Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos0-387-28259-9, 978-0387-28259-6

Progress in collaborative networks continues showing a growing number of manifestations and has led to the acceptance of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new scientific discipline. Contributions to CN coming from multiple reference disciplines has been extensively investigated. In fact developments in CN have benefited from contributions of multiple areas, namely computer science, computer engineering, communications and networking, management, economy, social sciences, law and ethics, etc. Furthermore, some theories and paradigms defined elsewhere have been suggested by several research groups as promising tools to help define and characterize emerging collaborative organizational forms. Although still at the beginning of a long way to go, there is a growing awareness in the research and academic world, for the need to establish a stronger theoretical foundation for this new discipline and a number of recent works are contributing to this goal.From a utilitarian perspective, agility has been pointed out as one of the most appealing characteristics of collaborative networks to face the challenges of a fast changing socio-economic context. However, during the last years it became more evident that finding the right partners and establishing the necessary preconditions for starting an effective collaboration process are both costly and time consuming activities, and therefore an inhibitor of the aimed agility. Among others, obstacles include lack of information (e.g. non-availability of catalogs with normalized profiles of organizations) and lack of preparedness of organizations to join the collaborative process. Overcoming the mismatchesresulting from the heterogeneity of potential partners (e.g. differences in infrastructures, corporate culture, methods of work, and business practices) requires considerable investment. Building trust, a pre-requisite for any effective collaboration, is not straight forward and requires time. Therefore the effective creation of truly dynamic collaborative networks requires a proper context in which potential members are prepared to rapidly get engaged in collaborative processes. The concept of breeding environment has thus emerged as an important facilitator for wider dissemination of collaborative networks and their practical materialization. The PRO-VE’05 held in Valencia, Spain, continues the 6th event in a series of successful working conferences on virtual enterprises. This book includes selected papers from that conference and should become a valuable tool to all of those interested in the advances and challenges of collaborative networks.

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Table of contents :
TABLE OF CONTENTS……Page 6
CO-SPONSORS……Page 11
COMMITTEES AND REFEREES……Page 12
FOREWORD……Page 13
PART 1. HOLISTIC APPROACHES TO COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS……Page 15
1 ECOLEAD: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DYNAMIC VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS……Page 16
2 REQUEST BASED VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS (RBVO): AN IMPLEMENTATION SCENARIO……Page 30
3 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE CHALLENGES ON COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS……Page 38
PART 2. BREEDING ENVIRONMENTS MANAGEMENT……Page 46
4 A FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION BREEDING ENVIRONMENTS……Page 47
5 CO-DESNET: AN APPROACH TO MODELING COLLABORATIVE DEMAND AND SUPPLY NETWORK……Page 61
6 COORDINATION OF COMPETENCIES DEVELOPMENT WITHIN NETWORKS OF SMEs……Page 69
PART 3. VO CREATION – FRAMEWORKS……Page 79
7 TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR CREATION OF DYNAMIC VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS……Page 80
8 AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH FOR VO PLANNING AND LAUNCHING……Page 92
9 THE FORMATION OF COLLABORATIVE CHAINS FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN……Page 100
PART 4. VO CREATION – PARTNERS SELECTION……Page 108
10 A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR VE PARTNERS SELECTION USING THE SCOR MODEL AND THE AHP METHOD……Page 109
11 THE ROLE OF ENTERPRISE MODELLING IN VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES……Page 119
12 TOWARDS ONTOLOGY-BASED CNO MATCHING APPLIED TO SQUADS……Page 127
PART 5. VO CREATION – OPTIMIZATION……Page 135
13 A MULTI-CRITERIA MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR AGILE VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION CREATION……Page 136
14 HIERARCHICAL MULTI-ATTRIBUTE DECISION SUPPORT APPROACH TO VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION CREATION……Page 144
15 A MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE FORMATION OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS OF ENTERPRISES……Page 152
PART 6. TRUST MANAGEMENT……Page 164
16 TRUST BUILDING FOR SMES THROUGH AN E-ENGINEERING HUB……Page 165
17 A DECISION SUPPORT APPROACH TO TRUST MODELING IN NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS……Page 175
18 TOWARD WEB SERVICES PROFILES FOR TRUST AND SECURITY IN VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS……Page 183
19 A SECURE MODEL TO ESTABLISH TRUST RELATIONSHIPS IN WEB SERVICES FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS……Page 191
PART 7. VO MANAGEMENT……Page 199
20 CHARACTERIZING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT……Page 200
21 UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING SHARED PROJECTS IN SMEs NETWORKS……Page 212
22 A GENERIC FRAMEWORK BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT……Page 224
PART 8. VO COORDINATION……Page 234
23 HUMAN SUPERVISED VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT……Page 235
24 IMPROVING CLIENT SERVICE RELIABILITY IN COLLABORATIVE SUPPLY CHAINS: A MAS SCHEDULER……Page 245
25 SECURITY CONTROLS IN COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS PROCESSES……Page 253
PART 9. NETWORK BENEFIT ANALYSIS……Page 261
26 AN APPROACH FOR THE ASCERTAINMENT OF PROFIT SHARES FOR NETWORK PARTICIPANTS……Page 262
27 NETWORK ANALYSIS OF TERRORISM DEFENSE ORGANIZATIONS – A NETWORK APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS……Page 270
28 PERFORMANCE INDICATORS BASED ON COLLABORATION BENEFITS……Page 278
PART 10. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT……Page 288
29 A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL AND EXTENDED ENTERPRISES……Page 289
30 VIRTUAL SCORECARD AS A DECISION-MAKING TOOL IN CREATING VIRTUAL ORGANISATION……Page 297
31 TOWARDS PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS……Page 305
PART 11. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT……Page 315
32 GLOBAL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (GPM-SME)……Page 316
33 COMBINING STRATEGIC, OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN THE VIRTUAL ORGANISATION……Page 324
34 PERCEPTIONS OF VALUE THAT SUSTAIN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS……Page 332
PART 12. MODELING AND META-MODELING……Page 340
35 A META-METHODOLOGY PROTOTYPE FOR COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANISATIONS……Page 341
36 METHODOLOGY FOR BUSINESS MODEL DEFINITION OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS……Page 349
37 A FOLDING SYNTAX FOR SEMANTIC MODELING……Page 357
38 TOWARDS A META-MODEL FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT……Page 363
PART 13. PROCESS MODELING……Page 371
39 SPECIFICATION MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF A VIRTUAL COMPANY IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY……Page 372
40 MODELING STRUCTURED NON-MONOLITHIC COLLABORATION PROCESSES……Page 380
41 QUANTITATIVE MODELS OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS……Page 388
42 COLLABORATIVE HEALTHCARE PROCESS MODELLING: A CASE STUDY……Page 396
PART 14. PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES……Page 404
43 THE ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS MODEL OF A SOFTWARE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY IN CHINA……Page 405
44 A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR “PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES”……Page 417
45 MOBILE AND LOCATION-AWARE WORKPLACES AND GLOBAL VALUE NETWORKS: A STRATEGIC ROADMAP……Page 425
PART 15. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES……Page 437
46 OPEN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE FOR “ITS” BUSINESS MODELS: THE ITSIBus ETOLL SERVICES……Page 438
47 ENHANCING SUPPLY CHAIN CO-ORDINATION BY MEANS OF A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM BASED ON SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE……Page 446
48 E-SERVICES INTEROPERABILITY ANALYSIS AND ROADMAP ACTIONS……Page 454
PART 16. INTEROPERABILITY AND ICT INFRASTRUCTURES……Page 464
49 FEATURE-BASED ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR INTEROPERABILITY IN NETWORKED ORGANISATIONS……Page 465
50 E-BUSINESS SOFTWARE EVALUATION……Page 473
51 EXPERIMENTS ON GRID COMPUTING FOR VE-RELATED APPLICATIONS……Page 481
52 TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR VIRTUAL ORGANISATION OF TOOLMAKERS……Page 491
PART 17. LEGAL ISSUES AND ENTITIES……Page 499
53 LEGAL SECURITY AND CREDIBILITY IN AGENT BASED VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES……Page 500
54 LEGAL RISK ANALYSIS WITH RESPECT TO IPR IN A COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION……Page 510
55 INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES FOR DYNAMIC VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS……Page 518
PART 18. LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION……Page 526
56 DIFFERENT VIEW OF LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS……Page 527
57 A NEW APPROACH FOR E-LEARNING IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS……Page 535
58 SIMULATION GAME APPROACH TO SUPPORT LEARNING AND COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS……Page 543
PART 19. COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS……Page 553
59 A COLLABORATIVE NETWORK CASE STUDY: THE EXTENDED “ViaVerde” TOLL PAYMENT SYSTEM……Page 554
60 TOWARDS A VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE FOR PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION USING AGENTS……Page 564
61 THE GLOBAL AUTOMATION PLATFORM: AN AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS……Page 572
PART 20. OTHER CASE STUDIES……Page 580
62 BUILDING AN INTEGRATED PAN-EUROPEAN NEWS DISTRIBUTION NETWORK……Page 581
63 SUCCESS AND FAILURE FACTORS OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS OF SME……Page 591
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T……Page 600
Z……Page 601