A method describing the cooperative relationships evolution of virtual enterprise

Research on cooperative work of whole virtual enterprise is still in qualitative analysis phase and lacks the methods that can dynamically describe the evolution of cooperative relationships of virtual enterprise in changeable markets. To solve these problems, a description of cooperative work of whole virtual enterprise is first given. Then a method using limited Markov chain and Bayes´ rule is proposed to describe the evolution of cooperative relationships of virtual enterprise, specifically evolution of cooperative relationships building and cooperative relationships selecting. Finally, how to optimize related action sets during the evolution is discussed. By this method, managers can not only dynamically describe the cooperative relationships among the enterprise entities of virtual enterprise, but also be able to predict the adaptive actions when virtual enterprise facing new market requirements, which is very helpful for decision-making.