PRO-VE’10

11th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES Saint-Etienne, France, 11-13 October 2010

“Collaborative Networks for a Sustainable World” Paper submissions are encouraged for the following themes, and their related topics:

    • CN Management Systems
    • Management of business ecosystems
    • Management of VO Breeding Environments
    • Creation of goal-oriented networks
    • Value creation measurement
    • New value systems and performance measurement
    • Risk and uncertainty management for collaborative networks
    • Trust modeling and management
    • Innovation management for sustainable networks
  • Theoretical foundation
    • Convergence between sustainability and collaboration
    • Business models for collaboration
    • Economic aspects of collaboration
    • Reference models
    • Collaboration patterns and forms
    • Collaborative Networks in contexts of crisis and turbulence
    • Risks and self-healing models
    • Service Oriented Enterprise
  • Technological Information Sciences Issues
    • Web intelligence for collaborative platforms
    • Semantic web for collaboration
    • Collaborative machines and sensor networks
    • E-services for sustainable networks
    • Mediation and collaboration platforms
  • Cognitive issues
    • Collaborative knowledge management
    • Emergence and self-organizing systems
    • Collaboration support ontologies
    • Semantic technologies for collaboration
    • Memetics and knowledge heritage
    • Affective computing in collaboration
  • Collaborative social networks
    • Social network analysis
    • Societal impacts of collaboration
    • Teams and collaboration
    • Socio-technical issues for sustainable networks
    • Professional virtual communities
  • Collaboration Modelling and Engineering
    • Typology of collaborative behaviors
    • Architectures and design of Collaborative Networks
    • Service-oriented architectures
    • Context awareness in collaboration processes
    • The dynamic virtual organization, Agile organizations
  • Applicative areas (open !)
    • Sustainable Logistic Networks
    • E-procurement and collaborative procurement
    • Healthcare collaborative systems
    • Co-Innovation networks
    • Active Ageing Networks
    • Educational networks
    • Transportation and mobility support networks
    • Collaborative e-government

Deadlines: Short Abstracts submission: 15 February 2010 Full paper submission: 30 March 2010 Acceptance notice: 15 May 2010 Camera-ready submission: 13 June 2010 Visit the website

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. Proposals for special sessions and workshops are welcome. Proceedings to be published by Springer. Special issues of journals will be published with selected papers PRO-VE is co-sponsored by IFIP and SOCOLNET.

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