Establishing the Foundation of Collaborative Networks

Trust Aspects in Collaboration.- Towards Establishing Trust Relationships among Organizations in VBEs.- Fostering R&D Collaboration - The Interplay of Trust, Appropriability and Absorptive Capacity.- Trust Building in Collaborative Networked Organizations Supported by Communities of Practice.- Performance and Value Systems.- Measuring Collaboration Performance in Virtual Organizations.- A Conceptual Model for Virtual Breeding Environments Value Systems.- Towards a Conceptual Model of Value Systems in Collaborative Networks.- Collaboration Network Analysis.- Network Analysis by the Codesnet Approach.- Assessment of Collaborative Networks Structural Stability.- A Decision Support Framework for Collaborative Networks.- VO Breeding Environment Enablers.- Towards Governance Rules and Bylaws for Virtual Breeding Environments.- Enabling Virtual Organizations in a Technological District.- In Search for an Innovative Business Model or How to be Successful in the Nowadays Business Environment.- The Role of Universities Developing New Collaborative Environments: Analysing the Virtuelle Fabrik, Swiss Microtech and the Tenet Group.- Elements of Breeding Environments Management.- Ontology Engineering in Virtual Breeding Environments.- Causal Cross-Impact Analysis as Strategic Planning Aid for Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments.- Assessing the Value of Mediators in Collaborative Business Networks.- VO Creation.- A Computer-Assisted VO Creation Framework.- Collaboration Opportunity Finder.- An Ontology-Based Approach for Selecting Performance Indicators for Partners Suggestion.- Multiple Criteria Partner Selection in Virtual Enterprises.- e-Contracting in Collaborative Network Scenarios.- Fundaments of Virtual Organization E-contracting.- Intelligent Contracting: Software Agents, Corporate Bodies and Virtual Organizations.- Agent-Based Contracting in Virtual Enterprises.- A Lawful Framework for Distributed Electronic Markets.- Learning and Inheritance in VO.- Towards Learning Collaborative Networked Organizations.- Identification of Forms and Components of VO Inheritance.- Establishing and Keeping Inter-Organisational Collaboration. Some Lessons Learned.- Architectures for Collaboration.- A Generic Strategic Layer for Collaborative Networks.- A Privacy-Based Brokering Architecture for Collaboration in Virtual Environments.- Virtual Power Producers Integration into Mascem.- Agent-Based Architecture for Virtual Enterprises to Support Agility.- Modelling Frameworks for Collaborative Networks.- Towards an Architecture Modeling Language for Networked Organizations.- Evolving Virtue.- Business Modelling for Knowledge Networks.- Business Benefits in Networks.- Distribution of Network Generated Profit by considering Individual Profit Expectations.- An Estimation Model for Business Benefits in Horizontal Collaborative Networks.- Examining the Antecedents to Innovation in Electronic Networks of Practice.- Professional Virtual Communities.- Support for Power in Adaptation of Social Protocols for Professional Virtual Communities.- Understanding Users' Response to Ontology Based Systems in the Context of an Enterprise Sponsored Virtual Community.- Continuous Management of Professional Virtual Community Inheritance Based on the Adaptation of Social Protocols.- Customer Involvement in Networks.- Virtual Customer Communities: An Innovative Case from the Media Industry.- The Impact of Customer Participation on Business Ecosystems.- Supporting Collaborative Work through Wireless Technologies Support in Patient Centric Virtual Organizations (PCVOS).- Social Network Analysis.- Social Network Analysis of Team Dynamics and Intra-Organizational Development in an Aerospace Firm.- The Tacit Dimensions of Collaborative Network Traffic.- Collaborative Services to Maintain Electronic Business Relationships.- Interoperability in Networks.- Towards Seamless Interoperability in Collaborative Networks.- Barriers Driven Methodology for Enterprise Interoperability.- Ambient Intelligence and Simulation in Health Care Virtual Scenarios.- Collaboration within the Tool-and-Die Manufacturing Industry through Open-Source Modular ERP/CRM Systems.- Collaborative Process Models.- A Cartography Based Methodology for Collaborative Process Definition.- Interactive User-Centered Business Process Managementservices.- Workflow Technology Supporting the Operation of Virtual ISPS.- Process Integration and Management.- Introducing a Collaborative Business Model for European ERP Value Chains of SMEs.- Integrated Construction Project Management System Based on IFC and ISO9001:2000.- Enhancing Enterprise Collaboration by Using Multifaceted Services.- Web Services and Fusion.- Application of the Fusion Approach for Assisted Composition of Web Services.- Semantic Integration of Business Applications across Collaborative Value Networks.- Web Service Discovery in a Semantically Extended UDDI Registry: The Case of Fusion.- Collaboration Environments Cases.- Supporting Mobile Virtual Team's Coordination with SOA-Based Active Entities.- Collaborative Environments Work: A Case Study of Teacher Training.- A Knowledge Search Framework for Collaborative Networks.- Product-Oriented Collaboration.- Maintaining Dynamic Product Designs to Enable Effective Consortium Building in Virtual Breeding Environments.- Distributed Design of Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems.- Virtual Organisation in Cross Domain Engineering.- Adaptive Collaborative Frameworks.- Collaboration and Adaptation in Scheduling.- Virtual Organizations for Municipalities.- A Service Infrastructure to Support Ubiquitous Engineering Practices.- Evaluation and Management of Collaborative Supply Networks.- Engineering Methodology for Organisation Networks.- A Procedure for the Analysis of Industrial Networks.- The Evaluation of Coordination Policies in Logistics Services Markets.- Business Models for Collaborative Planning in Transportation: An Application to Wood Products.- Providing Transparency in the Business of Software: A Modeling Technique for Software Supply Networks.