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Service-based negotiation for advanced collaboration in enterprise networks

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Information systems support organisations to achieve greater efficiency by automating their activities. Nowadays, in the actual competitive and global business context, the advent of enterprise networking has been challenging collaboration, coordination and continuous interactions among dissimilar information systems to adapt and improve them. Sustainability of interoperability among heterogeneous systems regarding sharing information and knowledge in a collaborative dynamic environment is hard to achieve and maintain. This paper proposes a service-based negotiation framework for advanced collaboration in enterprise networks, as a solution to improve the sustainability of interoperability within enterprise information systems. Validation in industrial scenario is presented and discussed.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the European Commission through the funding of the UNITE, MSEE, IMAGINE, and TIMBUS FP7 projects.

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  1. Caixa Mágica Software, Lisbon, 1600-196, Portugal

    Carlos Coutinho

  2. Computer Science Department, “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest, 031046 , Bucharest, Romania

    Adina Cretan

  3. Lyon Research Centre for Images and Intelligent Information Systems, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, 69100 , Villeurbanne, France

    Catarina Ferreira da Silva & Parisa Ghodous

  4. Faculty of Sciences and Technology, UNINOVA, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516 , Caparica, Portugal

    Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves

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Coutinho, C., Cretan, A., da Silva, C.F. et al. Service-based negotiation for advanced collaboration in enterprise networks. J Intell Manuf 27, 201–216 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-013-0857-4

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