E-Partner: Partnership Match for an Extended Enterprise

摘要

Companies are increasingly moving towards globalization due to advancement in ICT and communication technologies. However, a phobia still grips them about establishing a partnership that spans geographically distributed location. In this work, we reviewed the problems that companies confront while forging partnerships. Drawn upon the review, we select a set of attributes and construct an attribute ontology that provides a common platform for defining requirement which is machine processable. Architecture is presented for establishing partnership between small and medium sized enterprise, define similarity measure for finding match between partners. Also a proof of concept is discussed to demonstrate and validate the proposed architecture.