Sub-Committees : CN
Sub-Committee - Collaborative Networks
- Chair:
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Luis Camarinha-Matos (UNINOVA) 
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- Mission and Focus:
- This sub-committee will address the application of multi-agent technologies and modeling frameworks to collaborative networks. A collaborative network is constituted by a variety of entities (e.g. organizations and people) that are largely autonomous, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous in terms of their: operating environment, culture, social capital and goals. Nevertheless these entities collaborate to better achieve common or compatible goals, and whose interactions are supported by computer network. Collaborative networks manifest in a large variety of forms, including virtual organizations, virtual enterprises, dynamic supply chains, professional virtual communities, collaborative virtual laboratories, etc.
- References:
- L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Support Infrastructures: Applying Multi-Agent Systems Approaches, in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI Nº 2086, pp.335-364, Springer, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN 3-540-42312-5, July 2001, issue on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications, M. Luck, V. Marik, O. Stpankova, R. Trappl (eds.).
- L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - A multi-agent based infrastructure to support virtual communities in elderly care, Int. J. Networking and Virtual Organisations, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2004, pp.246-266, ISSN 1470-9503.
- L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh - The emerging discipline of collaborative networks, in Virtual Enterprises and Collaborative Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-8138-3, pp 3-16, 23-26 Aug 2004.