Towards focused markets of resources for agile virtual enterprise integration

Due to the complexity of the search process, the dynamics inherent to the integration of resources in Agile/Virtual Enterprises (A/V E) is not compatible with the optimal search of resources in the universal or global domain of potential resources, designated as Market of Resources. So, we defend that the future paradigm of A/V E integration will gain efficiency if the search for the optimal takes place in a restricted domain, subset from the universal domain, called Focused Market of Resources. This approach implies two distinct processes: 1) a process of identification and filtering of the focused market, i.e. a focused domain, from the universal, global domain, and 2) the search process for resources over the focused domain. These two processes are separated “in time and space” meaning that the first process is an “off-line” preparatory process, before the demand for resources appears. The identified focused market is then submitted to the second process, an ”on-line“ effective selection process, at the time the demand for resources appears, based on a search algorithm to find the optimal resources match to integrate the A/V E. In this paper we propose the existence of Market of Resources, as an global environment and domain for the A/VE integration, and the Focused Markets of Resources as the privileged environment to the efficient integration of Agile/Virtual Enterprises.