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> Congress / Call for contributions / Co-located IFIP conferences / PRO-VE
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PRO-VE 2004 |
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| Luis M. Camarinha-Matos , New University of Lisbon, Portugal |
. Hamideh Afsarmanesh , the Netherlands
. Dimitris Assimakopoulos , France
. Joel Bacquet , European Commission Eoin Banahan, UK
. Peter Bernus , Australia Umit S Bititci, UK
. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos , Portugal [Chairman]
. Guy Doumeingts , France
. Jens Eschenbaecher , Germany
. Steve Evans , UK
. João Pinto Ferreira , Portugal
. Simon Field , Switzerland
. Joaquim Filipe , Portugal
. Myrna Flores , Switzerland
. Ted Goranson , USA
. Tarek Hassan , UK
. Tomasz Janowski , Poland
. Toshiya Kaihara , Japan
. Alexandra Klen , Brazil
. Nada Lavrac , Slovenia
. Hermann Loeh , Germany
. Vladimir Marik , Czech Republic
. José M. Mendonça, Portugal
. Arturo Molina , Mexico
. Laszlo Nemes , Australia
. Eugénio Oliveira , Portugal
. Gus Olling , USA
. Martin Ollus , Finland
. Luis Osório , Portugal
. Sofia Pinto , Portugal
. Sílvio Pires , Brazil
. Adrian Pluess , Switzerland
. Michel Pouly , Switzerland
. Kenneth Preiss , Israel
. Goran Putnik , Portugal
. Ricardo Rabelo , Brazil
. Alberto Sanna , Italy
. Hans Schaffers , the Netherlands
. Paul Schönsleben , Switzerland
. Klaus-Dieter Thoben , Germany
. Weiming Shen , Canada
. António L. Soares , Portugal
. Jorge P. Sousa , Portugal
. Frank Wagner , Germany |
Scope
Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO) correspond to a very active and steadily growing area.
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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.
This conference continues a series of successful conferences of PRO-VE'99 (held in Porto, Portugal), PRO-VE 2000 (held in Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE'02 (held in Sesimbra, Portugal), and PRO-VE'03 (held in Lugano, Switzerland). |
Topics
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Dynamic Virtual Organizations |
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Interoperability in CNO |
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Business ecosystems and emerging collaboration forms |
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Reference models and modelling approaches |
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Breeding environments and brokerage |
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Management of distributed activities and distributed information |
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Knowledge management in CNO |
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Ontologies in CNO |
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Contracts management in CNO |
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Legal frameworks |
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Professional Virtual Communities |
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Reference models for CNO |
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Mobility and Virtual Enterprises |
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New value systems and performance measurement |
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e-Services and service markets |
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New technological support for CNO: MAS, Grid, mobile / pervasive
computing |
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Formal models and theories for CNO |
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e-Science and Virtual Laboratories |
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Trust building processes |
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Business models |
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Innovation and risk management |
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Ambient intelligence |
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Case studies: Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
industry, Bio-informatics, Tourism, Services, NGOs, etc. |
The conference will include technical papers and discussion panels. Proposals for organizing associated events, namely by project consortia focused on the area of Collaborative Networked Organizations are welcome.
Submissions
Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper, not to exceed 8 pages.
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Format: follow the template(s) (for Word or WordPerfect) or Latex style files, indicated by the publisher ( www.wkap.com/ifip/styles ).
Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Programme Committee. However, prospective authors should submit a short abstract in advance, in order to check if the proposed topic fits within the conference scope.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper.
Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings to be published as a book by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Adress for paper submission:
Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
New University of Lisbon
Quinta da Torre -2829-516 Caparica - Portugal
Tel. +351-212948517 Fax +351-212941253
Email: cam@uninova.pt or lcm@fct.unl.pt |
. Abstract submission: January 5, 2004
. Full paper submission: January 31, 2004
. Notification: March 31, 2004
. Camera-ready: April 30, 2004 |
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The Final Programme is online!
We are very proud to present an extremely attractive programme that offers more than six hundred presentations.
This very rich programme offers a large variety of opportunities. Attendees will be able to compose their own menu, by mixing on-the-edge research and state-of-the-practice results in their own field of expertise, together with surveys and prospective views in other domains of interest.
The overall schedule of sessions and the social events have been designed to facilitate fruitful interactions between attendees.
Join us during a week and share l'esprit de Toulouse !
Jean Claude Laprie
> Posters presenting WCC 2004
will be sent
on request .
We rely on you to ensure a large publicity to WCC 2004.
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