Table of Contents

• Will the organisation disappear? The challenges of the new economy and future perspectivesE. Filos, E. Banahan. 3-20
• A new paradigm for the next century: The task oriented job marketM. M. Fioroni, Antonio Batocchio. 21-28
• E-Diagnosis: Knowledge management and organizational chance in virtual timesP. S. Grave, F. A. Gimenez, Ana Mendes, J. M. Crubellate. 29-36
• A diary using fuzzy setsW. C. B. Neto, F. A. O. Gauthier. 37-44
• Infrastructure for the advanced virtual enterprise: A report using a brazilian-based exampleH. Ted Goranson. 47-62
• Linking SMEs clusters: A view of the information infrastructureM. E. Léon, R. Salamoni, J. Amato Neto. 63-70
• Working efficiently with the service industriesA. J. Scavarda, L. J. Lustosa, L. F. Scavarda, J. Paulo Teixeira. 71-78
• VE infrstructures requirements for cooperation and knowledge sharingNuno Silva, João Rocha. 79-86
• Supporting agility in virtual enterprisesLuis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Ricardo J. Rabelo. 89-104
• The SACE-CSCW framework: An infrastructure to support virtual enterprises and concurrent engineering processesAntonio dos Santos, Tédi I. Zanfolim, Ricardo M. Kayo, T. A. A. Rozante, A. E. Morbiolo, S. V. R. Galina, Cibele Brunetto. 105-112
• Design of a computer-supported cooperative environment for small and medium enterprisesA. P. F. Mundim, C. F. Bremer. 113-126
• Environment for design and analysis of system integrationMarcius Fabius Henriques Carvalho, Carlos Machado. 127-134
• Requirements for an agent based information system supporting variably coupled networked enterprisesAmérico Lopes Azevedo, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, António Lucas Soares. 137-144
• Federated multi-agent scheduling in virtual enterprisesRicardo J. Rabelo, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos. 145-156
• The NetMan agent-based architecture for E-business in network organizationsLouis Cloutier, Jean-Marc Frayret, Sophie D Amours, Benoît Montreuil. 157-166
• A mobile-agent based architecture for virtual enterprisesLuís Brito, José Neves, Francisco Moura. 167-174
• Supporting information access rights and visibility levels in virtual enterprisesAnne Frenkel, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, César Garita, Louis O. Hertzberger. 177-192
• A virtual project house infrastructure for distributed development processesGerd Frick, Klaus D. Müller-Glaser. 193-202
• The holonic paradigm as a new metaphor for the coordination problem of virtual enterprisesGustavo Nucci Franco, Antonio Batocchio. 203-210
• Protocol-based cooperation in a virtual manufacturing organizationTomasz Janowski, P. C. Vinh. 211-218
• Agent-based infrastructure of supply chain network managementCharu Chandra, Alexander V. Smirnov, Leonid Sheremetov. 221-232
• A distributed framework for collaborative supply network integrationJean-Marc Frayret, Louis Cloutier, Benoît Montreuil, Sophie D Amours. 233-244
• New tools for multi-stage supply chainsWilfried Sihn, C. Bartsch, P. Löllmann. 245-250
• Supply chain management and distributed manufacturing in the automotive industryG. Schaub, E. Krauß. 251-258
• Action research: The formation of a manufacturing virtual industry clusterJ. E. M. Siqueira, C. F. Bremer. 261-268
• Exploitation of business opportunities: The role of the virtual enterprise brokerA. Molina, M. Flóres. 269-280
• Agent-based brokerage for virtual enterprise creation in the moulds industryRicardo J. Rabelo, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Rolando Vargas Vallejos. 281-290
• Logistics support to electronic commerce in Brazil: Trends and constraintsAntonio Galvão Naclério Novaes, Macul Chraim. 293-302
• A survey on the use of E-commerce by Brazilian companiesG. D. Cunha, J. L. D. Ribeiro. 303-310
• Electronic commerce with XML/EDI in virtual enterprisesA. Luís Osório, P. Gibon, M. Martins Barata. 311-324
• The price-date-relationship as a negotiating tool in production planning and controlHans-Peter Wiendahl, Thomas Harms. 327-332
• Production planning and control information system for the engineering and make to order environmentD. Batista de Chambers, F. Sastrón-Báguena, M. Gutiérrez Fernández. 333-340
• The design and development of a discrete event simulation system to support virtual industry activitiesL. P. G. Ribeiro, J. C. E. Ferreira. 341-350
• Process support for virtual projects in the construction sectorStamatios Tsakopoulos, Albert Bokma. 351-358
• CogNet: Integrated information and knowledge management and its use in virtual organisationsAlbert Bokma. 361-370
• An IT-based framework for knowledge management in networked organisationsLuiz M. Spinosa, Carlos O. Quandt. 371-380
• Shop floor reengineering to support agility in virtual enterprise environmentsJosé Barata, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos. 381-394
• A conceptual framework for aggregate management of virtual enterprisesJorge Pinho de Sousa, Américo Lopes Azevedo, António Lucas Soares. 395-402
• Virtual organizations and the cultural dimension: Organization rites in the consoldation of teleworkS. G. Feuerschütte, M. R. P. Rolim. 405-412
• Virtual teams and the organisational grapevineM. Devine, E. Filos. 413-424
• Moral infrastructure and virtual enterprises: Ethics as a competitive factor for the Internet commerce in BrazilA. S. S. Teodósio. 425-432
• Informal networks: Managing the knowledge within virtual enterprisesT. M. Macedo, R. J. Naveira. 433-440
• A methodology to evaluate enterprises to become members of virtual industry clustersD. Caballero, A. Molina, T. Bauernhansl. 443-454
• An assessment model to analyze organizational readiness to implement telework arrangementsAndreas Steil, R. M. Barcia. 455-464
• A systematic approach to IPR definition in cooperative projectsLuis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh. 465-476
• Quality certification in the virtual enterprise: An objective tool for supply chain management and customer satisfactionAngelo Martins, João José Pinto Ferreira, José M. Mendonça. 479-486
• An innovation coaching approach to efficiently introduce QM-Systems in SMEsU. Kirchhoff, H. Sundmaeker, G. D. Cunha. 487-494
• Using Knowledge management to improve qualityT. Pfeifer, R. Freudenberg, G. Hanel. 495-504
• A combined knowledge and information infrastructure to support product developmentC. A. Costa, Robert I. M. Young. 507-514
• Towards a virtual organization: The rapid prototyping Portuguese national networkPedro A. C. Sousa, João Paulo Pimentão, P. M. N. Maló, R. Gonçalves, Adolfo Steiger-Garção. 515-522
• iPDM SystemsReiner Anderl, M. Arlt. 523-530