Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises Book

	Technical Co-Sponsors
	Committees and Referees
	Foreword - Towards collaborative business ecosystems
1	Reference Models for Virtual Enterprises	3
2	Towards a Modelling Framework for Networks of SMEs	11
3	Enterprise Engineering - The Basis for Successful Planning of E-Business	19
4	Handling the Complexity of IT-Environments with Enterprise Architecture	27
5	A Dynamic Model of Virtual Organisations: Formation and Development	37
6	Initiation of a Globally Networked Project: A Case Study	45
7	In Search of the Right Partner	55
8	Brokerage Function in Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration - A Literature Review	65
9	A Framework for Broker Assisted Virtual Enterprises	73
10	Virtual Enterprise Broker: Processes, Methods and Tools	81
11	Managing Contracts in Virtual Project Supply Chains	93
12	Managing Contractual Relationships in Virtual Organizations with Electronic Contracting	101
13	Contract Management in Agile Manufacturing Systems	109
14	A Proposal of Negotiation Methodology in Virtual Enterprise	125
15	Negotiation Protocol Characterisation and Mechanisms for Virtual Markets and Enterprises	133
16	A Conceptual Framework for B2B Electronic Contracting	143
17	Towards a Cross-Organisational Workflow Model	153
18	Integrating a Workflow Engine and a MOF Repository to an Open Service Platform	161
19	Corvette: A Cooperative Workflow Development Experiment	169
20	Inter-Organizational Workflow Management in Virtual Healthcare Enterprises	181
21	Knowledge Acquisition for Building and Integrating Product Configurators	193
22	Towards Ontology-Based Smart Organizations	201
23	Using Ontologies in Virtual Brainstorming for Business Process Reengineering	209
24	Distributed Enterprises Configuration: Orders Allocation within Networks of Firms	219
25	Optimization Structures for Supply Chain Management	227
26	An Order Planning System to Support Networked Supply Chains	237
27	Developing an Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) - Requirements and Roadmap	247
28	An UML-Based Meta-Language for the QOS-Aware Enterprise Specification of Open Distributed Systems	255
29	Modeling Distributed Production Enterprises with XML	265
30	Multiple Perspective Configuration of Virtual Enterprises Using Social Actors Networks	273
31	"Plug and do Business" and the European R&D Programmes	283
32	Fast Tracking ICT Infrastructure Requirements and Design, Based on Enterprise Reference Architecture and Matching Reference Models	293
33	A Guideline to Organize Communication Infrastructure for Alliances of SME	303
34	Support of Virtual Enterprises by an Integration Infrastructure	311
35	Tiki: A Trigger-Based Infrastructure for Knowledge and Information Sharing	329
36	Internet Based ICT Platform for Supporting Virtual Enterprises of SMEs	337
37	A PDM-Based Ve-Oriented Infrastructure for Distributed Collaborative Design	345
38	Utilizing Active Knowledge Models in an Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises	353
39	Towards an Agent-Based Infrastructure to Support Virtual Organisations	363
40	Supporting the Creation of Virtual Enterprises Using Mobile Agents	371
41	A Multi-Agent System for Smart Coordination of Dynamic Supply Chains	379
42	Virtual Enterprise for Data Mining and Decision Support	389
43	Supporting the Dynamic Structures of CEP Services	397
44	Virtual Organization of After-Sales Service in the One-of-a-Kind Industry	405
45	ASP: The Fourth-Party Counterparts in the Evolving Logistics Industry	421
46	Mobile and Distributed Collaboration in Virtual Communities	431
47	Design of a Virtual Community Infrastructure for Elderly Care	439
48	Building Virtual Professional Communities	451
49	Investigating Multilevel Relationships in Virtual Teams: An Illustration Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling	459
50	Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Organizations Supporting Biosciences	469
51	Drive-Drug in Virtual Enterprise	481
52	Team Work for Concurrent Engineering in Agile/Virtual Enterprise	489
53	Remote Collaborative Data Mining Through Online Knowledge Sharing	497
54	The Transformation of Traditional Organizations into Virtual Organizations	507
55	The Strategy Finding Task within Collaborative Networks, Based on an Exemplary Case of the Linux Community	517
56	Discussion on Requirements for Agile/Virtual Enterprises Reconfigurability Dynamics: The Example of the Automotive Industry	527
57	Best Enterprise Practice for Co-Operation among SMEs	537
58	Integrated Dynamic Management of Virtual Enterprises	545
59	E-Business Concept and Industrial Structure Approach: An Example of Telco's E-Business Strategy	553
60	The Workflow-Enabled Supply Chain, the Civil Construction Enterprise Case Study	561
61	The Preminv Platform for Training in Management and Engineering for Virtual Enterprise	571
62	A Pedagogical Model for Imparting the Cross-Disciplinary Communication Skills Necessary to Develop and Operate the Infrastructures of VO	579
63	Understanding the Nature of Working Relationships and Interactions in Virtual Enterprises	587
64	Economic Relationships between the Members of Virtual Enterprise	597
65	The Impact of the Virtual Economy on Leadership in Organisations	605
66	Smart Organization Metrics - Partner Fit	613
67	A Decentralized Performance Measurement System for Supply Chain	621
	Author Index	629