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<h4>e-NVISION related workshop at ECPPM 2008</h4>

   <h4>International Workshop on eBusiness in construction industry</h4>
     
  <p><strong>eNVISION workshop in ECPPM Conference - 10-12 September 2008 - Held in conjunction with the ECPPM 2008 conference</strong> </p>

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  <strong>Motivation</strong><br /><br />
   Looking into the near future, business in Europe will be conducted through flexible networks of interdependent 
   organizations. The future business scenario will be global, open and collaborative, dynamic and adaptive, 
   frictionless and consistent. This evolution is assumed to be electronically supported.</p>

<p align="justify">The construction sector, in particular the building construction sector, is characterized by a 
   high level of fragmentation, with a large number of participants in each construction project, being the large 
   majority SMEs. The current global e-business solutions that exist in the market are too general and complicated 
   for a small or medium company to use. <br />&nbsp;<br />In order to meet future eBusiness requirements, SMEs need 
   rely increasingly on the benefits of modern information and communication technology (ICT). However, the appropriate 
   knowledge to deploy this technology in an effective and efficient way, is largely lacking, in particular knowledge 
   regarding the cooperation in and between enterprises and knowledge regarding the interoperability of their 
   information systems.<br />&nbsp;<br />
   
   <strong>Focus and Goal<br /></strong><br />
   The goal of the workshop is to gather academics and practitioners in order to share innovative research issues 
   and practical experiences, and to facilitate discussions about these issues, in particular about the notions 
   of eBusiness application, architectural issues, business process modeling and ontology in construction and other 
   industries. <br />&nbsp;<br />

    
Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:
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   <li>E-business in construction sector;</li>
   <li>E-business scenarios for SMEs in construction sector; </li>
   <li>E-tendering, e-procurement, e-site, e-quality;</li>
   <li>Business process modeling in SMEs;</li>
   <li>Architectural issues of eBusiness solutions ;</li>
   <li>Innovative eBusiness solutions for SMEs;</li>
   <li>Construction processes ontologies;</li>
   <li>Semantic web in construction sector;</li>
   <li>SMEs future needs in construction sector.</li>
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   <strong>Articles<br /></strong><br />

   E-procurement future scenario for European construction SMEs <br/> <i>R. Gatautis & E. Vitkauskaitė</i> <br /><br />

   e-NVISION e-Business ontology for the construction sector <br/> <i>V. Sánchez & S. Bilbao</i> <br /><br />

   General approach to e-NVISION scenarios <br/> <i>M. Tarka & e-NVISION Partners</i> <br /><br />

   e-Tendering - The business scenario for the e-NVISION platform <br/> <i>G. Balčiūnaitis, V. Čiumanovas, R. Gricius & e-NVISION Partners</i> <br /><br />
 
   Towards a digitalization of site events: Envisioning eSite business services <br/> <i>B. Charvier & A. Anfosso </i> <br /><br />

   e-Quality & e-Site - immediate tangible benefits for a building and construction sector SME  <br/> <i>M. Mihelič &  e-NVISION Consortium</i> <br /><br />

   Human interaction implementation in workflow of construction & building SMEs <br/> <i>G. Balčiūnaitis, V. Čiumanovas, R. Gricius & e-NVISION Partners</i> <br /><br />


   
   
      
   <strong>For more information:</strong>&nbsp; <a href="http://2008.ecppm.org/index.php?id=16" target="TOP">http://2008.ecppm.org </a>
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