9. RIDE 1999: Sydney, Australia

Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises, 23 - 24 March, 1999, Sydney, Australia, IEEE Computer Society, 1999

Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Analysis

Amjad Umar, Paolo Missier:
A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Enterprise Infrastructure. 4-11
Hasan Davulcu, Michael Kifer, L. Robert Pokorny, C. R. Ramakrishnan, I. V. Ramakrishnan, Steven Dawson:
Modeling and Analysis of Interactions in Virtual Enterprises. 12-18
Jan Øyvind Aagedal, Zoran Milosevic, Andrew Wood:
Modelling Virtual Enterprises and the Character of their Interactions. 19-26

Information Management in Virtual Enterprises

Esther K. Lee, William Noah:
An Enterprise Intelligence System Integrating WWW and Intranet Resource. 28-35
Elke Radeke, Jörg Korzonnek:
Distributed Information Management in Virtual Engineering Enterprises by GEN. 36-37
P. D. Ktenidis, A. T. Paraskevopoulos:
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Networks: Achievements and Work-in-Progress from Three European Projects. 44-51

Keynote Address

Richard A. DeMillo: Programming the New Computer

Communication and Negotiation in Virtual Enterprises

Peter Fankhauser, Thomas Tesch:
Agents, a Broker, and Lies. 56-63
Yigal Hoffner:
Supporting Contract Match-Making. 64-71
Emil Lupu, Zoran Milosevic, Morris Sloman:
Use of Roles and Policies for Specifying and Managing a Virtual Enterprise. 72-79
Yahiko Kambayashi, Kaoru Katayama, Mukesh K. Mohania:
Modifying CSCW Environments Dynamically for Supporting Virtual Enterprises. 80-87

Invited Project Presentations

Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Yigal Hoffner:
CrossFlow-Cross-Organizational Workflow Support for Virtual Organizations. 90-91
Marc Zweiacker, Guido Kaufmann, Benno Suter, Kathrin Erben:
Virtual Enterprise Generic Applications. 92-94
David J. Abel:
IMP: An Architecture for Virtual Enterprises for Electronic Service Delivery. 95-97

Service Models, Discovery, and Utilization

Justus Klingemann, Jürgen Wäsch, Karl Aberer:
Deriving Service Models in Cross-Organizational Workflows. 100-107
Weimin Du, Ming-Chien Shan:
Enterprise Workflow Resource Management. 108-115
Panos K. Chrysanthis, Sujata Banerjee, Shi-Kuo Chang:
Establishing Virtual Enterprises by Means of Mobile Agents. 116-123

Virtual Process/Workflow Management Infrastructure

Claude Godart, Olivier Perrin, Hala Skaf:
Coo: A Workflow Operator to Improve Cooperation Modeling in Virtual Processes. 126-131
Gustavo Alonso, Ulrich Fiedler, Claus Hagen, Amaia Lazcano, Heiko Schuldt, N. Weiler:
WISE: Business to Business E-Commerce. 132-139
Anne H. H. Ngu:
Specification of Cooperative Constraints in Virtual Enterprise Workflow. 140-147
Peter Muth, Jeanine Weißenfels, Michael Gillmann, Gerhard Weikum:
Workflow History Management in Virtual Enterprises Using a Light-Weight Workflow Management System. 148-155

Panel Discussion: Virtual Enterprises: Examples and Future Research

Moderator: Amjad Umar