-   Dynamic Virtual Organizations

-   Interoperability in CNO

-   Business ecosystems and emerging collaboration forms

-   Reference models and modelling approaches

-   Breeding environments and brokerage

-   Management of distributed activities and distributed information

-   Knowledge management in CNO

-   Ontologies in CNO

-   Contracts management in CNO

-   Legal frameworks  and negotiation

-   Professional Virtual Communities

-   Reference models for CNO

-   Mobility and Virtual Enterprises

-   New value systems and performance measurement; benchmarking

-   E-Services and service markets

-   New technological support for CNO: MAS, Grid, mobile / pervasive computing

-   Open source approaches

-   Formal models and theories for CNO

-   E-Science and Virtual Laboratories

-   Trust building processes

-   Business models

-   Innovation and risk management

-   Ambient intelligence

-   Case studies: Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care, Pharmaceutical industry, Bio-technology, Tourism, Services, NGOs, etc.

-   Training and education on CNO

The conference will include technical papers and discussion panels. Proposals for organizing associated events, namely by project consortia focused on the area of Collaborative Networked Organizations are welcome.