With the expansion of the Internet, other networks and services, the society and its economic activities are changing drastically, either speeding the processes, exploiting word wide capacities, requesting products and services inaccessible in traditional context. Currently, both business organisations and private entities engage in electronic conversations and business activities using ad-hoc tools, like e-mail or web browsers. This is a user-based model since in most cases the user searches, mine and concludes the process with minimal help from the applications. On the counter part, the tool does not “understand” or even “remember” important user preferences or behaviours. From the business point of view, it is now consensual that organisations are evolving to more dynamic organisation forms like extended enterprise or virtual enterprises. Enterprises will focus its core competencies though outsourcing complementary products or even actively pursuit cooperation partners to mutually complement its activities. This paper characterises and describes concepts and requirements in Virtual Enterprises, E-Business and other complex interactions between intelligent information entities. Identifying such requirements, a set of functional services are proposed, which allows entities to adhere to a community and further accomplish common goals. The main efforts of the project are now focused in the knowledge level, especially in the automatic configuration of conversations and agreement on platforms for knowledge sharing between heterogeneous entities.
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