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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

PRO-VE’08
9th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES

www.pro-ve.org

Poznan, POLAND. 8 - 10 September 2008

SCOPE
“Pervasive Collaborative Networks”

 Collaborative Networks (CN) correspond to a very active and steadily
growing area. Virtual enterprises / virtual organizations (VE/VO) are
already supported by a large research and business practice community. Also,
Professional Virtual Communities (PVC) suggest new ways of work and put the
emphasis on collaborative networks of human actors. Further to these main
lines, other collaborative forms and patterns of collaborative behavior are
emerging. This is not only in industry, but also in service sector, as well
as governmental and non-governmental social organizations, e.g. the
collaborative networks for rescue missions in disaster situations, time bank
organizations, virtual labs, grid manufacturing, elderly care, etc. The
concept of breeding environment is now understood as a fundamental entity to
enable the formation of dynamic collaborative organizations.
Recent research and developments emphasize the need for better understanding
and characterization of the basic principles and mechanisms for planning and
operation of collaborative networks. Building a sounder foundation, namely
in terms of proper theoretical principles, ontology, and formal models
capturing the concepts, entities, behavior, and operations of the CNs,
continues as an important challenge. Understanding and being able to measure
the benefits and risks of collaboration is another challenge. New value
systems, adequate performance assessment methods and trust establishment
approaches are needed in order to support value creation through
collaborative networks.
PRO-VE, as the most focused scientific / technical conference in the area,
offers a major opportunity for the presentation and discussion of both the
latest research developments and industrial practice case studies. Following
the IFIP vision, PRO-VE offers a forum for collaboration among different
regions of the world.

This conference continues a series of successful conferences of PRO-VE’99
(held in Porto, Portugal), PRO-VE 2000 (Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE’02
(Sesimbra, Portugal), PRO-VE’03 (Lugano, Switzerland), PRO-VE’04 (Toulouse,
France), PRO-VE’05 (Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE’06 (Helsinki, Finland), and
PRO-VE’07 (Guimarães, Portugal). 

Topics
- Affective computing in collaborative networks
- Ambient intelligence, Virtual Labs
- Awareness in collaborative systems
- Breeding environments and brokerage
- Business ecosystems & emerging collaboration forms
- Business models in collaborative systems
- Case studies: Manufacturing, Construction, Elderly care, Health Care,
Emergency and Disaster Response, Bio-technology, Tourism, NGOs, etc.
- Collaboration enabling technologies
- Collaborative logistics and transportation systems
- Collaborative machines and sensor networks
- Dynamic Virtual Organizations
- E-Contracting, Contracts management, Legal frameworks and Negotiation in
CNs
- e-Marketplaces and Communities
- e-Services and service markets
- Formal models and theories for CNs
- ICT infrastructures, Architectures and Design of Collaborative Systems
- Innovation and risk management
- New value systems and performance measurement; benchmarking
- Ontology and knowledge management
- Professional Virtual Communities
- Reference models and modelling approaches
- Social network analysis for CNs
- Societal impacts of CNs
- Training and education on CNs
- Trust modelling and building processes
- VO inheritance and data mining

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.
Proceedings to be published by Springer. 
Special issues of journals will be published with selected papers.

DEADLINES
- Abstracts submission:        21 Jan 08
- Full paper submission:       18 Feb 08
- Acceptance notice:           31 Mar 08
- Camera ready submission:     28 Apr 08

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.

Proposal for special sessions and workshops are welcome.

www.pro-ve.org

General Chair: 
Willy Picard (PL) - picard at kti.ae.poznan.pl

Program Committee Chair: 
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (PT) - cam at uninova.pt