On May 13th, 2021 at 5.30 pm, it will take place a new appointment of the “Thursday meetings – A glance to the future at cocktail-hour” organized by IEIIT – CNR Institute.
The series of fortnightly meetings deal with specific themes connected to IEIIT – CNR institute with transversal vision through application domains and technological areas with particular attention to their evolutions. 

The new seminar will be held by Prof. Luís M. Camarinha-Matos (NOVA University, Lisbon) on the following subject: “Collaborative Networks”.

This talk addresses the contribution of collaborative networks as one of the core enablers to Industry 4.0 and the ongoing digital transformation. “Collaborative networks” is a research area that addresses networks of autonomous and heterogeneous entities that collaborate to achieve common or compatible goals.
From an initial focus on collaboration among humans (e.g., virtual communities) or organizations (e.g., virtual enterprises, virtual organizations, business ecosystems), the scope has been expanding to include collaboration with and among smart machines and systems. Therefore, a brief overview of this evolving area and taxonomy of collaborative networks is first presented. An analysis of the collaborative aspects required in the various dimensions of the 4th industrial revolution is then introduced, complemented with a mapping between the identified needs and research results that can be adopted from the collaborative networks area. Furthermore, several new research challenges are identified and briefly characterized. 

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