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Part 5: Service Orientation in Collaborative NetworksInternational audienceSoftware industry has become a very important sector, mostly comprising SMEs. New ICT paradigms have arisen to face new challenges of the economy, namely the Service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA has the potential to leverage SMEs to new degrees of competitiveness. One of the most relevant drivers for that is innovation. However, SMEs use to be very limited in their resources, and both innovation and SOA are complex, costly and risky. This paper presents preliminary results of an ongoing research towards developing an innovation model that relies on collaboration, enabling software/SOA providers to work as an open network and hence to jointly carry an innovation out. This is important as SOA/software/services sector is very different than manufacturing, to which most of the innovation models are devoted to. The proposed model also identifies the most relevant supporting issues that should be taken into account along the innovation and collaboration processes. The model is presented as well as its rationale. Final considerations about the work are presented at the end

This paper presents an approach to configure dynamic virtual enterprises supported by smart tools that are implemented to facilitate and to speed up this process in a low cost and effective way. The configuration comprises the setup of the information to exchange among the VE partners during the VE life cycle, the integration of their legacy systems with the VE platform, the configuration of the VE topology, and the definition of information access rights for the VE partners. Details about the implementation of the supporting tools as well as some conclusions based on the results achieved are also given.

This paper introduces the Virtual Organization Management (VOM) under the view that management is a liberal art. A dynamic and fluid VOM framework is proposed based on some management elements and having the DistributedBusiness Process (DBP) as its kernel. Then another dimension is added to the framework: the VO manager's behaviour. At the end some functionalities to support human-supervised VOM are presented. ^ Questions raised by the ECOLEAD WP3 team as well as by the course: "Adaptive Management Systems: Management as a Liberal Art"-MGT 344, held at the Drucker School of Management -Claremont Graduate University -Spring 2002 ^ These functionalities, identified in recent research projects according to end-users' requirements, are under development and should improve the Cockpit prototype developed by UFSC. The currently available functionalities of the prototype allow the managing of DBFs of Virtual Organizations by means of monitoring and supervision activities.

Companies from the software sector have been seeking new, sustainable business models. A key strategy to achieve is innovation. Being a sector largely formed by SMEs, a general problem is to keep innovation a sustainable practice. Many companies have been shifting their systems' architectures to SOA, but despite its potentials, SOA projects are often costly, complex and risky. One approach to mitigate this is endowing companies with means to innovate collaboratively. Current innovation models are mostly devoted to the manufacturing sector, without supporting the many software and SOA specificities. We present a collaborative innovation process model as a contribution to fill this gap. The model combines open and network innovation approaches and allowing the tailoring of process composition to accommodate the uniqueness of innovation projects. The proposed model was evaluated by industry.

Software sector plays a very relevant role in current world economy. One of its characteristics is that they are mostly composed of SMEs. SMEs have been pushed to invest in innovation to keep competitive. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a recent and powerful ICT paradigm for more sustainable business models. A SOA product has many differences when compared to manufacturing sector. Besides that, SOA projects are however very complex, costly and risky. This can be mitigated if SMEs can innovate together. This paper presents an innovation model to assist groups of disparate SMEs to work together towards providing a SOA-based software product. The model is flexible and adaptive to every innovation project. Final considerations about the work are presented at the end.

The concept of Learning Collaborative NeMorked Organizations merges both the CNO and the LO paradigms. It aims at augmenting the quality of decisionmaking and of corporate governance taking inter-organizational knowledge into account. The rationale behind the proposal is that CNOs are still lacking research and work for enhancing their agility where rapid decision-making is crucial for achieving their goals. In this paper knowledge management is proposed as an approach for tackling this problem. The paper presents the first step for a Famework for gathering information and for generating new knowledge dynamical/v according to what users needfor given situations. The corporate knowledge is retained, organized, shared and re-used to the benefit of individuals and ofCNO as well as oltheir re.'pectit'e members.

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