Proceedings Overview

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 collaborative network (CN) domains and their applications, with a strong focus on the following areas:

• blockchain in collaborative networks
• industry transformation and innovation
• semantics in networks of cognitive systems
• cognitive systems for resilience management
• collaborative energy services in smart cities
• cognitive systems in agribusiness
• building information modeling
• industry 4.0 support frameworks
• health and social welfare services
• risk, privacy and security
• collaboration platform issues
• sensing, smart and sustainable enterprises
• information systems integration
• dynamic logistics networks
• collaborative business processes
• value creation in networks
• users and organizations profiling
• and collaborative business strategies.