SwarmFest talk: jVEFrame / Pietro Terna

[Marcus G. Daniels]

jVEFrame: a Virtual Enterprise Frame in Swarm.
Pietro Terna
University of Torino - Italy, Department of Economics and Finance "G.Prato"

jVEFrame (Java Virtual Enterprise Frame, written in Swarm) is built to
simulate the effects of deep modifications that may occur in the life
of a firm - for example, the adoption of B2B and B2C strategies - and
to investigate the role of knowledge into this kind of economic
organizations.

The jVEFrame structure is highly decentralized: the "orders", i.e.
electronic forms (objects in Swarm contest), contain all the
information needed for production. There is one order for each product
to be done; it reports the production recipes, the performed phases,
the cost accounting etc.

The production units that execute the orders may be a part of the 
simulated enterprise or even be structured as external bodies.

The model can also be used to evaluate the relations between the 
adopted information management systems (i.e., P2P knowledge management) and 
the behavior of the enterprises.

In a more theoretical perspective, the model represents a step toward
the simulation of the interactions among and within enterprises, to
search for a better definition of entrepreneurship, in the Austrian
economic sense of discovering new fields of innovation.


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