The fast progress in computer networks and their wide availability
is complemented with on one hand the "explosion" of mobile
computing and on the other hand the trends in the direction of
ubiquitous computing. The merger of these technologies acts as a
powerful enabler for new forms of highly dynamic collaborative
organizations and the emergence of new business practices. Early
efforts in the area of virtual enterprises (VE) were strongly
constrained by the need to design and develop horizontal
infrastructures aimed at supporting the basic collaboration needs
of consortia of enterprises. Current trends, however, are more and
more directed to the development of new vertical business models
and corresponding support tools. In parallel to these efforts,
after the first euphoria of the E-commerce wave and the
disappointments caused by some simplistic approaches then adopted,
there is a shift towards Business-to-Business solutions, as a way
to effectively enable E-commerce. This is therefore a time of
convergence of the virtual enterprise and e-business developments.
This book contains selected articles from PRO-VE 2000, the second
working conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises,
which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information
Processing (IFIP) and held in FlorianA3polis, Brazil in December
2000. The included articles represent relevant examples of the
current state of the art in virtual enterprises and support for
electronic business. Together with a diversity of application
domains, the emphasis is mostly on: the new forms of virtual
organizations, support for agility, modeling and execution of
distributed business processes, management of enterpriseclusters,
distributed/federated information management, knowledge management,
logistics for electronic commerce, and safe communication. In other
words, the book is mainly focused on the management of
business-to-business cooperation in virtual and smart
organizations. The implantation of electronic business and the
virtual enterprise area is not only a technological problem.
Therefore, aspects such as socio-organizational transformations,
training needs, legal and ethical issues, and intellectual property
rights, are also addressed in the book. E-Business and Virtual
Enterprises is essential reading for researchers, engineers,
practitioners, and engineering students in production engineering,
computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering,
organizational science, and industrial sociology.
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