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This dissertation proposes an agent-based coordinationmodel
for virtual organization. The model incorporatesbusiness
processes and Petri Net concept, and thenintroduces a virtual
Petri Net System. In order to accountfor the coordination
between subsystems, this dissertationalso introduces an agent
construct into the model. Theintroduced agents, not only perform
the regulartransformation processes, but also are responsible
for thecoordinations among the agents. To a virtual
organization, the core resources, themarket place and the
process flows are the critical factors.As organizations become
more and more virtual, there aremore needs to reengineer the
virtual organizations throughall three aspects. Our
reengineering methodology is thenmore general than the
traditional ones, and is especiallysuitable for reengineering
the virtual organizations. Our proposed reengineering
methodology composes ofresponding to market place, allocation of
internal/externalresources, and optimizing the work flows, in
order toaccomplish the goal of organization virtualization. In
anintensive case study, we apply the methodology and show howto
reengineer an organization toward virtualization, whichprovides
promising results.
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