Processes and foundations for virtual organizations
Subtitle: IFIP TC5 / WG5.5 Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'03) October 29-31, 2003, Lugano, Switzerland
By: edited by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh
Contributors: Camarinha-Matos, Luis; Afsarmanesh, Hamideh; International Federation for Information Processing
Series: International Federation for Information Processing -- 134; International Federation for Information Processing (Series) -- 134.
Publisher: Springer US; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780387357041; 9781475762952
Subjects: Virtual corporations; Management; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Mechanical Engineering; Computer networks; Congresses; Virtual reality in management; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Knowledge management; Computer network resources; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Business networks
Description: Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations contains selected articles from PRO-VE'03, the Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Lugano, Switzerland in October 2003. This fourth edition includes a rich set of papers revealing the progress and achievements in the main current focus areas: -VO breeding environments; -Formation of collaborative networked organizations; -Ontologies and knowledge management; -Process models and interoperability; -Infrastructures; -Multi-agent approaches. In spite of many valid contributions in these areas, many research challenges remain. This is clearly stated in a number of papers suggesting a new research agenda and strategic research roadmaps for advanced virtual organizations. With the selected papers included in this book, PRO-VE pursues its double mission as a forum for presentation and discussion of achievements as well as a place to discuss and suggest new directions and research strategies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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