The evolution of ICT towards fast and robust data exchange promoted the blooming of
successful technical and business concepts like cloud computing and virtualisation of …

The rise of new service-oriented technologies drives new ways to perform interoperability
between companies, even in areas not directly connected to the enterprise core business …

Competition and high ICT availability have driven enterprises to evolve by creating business
nests where several enterprises gather their specialisations in the building of complete and …

This chapter proposes a framework for sustainable interoperability of negotiation processes,
using formal description (modeling) to support the coordination of multiple parallel …

In the actual competitive and global business context, the maintenance of interoperation
among heterogeneous organisations in a collaborative environment becomes difficult to …

Abstract The Sensing Enterprise is a novel concept that refers to an enterprise anticipating
future decisions by using multi-dimensional information captured through physical and …

The globalised world has entered the service era, where an enterprise is connected to the
entire world, producing and consuming services using the internet. Virtualisation and service …

The increasing complexity of interactions between businesses, companies, providers and
customers towards globalisation leads companies to continuously interoperate and seek …