Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

- Dynamic Virtual Organizations
- Business ecosystems & emerging collaboration forms
- Reference models and modeling approaches
- Breeding environments and brokerage
- Management of distributed activities and distributed information
- Ontology and knowledge management
- E-Contracting and Contracts management in CN
- Legal frameworks and negotiation
- Professional Virtual Communities
- Mobility and Virtual Enterprises
- New value systems and performance measurement; benchmarking
- e-Services and service markets
- ICT infrastructures & interoperability
- Collaborative environments
- New technological support for CN: MAS, Grid, mobile/pervasive computing
- Group decision systems
- Formal models and theories for CN
- E-Science and Virtual Laboratories
- Trust modeling and building processes
- Business models
- Innovation and risk management
- Ambient intelligence, Virtual Labs
- Case studies: Manufacturing, Construction, Health Care, Pharmaceutical industry, Bio-technology, Tourism, Services, NGOs, etc.
- Training and education on CN

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