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CFP: PRO-VE'07, 8th IFIP Working conference on Virtual Enterprises
PRO-VE'07
8th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
Guimaraes, PORTUGAL . 10 - 12 September 2007
Deadlines:
Abstracts submission: 25 Jan 07
Full paper submission: 28 Feb 07
Acceptance notice: 30 Apr 07
Camera ready submission: 12 May 07
Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 8 pages). Each paper will
be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee. However,
prospective authors should submit a short abstract in advance, in order to check
if the proposed topic fits within the conference scope.
Proposal for special sessions are welcome.
There will be a selection for best paper awards by IFIP.
Proceedings to be published by Springer.
Special issues of journals will be published with selected papers.
Scope: Establishing the foundation of Collaborative Networks
Collaborative Networks (CN) correspond to a very active and steadily growing
area. 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. This is not only in
industry, but also in service sector, as well as governmental and
non-governmental social organizations, e.g. the collaborative networks for
rescue missions in disaster situations, time bank organizations, virtual labs,
grid manufacturing, etc. The concept of breeding environment is now understood
as a fundamental entity to enable the formation of dynamic collaborative
organizations.
Recent research and developments emphasize the need for better understanding and
characterization of the basic principles and mechanisms for planning and
operation of collaborative networks. Building a sounder foundation, namely in
terms of proper theoretical principles, ontology, and formal models capturing
the concepts, entities, behavior, and operations of the CNs, continues as an
important challenge. Understanding and being able to measure the benefits and
risks of collaboration is another challenge. New value systems, adequate
performance assessment methods and trust establishment approaches are needed in
order to support value creation through collaborative networks.
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 (Florianopolis, Brazil), PRO-VE'02 (Sesimbra,
Portugal), PRO-VE'03 (Lugano, Switzerland), and PRO-VE'04 (Toulouse, France),
PRO-VE'05 (Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE'06 (Helsinki, Finland).
Topics:
Dynamic Virtual Organizations
Business ecosystems & emerging collaboration forms
Reference models and modelling approaches
Breeding environments and brokerage
Management of distributed activities and distributed information
Ontology and knowledge engineering
E-Contracting and Contracts management in CN
Legal frameworks and negotiation
Professional Virtual Communities
Mobility and Virtual Enterprises
New value systems and performance measurement; benchmarking
e-Services and service markets
ICT infrastructures & interoperability
Collaborative environments
New technological support for CN: MAS, Grid, mobile / pervasive computing
Group decision systems
Formal models and theories for CN
E-Science and Virtual Laboratories
Trust modelling and risk management
Business models
Innovation and risk management
Ambient intelligence, Virtual Labs
Case studies: Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care, Pharmaceutical industry,
Bio-technology, Tourism, Services, NGOs, etc.
Training and education on CN.
The conference will include technical papers and discussion panels. Proposals
for organizing associated events, namely by project consortia focused on the
area of Collaborative Networks are welcome.
Tentative sessions / workshops proposals (to be confirmed):
Business process fusion based on Semantically-enabled Service-oriented Business
Applications (Bernhard Koelmel, Germany)
Social Network Analysis in Analysing and Designing Collaborative Networks
(Dimitris Assimakopoulos, France)
Technical Services' Innovation in Virtual Enterprises (Heiko Dirlenbach,
Germany)
CODESNET session (Xavier Boucher)
Ambient intelligence (Antonio Abelha, Cesar Analide, Portugal)
E-Contracting in Collaborative Networks Scenarios (Luis C. Goncalves, Portugal)
Other proposals are welcomed.
Program Committee:
Chima Adiele (CA)
Hamideh Afsarmanesh (NL)
Rama Akkiraju (US)
Cesar Analide (PT)
Samuil Angelov (NL)
Dimitris Assimakopoulos (FR)
Americo Azevedo (PT)
Eoin Banahan (UK)
Jose Barata (PT)
Ron Beckett (AU)
Peter Bertok (AU)
Kirsimarja Blomqvist (FI)
Xavier Boucher (FR)
Jim Browne (IE)
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (PT)
Jorge Cardoso (PT)
Wojciech Cellary (PL)
Maria Manuela Cunha (PT)
Sophie D'Amours (CA)
Heiko Dirlenbach (DE)
Alexandre Dolgui (FR)
Schahram Dustdar (AT)
Elsa Estevez (AR)
Joaquim Filipe (PT)
Myrna Flores (CH)
Cesar Garita (CR)
Ted Goranson (US)
Paul Grefen (NL)
Fernando Guerrero (ES)
Sergio Gusmeroli (IT)
Jairo Gutierrez (NZ)
Tarek Hassan (UK)
Vltaka Hlupic (UK)
Raimo Hyotylainen (FI)
Tomasz Janowski (MO)
James Joshi (US)
Toshiya Kaihara (JP)
Iris Karvonen (FI)
Fumihiko Kimura (J)
Alexandra Klen (BR)
Bernhard Koelmel (DE)
Kurt Kosanke (DE)
Adamantios Koumpis (GR)
George Kovacs (HU)
John Krogstie (NO)
Jarmo Laitinen (FI)
Nada Lavrac (SI)
Stephen Lee (HK) *
Celson Lima (FR)
Jose Machado (PT)
Karsten Menzel (IE)
Istvan Mezgar (HU)
Arturo Molina (MX)
Ugo Negretto (DE)
Laszlo Nemes (AU)
Jose M. Neves (PT)
Ovidiu Noran (AU)
Paulo Novais (PT)
Adegboyega Ojo (MO)
Eugenio Oliveira (PT)
Martin Ollus (FI)
Angel Ortiz (ES)
Luis Osorio (PT)
Kulwant Pawar (UK)
Willy Picard (PL)
Sofia Pinto (PT)
Michel Pouly (CH)
Kenneth Preiss (IL)
Goran Putnik (PT)
Ricardo Rabelo (BR)
Heri Ramampiaro (US)
Yacine Rezgui (UK)
Rainer Ruggaber (DE)
Hans Schaffers (NL)
Raimar Scherer (DE)
Weiming Shen (CA)
Amit Sheth (US) *
Waleed W. Smari (US)
Riitta Smeds (FI)
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Jorge P. Sousa (PT)
Volker Stich (DE)
Klaus-Dieter Thoben (DE)
Lorna Uden (UK)
Antonio Volpentesta (IT)
Peter Weiss (DE)
- To be confirmed
Chairs:
Organization Chair: Prof. Paulo Novais (PT)
Co-chair: Cesar Analide (PT)
Program Chair: Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (PT)
Co-chairs:
- Hamideh Afsarmanesh (NL) - VO Breeding Environments
- Willy Picard (PL) - Professional Virtual Communities
- Xavier Boucher (FR) - Evolutionary Supply Chains and VOs
- Klaus-Dieter Thoben (DE) - Industrial CNO Applications
- Other areas to be announced
Local organizing committee:
Antonio Abelha (PT)
Victor Alves (PT)
Cesar Analide (PT)
Francisco Andrade (PT)
Manuela Cunha (PT)
Goreti Marreiros (PT)
Paulo Novais (PT)
Tiago Cardoso (PT)
Elisabete Fonte (PT)
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