As technologies required for collaborative computing grow, there are business collaborations among companies carrying out related business. The communication and interactions across the companies has become a common phenomenon. In order to create and sustain this kind of business collaborations, specialized methods or techniques are required. In this paper we propose concept of bridging socially enhanced virtual communities. It is achieved by discovering present relevant businesses and

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... ve business alliances by developing a semi-automated approach. The architecture of the proposed system is compromising of human activities and also automated activities and it is essentially a service oriented system. For the purpose of bringing the previously separated groups and also finding new relevant groups we introduced broker discovery concept that makes use of techniques and metrics pertaining to interactive mining. The empirical results revealed that the proposed system is effective when tested with test bed which is based on distributed technology such as web services.