Bahram Lotfi Sadigh's research while affiliated with Middle East Technical University and other places

Publications (8)

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A virtual enterprise (VE) is a collaboration model between multiple business partners in a value chain. The VE model is particularly feasible and appropriate for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and industrial parks containing multiple SMEs that have different vertical competencies. The VE consortium’s success highly depends on its member...
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A virtual enterprise (VE) is a platform that enables dynamic collaboration among manufacturers and service providers with complementary capabilities in order to enhance their market competitiveness. The performance of a VE as a system depends highly on the performance of its partner enterprises. Hence, choosing an appropriate methodology for evalua...
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New advancements in computers and information technologies have yielded novel ideas to create more effective virtual collaboration platforms for multiple enterprises. Virtual enterprise (VE) is a collaboration model between multiple independent business partners in a value chain and is particularly suited to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs...
Conference Paper
Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a temporary cooperation among independent enterprises to build up a dynamic collaboration framework for manufacturing. One of the most important steps to construct a successful VE is to select the most qualified partners to take role in the project. This paper is a survey of ranking the volunteer companies with respect to...
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Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a collaboration model between multiple business partners in a value chain. VE information system deals with highly dynamic information from heterogeneous data sources. In order to manage and store dynamic VE information in the database, an ontology based VE model has been developed. To select winner enterprises in VE, a M...
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The Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a collaboration model between multiple business partners in a value chain that aims to cope with turbulent business environments, mainly characterized by demand unpredictability, shortening product lifecycles, and intense cost pressures. The VE model is particularly viable and applicable for Small and Medium Enterpris...
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In this paper a Platform as a Service (PaaS) based multi agent virtual enterprise framework for sustainability is introduced which is designed in order to facilitate the collaboration between Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) working in Aviation and Defense Cluster of OSTIM Organized Industrial Region in Ankara, Turkey. In order to enable S...
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The Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a collaboration model between multiple business partners in a value chain that aims to cope with turbulent business environments, mainly characterized by demand unpredictability, shortening product lifecycles, and intense cost pressures. The VE model is particularly viable and applicable for Small and Medium Enterpris...

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... Competition is the main characteristic of today's global markets. In order to gain more shares from market and maximize profits, corporations are trying to offer more competitive products or services [1]. New advanced technologies increase the level of expectations of customers and markets. ...
... До них відносяться: виникнення невизначених обставин, які можуть призвести до збільшення вартості проекту; збільшення вартості позикового капіталу; зміна платоспроможності клієнтів, що може привести до неможливості вчасно і в повному обсязі розраховуватися за своїми зобов'язаннями; коливання цін на вироблену продукцію. 6. Репутаційні. ...
... Wang et al., 2019;Javed et al., 2020), and interactions among units (Vatankhah Barenji, 2022), and to exemplify the general processes in DBEs (Demichev et al., 2021). A UML activity diagram was constructed for the process of project submission in a multi-agent enterprise system by Sadigh et al. (2017). ...
... The firms participating in this formation on the strength of their core competencies present themselves to third parties as a unified organization when delivering the product or service. To extend the concept of VO, a virtual enterprise (VE) suggested in Huang, Gao, and Chen (2011) and Unver and Sadigh (2013) is a network of enterprises that are autonomous and diverse but could also be geographically dispersed. These enterprises can share critical resources and competencies through information technology mediated platforms. ...
... By cooperating within a VE framework, SMEs are able to combine their diverse competencies to develop new, higher quality products and reduce the effects of market turbulence [1], [3] and [4]. However, enhancing product quality and creating innovative, technologically advanced, high value added products requires more than forming a collaboration network among multiple manufacturing SMEs [5]. Thus, one of the main targets of this research is to include research and development startups, institutes or universities located in techno-parks or industrial parks to increase the ability of a VE consortium to produce innovative, high value added, high technology products. ...
... Since the performance of an IOC highly depends on performance of its partner organizations (Nikghadam et al., 2016), applying an efficient and effective method for searching, evaluating, and selecting the "best" candidate business partners in the DIOC project sprint are what is required to be done. ...
... On the other hand, (Smirnov (1999) shows that VE is a temporary consortium with/ for independent industrial projects called "units," each aimed at getting some advantage. (VE) is an association business model amongst multi projects in a value chain (Lotfi Sadigh et al. 2014). Hence, VE is a temporary platform for discrete projects to co-operate, sharing its essential capabilities to achieve customer needs. ...