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The successful writing and management of collaborative research projects requires a common understanding of the project's objectives by all partners involved. It also requires a clear vision of the project inputs and outputs. This paper presents two case-studies where concept maps were used as a knowledge management tool in order to support both project lifecycle management and project proposal writing. Concept maps were drawn in both cases in order to describe the main activities executed in the project work packages (WPs) and to show how the WPs were linked to each other.

Abstract. This paper introduces the concepts related to Distributed Business Processes (DBPs) associated to collaborative networks when applied to tourism and entertainment sector. These concepts are framed by the coordination activities and services orchestration to be used by tourism and entertainment providers. It brings to light the investigation about the needs associated to the tourism and entertainment areas when working collaboratively. There is a lack of ability for the service providers to recognize customers' wishes in order to address their loyalty. Tourism and entertainment services are characterized as temporary arrangements that are well served by the arrangements provided in collaborative networks. This paper presents the enablers and the uncertainties related to the area in order to provide alternative solutions to cover the emergent needs, facilitate the enablers, and mitigate the uncertainties identified so far.

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The concept of Learning Collaborative NeMorked Organizations merges both the CNO and the LO paradigms. It aims at augmenting the quality of decisionmaking and of corporate governance taking inter-organizational knowledge into account. The rationale behind the proposal is that CNOs are still lacking research and work for enhancing their agility where rapid decision-making is crucial for achieving their goals. In this paper knowledge management is proposed as an approach for tackling this problem. The paper presents the first step for a Famework for gathering information and for generating new knowledge dynamical/v according to what users needfor given situations. The corporate knowledge is retained, organized, shared and re-used to the benefit of individuals and ofCNO as well as oltheir re.'pectit'e members.