E-Business and Virtual Enterprises

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. New Organizational Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Will the Organisation Disappear? The Challenges of the New Economy and Future Perspectives

      • Erastos Filos, Eoin P. Banahan

      Pages 3-20

   3. A New Paradigm for the next Century: The Task Oriented Job Market

      • Marcelo Moretti Fioroni, Antônio Batocchio

      Pages 21-28

   4. E-Diagnosis: Knowledge Management and Organizational Change in Virtual Times

      • Paulo S. Grave, Fernando A. Gimenez, Ariston A. Mendes, João M. Crubellate

      Pages 29-36

   5. A Diary Using Fuzzy Sets

      • Wilson Castello Branco Neto, Fernando A. O. Gauthier

      Pages 37-44

3. Infrastructure Requirements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Infrastructure for the Advanced Virtual Enterprise: A Report Using a Brazilian-Based Example

      • H. T. Goranson

      Pages 47-62

   3. Linking Smes’ Clusters: A View of the Information Infrastructure

      • María Elena Léon, Rodrigo Salamoni, João Amato Neto

      Pages 63-70

   4. Working Efficiently with the Service Industries

      • Annibal José Scavarda, Leonardo Junqueira Lustosa, Luiz Felipe Scavarda, José Paulo Teixeira

      Pages 71-78

   5. VE Infrastructures Requirements for Cooperation and Knowledge Sharing

      • Nuno Silva, João Rocha

      Pages 79-86

4. Infrastructures Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Supporting Agility in Virtual Enterprises

      • L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, R. Rabelo

      Pages 89-104

   3. The SACE-CSCW Framework: An Infrastructure to Support Virtual Enterprises and Concurrent Engineering Processes

      • Antonio Carlos dos Santos, Tédi Itamar Zanfolim, Ricardo Muneo Kayo, Talita Andréa Avante Rozante, Ana Érica Monte Morbiolo, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina et al.

      Pages 105-112

   4. Design of a Computer-Supported Cooperative Environment for Small and Medium Enterprises

      • Ana Paula Freitas Mundim, Carlos Frederico Bremer

      Pages 113-126

   5. Environment for Design and Analysis of System Integration

      • Marcius F. Carvalho, Carlos Machado

      Pages 127-134

5. Multi-Agent Based Collaboration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Requirements for an Agent Based Information System Supporting Variably Coupled Networked Enterprises

      • Américo L. Azevedo, Jorge P. Sousa, António L. Soares

      Pages 137-144

   3. Federated Multi-Agent Scheduling in Virtual Enterprises

      • Ricardo J. Rabelo, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

      Pages 145-156

   4. The Netman Agent-Based Architecture for E-Business in Network Organizations

      • Louis Cloutier, Jean-Marc Frayret, Sophie D’Amours, Benoît Montreuil

      Pages 157-166

The fast progress in computer networks and their wide availability complemented with on one hand the "explosion" of the mobile computing and on the other hand the trends in the direction of ubiquitous computing, act as powerful enablers for new forms of highly dynamic collaborative organizations and emergence of new business practices. The first efforts in virtual enterprises (VE) were strongly constrained by the need to design and develop horizontal infrastructures aimed at supporting the basic collaboration needs of consortia of enterprises. Even pilot projects that were focused on specific business domains were forced to first develop some basic infrastructures before being able to develop their specific business models. Nowadays, although there is still a need to consolidate and standardize the horizontal infrastructures, the focus is more and more directed to the development of new vertical business models and the corresponding support tools. At the same time, in the earlier R&D projects, the attention was almost exclusively devoted to the operation phase of the VE life cycle, while now there are more activities addressing the creation phase, developing mechanisms to support the rapid formation of new virtual organizations for new business opportunities. In order to complete the life cycle, there is a need to also invest on support for VE dissolution.

• Analysis
• Business-to-business
• CSCW
• E-Business
• E-Commerce
• Electronic Business
• Electronic Commerce
• Scheduling
• knowledge management
• modeling
• organization
• tools
• ubiquitous computing

• New University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Hamideh Afsarmanesh

• Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

  Ricardo J. Rabelo

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