Establishing the Foundation of Collaborative Networks - IFIP TC 5 Working Group 5.5 Eighth IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises September 10-12, 2007, Guimarães, Portugal

This book includes a number of selected papers from the PRO-VE '07 Conference providing a comprehensive overview of recent advances in various CN domains. Thereis a special emphasis on the Collaborative Network topics related to trust aspects, performance and value systems, VO breeding environments, VO creation, e-contracting, collaborative architectures and frameworks, professional virtual communities, interoperability issues, business benefits, and case studies and applications in industry and services.

List of contents

Trust Aspects in Collaboration.- Performance and Value Systems.- Collaboration Network Analysis.- VO Breeding Environment Enablers.- Elements of Breeding Environments Management.- VO Creation.- e-Contracting in Collaborative Network Scenarios.- Learning and Inheritance in VO.- Architectures for Collaboration.- Modelling Frameworks for Collaborative Networks.- Business Benefits in Networks.- Professional Virtual Communities.- Customer Involvement in Networks.- Social Network Analysis.- Interoperability in Networks.- Collaborative Process Models.- Process Integration and Management.- Web Services and Fusion.- Collaboration Environments Cases.- Product-Oriented Collaboration.- Adaptive Collaborative Frameworks.- Evaluation and Management of Collaborative Supply Networks.

Summary

This book includes a number of selected papers from the PRO-VE '07 Conference providing a comprehensive overview of recent advances in various CN domains. Thereis a special emphasis on the Collaborative Network topics related to trust aspects, performance and value systems, VO breeding environments, VO creation, e-contracting, collaborative architectures and frameworks, professional virtual communities, interoperability issues, business benefits, and case studies and applications in industry and services.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hamide Afsarmanesh (Editor), Hamideh Afsarmanesh (Editor), Cesar Analide (Editor), Luis Camarinha-Matos (Editor), Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (Editor), Paulo Novais (Editor), Paulo Novais et al (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441944757
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-4475-7
• No. of pages: 689
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 37 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 1054 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 689 p.
• Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; C, computer science, Computer Engineering and Networks, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Computer organization