INESC Porto researchers awarded in International Conference

INESC Porto researchers awarded in International Conference

The Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP) participated in PRO-VE'10 - 11th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES. There, the participating members were awarded with second place in the category of “Best Papers of the Conference”. This event took place in Saint-Etienne, France, between 11 and 13 October, and it’s one of the most important conferences on Virtual Enterprises and Enterprise Networks.

02nd November 2010

Entitled “Building an Informal Ontology to Support Collaborative Network Operation: a Case Study”, the paper is authored by Carla Pereira, Cristóvão Sousa and António Lucas Soares from UESP and it was one of the best selected from 90 papers submitted to the Conference.

The theme of this Conference in the area of Collaborative Networks, namely in the component of Virtual Enterprises, was “Collaborative Networks for a Sustainable World”, and it is an opportunity to present and discuss the most recent developments and industrial practice case studies, thus guaranteeing a forum of collaboration between several countries.

Some of the past editions of the conference include PRO-VE'99 (Porto, Portugal), PRO-VE 2000 (Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE'02 (Sesimbra, Portugal), PRO-VE'03 (Lugano, Switzerland), PRO-VE'04 (Toulouse, France), PRO-VE'05 (Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE'06 (Helsinki, Finland), PRO-VE'07 (Guimarães, Portugal), PRO-VE'08 (Poznan, Poland) or PRO-VE'09 (Thessaloniki, Greece).

BIP, October 2010