Tiago Cardoso
Assistant Professor - Electrical Engineering Department (DEE) - New University of Lisbon - NOVA
Researcher - Uninova - Centro de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias (email)
Researcher - Uninova - Centro de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias (email)
The design and development of a transparent, easy to use and affordable ICT infrastructure is a key pre-requisite for the effective large-scale implementation of the collaborative network organizations such as virtual organizations, professional virtual communities, e-science communities, etc. This chapter introduces an overview of the main classes of infrastructures required by different types of virtual organizations and summarizes the main approaches followed by a number of research projects in the area.