International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science (IJ-CLOSER) Vol.1, No.1, March 2012, pp. 1~10 ISSN: 2089-3337  1 Journal homepage: http://iaesjournal.com/online/index.php/ IJ-CLOSER New Federated Collaborative Networked Organization Model (FCNOM) Morcous M. Yassa*, Hesham A. Hassan*, Fatma A. Omara* * Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and information, Cairo University Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Oct 28 th , 2011 Revised May 3 th , 2012 Accepted March 16, 2012 Formation of Collaborative Networked Organization (CNO) usually comes upon expected business opportunities and needs huge of negotiation during its lifecycle, especially to increase the Dynamic Virtual Organization (DVO) configuration automation. Decision makers need more comprehensive information about CNO system to support their decisions. Unfortunately, there is no single formal modeling, tool, approach or any comprehensive methodology that covers all perspectives. In spite of there are some approaches to model CNO have been existed, these approaches model the CNO either with respect to the technology, or business without considering organizational behavior, federation modeling, and external environments. The aim of this paper is to propose an integrated framework that combines the existed modeling perspectives, as well as, proposes new ones. In addition, it provides clear CNO boundaries. By using this approach, the view of CNO environment becomes clear and unified. In addition, it minimizes the negotiations within CNO components during its life cycle, supports DVO configuration automation, as well as, helps decision making for DVO, and achieves harmonization between CNO partners. The proposed FCNOM utilizes CommonKADS methodology organization model for describing CNO components. Insurance Collaborative Network has been used as an example to proof the proposed FCNOM model. Keyword: Collaborative Networked Organization, Dynamic Virtual Organization, Grid computing Cloud computing, CommonKADS, Federation, Business modeling Copyright @ 2012 Insitute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. Corresponding Author: Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and information, Cairo University. Email: markyassa@gmail.com 1. Introduction New forms of Collaborative Networks (CN) have been emerged as response to changes in the business environment and the novelty of cloud and grid computing [18]. On the other hand, many collaborative forms and patterns of collaborative behavior are emerging, not only in industry, but also in service sector. While the aims are becoming clearer, the concept of Virtualization Technology (VT) and its components needed to be understood and commonly agreed with CN. One of collaborative networks classes is Collaborative Networked Organization (CNO), which is a dynamic, temporary, and logical aggregation of autonomous heterogeneous entities (companies, people, government institutions, etc.) with different competences. CNOs join, efficiently combine, and coordinate their collective resources (i.e., knowledge, skills, capital, assets, etc.) for a period of time in order to achieve a common objective, and use VT to coordinate, develop, and support their activities. One of the instances of CNOs is the Dynamic Virtual Organization (DVO) [18]. Unfortunately, there is no single formal modeling, tool, approach or any comprehensive methodology that covers all perspectives for CNO [10]. Formation of dynamic virtual business systems usually comes upon business opportunity and needs huge of negotiation during its lifecycle to increase the DVO configuration automation. Decision makers need more comprehensive information about CNO system to support their decision. In addition, there is lack of the number of countries working on the virtual organization term; the number of projects in this context is limiting [19].