Digital Business Ecosystems

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This book is published by the European Commission,
in association and with the support of the FP6 projects DBE and OPAALS

Edited by: F. Nachira, P. Dini, A.Nicolai, M.Le Louarn, L.Rivera Lèon

Foreword by G.Santucci
Table of Contents
Preface by F.Nachira, A.Nicolai, P. Dini, L.Rivera Lèon, M.Le Louarn
Introduction: F.Nachira, P.Dini, A.Nicolai - A Network of Digital Business Ecosystems for Europe: Roots, Processes and Perspectives

P.Dini - Introduction - A Science Foundation for Digital Ecosystems
G.Briscoe, S. Sadedin - Natural Science Paradigms
F.Zeller, J.Wallmannsberger - DE and Language
A.Corallo, S.Protopapa - Business Networks and Ecosystems: rethinking the biological metaphor

R.O’Callagan - Introduction - Towards dynamic clustering: Capabilities and IT enablers
M.L.Darking - Understanding the Role of Governance in the Context of Digital Ecosystems
L.Rivera Lèon - Understanding the Costs and the Potential Economic Impact
E.Berdou - A critical, inward and outward view of Digital Ecosystems’ open, collaborative communities: interdisciplinarity, sustainability and scalability at the intersection of gift and exchange economies
P.Tsatsou, S.Elaluf-Calderwood - Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for a Knowledge Base of Regulatory Issues: Trust in Digital Business Ecosystems

M.Vidal, J.Gabaldon - Introduction -The Digital Ecosystem Technology and the Distributed Nature of Information
P.Ferronato - Ecosystem Oriented Architecture vs SOA
P.Malone - DE services in Ecosystem Oriented Architectures
A.Corallo, V.Cisternino - Modelling Languages, BML, SBVR
J.Gabaldon, J. Aparicio - DE Topology: Information in Nature
J.Kennedy - Distributed Infrastructural Services
L.Telesca, H.Hoshutamski - A Trusted Negotiation Environment for Digital Ecosystems
T.Kurz, A.Passani, T.Heistracher - Social Network Simulation and Self-Organisation

G.Dominici, A.Passani - Introduction - Adoption Policy Social Networks
B.Dory - Adoption Mechanisms and Strategies
J.Val - The experience of the Aragon region as a catalyst of Digital Business Ecosystems
N. Konda, V.Bayon, R.Shelton - The West Midlands regional catalyst in the activation of the digital ecosystem
A.English, B.Dory - DBE in Ireland: an Irish Open & Connected Digital Ecosystem Initiative
J.Chatterjee, T.V.Prabhakar, R.Sarkar - Evolution of a Digital Ecosystem for Knowledge Services to Indian Agriculture
M.Ferrero, F.Bria, O.Persico - Synergies between Pontos de Cultura and Ecosystems