Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Research Challenges for Advanced VO

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. New Collaborative Organizations and their Research Needs

      • Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

      Pages 3-14

   3. Collaborative Knowledge Networks

      • Norman G. Roth, Stephen Evans

      Pages 15-22

   4. Modeling the Structure of Collaborative Networks: Some Contributions

      • António Lucas Soares, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Francisco Barbedo

      Pages 23-30

3. Roadmaps for Collaborative Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. A Roadmap for Strategic Research on Virtual Organizations

      • Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh

      Pages 33-46

   3. COCONET: A Roadmap for Context-Aware Cooperation Environments

      • Hans Schaffers, Amnon Ribak, Volker Tschammer

      Pages 47-54

   4. Vision E-Company: The Network-Centric Enterprises

      • Thierry Bouron

      Pages 55-62

4. Partners Evaluation and Selection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Trust Building in the Creation of Virtual Enterprises in Mobile Agent-Based Architectures

      • R. J. Rabelo, M. S. Wangham, R. Schmidt, J. S. Fraga

      Pages 65-72

   3. Partner Evaluation and Selection in Virtual Enterprises Using a Profile Theory Based Approach

      • Stamatios Tsakopoulos, Albert Bokma, Valentina Plekhanova

      Pages 73-84

   4. Requirements for an Agent-Based Approach to Support Virtual Enterprises

      • Sobah Abbas Petersen, Geir J. Husøy, Edgar Karlsen, Mihhail Matskin

      Pages 85-92

5. Breeding Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Order Acquiring and Processing in the Virtual Factory

      • Adrian Plüss, Charles Huber

      Pages 95-102

   3. Development of New Technologies to Enable the Creation of Virtual Enterprises in the Leather Sector

      • Myrna Flores, Marzio Albertoni

      Pages 103-110

   4. Ecosystem for Virtual Enterprise

      • Wilson Lau, Yanming Li, Siham Sinaceur

      Pages 111-120

6. Formation of Collaborative Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Aricon Initiative: Barriers in Adopting the Virtual Enterprise Approach in the New Product Development (NPD) Context

      • Roxana Belecheanu, Kulwant S. Pawar, Johann c. k. h. Riedel, Roberto Santoro, Marco Conte

      Pages 123-134

   3. The e-Business on Demand Life Cycle

      • Yigal Hoffner

      Pages 135-144

Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations contains selected articles from PRO-VE'03, the Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Lugano, Switzerland in October 2003. This fourth edition includes a rich set of papers revealing the progress and achievements in the main current focus areas:

-VO breeding environments;
-Formation of collaborative networked organizations;
-Ontologies and knowledge management;
-Process models and interoperability;
-Infrastructures;
-Multi-agent approaches.

In spite of many valid contributions in these areas, many research challenges remain. This is clearly stated in a number of papers suggesting a new research agenda and strategic research roadmaps for advanced virtual organizations.
With the selected papers included in this book, PRO-VE pursues its double mission as a forum for presentation and discussion of achievements as well as a place to discuss and suggest new directions and research strategies.

• E-Business
• Feder
• Internet
• Peer
• development
• knowledge management
• linear optimization
• modeling
• organization

• New University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Hamideh Afsarmanesh

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