PRO-VE’11 

12th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES São Paulo, Brazil, 17-19 October 2011

“Adaptation and Value Creating Collaborative Networks ” A plurality of scientific communities in Engineering, Economics, Managerial or Socio-Human sciences are encouraged to submit. Both theoretical works and sound case studies are expected. 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.

    • Adaptation in Collaborative Networks
    • Emergence and self-organizing systems
    • Cognitive issues
    • Collaboration and changing cultures
    • Meeting challenges of global collaboration/competition
    • Global and local networks
  • Value creation in Collaborative Networks
    • Business models for collaboration & IPR
    • Economic aspects of collaboration
    • Value systems and performance measurement
    • Social capital modeling and measurement
    • Incentive models and revenue management
    • Competitive intelligence in networked environments
  • Behavioral issues and governance
    • Typologies of collaborative behaviors
    • Trust modeling and management
    • Risk and uncertainty management
    • Serious games in CN
    • Change management
  • Assets management in Collaborative Networks
    • Conceptual modeling of assets
    • Valuation of intangible assets
    • Co-development of assets
    • Uncertainty and dynamicity of assets’ knowledge
    • Knowledge discovery and searching in CNs
  • Collaborative social networks
    • Social network analysis
    • Societal impacts of collaboration
    • Teams and collaboration
    • Socio-technical issues for sustainable networks
    • Professional virtual communities
  • Collaboration Networks Design
    • Architectures and design of Collaborative Networks
    • Collaboration patterns and forms
    • Service-oriented architectures
    • New organizational models
    • Life cycle design and support
    • Stakeholders management
    • Maturity models for CNs
    • Novel ICT approaches
  • Collaborative Product and Service Development
    • Co-creation and co-innovation networks
    • Services science
    • Collaborative engineering platforms
    • Complex products life cycle management
    • “Glocal” enterprises
  • Applicative areas (open !)
    • Eco-Industrial Parks
    • Healthcare collaborative systems
    • Active Ageing Networks
    • Ambient Assisted Living networks
    • Distributed manufacturing networks
    • Educational networks
    • Transportation and mobility support networks
    • Collaborative e-government
    • Agribusiness networks

Deadlines: Short Abstracts submission: NOW Full paper submission: 2 April 2011 Acceptance notice: 21 May 2011 Camera-ready submission: 18 June 2011.

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. (Note: Previous years proceedings were indexed by ISI Web of Science) As in previous years, special issues of journals will be published with selected papers. PRO-VE is co-sponsored by IFIP and SOCOLNET.

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