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Industrial enterprises realize that in order to function and survive in constantly changing grounds, they need to collaborate dynamically by forming network-based collaborative alliances of a temporary nature. During such collaborations, several segments of work can be often identified as recurring and be reused. The exploitation of this repetition is considered to be critical for these environments, so approaches that propose the use of Collaboration Patterns (CPats), seen as loose workflows of services, can be proven valuable. In this paper we present the use of CPats in virtual organizations that are executed in an ad hoc way. We propose a schema that combines the initiatives of CPats along with a dynamic service orchestration engine based on an autonomic framework called Fractal. Such approach allows reorganizing service workflow at run-time in order to take into account collaboration network plasticity.
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Lorre, JP., Verginadis, Y., Papageorgiou, N., Salatge, N. (2010). Ad-hoc Execution of Collaboration Patterns using Dynamic Orchestration. In: Popplewell, K., Harding, J., Poler, R., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability IV. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-257-5_1
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