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    STUDIA INFORMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS – CONCEPTUAL MODELLING.

Authors:  DUMITRU RĂDOIU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Although there is a vast literature on virtual organizations (VO), there’s little agreement on this subject from the definition to the reference model. Explanation seems to be the lack of a consistent, easy to operate with and largely accepted definition and the absence of a framework to build useful conceptual models, based on formal theories. The present paper, presents an axiomatic, easy to operate with VO definition, the outline of VO concept modelling and a theorem supporting the idea that a consistent VO conceptual model must be backed up by a non-trivial formal theory (T). Empirically derived models – based on interpreting and generalising available “experimental” data - might lead to valid VO models but in the end, formalism (i.e. just formal description) cannot substitute formal theory.  
         
     
         
         
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