1. Newsletter Special Feature: Introduction to VE-Forum’s “Special Interest Groups” (SIG)
2. Conference Highlights June
3. New VE-Forum Home-Page Layout
4. News from the domain
5. Events in the domain

1. Newsletter Special Feature: Introduction to VE-Forum’s “Special Interest Groups” (IGs)

“The only source of knowledge is experience” - Albert Einstein
 
The interests in the field of networked organisations are diverse and so are the experiences made. We would like to point your attention towards our “Special Interest Group” Section on VE-Forum, the ideal place to discuss, to collaborate and to share your experiences with people from all over the world.
 
#1 Competence Profiling Interest Group: Do you know about your business partners’ capabilities? Lorenzo Pondrelli addresses the issues related to the management of individual and organisational competences in a distributed environment.
 
#2 Grid SIG: For this highly anticipated technology, Matti Hannus will provide guidance for RTD and assess the applicability of grid technologies and protocols for Virtual Organisations. Make sure you don’t miss the GRID workshop at ICE 2005
 
#3 IG Collaboration Tools: Gordon Sung takes you on a journey through the worlds of collaboration tools. What benefits do cooperation tools deliver?  What are state-of-the-art cooperations tools? What are the roadmaps in the development of cooperation tools? Don’t miss their Publications section with up-to-date benchmarking information
 
#4 Innovation Clusters: Bernhard Katzy’s SIG is dedicated to the idea how regional clusters of SMEs and large firms will boost business growth, the creation of jobs and wealth. Don’t forget to have a look at the group’s intermediate Workshop Results
 
#5 Intercultural Communication: Being tired of communication failures with your international business partners? Marc Moser invites you to enter the highly fascinating world of multicultural collaboration.
 
#6 SIG Legal Issues: Legal Issues are an important topic for any networked organisation, as law has been designed with traditional companies in mind. Explore and discuss legal issues (e.g. contracts, policies) together with Marco Conte

#7 Student-Center: Uros Hribar welcomes students from all over the world to get in contact with each other, to access relevant literature, conferences and projects and to exchange ideas and questions for your work. Don’t be shy and drop by!

#8 Virtual Government IG: Thomas Zwahr invites you to contribute to the White Paper on International Collaboration on eGovernment Research which was established in the Seattle Workshop that was organized by the NSF and the EU IST programme for invited European and US researchers. Interested researchers and experts should join the discussion process, future workshops and make their contributions available.
 
#9 VO Interest Group: If your special interest is in industrial application of virtual organisations, join Andrea Bifulco’s Virtual Organisation Interest Group. Members have for example access to an extensive list of Best Practice examples.
 

Do you want to open your own SIG?
Do you want to move an existing SIG onto the VE-Forum?
We’re always looking for interested people, find out more…
 
Or contact Flavius Sturm as your SIG coordinator

2. Conference Highlights June

Two of the main events for Networks and Virtual Organizations are happening in June: The Bled Conference (www.BledConference.org) just finished with very interesting discussions and results. But you have still a chance to register for this year’s ICE 2005 at www.ICE-Conference.org. Communities active in the field such as ESoCE Net, AMI@work family, KnowledgeBoard, MICADO, ICT for Network businesses Clusters will share in this Conference. Many of these have decided to use VE-Forum as platform to present their results and continue exchange and idea generation. So look out for next month’s newsletter for more.

3. New VE-Forum Home-Page Layout

3. New VE-Forum Home-Page Layout

You might have already seen the new VE-Forum layout, which makes it easier to access the latest activities and resources on www.VE-Forum.org. Please tell us how you like the new features and what we should improve further.

4. News from the Domain

The 3rd International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies - Call for Papers 09/06/2005 This workshop aims at bringing together academics, researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues involved in modeling regulatory ontologies. Regulatory ontologies typically involve the description of rules and regulations within the social world. More information can be found at.. more..
eJOV "Learning in Networked Organizations" deadline is 1 July, 2005 09/06/2005 The deadline for the eJOV special issue on "Learning in Networked Organizations" is 1st July, 2005. Call for Papers The electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness (eJOV) Special Issue on: "Learning in Networked Organizations" Guest Editors: Robert Verburg,.. more..
eJOV Editorial Board Meeting 09/06/2005 The annual eJOV Editorial Board Meeting took place at the Bled Conference in Slovenia on Sunday, 5th June.
Call for papers - ACM Workshop, IHIS05 01/06/2005 ACM-Workshop Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems (IHIS05) Deadline 03.07.2005  The ACM workshop "Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems (IHIS05)" will take place at the ACM Fourteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) on the 4th of November 2005 in Bremen, Germany.   This workshop aims.. more..
Developing new mechanisms for better National/Regional and EU collaboration in the European Research Area (ERA) 01/06/2005 Through fostering the European Research Area with the start of FP6 in 2003, the European Commission has already achieved better coordination and integration of the different RTD activities and actors across Europe. The next step is to define suitable mechanisms and areas for achieving synergies with National/Regional initiatives and collaborating.. more..
Building Your Virtual Team 28/05/2005 Building your Virtual Team Globalization has changed the nature of how businesses function. What is has not changed are the requirements for success. A dedicated team of skilled employees guided by expert managers is crucial to any corporation. Communication is paramount, more so today than ever before. Pulling together a seamless business team.. more..
Call FP6-2005-INNOV-8 - Standards in support of innovative business solutions 24/05/2005   Call Topics: Facilitating the integration of open standards into the design of new products and services Facilitating the integration of open standards into business practices Stimulating innovation through reference to standards in procurement Closing Date: 19 July 2005 This specific programme attacks a number of key structural.. more..
IST Call 5 - Collaborative Working Environment 24/05/2005   Strategic Objective Activities Web site (http://www.cordis.lu/ist/so/collab-work/home.html) Objective: To develop next generation collaborative working environments, thereby increasing creativity and boosting innovation and productivity. These environments should provide collaboration services to make possible the development of.. more..

5. Events in the Domain

NLDB05 - International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems 15/06/2005 Alicante - Spain Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. For more information on the conference and on paper submission procedure, please visit http://www.nldb.org ICE 2005 - 11th Conference on Concurrent Enterprising 20/06/2005 Munich "Integrated Engineering of Products, Services and Organisations" Conference Topics Business to Business Networks Co-Innovation Collaborative Enterprise Collaborative Process Collaborative Workspaces Concurrent Engineering Methods and Processes Extended Products Human Approaches Industrial Cases Interoperability in..more.. GRID workshop at ICE 2005 21/06/2005 Munich, Germany Virtual Enterprising on the Grid A special workshop of the 11th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, ICE 2005, Munich, Germany, June 21st 2005. The grid problem has been defined as "flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources - virtual..more..
Workshop on Complexity and Policy Analysis 22/06/2005 Cork, Ireland Co-hosted by: Department of Government University College Cork ETHOS Project Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Boston School of Public Affairs, Penn State, Harrisburg Final Call 22-24 June 2005, Cork, Ireland Key Note Presentations: "Playing with C.A.R.S.: Perspectives on Management and Analysis in Complex Contexts"Graham.. more..
Open Workshop on Identifying Policy and Regulatory Issues of Next Generation Networks 22/06/2005 Brussels, Belgium The Commission will hold an Open Workshop on Identifying Policy and Regulatory Issues of Next Generation Networks on 22 June 2005. During this workshop, market players will provide a broad overview of mainstream developments of future networks and services, and seek to bring out the important policy and regulatory issues for the future. The.. more..
IFAC World Congress- Special Session: Enterprise Networking towards the realization of Collaborative Networked Organizations 05/07/2005 Prague, Czech Republic, Prague Congress Centre, Meeting Room 3.2 The future relies on collaboration networks that can be created among companies, people and societies in order to generate shared knowledge and wealth. This invited session aims to set a forum for the discussion of this growing area of research related to the creation of Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO). The main requirements include.. more..
PACIS2005 - Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 07/07/2005 Bangkok, Thailand The main theme of the Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS-2005) will focus on the roles, functions and impacts of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) on creating sustainable value; the later can be measured by a variety of performance indicators such as customer satisfaction, ROI, lower costs and higher.. more..
17th International School for Computer Science Researchers - Formal Methods: Theory and Practice 10/07/2005 Lipari Island - Italy Lipari School Formal Methods: Theory And Practice 17th International School for Computer Science ResearchersLipari Island, July 10 - July 23, 2005   The Seventeenth International School for Computer Science Researchers addresses Ph.D. students and young researchers who want to get exposed to the forefront of research activity in the.. more..
INCOSE2005 - International Council inSystems Engineering 10/07/2005 Rochester, NY Systems Engineering: Bridging Industry, Government, and Academia" provides the theme for authors to address the wider scope of Systems Engineering and it's applications in the rapid turnaround, performance driven commercial world, as well as in academia and the traditional government contract business. All types of papers will be considered,.. more..
CIB W78 Conference on Information Technology in Construction 19/07/2005 Dresden, Germany Topics: Agent technology | Collaborative engineering & design | Distributed open platforms and services | E-management of supply chains | Grid technology | Integrated facility, project & construction management | Mobile computing | Networking business model for e-construction | Ontologies | P2P technology | Process modelling technology | Product.. more..
12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering 25/07/2005 USA The 12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications - Next Generation Concurrent Engineering: Smart and Concurrent Integration of Product Data, Services, and Control Strategies Renaissance Worthington Hotel - Ft. Worth/Dallas, USA 25 - 29 July 2005 http://www.ce2005.org
International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2005) 25/07/2005 Sydney, Australia The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS to enable a fruitful exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of WIS modeling. Topics of interest include: WIS Architectures Semistructured Data in WIS Methodologies for WIS Design Semantic Web Information.. more..
2005 China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Simposium, September 26-28, 2005 26/09/2005 Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China 2005 China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Simposium, September 26-28, 2005 Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China Description/Content: The 2005 China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Simposium, co-organized by WowGao, is the most anticipated event for the multimedia industry,.. more..
PRO-VE'05 - 6th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES 26/09/2005 Valencia, Spain www.pro-ve.org “Collaborative Networks and Value Creation” Collaborative Networks (CN) correspond to a very active and steadily growing area. For instance, Virtual enterprises / virtual organizations (VE/VO) are already supported by a large research and business practice community. Also, Professional Virtual Communities (PVC) suggest new ways of.. more..
BASYS’04 - 6th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services 27/09/2005 Vienna, Austria BASYS'04 will address Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services. The focus of the conference will be to explore new challenges faced by the integration of Knowledge and Technology as major drivers for business changes considering Product and Services Life Cycles. BASYS'04 is the 6th of a series of.. more..
e-2005 eChallenges Conference 19/10/2005 Ljubljana, Slovenia e-2005 eChallenges focuses on eBusiness, eGovernment, eWork, eEurope beyond 2005 and ICT take-up by SMEs and International Co-operation on IST, the goal of e-2005 is to stimulate take-up of Research & Technology Development (RTD) results by industry, in particular SMEs, and the European public sector. e-2005 will provide a forum to.. more..
ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 31/10/2005 Bremen, Germany The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge.. more..
e-Business: The Way Forward 05/12/2005 Cambridge (UK) The conference will take stock of successful public policy initiatives for the promotion of e-business practices by European enterprises, in particular SMEs and discuss the way forward in the area of e-business policies. The results of the Conference will constitute the basis for establishing thematic priorities for policy action on e-business.. more..
The Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005) 06/12/2005 Nagasaki, Japan Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both cyberspaces and real spaces. A SW is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or computational intelligence pervasive in the physical world, filled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart things, that are capable of.. more..