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Virtual enterprises consist of a number of independent distributed members, which have to collaborate in order to succeed. The paper proposes an approach to creation of self-organising service networks to support semantic interoperability between virtual enterprise members. Since the centralized control is not always possible, presented approach proposes decentralized communication and ad-hoc decision making based on the current situation state and its possible future development. The presented approach proposes usage of self-organising networks of knowledge sources and problem solvers. The paper is devoted to questions of semantic interoperability in such kind of agent-based service networks. Ontologies are used for description of knowledge domains. Application of objecto-riented constraint networks is proposed for ontology modelling. The approach uses such technologies as knowledge and ontology management, profiling, intelligent agents, Web-services, etc.
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Smirnov, A., Pashkin, M., Shilov, N., Levashova, T. (2008). Self-Organising Service Networks for Semantic Interoperability Support in Virtual Enterprises. In: Mertins, K., Ruggaber, R., Popplewell, K., Xu, X. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability III. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-221-0_27
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