Concurrent Enterprising – CE

The term Concurrent Enterprising is an amalgam which brings together the paradigms of Concurrent Engineering and Extended/Virtual Enterprising: The Concurrent Enterprise is a distributed, temporary alliance of independent, co-operating manufacturers, customers and suppliers using systematic approaches, methods and advanced technologies for increasing efficiency in the design and manufacturing of products and services by means of concurrency, parallelism, integration, standardisation, team work and more for achieving common goals on global markets.

Collaborative Environments for Sustainable Innovation

Nowadays, the information society is becoming a reality with low cost broadband networks, extended by mobile or wireless networks, allowing seamless connection and use of applications and services (i2010: Annual Information Society Report 2007).
With the arrival of new services, an emerging challenge of collaborative innovation between new types of individual and organizational users who are using more and more ICT services and products. The rise of user-created content is opening further perspectives for a more creative and innovative Information Society, in the same way that users exploited open source software and standardization to develop new collaborative processes.

This move is supported by emerging technological trends such as the migration towards very high-speed networks, ubiquitous wireless technologies, web 2.0, the Internet of Things, Grids, web-based services, integration of web services in mash-up user interfaces, user-created content and social networking. These trends will affect the business and working environment, providing new industrial opportunities and new solutions for eBusiness and employment, in a single information space.

For a new wave of innovation, grand challenges highlight new user collaborations, new organisational forms, cross-domain dimensions of interoperability, interoperability technologies being accessible to all organizations and users and the need to take into account the concerns of many small developers and users scattered across Europe and the world.

ICE 2010 will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their latest findings from research and share practical cases from industry. Authors, workshop and tutorial organizers and participants in general, are invited to contribute to the shaping of the debate, in the scope of a new wave of innovation in collaborative networks and a single information space.

Innovation is our Tradition

Since the early 1990s the European Society for CE has been actively involved in bringing together leading academics, researchers and practitioners in a common forum so as to stimulate the exchange of ideas, views and latest research and developments in the field of Concurrent Engineering and Extended Enterprising. For many years, ICE has become a proactive knowledge community (www.ESoCE.net) and a lively and engaging meeting place for thought leaders in the domain of Concurrent Enterprising.

Since inception this event has evolved and grown in terms of size, nature, number of papers presented quality of papers and presentations, quality of proceedings and countries represented. Compared to other events in the domain, ICE is unique for its good balance between industrial and academic participation and the multi-national character of the event.