"Premier reference source"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-369) and index.
Contents:
pt. IV. Virtual enterprise operation. Web service design concepts and structures for support of highly interconnected health infrastructures : a bottom-up approach / Adamantios Koumpis. Web services technology : an overview / Fani A. Tzima and Pericles Mitkas -- pt. II. Virtual enterprise formation. Virtual enterprise formation supported by agents and web services / Sobah Abbas Petersen, Jinghai Rao, and Mihhail Matskin -- pt. III. Virtual enterprise integration. Adaptive service choreography support in virtual enterprises / Adomas Svirskas , Bob Roberts, and Ioannis Ignatiadis -- Technologies to support the market of resources as an infrastructure for agile/virtual enterprise integration / Maria Manuela Cunha ... [et al.] -- The utilization of semantic web for integrating enterprise systems / Dimitrios Tektonidis and Albert Bokma -- A recommender agent to support knowledge sharing in virtual enterprises / Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Pablo Gomes Ludermir, and Diego Sona -- Framework of agent-based intelligent system for distributed virtual enterprise project control / Yee-Ming Chen and Shih-Chang Wang -- Sharing views, information, and cross-enterprise culture in the corporate situation room / Bob Roberts and Adamantios Koumpis -- Multi-agent systems integration in enterprise environments using web services / Eduardo H. Ramirez and Ramon F. Brena -- Web service discovery and composition for virtual enterprises / Jurgen Dorn, Peter Hrastnik, and Albert Rainer -- Achieving agile enterprise through integrated process management : from planning to work execution / Ali Bahrami -- pt. IV. Virtual enterprise operation. Agents and multi-agent systems in supply chain management : an overview / Pericles A. Mitkas and Paraskevi Nikolaidou -- A conceptual framework for business process modeling in virtual organizations / Dimitris Folinas ... [et al.] -- Towards a virtual enterprise architecture for the environmental sector / Ioannis N. Athanasiadis -- Using VO concept for managing dynamic security associations / Yuri Demchenko -- Interoperability middleware for federated business services in web-pilacros / Lew Kutvonen, Toni Ruokolainen, and Janne Metso -- Web-based template-driven communication support systems : using shadow netWorkspace to support trust development in virtual teams / Herbert Remidez, Jr., Antonie Stam, and James M. Laffey -- Web service design concepts and structures for support of highly interconnected health infrastructures : a bottom-up approach / Adamantios Koumpis.
Summary:
"This book provides a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in agent and Web service technologies. It provides an integrated view of the most recent contributions which support formation, integration, collaboration, and operation in virtual enterprise. Readers will gain insight from examples of applications of these technologies throughout various aspects of the virtual enterprise life cycle"--Provided by publisher.
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