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Sharing information about profiles and offered competencies of individual members within an alliance of cooperating companies facilitates searching for potential members of Virtual Organizations. This paper presents a concept of structuring of the competencies as well as a prototype proving this concept. The prototype follows a naturally hybrid architecture of alliances that consists of mutually independent alliance partners, who may be supported by central institutions of the alliance. The use of the agent-based solution enables information sharing among partners in such distributed and dynamic environment.
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Hodík, J., Vokřínek, J., Bíba, J., Bečvář, P. (2007). Competencies and Profiles Management for Virtual Organizations Creation. In: Burkhard, HD., Lindemann, G., Verbrugge, R., Varga, L.Z. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V. CEEMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75254-7_10
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