Emerging Concepts in E-Business and Extended Products
To compete in the competitive global marketplace, manufacturers and suppliers have to come up with novel ways of forming alliances to sell their wares. The extended and virtual enterprise concepts have been acknowledged as important paradigms in the moder
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Lakhmi C. Jain Advisory Board Members
Endre Boros Clarence W. de Silva Stephen Grossberg Robert J. Howlett Michael N. Huhns Paul B. Kantor Charles L. Karr Nadia Magenat-Thalmann Dinesh P. Mital Toyoaki Nishida Klaus Obermayer Manfred Schmitt
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
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Applications Technologies for Tomorrow's Solutions
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ACM Subject Classification (1998): H.4, H.3.5, J.1
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Foreword
We are living in the times of "Schumpetrian Economy", where radical innovation is visible as a ceaseless process of "creative destruction". Not only do technologies emerge to be substituted within a month, but companies are also now being founded and folded at a similar rapid pace, as we have seen with the dotcom "bubble". The current situation has many similarities to the early days of the automobile industry. There too, an eruption of attempts, trials and tests were carried out on a wide range of inventions, most of them not very successfully. The automobile industry only started to show relatively stable patterns after more than two decades, when by this time reliable descriptions and theories had been developed. Weber and Taylor are two pioneers from the early 20th century who established our current bod
