VBE Management -- Competency Modeling Targeted on Promotion of Organizations Towards VO Involvement -- A Virtual Breeding Environment Reference Model and Its Instantiation Methodology -- Systemic Strategic Management for VBEs in the Manufacturing Sector -- Networking Agrifood SMEs and Consumer Groups in Local Agribusiness -- Social Capital, Value Systems and Soft Issues -- Collaborative Networks and Social Capital: A Theoretical and Practical Convergence -- Analysis of Core-Values Alignment in Collaborative Networks -- Quantitative Analysis of the Soft Factor “Cooperation Climate” in Collaborative Networks -- Value Creation in Networks -- Value Creation Elements in Learning Collaborative Networked Organizations -- Sustainability of Virtual Collaborative Networks -- Going Virtual in the European Biopharmaceutical Industry: Conductors and Oxpeckers Make It -- Negotiation in Collaborative Networks -- Agreement Negotiation Support in VO Creation -- Using UML/WS-CDL for Modeling Negotiation Scenarios -- Automating Decisions for Inter-Enterprise Collaboration Management -- Construction of Collaboration Structures -- Data Mining to Discover Enterprise Networks -- Life Cycle of the Cooperation Networks Environment: A Case Study of a Construction Company’s Project of an Automotive Motor Firm -- Critical Thinking and Concept Design Generation in a Collaborative Network -- Management of Collaborative Networks -- A TOC Perspective to Improve the Management of Collaborative Networks -- The Application of the Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management in Virtual Organization -- Qualitative Monitoring to Support Pro-Active VO Management -- Coordination of Supply Chain Activities: A Coalition-Based Approach -- Process Definition and Modeling -- Collaborative Process Definition Using An Ontology-Based Approach -- Business Process Modelling for Academic Virtual Organizations -- Using BPEL for Behavioural Concepts in ODP Enterprise Language -- Risk Treatment Templates for Configurable Reference Modeling in the Construction Industry -- Knowledge Management and Ontologies -- A Rule-Based Approach for Customizing Knowledge Search in CNOs -- Exploring Ontology Adoption and Diffusion in the Construction Virtual Enterprise -- Understanding of Knowledge from Two Mutually Related Aspects -- Collaborative Decision Making -- Decentralised Decision Making in Non-Hierarchical Networks -- A Reference Model for Distributed Decision Making Through A Multi-Agent Approach -- VirtualECare: Group Decision Supported by idea Generation and Argumentation -- Communication Protocols for Collaborative Forecasting -- Affective Computing and Cultural Issues -- Affective Computing and Collaborative Networks: Towards Emotion-Aware Interaction -- Cultural Determinants of Creating Modern Organisations – The Role of Trust -- Squeak, an Invisible Laboratory for Teachers as Learners -- Virtual Teams and Social Protocols -- Modelling Multithreaded Social Protocols with Coloured Petri Nets -- Virtual Team Working: Current Issues and Directions for the Future -- Framework for Open, Distributed and Self-Managed Social Platforms -- Complex Adaptive Systems -- Towards a Collaborative Model for Wireless Sensor Networks -- Supporting Complex Adaptive Processes with Lightweight Platforms -- Software Agents in Virtual Organizations: Good Faith and Trust -- Network Analysis and Strategic Processes -- Network Structure Analysis for Multicultural Industrial CNO -- Strategic Information System (SIS) of Virtual Organization (VO) -- Proactive Management of Business Change -- Quality, Governance and Legal Issues -- On Quality Issues in Networked Value Constellations -- Devolution in a Virtual Enterprise -- Legal Framework for eCommerce Tax Analysis -- Collaboration Infrastructures -- The Ecolead Collaborative Business Infrastructure for Networked Organizations -- Web Services-Based Collaborative System for Distributed Engineering -- Discovery and Selection of Certified Web Services Through Registry-Based Testing and Verification -- Service-Oriented Approaches -- An E-Service SOA Model for Virtual Service Enterprises -- A Service Oriented Framework for Mobile Business Virtual Communities -- Dynamic Adaptation, Composition and Orchestration of Web Services in Virtual Environments -- An Approach for Establishing Trust Relationships in the Web Service Technology -- Transportation Networks & Mobile Business -- Impact of Benefit Sharing Among Companies in the Implantation of a Collaborative Transportation System - An Application in the Furniture Industry -- Intelligent Transport System Based on RFID and Multi-Agent Approaches -- Making the Mobile Process Service Market, with a Smart Business Network, in the Northern Dimension -- Regional Manifestations of CN-1 -- Towards a Sustainable Innovation Framework to Assess New Indo-Swiss Collaboration Scenarios -- Enriching Collaboration Among Eastern European SMEs Through Dedicated Virtual Platform -- E-Government in Poland Against the Background of Other EU Countries -- A Typology of French Marketplaces: Looking into a Collaborative Future -- Regional Manifestations of CN-2 -- Scenarios to Collaborate with Emerging Markets: Initial Focus India -- The Virtual Development Office Framework for Business Networks: A Case Study from the Umbrian Packaging District -- Planning and Initiating Virtual Collaborative Networks for SMEs in Rural Areas – An Example from the Finnish Archipelago -- Collaborative Research Networks: Institute Factory of Millennium-Brazil.