Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Software agent technology : an overview / Chrysanthi A. Georgakarakou and Anastasios A. Economides -- 2. Web services technology : an overview / Fani A. Tzima and Pericles Mitkas -- 3. Virtual enterprise formation supported by agents and Web services / Sobah Abbas Petersen, Jinghai Rao, and Mihhail Matskin -- 4. Adaptive service choreography support in virtual enterprises / Adomas Svirskas, Bob Roberts, and Ioannis Ignatiadis -- 5. Technologies to support the market of resources as an infrastructure for agile/virtual enterprise integration / Maria Manuela Cunha, Goran D. Putnik, Joaquim Pereira da Silva, and José Paulo Oliveira Santos -- 6. The utilization of semantic Web for integrating enterprise systems / Dimitrios Tektonidis and Albert Bokma -- 7. A recommender agent to support knowledge sharing in virtual enterprises / Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Pablo Gomes Ludermir, and Diego Sona -- 8. Framework of agent-based intelligent system for distributed virtual enterprise project control / Yee-Ming Chen and Shih-Chang Wang -- 9. Sharing views, information, and cross-enterprise culture in the corporate situation room / Bob Roberts and Adamantios Koumpis -- 10. Multi-agent systems integration in enterprise environments using web services / Eduardo H. Ramirez and Ramón F. Brena -- 11. Web service discovery and composition for virtual enterprises / Jürgen Dorn, Peter Hrastnik, and Albert Rainer.

12. Achieving agile enterprise through integrated process management : from planning to work execution / Ali Bahrami -- 13. Agents and multi-agent systems in supply chain management : an overview / Pericles A. Mitkas and Paraskevi Nikolaidou -- 14. A conceptual framework for business process modeling in virtual organizations / Dimitris Folinas, Tania Pavlou, Bill Karakostas, and Vicky Manthou -- 15. Towards a virtual enterprise architecture for the environmental sector / Ioannis N. Athanasiadis -- 16. Using VO concept for managing dynamic security associations / Yuri Demchenko -- 17. Interoperability middleware for federated business services in web-pilacros / Lew Kutvonen, Toni Ruokolainen, and Janne Metso -- 18. Web-based template-driven communication support systems : using shadow netWorkspace to support trust development in virtual teams / Herbert Remidez, Jr., Antonie Stam, and James M. Laffey -- 19. Web service design concepts and structures for support of highly interconnected health infrastructures : a bottom-up approach / Adamantios Koumpis.