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PRO-VE'04 5th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises

WG 5.5 - Cooperation Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises and Electronic Business

Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO) correspond to a very active and steadily growing area. For instance, Virtual enterprises / virtual organizations (VE/VO) are already supported by a large research and business practice community. Also, Professional Virtual Communities (PVC) suggest new ways of work and put the emphasis on collaborative networks of human actors. Further to these main lines, other collaborative forms and patterns of collaborative behavior are emerging, not only in industry, but also in service sector, as well as governmental and non-government social organizations, e.g. the collaborative networks for rescue tasks in disaster situations, time bank organization, etc ...
The concept of breeding environment is now understood as a fundamental entity to enable dynamic collaborative organizations.
Recent developments emphasize the need for better understanding and characterization of the basic principles and mechanisms for collaborative networks planning and operation. The main requirements include building a sounder foundation, namely in terms of proper theoretical principles and formal models capturing the concepts, entities, behavior, and operations of the CNOs, and technology-independent infrastructure architectures. More holistic approaches are urgently needed.
However, while the aims are becoming clearer, there is still a lot that remains to be understood and commonly agreed regarding the concept of virtualization in all its facets, calling for multi-faceted reference models. In other words, although the potential advantages of the Virtual Organizations are well known at the conceptual level, their practical implantation is still far from the expectations. In fact, in spite of the growing awareness of the potential benefits of collaborative networks, a number of important barriers or inhibitors can be mentioned, e.g. lack of common reference models, lack of effective interoperability mechanisms and approaches, lack of supporting infrastructures that still require detailed characterization, heavy design and engineering efforts, being difficult to choose among many offered market technologies and tools with too short life cycles, etc.
Furthermore, there are major cultural and legal obstacles, a lack of decisive leadership on the industry sectors, and still too little done on the common practices, ethical principles, and the enhancement / enforcement mechanisms that could help trust building among organizations.
In this context PRO-VE has already established its recognized position as the most focused scientific / technical conference in the area, offering a major opportunity for the presentation and discussion of both the latest research developments and industrial practice case studies. Following the IFIP vision, PRO-VE offers a forum for collaboration among different regions of the world.

Programme

Monday 23 August 2004

13:30 - 15h: Research Trends in Collaborative Networks

An Outlook Of Future Research Needs On Networked Organizations - Joël Bacquet, Peter Fatelnig, Jesus Villasante, Arian Zwegers (European Commission, Belgium)

The Emerging Discipline Of Collaborative Networks - Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (New U. Lisbon, Portugal), Hamideh Afsarmanesh (U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

15:30 - 17h: Track A: Modelling Methodologies for Collaborative Networks

The Typed Domain - A Recipe For Creating Virtual Enterprises - Yigal Hoffner (IBM Research, Switzerland), Simon Field (Matching Systems Ltd., Switzerland)

Introducing Time Horizons To Enterprise Networking Architecture - Nuno Álvares-Ribeiro (U. Porto, Portugal), Ângelo Martins (ISEP, Portugal), João José Pinto Ferreira (U. Porto, Portugal)

A Meta-Methodology For Collaborative Networked Organisations - Ovidiu Noran (Griffith U., Australia)

Track B: Risk Management in Collaborative Networks

Risk Management Of Product Development In Non-Hierarchical Regional Product Networks - Anna Gerber, Karsten Althaus, Michael Dietzsch, Ralf Steiner (Chemnitz U. Technology, Germany)

Risk Management In Distributed Software Development: A Process Integration Proposal - Rafael Prikladnicki, Marcelo Hideki Yamaguti (PUCRS, Brazil), Dante Carlos Antunes (Dell Inc., Brazil)

Management Of IT-Risks In The Context Of Inter-Organisational Knowledge Management - Thiemo Scherle, Stefan Bleck, Peter Laing, Tomaso Forzi (Aachen U., Germany)

Tuesday 24 August 2004

10h30 - 12h: Track A: Modelling Enterprise Networks

A Modelling Approach For Designing Value Chain Of VE - Cheol-Han Kim ( Daejeon U. , Korea) Young-Jun Son ( U. Arizona - Tucson, USA), Tae-young Kim, Kwang-soo Kim ( Pohang U. Science and Technology , Korea)

Role Based And Process Based Modelling Approach For Organizing Networks - Ali Zaidat, Lucien Vincent (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France)

ODAMY For Dynamic Integration Of Business Partners - Peter Weiß (U. Karlsruhe, Germany)

Track B: Collaborative Engineering

The MSKIN Co-Engineering Net - Myrna Flores, Bernardo Ferroni, Renzo Longhi, Marzio Albertoni (U. Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland)

Collaborative Infrastructure For Distance-Spanning Concurrent Engineering - Pawel Fras, Tomasz Kostienko, Jaroslaw Magiera, Adam Pawlak, Piotr Penkala, Dariusz Stachanczyk, Marek Szlezak, Maciej Witczynski (Silesian U. Technology, Poland)

Collaborative Engineering Communities In Shipbuilding - Norbert Gronau (U. Potsdam, Germany), Eva-Maria Kern (Technical U. Hamburg, Germany)

13h30 - 15h: Track A: Distributed Business Processes

Harmonising Business Processes Of Collaborative Networked Organisations Using Process Modelling - John Krogstie (SINTEF, Norway), Vibeke Dalberg, Siri Moe Jensen (Det Norske Veritas, Norway)

IDR: A Proposal For Managing Interorganizational Business Processes By Using Web-Services Oriented Architectures - Rubén Darío Franco, Ángel Ortiz Bas, Víctor Anaya, Francisco Cruz Lario (Polytechnic U. Valencia, Spain)

Integration Of A Contract Framework In BP Models - Frédérique Biennier, Joel Favrel (INSA de Lyon, France)

Track B: Professional Virtual Communities

Uncovering The Difference: Management Of Collaboration In Communities Of Practice And In Virtual Enterprises / Virtual Organizations - Patricia Wolf (Fraunhofer IAO, Germany), Michael Wunram (BIBA Bremen, Germany), Rolando Vargas Vallejos (U. Caxias Do Sul, Brazil)

Knowledge Based Virtual Communities For Mobile And Collaborative Work In European Vehicle Repair Networks - André Quadt, Heiko Dirlenbach, Amit Garg, Martin Weidemann, Volker Stich (Aachen U. Technology, Germany)

The Role Of Virtual Communities In The English Premier Football League - Hayley Henderson, Brendan D'Cruz (U. College Northampton, UK)

15h30 - 17h: Track A: Knowledge Management in Networked Enterprises

Knowledge-Based Coordination Of Production Planning Tasks In Dynamically Networked Enterprises - Thomas Fischer, Sven-Volker Rehm (DITF/ITV Denkendorf, Germany)

Knowledge Exchange In A Supply Chain Context - Laurent Buzon, Aziz Bouras, Yacine Ouzrout (U. Lumière Lyon 2, France)

Inter-Organizational Knowledge Management. The Importance Of Organizational And Environmental Context - Josep Capó, Enrique Masiá, Francisco C. Lario (Polytechnic U. Valencia, Spain)

Track B: Collaborative Spaces

A Synchronous Collaboration Server For The Construction Industry - The End Users' Experience In The Collaborator Project - Anfosso Alain, Bourdeau Marc, Zarli Alain (CSTB, France), Costicoglou Socrates (Space Hellas S.A, Greece), Poggi Agostino (CNIT, Italy)

Web-Based Environment - Remote Use Of Electronics Test Tools - Eero Ivask, Jaan Raik, Raimund Ubar (Tallinn Technical U., Estonia), Andre Schneider (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany)

Manufacturing Automation Network's Cooperative E-Space - Olga Nabuco, Francisco Edeneziano D. Pereira (CenPRA, Brazil), José Reinaldo Silva (U. São Paulo, Brazil), Mauro F. Koyama (CenPRA, Brazil), Khalil Drira (LAAS-CNRS, France), João Maurício Rosário (UNICAMP, Brazil)

Wednesday 25 August 2004

10h30 - 12h: Track A: Ontology Handling in Collaborative Networks

Ontology-Based Automatic Data Structure Generation For Collaborative Networks - Victor Guevara-Masis, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Louis O. Hertzberger (U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Ontology-Services Agent To Help In The Structural And Semantic Heterogeneity - Andreia Malucelli, Eugénio Oliveira (U. Porto, Portugal)

Enhancing Interoperability Through The Ontological Filtering System - Raffaello Lepratti, Ulrich Berger (Brandenburg U. Technology at Cottbus, Germany)

Track B: Web Service Markets and Hubs

Designing A Hub To Offer E-Engineering Brokerage Services For Virtual Enterprises - Ricardo Mejía, Luis Canché, Ciro Rodríguez, Arturo Molina (ITESM, Mexico), Godfried Augenbroe (Georgia Institute of Technology USA, and TU-Delft, The Netherlands)

P2P Infrastructure For Tourism Electronic Marketplace - Luís C. S. Barradas (EST-IPCB, Portugal), João José Pinto-Ferreira (U. Porto, Portugal)

A Web Interface For Accessing Scheduling Methods In A Distributed Knowledge Base - Maria Leonilde R. Varela (U. Minho, Portugal), Joaquim Nunes Aparício (New U. Lisbon, Portugal), Sílvio Carmo Silva (U. Minho, Portugal)

13h30 - 15h: Track A: VE / VO Management

Challenges In The Management Of Virtual Organizations - Iris Karvonen, Kim Jansson, Iiro Salkari, Martin Ollus (VTT Industrial Systems, Finland)

A Comparison Of Supply Chain Management Policies - Marcius F. Carvalho (CenPRA / UNICAMP, Brazil), Carlos Machado (UNICAMP, Brazil)

A Business Model For Managing The Virtual Enterprise - David Walters (Sydney Graduate School of Management, Australia)

Track B: Education on VO and Knowledge Sharing

Education On Virtual Organizations: An Experience At UNL - Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Tiago Cardoso (New U. Lisbon, Portugal)

A Case Study Of VO Education In Costa Rica - César Garita (Costa Rican Institute of Technology, Costa Rica)

Mental Models As Enablers Of Knowledge Sharing And Decision-Making In The Design Of Collaborative Networked Environments - Jenny Ure (U. Edinburgh, UK)

15h30 - 17h: Track A: VE / VO Configuration

Smart Configuration Of Dynamic Virtual Enterprises - Ricardo J. Rabelo, Fabiano Baldo, Rui Jorge Tramontin Jr., Alexandra Pereira-Klen, Edmilson R. Klen (Federal U. Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Dynamic Configuration Of Collaboration In Networked Organizations - Brian Shields, Owen Molloy (National U. Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

Intelligent Supply Chain Planning In Virtual Enterprises - Dmitry A. Ivanov, Alexander V. Arkhipov (Russian State Center of Science, Russia), Boris N. Sokolov (Russian Academy of Science, Russia)

Track B: Case Studies of VO/CN

Case Study Of Governance In Public Sector 'Virtual Organizations': The Emergence Of Children Trusts - Rob Wilson, Susan Baines, Roger Vaughan, Mike Martin (U. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Conferences As Virtual Enterprises - Jürgen Dorn, Peter Hrastnik, Albert Rainer (Electronic Commerce Competence Center, Austria)

Web Services For The Footwear Sector In A Networked Context - Rosanna Fornasiero, Andrea Zangiacomi (Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, Italy)

Supporting A Public Health Care Virtual Organization By Knowledge Technologies - Mitja Jermol (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Nada Lavrac, Tanja Urbancic (Nova Gorica Polytechnic / Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Tadeja Kopac (Public Health Institute, Slovenia).

Thursday 26 August 2004

10h30 - 12h: Track A: Negotiation and Contract Management

Enterprise Negotiation Algorithm With Walrasian Virtual Market - Toshiya Kaihara, Susumu Fujii (Kobe U., Japan)

Electronic Contracting In The E-Engineering Hub - Zhaomin Ren, Tarek Hassan, Chimay Anumba (Loughborough U., UK), Godfried Augenbroe (Georgia Tech, USA), Mauro Mangini (Geodeco S. P. A., Italy)

Integrating Procurement, Production Planning, And Inventory Management Processes Through Negotiation Information - Giuseppe Confessore (CNR-ITIA, Italy), Silvia Rismondo, Giuseppe Stecca (CNR-ITIA / Roma U. "Tor Vergata", Italy)

Track B: Management Issues in CN

Promoting Trading Partner Trust In B2B E-Commerce Through The Use Of Service Level Agreements And The Establishment Of Support Centres - Ioannis Ignatiadis, Konstantinos Tarabanis (Hellas-Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece)

Why Management In System And Information Technology? - António José Balloni (Research Center Renato Acher, Brazil)

The Formation And Dissolution Of Organizational Networks: A Review Under A Knowledge Management Perspective - Dora Simões, António Lucas Soares (INESC Porto, Portugal)

13h30 - 15h: Track A: Multi-Agent Models in Collaborative Networks

A Multi-Agent Model Integrating Inventory And Routing Processes - Daria Bernardi (CNR-ITIA / Roma U. "Tor Vergata", Italy), Giuseppe Confessore (CNR-ITIA, Italy), Giuseppe Stecca (CNR-ITIA / Roma U. "Tor Vergata", Italy)

A Mobile-Agent Based System For Workflow Reconstruction - Hervé Mathieu, Frédérique Biennier (INSA Lyon, France)

Software Agents As Legal Persons - Francisco Andrade, José Neves, Paulo Novais,José Machado (U. Minho, Portugal), Júlio Gomes (Catholic U., Portugal)

Track B: Distributed Software Production and Support

A Reference Model For Global Software Development - Rafael Prikladnicki , Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy (PUCRS, Brazil), Roberto Evaristo (U. Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Squads: Software Development And Maintenance On The Grid By Means Of Mobile Virtual Organizations Using Adaptive Information Services - Wico Mulder (LogicaCMG, The Netherlands), Geleyn R. Meijer (LogicaCMG / U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

SOC P2P: A Peer-To-Peer IP Based SOCS Design And Simulation Tool - Sami Meftali, Jean-Luc Dekeyser (U. Lille 1, France)

15h30 - 17h: Track A: Networking Technologies for VO

Novel Networking Technologies For Collaborative Networked Organizations - István Mezgár (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary)

The Evolution Of Inter-Firm Relationships And Its Impact On Communication Needs - Thierry Nagellen, Servane Crave (France Telecom R&D, France)

A Grid-Enabled Security Framework For Collaborative Virtual Organisations - Liviu Joita, Omer Rana, Pete Burnap, Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, Alex Gray, John Miles (Cardiff U., UK)

Track B: Innovation, Sustainability, and Readiness for Collaboration

Approach For Implementing Distributed Innovation Management Methodologies In Collaborative Industrial Networks - Axel Hahn (U. Oldenburg, Germany), Jens Eschenbaecher (BIBA Bremen, Germany)

Exploring Sustainable Virtual Enterprises - Ronald C Beckett (U. Wollongong, Australia)

Evaluation Of The ARICON Cooperation Readiness Assessment Approach In Actual Industrial Cases, Relevant To VE Acting In New Product Development Context - Marco Conte, Roberto Santoro (CE Consulting, Italy), Johann Riedel, Kulwant S. Pawar (U. Nottingham, UK)