PRO-VE'99

PRO-VE'99
IFIP / PRODNET Working Conference on
INFRASTRUCTURES FOR INDUSTRIAL VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES

SCOPE


	The development of open infrastructures to support Virtual Enterprises is attracting an increasing research effort worldwide. An extensive number of initiatives, namely in terms of international collaborative projects, have been launched and some preliminary results are becoming available. In this context, the goals of this workshop are twofold: first to increase the awareness of SMEs on this new paradigm, and second to compare experiences and approaches of different research projects.

MAIN TOPICS


	1. Virtual Enterprise Architectures 2. Infrastructures and Frameworks for VE 3. Coordination Issues in VE 4. Distributed Information Management in VE 5. Business and Product Data Exchange in VE 6. Safe Communications and Authentication 7. Demonstrations

STRUCTURE


	A. Technical presentations B. Software demonstrations C. Panel

IMPORTANT DATES


	Intention (Abstract): 15 Feb 99 Full Paper Submission: 31 Mar 99 Paper acceptance: 1 May 99 Camera Ready: 5 June 99

WHO SHOULD ATTEND


	- People from industry (direct invitations will be sent to potential end users) - Researchers involved in VE

PROCEEDINGS


	A book on infrastructures for VE will be edited in time for this event and will include two parts: (1) A "kind of text book" on VE (by invited authors). (2) Contributed papers. Although this initiative was started by the PRODNET II project consortium, few other selected projects will be invited to contribute in order to cover a comprehensive overview of approaches and solutions. The proceedings book, published by Kluwer Academic Publisher, is available.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Incomplete)


	Afsarmanesh, H., Netherlands (co-chair) Banahan, E., UK Bertok, P., Australia Browne, J., Ireland Caldeira-Saraiva, F., UK Camarinha-Matos, L. M., Portugal (Chair) Doumeingts, G., France Gibon, P., France Lenz, H., Brazil Machner, B., Germany Mantyla, M., Finland Mota, J., Portugal Nemes, L., Australia Olling, G., USA Osorio, L., Portugal Poyet, P., France Puymbroeck, W. Van, European Commission Rabelo, R., Brazil Santos Silva, V., Portugal Spinosa, L. M., Brazil Verissimo, P., Portugal

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


	Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (chair) Valentim S. Silva (co-chair) Luis Osorio (co-chair) Paula Urze Celson P. Lima Tiago Cardoso Angelino Ferreira José Mota

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

SELECTED PAPERS (per Session)


	PLENARY SESSIONS Virtual Organisations, Business Networks & the European R&D Programmes - E. Filos PRODNET II Overview - L. M. Camarinha-Matos SESSION A: COORDINATION IN VE PRODNET: Coordination and configuration in VE - L.M. Camarinha-Matos, C. P. Lima COBIP: Building the extended enterprise on telework - A. Martins, P. Araújo, J. M. Mendonça, J.J. Pinto Ferreira VIRTEC: A Brazilian case of VE coordination - C. F. Bremer, A. P. F. Mundim, F. V. S. Michilini, J. E. M. Siqueira, L. M. Ortega SESSION B: COMMUNICATIONS Agent communication for scheduling in the extended enterprise - J. Reis, N. Mamede, H. O'Neill PRODNET: Flexible EDI solutions for VE - P. Gibon, J. F. Clavier PRODNET: Safe communications for VE - A. L. Osorio SESSION C: VE CREATION PRODNET: Partners search and selection for VE - L.M. Camarinha-Matos, T. Cardoso TELEFLOW: The value system designer - B. R. Katzy An electronic market for the formation of the VE - A. P. Rocha, E. Oliveira Automating partner selection for a virtual organization - T. Janowski, L. Yonghe, H. Biqing SESSION D: DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION AND PROCESSES MANAGEMENT PERDIS: An infrastructure for cooperative engineering in VE - F. Sandakly, J. Garcia, P. Ferreira, P. Poyet PRODNET: Advanced Federated Database Support for Virtual Enterprises - H. Afsarmanesh, C. Garita, Y. Ugur PRODNET: Distributed Business Processes Management - R. Rabelo,A. Klen, M. Spinosa SESSION E: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT LOGSME: The SMEs in VE - I. Hunt, K. Caskey, J. Browne PRODNET: Production Planning and Management in the VE environment - V. S. Silva, H. Ribeiro PRODNET: Socio-organizational issues in VE - P. Urze SESSION F: PDT IN VE PRODNET: Product Data Management in VE - A. Schreiber COWORK: A design process model to support concurrent project development in networks of SMEs - A. Alzaga, J. Martin VEGA: A framework for distributed information management in the VE - A. Zarli, P. Poyet SESSION G: MODELS AND OPERATION FREE: A framework for improving the quality of operation in the VE - P. M. (Nel) Wognum, E. C. C. Faber ICIV: A VE model - R. Tononi, N. Marturano Supply chain management based on market mechanisms in a VE - T. Kaihara SESSION H: INTERNET ENABLED VE Virtual organizations and the Web site resource - C. Standing, G. Krishnaswamy Implementing Internet enabled VE using collaborative agents - W. Shen, D. H. Norrie INDEMAND: Definition of a generic capability model for extended enterprise - I.-S. Fan, N. J. Ward, S. C. Cooper , K. Sehdev, G. Williams COBIP WORKSHOP Program to be announced soon!

CONTACT ADDRESS


	Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos UNINOVA Quinta da Torre 2825 Monte de Caparica Portugal Phone: +351-1-2948517 Fax: +351-1-2941253 or 2957786 Email: cam@uninova.pt