the part which regulates the argumentation, voting and comparison of possible solutions.
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Drissen-Silva, M.V., Rabelo, R.J. (2009). Managing Decisions on Changes in the Virtual Enterprise Evolution. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Paraskakis, I., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Leveraging Knowledge for Innovation in Collaborative Networks. PRO-VE 2009. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 307. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04568-4_48
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