1. Guest editorial

   • Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 99 - 99

2. Towards the smart organization: An emerging organizational paradigm and the contribution of the European RTD programs

   • Erastos Filos
   • Eoin Banahan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 119

3. A toolset for building the virtual enterprise

   • Bernhard R. Katzy
   • Marcel Dissel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 131

4. Cooperation coordination in virtual enterprises

   • Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
   • C. Pantoja-Lima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 150

5. The PRODNET cooperative information management for industrial virtual enterprises

   • C. Garita
   • Hamideh Afsarmanesh
   • L.O. Hertzberger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 170

6. Reliable and secure communications infrastructure for virtual enterprises

   • A. Luís Osório
   • Manuel M. Barata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 183

7. Managing distributed business processes in the virtual enterprise

   • Alexandra Augusta Pereira Klen
   • Ricardo J. Rabelo
   • Luiz Marcio Spinosa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 197

8. Distributed shared memory infrastructure for virtual enterprise in building and construction

   • Fadi Sandakly
   • João Garcia
   • Patrice Poyet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 212

9. VIRTEC: An example of a Brazilian virtual organization

   • Carlos F. Bremer
   • Flávia V. S. Michilini
   • Luciane M. Ortega

   OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 221

10. Locally perceiving hard global constraints in multi-agent scheduling

    • Joaquim Reis
    • Nuno Mamede
    • Henrique O'Neill

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 236