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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

PRO-VE’08 9th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES

Poznan, POLAND. 8 - 10 September 2008

SCOPE “Pervasive 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, elderly care, 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. PRO-VE, as the most focused scientific / technical conference in the area, offers 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 (Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE’02 (Sesimbra, Portugal), PRO-VE’03 (Lugano, Switzerland), PRO-VE’04 (Toulouse, France), PRO-VE’05 (Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE’06 (Helsinki, Finland), and PRO-VE’07 (Guimarães, Portugal).

Topics - Affective computing in collaborative networks - Ambient intelligence, Virtual Labs - Awareness in collaborative systems - Breeding environments and brokerage - Business ecosystems & emerging collaboration forms - Business models in collaborative systems - Case studies: Manufacturing, Construction, Elderly care, Health Care, Emergency and Disaster Response, Bio-technology, Tourism, NGOs, etc. - Collaboration enabling technologies - Collaborative logistics and transportation systems - Collaborative machines and sensor networks - Dynamic Virtual Organizations - E-Contracting, Contracts management, Legal frameworks and Negotiation in CNs - e-Marketplaces and Communities - e-Services and service markets - Formal models and theories for CNs - ICT infrastructures, Architectures and Design of Collaborative Systems - Innovation and risk management - New value systems and performance measurement; benchmarking - Ontology and knowledge management - Professional Virtual Communities - Reference models and modelling approaches - Social network analysis for CNs - Societal impacts of CNs - Training and education on CNs - Trust modelling and building processes - VO inheritance and data mining

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. Proceedings to be published by Springer. Special issues of journals will be published with selected papers.

DEADLINES - Abstracts submission: 21 Jan 08 - Full paper submission: 18 Feb 08 - Acceptance notice: 31 Mar 08 - Camera ready submission: 28 Apr 08

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 and workshops are welcome.

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TECHNICAL SPONSORS:

- IFIP WG5.5 – www.ifip.org - SOCOLNET - Society of Collaborative Networks – www.socolnet.org

COMMITTEES

General Chair: Willy Picard (PL) - picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl

Program Committee Chair: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (PT) - cam@uninova.pt

Program Committee Co-chairs: Hamideh Afsarmanesh (NL) - VO Breeding Environments Dimitris Assimakopoulos (FR) - Professional Virtual Communities Xavier Boucher (FR) - Evolutionary Supply Chains and VOs Myrna Flores (CH) - Networking and Innovation Alexandra Klen (BR) - CNO coordination and Management Ricardo Rabelo (BR) - CNO Knowledge Management Klaus-Dieter Thoben (DE) - Industrial CNO Applications

Program Committee Members: Witold Abramowicz (PL) Cesar Analide (PT) Samuil Angelov (NL) Américo Azevedo (PT) Eoin Banahan (UK) Ron Beckett (AU) Peter Bertok (AU) Jim Browne (IE) Jorge Cardoso (DE) Wojciech Cellary (PL) Alexandre Dolgui (FR) Guy Doumeingts (FR) Schahram Dustdar (AT) Elsa Estevez (AR) Joaquim Filipe (PT) Rosanna Fornasiero (IT) Cesar Garita (CR) Paul Grefen (NL) Fernando Guerrero (ES) Jairo Gutierrez (NZ) Tomasz Janowski (CN Toshiya Kaihara (JP) Iris Karvonen (FI) Fumihiko Kimura (JP) Bernhard Koelmel (DE) Kurt Kosanke (DE) Adamantios Koumpis (GR) George Kovacs (HU) John Krogstie (NO) Andrew Kusiak (US) Celson Lima (FR) Karsten Menzel (DE) István Mézgar (HU) Arturo Molina (MX) Mieczyslaw Muraszkiewicz (PL) Paulo Novais (PT) (Org Chair) Martin Ollus (FI) Angel Ortiz (ES) Luis Osório (PT) Adam Pawlak (PL) Michel Pouly (CH) Goran Putnik (PT) Heri Ramampiaro (US) Yacine Rezgui (UK) Rainer Ruggaber (DE) Raimar Scherer (DE) Weiming Shen (CA) Waleed W. Smari (US) Riitta Smeds (FI) António L. Soares (PT) Jorge P. Sousa (PT) Lorna Uden (UK) Antonio Volpentesta (IT) Peter Weiß (DE) Lai Xu (AU) Krzysztof Zielinski (PL)