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Intelligent collaborative system and service in value network for enterprise computing

Recently, competitive environment for enterprise computing is being mixed with increased uncertainty of supply and demand, globalised markets, shortening of product’s life cycle, rapid change of process/product technologies, etc. In this environment, both companies forming supply chains and individuals making efforts to improve existing performance through mutual organic collaboration could secure competitive advantages. Collaboration means that two or more members of a supply chain work together to create competitive advantages through information sharing, joint decision-making and profit sharing. It is differentiated from the ‘market relationship’ in the meaning of forming long-term and stable relationship other than transient one, and also from the ‘hierarchical relationship’ in the sense of no direct control. Electronic collaboration links up business processes electronically and encourages two or more companies to share their information. Such electronic collaboration is becoming a key component for real-time enterprise. The information system between companies means an automated information system that interconnects business processes between more than two companies to share information for interconnecting business processes between companies. In detail, the electronic collaboration supports expansion of the companies’ business range and reconstruction of business processes between companies by promoting collaboration and managing potential conflicts between organisations. This special issue on new technologies and research trends for intelligent collaborative system and service in value network for enterprise computing provides high-quality contributions addressing the fields such as electronic collaboration, collaboration platform/service and collaborative innovation support. Each manuscript was blindly reviewed by at least three external reviewers and guest editors. After two to three rounds of review processes, five manuscripts, whose topics are strongly related to this special issue, were finally accepted.