Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guidelines for Designing Virtual Organizations

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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