Angel Ortiz - Böcker

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 mismatches resulting 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 forwardand 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.

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 mismatches resulting 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 forwardand 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.

This book outlining the latest developments in engineering digital transformation gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (CIO 2017), held in Valencia, Spain, from July 5th to 6th, 2017. The papers discuss topics in the following areas: strategy and entrepreneurship, OR, modelling and simulation, production, logistics and supply chain management, information systems, quality and product management, knowledge and project management, service systems, and education.

They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domains related to the digital transformation and collaborative networks and their applications with a strong focus on the following areas related to the main theme of the conference: collaborative business ecosystems;

They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domains related to the digital transformation and collaborative networks and their applications with a strong focus on the following areas related to the main theme of the conference: collaborative business ecosystems;

They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domains related to the digital transformation and collaborative networks and their applications with a strong focus on the following areas related to the main theme of the conference: sustainable collaborative networks;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2022, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2022.The 55 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domains related to the digital transformation and collaborative networks and their applications with a strong focus on the following areas related to the main theme of the conference: sustainable collaborative networks; sustainability via digitalization; analysis and assessment of business ecosystems; human factors in collaboration 4.0; maintenance and life-cycle management; policies and new digital services; safety and collaboration management; simulation and optimization; complex collaborative systems and ontologies; value co-creation in digitally enabled ecosystems; digitalization strategy in collaborative enterprises’ networks; pathways and tools for DIHs; socio-technical perspectives on smart product-service systems; knowledge transfer and accelerated innovation in FoF; interoperability of IoT and CPS for industrial CNs; sentient immersive response network; digital tools and applications for collaborative healthcare; collaborative networks and open innovation in education 4.0; collaborative learning networks with industry and academia; and industrial workshop.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2023, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2023.The 59 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions.They provide a comprehensive overview of the major challenges in sustainability of collaborative ecosystems; risks, security and resilience in networks; collaborative value creation and services; collaborative interactions and human-centered networks; skills and enabling technologies; collaborative healthcare and agile production; and AI, digital twins, and intelligent frameworks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2023, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2023.The 59 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions.They provide a comprehensive overview of the major challenges in sustainability of collaborative ecosystems; risks, security and resilience in networks; collaborative value creation and services; collaborative interactions and human-centered networks; skills and enabling technologies; collaborative healthcare and agile production; and AI, digital twins, and intelligent frameworks.

Trust and trustworthy technologies in collaborative networks.Part II: Empowering vulnerable populations well-being through collaborative networks;

This two-volume set, IFIP AICT  726 and 727, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprise, PRO-VE 2024, held in Albi, France, during October 28–30, 2024.The 56 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: AI and collaboration; Human-machine collaboration; Emotions and collaborative networks; Collaborative ecosystems: Skills for resilient futures; Collaborative ecosystems: Technologies for resilient futures; Uncertainty and collaboration in supply chain; Collaborative networks as driver of innovation in organizations 5.0: Models; Collaborative networks as driver of innovation in organizations 5.0: Participation; Trust and trustworthy technologies in collaborative networks.Part II: Empowering vulnerable populations well-being through collaborative networks; Collaborative manufacturing systems in the digital era; Fostering collaborative and interoperable digital models for digital twins: Methods; Fostering collaborative and interoperable digital models for digital twins: Cases; Zero defects and zero waste strategies in industrial collaborative networks; Simulation frameworks; Collaborative decision making; Design of collaborative environments.

Trust and trustworthy technologies in collaborative networks.Part II: Empowering vulnerable populations well-being through collaborative networks;

This two-volume set, IFIP AICT  726 and 727, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprise, PRO-VE 2024, held in Albi, France, during October 28–30, 2024.The 56 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: AI and collaboration; Human-machine collaboration; Emotions and collaborative networks; Collaborative ecosystems: Skills for resilient futures; Collaborative ecosystems: Technologies for resilient futures; Uncertainty and collaboration in supply chain; Collaborative networks as driver of innovation in organizations 5.0: Models; Collaborative networks as driver of innovation in organizations 5.0: Participation; Trust and trustworthy technologies in collaborative networks.Part II: Empowering vulnerable populations well-being through collaborative networks; Collaborative manufacturing systems in the digital era; Fostering collaborative and interoperable digital models for digital twins: Methods; Fostering collaborative and interoperable digital models for digital twins: Cases; Zero defects and zero waste strategies in industrial collaborative networks; Simulation frameworks; Collaborative decision making; Design of collaborative environments.

This two-volume set, IFIP AICT 770-771, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th IFIP WG 5.5 SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises on Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks, PRO-VE 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, during October 27-29, 2025.The 60 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. These papers are organized around the following main topics:·         Society 5.0,  AI as a driver for Collaboration, Collaborative Risk and Crisis Management, AI for Logistics and Supply Chain, Technologies for Adaptable Collaborative Networks,  People-Centered and AI-driven Processes,  Multi-agent Systems for Hybrid Human-AI Collaboration, Collaborative Healthcare Networks, Human-Robot Collaboration, Collaborative Workspaces, Transition towards Collaborative Organizations 5.0, Trust and Trustworthiness in Hybrid Human-AI Collaboration, AI-driven Manufacture-as-a-Service, AI and Simulation-supported Decision-Making, Work Sharing in Human-AI Collaboration, Collaboration in Sustainability.

This two-volume set, IFIP AICT 770-771, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th IFIP WG 5.5 SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises on Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks, PRO-VE 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, during October 27-29, 2025.The 60 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. These papers are organized around the following main topics:·         Society 5.0,  AI as a driver for Collaboration, Collaborative Risk and Crisis Management, AI for Logistics and Supply Chain, Technologies for Adaptable Collaborative Networks,  People-Centered and AI-driven Processes,  Multi-agent Systems for Hybrid Human-AI Collaboration, Collaborative Healthcare Networks, Human-Robot Collaboration, Collaborative Workspaces, Transition towards Collaborative Organizations 5.0, Trust and Trustworthiness in Hybrid Human-AI Collaboration, AI-driven Manufacture-as-a-Service, AI and Simulation-supported Decision-Making, Work Sharing in Human-AI Collaboration, Collaboration in Sustainability.

This book outlining the latest developments in engineering digital transformation gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (CIO 2017), held in Valencia, Spain, from July 5th to 6th, 2017. The papers discuss topics in the following areas: strategy and entrepreneurship, OR, modelling and simulation, production, logistics and supply chain management, information systems, quality and product management, knowledge and project management, service systems, and education.