1 “... for the emergence of new forms of collaboration. However, most efforts in this area are highly fragmented...”

2 “...The area of virtual organizations, and industrial virtual enterprises in particular, is attracting...”

3 “...xiv box for Balanced Automation, research in this area is still young and emerging. In our opinion...”

4 “... evolution in a number of areas leading to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems has been observ@d in recent...”

5 “...For these reasons, the area of virtual organizations and industrial virtual enterprises...”

6 “... rich set of papers revealing the progress and achievements in the main current focus areas: -VO...”