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VE-Forum is an excellent source of information on European research activity in the virtual networks and clusters area. It has also just has produced a special edition of its Newsletter "DG INFSO D5 Enterprise Networking Clusters" which gives an overview of the huge amount of European Union research underway in this area which includes:

1. An Editorial by Gérarld Santucci - Head of the Enterprise Networking Unit on Enterprise Networking Research Policy

2. A review of current research clusters including:

• Ambient Intelligence Technologies for the Product Life-Cycle


• Business Networking


• Digital Ecosystems


• Enterprise Interoperability

3. Some network success stories including SATINE (Tourism) and the INTEROP Conference

4. A call for partners for a new European collaborative network initiative (ECOLEAD)

Bioteams Books Reviews

What teams can learn from wolves

May 12, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

If you think that there is not much human teams can learn from nature think again! Temple Grandin in her amazing book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (p303-307) puts forward the incredible theory that early humans only became today’s successful homo sapiens because they learned to act and think like the wolves they co-habited with.

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Biologically inspired design conference

March 31, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Collaboration Research & Science (51)

The Center for Biologically-Inspired Design at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have announced a conference in Biologically Inspired Design in Science and Engineering on May 10-12.

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Virtual teams need ‘Swift Trust’

June 20, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Collaboration Research & Science (51)

Science Daily, “Establishing Trust Online Is Critical For Online Communication Say NJIT Experts” reports the conclusions of a paper “Swift Trust in Virtual Teams".

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Bumblebee waggle dance doubters disarmed

August 10, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Collaboration Research & Science (51)

Bees really do point to new foodsources by dancing

The waggle dance is a famous example of the power of one-many broadcast communications in one of natures most successful teams – honeybees!

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