Abstract: The Virtual Enterprise Computer (VEC) is a method for creating a single virtual, enterprise-wide computing environment consisting of a single, enterprise-wide persistent address space to uniquely identify and location enterprise data and intellectual assets, a single, enterprise-wide, persistent memory as a single source for all enterprise data, resources and intellectual assets, an enterprise-wide persistent knowledge repository that models the business enterprise by maintaining relationships between business processes, workflows, business rules, business metrics, data, resources, legacy systems and intellectual assets, self-aware agents encapsulating data and computer code, a real-time event/logic controller to manage the execution of agents eliminating data pollution and data duplication, conserving knowledge assets, creating an enterprise-wide collaboration environment, enhancing the flow and sharing of information and knowledge, permitting the arbitration of intellectual resources across the business ent