Distributed Risk Management in a Virtual Enterprise Environment

Risk management models and techniques are mature enough to handle risk in the context of a single enterprise. However, the problem of risk management in the setting of an organization of organizations is quite difficult to manage and to deal with. The model proposed in this paper arises from an approach to risk management based on the definition of risk ontology in the context of software development. We will discuss a multi-agent architecture in which risk monitoring agents collect data about several possible risk typologies, perform risk analysis, and decide how to react to risks according to a rule based specification logic.