Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises
This book contains selected articles from PRO-VE'02, the third working conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Sesimbra, Portugal in May 2002. The included articles represent relevant examples of the current state of the art in virtual enterprises and other collaborative and networked organizations, and provide valuable insights on future trends and challenges. The book contents...
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New collaboration mechanisms and organizational forms supported by networking tools not only induce new business domains but "invade" all traditional sectors and organizations, which requires thinking of each business as part of a wider economic ecosystem and environment. The virtual enterprise / virtual organization developments, although initially technology-driven, are gathering more and more contributions of a multi-disciplinary nature, namely from the socio-economic and organizational areas. New behavioral forms, new cooperation agreements and social contracts, new liability agreements and risk negotiation practices, new ways of generating value for common developments, and correspondingly new challenges on intellectual property and ownership identification are among the major trends. This book contains selected articles from PRO-VE'02, the third working conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Sesimbra, Portugal in May 2002. The included articles represent relevant examples of the current state of the art in virtual enterprises and other collaborative and networked organizations, and provide valuable insights on future trends and challenges. The book contents clearly reflect a growing maturation and diversification of the area. Important development directions are well represented, such as: modeling and reference architectures, formation of virtual organizations, including contract management and negotiation, operation support functionalities, infrastructures and interoperability, virtual communities and new collaboration forms, best practices and strategic planning, economic aspects and performance metrics, training and new ways of working.Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises is essential reading for researchers, engineers, managers, practitioners, sociologists, and students in production engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, organizational science, and industrial sociology.
Technical Co-SponsorsCommittees and RefereesForeword - Towards collaborative business ecosystems1Reference Models for Virtual Enterprises32Towards a Modelling Framework for Networks of SMEs113Enterprise Engineering - The Basis for Successful Planning of E-Business194Handling the Complexity of IT-Environments with Enterprise Architecture275A Dynamic Model of Virtual Organisations: Formation and Development376Initiation of a Globally Networked Project: A Case Study457In Search of the Right Partner558Brokerage Function in Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration - A Literature Review659A Framework for Broker Assisted Virtual Enterprises7310Virtual Enterprise Broker: Processes, Methods and Tools8111Managing Contracts in Virtual Project Supply Chains9312Managing Contractual Relationships in Virtual Organizations with Electronic Contracting10113Contract Management in Agile Manufacturing Systems10914A Proposal of Negotiation Methodology in Virtual Enterprise12515Negotiation Protocol Characterisation and Mechanisms for Virtual Markets and Enterprises13316A Conceptual Framework for B2B Electronic Contracting14317Towards a Cross-Organisational Workflow Model15318Integrating a Workflow Engine and a MOF Repository to an Open Service Platform16119Corvette: A Cooperative Workflow Development Experiment16920Inter-Organizational Workflow Management in Virtual Healthcare Enterprises18121Knowledge Acquisition for Building and Integrating Product Configurators19322Towards Ontology-Based Smart Organizations20123Using Ontologies in Virtual Brainstorming for Business Process Reengineering20924Distributed Enterprises Configuration: Orders Allocation within Networks of Firms21925Optimization Structures for Supply Chain Management22726An Order Planning System to Support Networked Supply Chains23727Developing an Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) - Requirements and Roadmap24728An UML-Based Meta-Language for the QOS-Aware Enterprise Specification of Open Distributed Systems25529Modeling Distributed Production Enterprises with XML26530Multiple Perspective Configuration of Virtual Enterprises Using Social Actors Networks27331"Plug and do Business" and the European R&D Programmes28332Fast Tracking ICT Infrastructure Requirements and Design, Based on Enterprise Reference Architecture and Matching Reference Models29333A Guideline to Organize Communication Infrastructure for Alliances of SME30334Support of Virtual Enterprises by an Integration Infrastructure31135Tiki: A Trigger-Based Infrastructure for Knowledge and Information Sharing32936Internet Based ICT Platform for Supporting Virtual Enterprises of SMEs33737A PDM-Based Ve-Oriented Infrastructure for Distributed Collaborative Design34538Utilizing Active Knowledge Models in an Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises35339Towards an Agent-Based Infrastructure to Support Virtual Organisations36340Supporting the Creation of Virtual Enterprises Using Mobile Agents37141A Multi-Agent System for Smart Coordination of Dynamic Supply Chains37942Virtual Enterprise for Data Mining and Decision Support38943Supporting the Dynamic Structures of CEP Services39744Virtual Organization of After-Sales Service in the One-of-a-Kind Industry40545ASP: The Fourth-Party Counterparts in the Evolving Logistics Industry42146Mobile and Distributed Collaboration in Virtual Communities43147Design of a Virtual Community Infrastructure for Elderly Care43948Building Virtual Professional Communities45149Investigating Multilevel Relationships in Virtual Teams: An Illustration Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling45950Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Organizations Supporting Biosciences46951Drive-Drug in Virtual Enterprise48152Team Work for Concurrent Engineering in Agile/Virtual Enterprise48953Remote Collaborative Data Mining Through Online Knowledge Sharing49754The Transformation of Traditional Organizations into Virtual Organizations50755The Strategy Finding Task within Collaborative Networks, Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community51756Discussion on Requirements for Agile/Virtual Enterprises Reconfigurability Dynamics: The Example of the Automotive Industry52757Best Enterprise Practice for Co-Operation among SMEs53758Integrated Dynamic Management of Virtual Enterprises54559E-Business Concept and Industrial Structure Approach: An Example of Telco's E-Business Strategy55360The Workflow-Enabled Supply Chain, the Civil Construction Enterprise Case Study56161The Preminv Platform for Training in Management and Engineering for Virtual Enterprise57162A Pedagogical Model for Imparting the Cross-Disciplinary Communication Skills Necessary to Develop and Operate the Infrastructures of VO57963Understanding the Nature of Working Relationships and Interactions in Virtual Enterprises58764Economic Relationships between the Members of Virtual Enterprise59765The Impact of the Virtual Economy on Leadership in Organisations60566Smart Organization Metrics - Partner Fit61367A Decentralized Performance Measurement System for Supply Chain621Author Index629
