Organizational networks, Extended business processes modeling, Service-oriented architectures, Service entities,

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Abstract. This work focuses on the Service Entities definition as an approach that may help to support structural and functional Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO) modeling, when VOs are engineered inside Virtual Breeding Environments Management Systems (VMS). Manbree is an undergoing development which is intended to provide an integrated framework for CNO modeling and execution based on that approach and it is briefly described at the final section.

E-business involves a fundamental change in business because it changes business foundations. Thus, companies which are trying to develop e-business capacities need to evaluate whether their current systems for managing enterprises are adequate when new business models appear. This paper considers weaknesses noted by different authors regarding the current performance measurement models and reviews some recent models to discover their suitability in e-business Models. A new system able to facilitate the definition of performance indicators for e-business companies is defined. The Model takes into account high level concepts (customers, strategies, stakeholders, etc) and operational concepts (information, resources, functions and roles) developing an integrated model. The Model is supported by IE-GIP (Enterprise Integration -Business Processes Integrated Managementacronyms in Spanish) methodology and CIMOSA concepts.

This paper introduces an integrated modeling approach that has been used to design and implement the ColNet platform. ColNet is the result of creating an integrated system, supporting distributed business processes design and execution in a Collaborative Network (CN) belonging to an Open Ecosystem (VBE). The work has been carried out as a part of the FP7 REMPLANET European Project, which aims at providing methods and tools for better decision-making in non-hierarchical collaborative networks. The functional alignment of Open Service Ecosystems, Collaborative Networks and Services Entities lifecycles is adopted as main functional requirements for the platform design and implementation while, at the same time, they raise an integrated modeling need. Both constitute the underlying approach followed when designing and implementing ColNet and are briefly described here.