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Market constant evolution towards more and more customisation and call for "product/service" increases to need of agile and lean organisations, making an heavy use of infomiation and communication technologies. To bring the necessary openness, interoperability and agility features to the enterprises information systems, one can use fruitfully Service Oriented Architecture. Already used at a business level as a potential interoperable and integrating framework, this technology must be adapted to define manufacturing services and to take into account manufacturing constraints, namely time constraint and security integration. In this paper, we propose a global framework to define a "manufacturing service bus", paying a particular attention to the manufacturing service definition. We also show how mobile agents can be used to set dynamically monitoring systems.

Over the last ten years, enterprises focus their efforts on improving collaboration prospective with their partners, resulting in collaborative business organization. Making a heavy use of ICT and service oriented technologies these strategies are first developed at the business level and need to be extended to the industrial level.Building an "Industrial Service" environment involves adapting the service infrastructure to fit the real-time and multi-task requirements. To support industrial services composition and orchestration, we propose a mobile-agent based infrastructure able to carry out security and quality of service constraints.

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CONTEXTNowadays, organizations are more and more centred on their core competencies and outsource secondary tasks. This outsourcing policy leads to stronger interorganisational relationships often based on service customer/service supplier relationships to adapt and increase continuously the global performance level and gain a competitive advantage. Consequently, enterprises focus has shifted from the improvement of their internal organizational level to the outsourcing strategy and the inter-organizational level. The combination of service consumer and service provider can be seen as global virtual enterprise which can be introduced to a third party as a single entity.Such collaborative organizations can be more or less stable, depending on the parties contracting conditions and on the environment context which may require more or less flexibility and agility (Kutvonen et al., 2005). This agility constraint, especially in fast changing environments, involves continuous adaptation of both the enterprise internal organization and collaboration partners selection. This context leads to the emergence of dynamic virtual markets in which partners are selected for short or midterm collaboration (Bartelt and Lamersdorf, 200 l). Consequently, a highly dynamic approach is required to create or retain a competitive position for