Dear Colleagues: The Lamar Soutter Library at the UMass Medical School has been funded to develop an escience web portal. This web portal will integrate e-science resources, instructional tools, and collaborative networking tools for librarians. As part of our development of this portal, we need your input and cooperation in filling out an online assessment tool that will help us align the port...

Due to the worldwide connectivity provided by the Internet, organizations are able to participate in dynamic networked value constellations; networks in which organizations jointly create value and satisfy customer needs. Participating in a networked value constellation does however increase the complexity of an organization’s environment, making correct and deep understanding of the organizati...

Strategic networks such as Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs) and Virtual Customer Communities (VCCs) show a high potential as drivers of value co-creation and collaborative innovation in today’s Networking Era. Both look at the network structures as a source of jointly value creation and open innovation through access to new skills, knowledge, markets and technologies by sharing risk...

Amongst different types of Collaborative Networked Organizations it is possible to highlight those created to develop and market product, process or business model innovation. In this type of innovation network, which has special characteristics, the challenge is to introduce effective networked innovation in the very same innovation network. This paper presents the main features of TALAI-SAREA...

This short paper describes the Shastra collaborative Web substrate and presents four synthetic environments that are under development, and take advantage of this substrate. The Shastra substrate provides an environment which streamlines the creation, experimentation and testing of Web based collaborative applications. The applications provide useful interactions in collaborative geometric desi...

Interaction management is concerned with the protocols that govern structured interactive activities among multiple users or agents in networked collaborative environments. Interest management is concerned with the relevance-based data filtering in networked collaborative environments. The main objective is to avoid broadcasting data unless it is to be shared by all the processes, and to provid...

The concept of Learning Collaborative Networked 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 achievi...

problem solving philosophy, it is necessary to introduce a mechanism to share common understanding of the information and to agree on a controlled vocabulary used for communication. An ontology provides a representation of knowledge, which can be used and re-used, in order to facilitate the comprehension of concepts and relationships in a given domain, and the communication between different do...