An Innovative Virtual Enterprise Approach to Agile Micro and SME-Based Collaboration Networks

Part 5: Building Collaborative NetworksInternational audienceThis paper demonstrates a lightweight and highly decentralized collaboration infrastructure approach for virtual enterprises and describes its added-value in the customer-oriented production domain. First, we will describe challenges and key requirements of an exemplary application scenario. Second, we are going to present the reference architecture and will explain the designs of enabling key concepts. Finally we highlight major improvements to the selected domain and the impact in economic, competition and social terms