Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. A Framework for Virtual Enterprises

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Virtual Enterprise Concept

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

      Pages 3-14

   3. Tendencies and General Requirements for Virtual Enterprises

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

      Pages 15-30

   4. Federated Information Management Requirements for Virtual Enterprises

      • H. Afsarmanesh, C. Garita, Y. Ugur, A. Frenkel, L. O. Hertzberger

      Pages 31-48

   5. Coordination and Configuration Requirements in a Virtual Enterprise

      • L. M. Camarinha-Matos, C. P. Lima

      Pages 49-64

   6. Communication Infrastructure Requirements in a VE

      • A. Luís Osório, Manuel M. Barata, Pierre Gibon

      Pages 65-76

   7. Socio-Organizational Requirements for a VE

      • António Brandão Moniz, Paula Urze

      Pages 77-94

3. The Prodnet Infrastructure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. The PRODNET Goals and Approach

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

      Pages 97-108

   3. The PRODNET Architecture

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

      Pages 109-126

   4. Design of the Federated Information Management Architecture for PRODNET

      • H. Afsarmanesh, C. Garita, Y. Ugur, A. Frenkel, L. O. Hertzberger

      Pages 127-146

   5. PRODNET Coordination Module

      • L. M. Camarinha-Matos, C. P. Lima

      Pages 147-166

   6. The PRODNET Communication Infrastructure

      • A. Luís Osório, Carlos Antunes, Manuel M. Barata

      Pages 167-186

   7. Support for Electronic Data Interchange

      • Pierre Gibon, Jean-François Clavier, Soizic Loison

      Pages 187-208

   8. Step Support for Virtual Enterprises

      • Andreas Schreiber

      Pages 209-218

   9. Production Planning and Control in a Virtual Enterprise

      • L. M. Camarinha-Matos, V. Santos Silva, R. J. Rabelo

      Pages 219-232

   10. Product Data Management

       • Thomas Mechlinski, Andreas Schreiber

       Pages 233-240

   11. Distributed Business Process Management

       • Alexandra Augusta Pereira Klen, Ricardo J. Rabelo, Luiz Marcio Spinosa, Aureo Campos Ferreira

       Pages 241-258

   12. Selection of Partners for a Virtual Enterprise

       • L. M. Camarinha-Matos, T. Cardoso

       Pages 259-278

The area of virtual organizations, and industrial virtual enterprises in particular, is attracting a large and growing interest both in terms of the research and development and the implementation of new business practices. An ever-increasing number of international projects and national initiatives have been launched recently. Most of the earlier efforts are focused on the development of supporting infrastructures, although more and more initiatives now pursue the exploitation of this concept in business terms. Being a recent research and development area, and in spite of the mentioned interest, there is a lack of a structured and comprehensive text that can be used as a reference source. Most available literature is dispersed in several conference proceedings, journals, and book chapters. This book represents an attempt towards such structured text. Although the book was prepared in the framework of PRO-VE'99, a working conference on infrastructures for virtual enterprises organized by the Esprit project PRODNET II and IFIP, it has the goal of covering more generic VE requirements and addressing several other approaches and important aspects in this paradigm.

• Motivation
• Scheduling
• Workflow
• business process
• business process management
• communication
• computer science
• electrical engineering
• information management
• modeling
• organization
• production
• proving
• service-oriented computing

• New University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Hamideh Afsarmanesh

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