Virtual enterprise integration : technological and organizational perspectives / [edited by] Goran Putnik, Maria Manuela Cunha.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Virtual enterprise integration : challenges of a new paradigm / Goran D. Putnik [and others] -- Virtuality and the future of organizations / Erastos Filos -- Collaborative networked organizations for eco-consistent supply chains / Rinaldo C. Michelini, Roberto P. Razzoli -- Business alignment requirements and dynamic organizations / Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik -- Collaborative network models : overview and functional requirements / Sonja Ellmann, Jens Eschenbaecher -- BM ̲Virtual Enterprise : a model for dynamics and virtuality / Goran D. Putnik [and others] -- Market of resources as a virtual enterprise integration enabler / Maria Manuela Cunha [and others] -- Broker performance for agile/virtual enterprise integration / Paulo Ávila, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cunha -- Integration in cooperative distributed systems : privacy-based brokering architecture for virtual enterprises / Abdulmutalib Masaud-Wahaishi, Hamada Ghenniwa, Weiming Shen -- Dynamic contract generation for dynamic business relationships / Simon Field, Yigal Hoffner -- Contributions to an electronic institution supporting virtual enterprises' life cycle / Ana Paula Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira -- Use of situation room analysis to enhance business integration aspects of a virtual enterprise / Bob Roberts, Adamantios Koumpis -- Virtual enterprise coalition strategy with game theoretic multiagent paradigm / Toshiya Kaihara, Susumu Fujii -- Semantic distance, the next step? / Ted Goranson -- IT infrastructures and standards for VE integration development / Nicolaos Portogeros -- Interactive models for virtual enterprises / Håvard D. Jørgensen, John Krogstie -- Machine learning techniques for wrapper maintenance / Kristina Lerman, Steven N. Minton, Craig A. Knoblock -- Information technology infrastructure and solutions / Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Joaquim Silva -- Consortium agreement template for virtual enterprises / José Dinis Carvalho, Nuno Afonso Moreira, Luís Carlos Pires -- Virtual enterprises and the case of BIDSAVER / Nicolaos Protogeros -- Implementation options for virtual organizations : a peer-to-peer (P2P) Approach / Bob Roberts, Adomas Svirskas, Jonathan Ward -- Collaborative industrial automation : toward the integration of a dynamic reconfigurable shop floor into a virtual factory / Armando Walter Colombo, Ronald Schoop.