PRO-VE 2021: 22nd Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises St. Etienne, France, November 22-24, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.pro-ve.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prove2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 15, 2021 |
Submission deadline | April 16, 2021 |
SMART AND SUSTAINABLE COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS 4.0
In recent years, PRO-VE Conferences have introduced the notion of Collaborative networks 4.0 (CN4.0) as the new generation of collaborative networks, in the era of applied Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation. Meanwhile since last year, the world has encountered major health and economic crises caused by the Corona pandemic, emphasizing that disruptive situations, at different scales, tend to be increasingly frequent, while having strong impact in the society. Smart and digital technologies supporting agility, scalability, resilience, and adaptability, characterize CN 4.0. These properties have become critical features for most sectors of our modern societies, including manufacturing industry and services sectors. CN 4.0 can contribute to building a more resilient and sustainable world.
Agile and sustainable systems and business models, based on open collaborative processes, are not only an answer to the increasing need for customization but can also provide higher resilience, i.e. joint reconfigurations of market-offers, production processes, and consumption patterns, among others. Digitalization of both products and services enable a transition towards a larger vision of value creation: digitalization strengthens research trends on societal impacts and makes it possible to progressively focus on more ecological value chains, based on circular and collaborative economy.
Combined with the current boom of applied Artificial Intelligence and learning, Collaborative Networks show high potentials to boost Industry 4.0. But digitalization also concerns many other activity sectors where agility, resilience, and sustainability are key challenges, e.g. the Health 4.0, Agriculture 4.0, Cities 4.0, Transportation 4.0, Logistics 4.0, Education 4.0, and even Tourism 4.0. With an eye on this diversity of application fields, PRO-VE 2021 will provide a forum for sharing experiences, discussing trends, and identifying new opportunities, thus introducing innovative solutions for the new generation of Smart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks 4.0.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Technological Development and Application Case
- Foundational Research
- Position Paper
- Special session: Collaborative ontologies for complex manufacturing systems
List of Topics
- Artificial Intelligence and digital transformation for collaborative models, platforms and systems
- Smart collaborative systems
- Distributed cognition in collaborative systems
- Collaborative ad sustainable business models and production systems
- Business ecosystems and collaboration in Industry 4.0
- Cloud-based manufacturing
- Manufacturing as a collaborative Service
- Cyber-physical systems and their applications in collaborative network 4.0
- Hybridization of collaboration – organizations, people, machines, systems
- Skills, competencies and human factors in the digital transition
- Agility, resilience and sustainability of networked organization
- Risks, performance, and disruptions in collaborative networked systems
- Agile business models and value networks
- Monetization of collaboration
- Collaboration for circular economy and sustainable industrial systems
- Collaborative e-services for sustainable networks
- Value creation and social impact of collaborative networks
- Collaborative healthcare networks; Resilience and collaboration for health systems
- Digitalized and collaborative logistics and transportation networks
- Smart and resilient supply, production, or distribution networks
- Collective intelligence and collaboration in advanced/emerging applications
- Big data analytics for distributed and collaborative intelligence
- Semantic data/service discovery, retrieval, and composition, in a collaborative networked world
- Ontologies for collaborative networks
- Ethics, trust, culture of collaboration and sustainability in CNs
- Open application fields:
- Collaborative manufacturing and factories of the future
- e-health and care,
- Food, agribusiness, agriculture 4.0
- Crisis and disaster management
- Digital supply chains
- Collaborative e-government
- Mobility networks
- Urban logistics and smart cities
- Collaborative energy systems
Committees
Program Committee
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Prof Luis Camarinha Matos (PT)
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Prof Hamideh Afsarmanesh (NL)
Organizing committee
- General Chair : Prof Xavier Boucher (FR)
- Workshops organization Chairs: Prof Xavier Delorme (FR), Prof Vincent Chapurlat (FR)
- Special sessions promotion Chairs: Prof David Romero (MX), Prof Antonio Lucas Soares (PT)
- Industry sessions Chairs: Mr François Vuillaume, Bosch Group, Elm Leblanc (FR), Dr Robert Woitsch, BOC Group (AU)
Venue
The conference will be held in Saint Etienne, France, Ecole des Mines.
In case the COVID-19 pandemic remains, alternative solutions will be found.
Sponsors
Technical sponsors: IFIP WG5.5, SOCOLNET - Society of Collaborative Networks
Organizational sponsors: Institut Mines-Telecom, Ecole Mines-St. Etienne, UNINOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon (School of Science and Technology), University of Amsterdam
Other co-sponsors: LIMOS, DiGiFoF project.