Hamideh Afsarmanesh

University of Amsterdam | UVA · Institute of Informatics

In modern society, citizens aspire to get trusted and reliable digital services to authenticate theirs to payments. With the COVID-19 crisis, online shopping’s fast growth has led citizens to increase registration in different systems. The registration is typically done without any guarantee that the involved business entity is trusted and that pri...

The last two decades have witnessed considerable boost in emergence of a networked society, reflecting the increasing growth in hyper-connectivity among the organizations, people, smart machines, and intelligent systems. This trend was enabled by advances in ICT and more specifically in computer networking. In this context, new forms of coworking a...

Purpose Leading-edge information and communication technology provides the base to facilitate obtaining, interoperating and federating shared metadata knowledge in collaborative networks from multiple heterogeneous data sources. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology and a set of mechanisms to support this task in the collaborative e...

The original version of Chapter 11, “A Semantic Data Model to Represent Building Material Data in AEC Collaborative Workflows,” was revised. The last name of Jari Shemeikka was spelled incorrectly as “Shemeika.” This was corrected.

TC 5: Information Technology Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2021, held in Saint-Étienne, and virtually in November 2021. The 70 papers (15 full and 55 short) presented with 5 industrial workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. They provide a comprehensiv...

Our society is facing a growing dependency on services supported by multiple interconnected computing and cyberphysical artifacts, constituting complex systems-of-systems. Such dependence means that a web of technology suppliers and IT departments have the responsibility to guarantee the operational quality of such systems. In this scenario where d...

Our research question focusses on the complex networks of organizations of business partners that by exchanging data and sharing control collaborate for typical business or social objectives. We revisit such networks of organizations studied under the collaborative networks research area in a multidisciplinary attempt to construct a common balanced...

Our society is facing a growing dependency on services supported by multiple interconnected computing and cyberphysical artifacts, constituting complex systems-of-systems. Such dependence means that a web of technology suppliers and IT departments have the responsibility to guarantee the operational quality of such systems. In this scenario where d...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2020, held in Valencia, Spain, in November 2020. The conference was held virtually. The 53 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recen...

There is a need for a new strategy and approach to effectively develop mobility services in Europe. These services should be seen by customers as integrated services which are offered by a payment service provider using direct debit payments as established by the European Central Bank. The mobility service would enable a citizen to use multimodal t...

Leading edge ICT facilitates obtaining and interoperating information within collaborative networks (CNs), providing the base to tackle more advanced challenges. The paper addresses provision of transparent federated information/knowledge within administrative CNs. We introduce a methodology and mechanisms for incremental ontology development. The...

Socialized value creation in networked organizations is the new paradigm of digital organizations. In dynamic and uncertain environment, small teams and big organizations can benefit from interaction with intelligent assistance. For that purpose, various behavior and relationships in situations should be effectively collected and fused. This paper...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2019, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2019. The 56 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domai...

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As a standard modeling language for definition of business processes and services, BPMN is used both within the organizations as well as for co-creation of joint services to run among the networked organizations. However, introducing certain constructs, such as OR-join and Complex-join in BPMN Process Diagrams (BPDs) can lead to execution problems,...

Last decades have witnessed considerable growth in formation of collaborative networks in industry and services, as well as in the rest of society. This trend is boosted by progress in information and communication technologies, and more specifically by ubiquitous access to computing and fast move toward the hyper-connected world. But this growth a...

Various forms of partnerships have increasingly emerged among organizations, in both the manufacturing and service industry. In one type of structured partnership, called the Virtual Organization (VO), the member organizations share with each other a part of their capacities and capabilities, so that together they can seize a bigger market share an...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2018, held in Cardiff, UK, in September 2018. The 57 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of identified challenges and recent advances in various c...

Manufacturing enterprises are increasingly more aware of the importance of establishing collaborative relationships with their network partners, due to the advantages associated to collaboration. Nevertheless, the participation in a collaborative network (CN) comes with associated challenges, namely the need to reduce the potential for conflicts am...

The notion of Industry 4.0 is having a catalyzing effect for the integration of diverse new technologies towards a new generation of more efficient, agile, and sustainable industrial systems. From our analysis, collaboration issues are at the heart of most challenges of this movement. Therefore, an analysis of collaboration needs to be made at all...

The upward integration endeavor is making informatics systems (I-systems) increasingly complex. The modeling techniques, methodologies, development strategies, deployment and execution environment, maintenance and evolution, and governance, to mention just a few aspects are making the resulted (un)integrated informatics technology system a vendor l...

Generic representation of web services is targeted, in order to generate machine readable specification of business processes that run at each partner organization within the virtual organization (VO). A holistic and formal service specification model is defined that can then be used unambiguously for discovery of business services, i.e. for findin...

A service-oriented collaborative network (SOCN) supports collaboration among a network of organizations through their shared business services. SOCN in comparison with traditional collaborative networks, promotes and simplifies reusability and interconnection of shared software services, in a distributed manner. Our work contributes to comprehensiv...

Early identification and treatment of a diseases, especially when chronic, can reduce severe complications for the patients, doctors, and the society as a whole. Therefore, becoming aware and having insight about the state of the art findings on diseases, if communicated properly to different stakeholders, will benefit all. The medical research fie...

Erratum to: L.M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (Eds.) Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35390-6

Erratum to: L.M. Camarinha-Matos and H. Afsarmanesh (Eds.) Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35577-1

Erratum to: L.M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (Eds.) E-Business and Virtual Enterprises DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35399-9

This work investigates how social bots can phish employees of organizations, and thus endanger corporate network security. Current literature mostly focuses on traditional phishing methods (through e-mail, phone calls, and USB sticks). We address the serious organizational threats and security risks caused by phishing through online social media, s...

Organizations frequently form various types of partnerships, of which one form is the virtual organization (VO). In VOs, members share part of their capabilities and capacities to seize bigger market opportunities. For effective collaboration however, also sharing knowledge and details about their business processes (BPs) and services is required....

Further to sharing their knowledge and information, organizations in a VO can also benefit from sharing and even combining/consolidating their Business Processes (BPs) in order to save costs, apply their best practices, and provide value-added services. A number of challenges are associated with the needed environment for BP consolidation. Our appr...

To exploit new market challenges in manufacturing industries, collaborative environments permit that different stakeholders achieve value creation and differentiated products when addressing the design and development of products that include associated business services (service-enhanced products). In order to facilitate a suitable context for net...

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Developing an effective model for predicting risks of a disease requires exploration of a vast body of (bio)medical knowledge. Furthermore, the continuous growth of this body of knowledge poses extra challenges. Numerous research has attempted to address these issues through developing a variety of approaches and support tools. Most of these tools...

People can be at risk of developing some serious diseases without being aware of it. Such diseases either do not present symptoms in early stages or have simple symptoms that are ignored or not properly identified by patients, due to their lack of medical know-how. On the other hand, in order to provide patients with early indications of their risk...

Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environments (GVBEs) are long-term strategic alliances of green enterprises and their related support institutions aimed at offering the necessary conditions to efficiently promote and establish common working and sharing principles with the intention of creating sustainable (shared) value in a collaborative way. T...

The development of the Port Community System (PCS) concept, as a single access point to a port, offering integrated logistics and transport services, is a complex and challenging endeavour. Effective value creation in PCS requires the integration of stakeholder's internal processes with the collaborative activities/processes, under an open framewor...

To support and increase the success rate of collaboration in Virtual Organizations (VOs), usually formed within Virtual organizations Breeding Environments (VBEs), their operation stage and performance of their tasks must be continuously monitored and supervised. A task in the VO is either planned to be performed by an individual partner or jointly...

Complex service-enhanced products such as solar power plants and intelligent buildings are one-of-a-kind and highly customized by nature. As such on one hand the specification of their sub-products and services involve a wide variety of competitive / cooperative stakeholders and on the other hand through different stages of their long life cycle, t...

We consider semi-supervised learning, learning task from both labeled and unlabeled instances and in particular, self-training with decision tree learners as base learners. We show that standard decision tree learning as the base learner cannot be effective in a self-training algorithm to semi-supervised learning. The main reason is that the basic...

Collaborative systems will form the warp for smart networked environments wherein humans, organizations, intelligent agents, and devices collaborate. The smart environments of near future will be context sensitive systems within which the physical world is richly and transparently interwoven with sensors, actuators, and computational elements that...

Entrepreneurs and SMEs that develop new ideas are the main sources of innovation in products and services in the society. However, due to the lack of required resources and know-how innovation ideas may not develop into full-fledged results. Business incubators can play an important role here. They can provide innovators with the required enabling...

Virtual Organizations (VOs) consist of groups of agents that collaborate towards achieving their specified goals. VO Partners are independent, autonomous, and heterogeneous, thus often exhibiting complex behaviors in co-working. Frictional behavior demonstrated by even a few partners, may cause drastic results and total failure of the VO. Therefore...

Entity resolution is the problem of identifying the tuples that represent the same real world entity. In this paper, we propose a complete solution to the problem of entity resolution over probabilistic data (ERPD), which arises in many applications that have to deal with probabilistic data. To deal with the ERPD problem, we distinguish between two...

Due to peculiarities and complexities embedded in complex service-enhanced products, e.g. automated buildings, these products are one-of-a-kind, largely customized, and may involve a large number of competitive / cooperative multi-stakeholders. Life cycle of complex products typically includes a substantially long creation phase, followed by its op...

This report addresses the prototypes of two tools that are implemented as a part of the PSS sub-system in the GloNet system, namely the Service Specification Tool (SST) and Product/Service Discovery and Recommendation (PSDR) tool. These two tools, as well as the Product Specification Tool (PST) are well integrated as PSS (Product and Service Specif...

To enhance their business opportunities, organisations involved in many service industries are increasingly active in pursuit of both online provision of their business services (BSs) and collaborating with others. Collaborative Networks (CNs) in service industry sector, however, face many challenges related to sharing and integration of their coll...

The report looks into details of business service specification and registration. It studies the functional/non-functional requirements of the planned so-called service specification tool (SST) and then identifies the needed meta-data for service specification. The introduced meta-data for service registration consists of 4 main components, namely:...

We present an algorithm for multiclass semi-supervised learning, which is learning from a limited amount of labeled data and plenty of unlabeled data. Existing semi-supervised learning algorithms use approaches such as one-versus-all to convert the multiclass problem to several binary classification problems, which is not optimal. We propose a mult...

Being complex, the specification of the so called complex products in GLONET, e.g. the solar power plants and intelligent buildings, is typically not performed at one time during one session, rather it is done iteratively during several sessions and potentially involving a number of different stakeholders, varying from the equipment manufacturers,...

Enterprises endeavor to provide innovative services and competitive advantages, by constituting Collaborative Networks (CNs). Each enterprise performs a set of Business Processes (BPs), and through developing integrated BPs in CNs, enterprises can jointly produce stronger capabilities. However, selecting appropriate BP Modeling Languages (BPMLs) fo...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2014. The 73 revised papers were carefully selected from 190 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of identified challenges and recent advances in various collabor...

The problem of entity resolution over probabilistic data (ERPD) arises in many applications that have to deal with probabilistic data. In many of these applications, probabilistic data is distributed among a number of nodes. The simple, centralized approach to the ERPD problem does not scale well as large amounts of data need to be sent to a centra...

We present a compositional construction of web services, using Reo and constraint automata as the main “glue” ingredients. Reo is a graphical and exogenous coordination language based on channels. We propose a framework that, taking as input the behavioral description of services (as constraint automata), their WSDL interfaces, and the description...

The growth in the elderly population imposes an urgent need to develop new approaches to care provision. Integration of a number of technologies such as multi-agent systems, federated information management, safe communications, hypermedia interfaces, rich sensorial environments and increased intelligence in home appliances represents an important...

Service-based enhancement of products represents a growing trend, particularly in the context of complex products. A service-enhanced product can be seen as a market proposition that extends the traditional functionality of a product by incorporating additional business services, which not only allows better response to customer needs, but also pro...

Interoperability, understood in a broad sense as the ability of heterogeneous systems and organizations to coordinate their activities efficiently, is one of the pillars of enterprise collaboration. This special Issue, managed by the guest editors Prof Xavier Boucher (France) and Prof. Hamideh Afsarmanesh (Nethelands), has been published as a resul...

The development of the Single Window concept (unique access/contact point for composite services) for the multimodal door-to-door freight transport management is a complex endeavour that is being addressed by the European MIELE project. Led by port authorities, the project identified the need for a novel strategy to foster collaboration among stake...

We present a tool that is able to discover stateful Web Services in a database, and to rank the results according to a similarity score expressing the affinities between each of them and a user-submitted query. To determine these affinities, we take behaviour into account, both of the user’s query and of the services. The names of service operation...

This paper addresses the design of an information system for specification of complex configured products, such as the solar power plants or large intelligent buildings, which by nature are designed, constructed, installed, operated, and maintained through virtual consortium of enterprises. In other words, typically a number of virtual organization...

Ageing societies face tough challenges namely in terms of the pressure on their healthcare and social security systems, which makes it urgent to find new models to accommodate current demographic trends. A possible answer to this challenge may come from new integrated and technology-supported services. In this direction, a European roadmapping init...

The notion of service-enhanced product offers new perspectives for value creation and differentiation in manufacturing. In the case of complex and highly customized products, the inclusion of business services that add value to the product typically require the collaboration of multiple stakeholders. In order to facilitate the co-creation and deliv...

The association of services to manufactured products, leading to service-enhanced products, is an important mechanism for value creation and differentiation. This is particularly relevant in the case of complex, highly customized and long-life products. Suitable servicing in this context typically requires the collaboration among multiple stakehold...

The notion of service-enhanced product, representing the association of services to manufactured products, offers an important mechanism for value creation and product differentiation. This is particularly relevant in the case of complex, highly customized and long-life products. Provision of suitable services in this context typically requires col...

Nowadays to capture an emerging opportunity, when beyond the abilities of single organizations, increasingly results the formation of a Virtual Organization (VO). Typically, the VO consists of a group of independent, autonomous, and heterogeneous entities that constitute agents agreeing to collaborate and jointly fulfill certain common goals. Howev...

Virtual organizations (VO) consist of a group of agents (individuals, enterprises, or intelligent machines) that collaborate towards achieving some common goals. Partners of the VO are independent, autonomous, and heterogeneous, thus often exhibiting complex behaviors in working together. While behaving collaboratively facilitates both performing t...

The deliverable first identifies the generic entities and concepts needed for specification of the three types of complex products addressed in GloNet, namely: the PV power plants, the intelligent buildings, and the future incubators. Then a set of generic meta-data is specified for representing data related to detailed configuration and ordering o...

Formalizing the definition of Business Processes (BPs) performed within each enterprise is fundamental for effective deployment of their competencies and capabilities within Collaborative Networks (CN). In our approach, every enterprise in the CN is represented by its set of BPs, so that other enterprises can see and potentially share them when dev...

We present an algorithm for multiclass Semi-Supervised learning which is learning from a limited amount of labeled data and plenty of unlabeled data. Existing semi-supervised algorithms use approaches such as one-versus-all to convert the multiclass problem to several binary classification problems which is not optimal. We propose a multiclass semi...

In this paper we present a new Multiclass semi-supervised learning algorithm that uses a base classifier in combination with a similarity function applied to all data to find a classifier that maximizes the margin and consistency over all data. A novel multiclass loss function is presented and used to derive the algorithm. We apply the algorithm to...

Entity resolution (ER), also known as duplicate detection or record matching, is the problem of identifying the tuples that represent the same real world entity. In this paper, we address the problem of ER for uncertain data, which we call ERUD. We propose two dif-ferent approaches for the ERUD problem based on two classes of similarity functions,...

This paper proposes a novel framework for automated software service composition that can significantly support and enhance collaboration among enterprises in service provision industry, such as in tourism insurance and e-commerce collaborative networks (CNs). Our proposed framework is founded on service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm, in whi...

Cloud computing is a new paradigm for emerging technology in the computing and IT industries. Cloud computing offers a new pathway for business agility and supports a faster time to market by offering ready-to-consume cloud-based IT services. SMEs can wisely take advantage of the cloud computing services, without the need for upfront costs. The per...

Long-term strategic networks - the so called Virtual organizations Breeding Environments (VBEs) - support their members with formation of virtual organizations (VOs), aimed to address opportunities in market/society. But, both establishment and management of these networks are challenging. On one hand, VBE aims at guiding its member organizations t...

Establishing solar power plants are being accepted worldwide as a source of renewable energy. The Total Life Cycle (TLC) of these plants [1] lasts a few decades and includes the three main stages of (i) design and engineering, (ii) construction and commissioning, and the long term(iii) operation and maintenance. A number of different stakeholders a...

We present a compositional construction of Web Services, using Reo and Constraint Automata as the main "glue" ingredients. Reo is a graphical and exogenous coordination language based on channels. We propose a framework that, taking as input the behavioral description of services (as Constraint Automata), their WSDL interfaces, and the description...

Data integration systems offer uniform access to a set of au-tonomous and heterogeneous data sources. An important task in setting up a data integration system is to match the attributes of the source schemas. In this paper, we propose a data integration system which uses the knowledge implied within functional dependencies for matching the source...