Co-innovation Networks in Industry -- Cold Supply Chain Processes in a Fruit-and-Vegetable Collaborative Network -- Enterprise Architecture Framework with Early Business/ICT Alignment for Extended Enterprises -- Evaluation of Collaborative Enterprises Networks: Case Study of Brazilian Virtual Enterprises -- ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing: A European Perspective -- Research Issues on Customer-Oriented and Eco-friendly Networks for Healthy Fashionable Goods -- Industry Ecosystems and Emergent Business Models -- A Multi-criteria Approach to Select Suppliers Based on Performance -- COL-PMS: A Collaborative Performance Measurement System -- Forest Fire Evolution Prediction Using a Hybrid Intelligent System -- Modelling Human Resource Systems in Support of Efficient Production -- Open Services Ecosystem Supporting Collaborative Networks -- Service Entities in Manufacturing Networks -- Towards Eco-efficient Lean Production Systems -- Understanding Social Capital in Collaborative Networks -- Advanced Production Engineering -- A Framework for Developing a Web-Based Optimization Decision Support System for Intra/Inter-organizational Decision-Making Processes -- An Expert System for Inventory Replenishment Optimization -- A Threshold Based Dynamic Routing for Jobs with QoS Ranking -- Collaborative Distributed Computing in the Field of Digital Electronics Testing -- Context-Driven Decision Support in Flexible Networked Organisations -- Creation of Robust Schedule for Profit Based Cooperation -- Designing a Genetic Algorithm to Solve an Integrated Model in Supply Chain Management Using Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach -- Evaluation of Enterprise Cooperation through Information Exchange -- Impact of Coordination Mechanisms on the Collaborative Planning Process Components -- Revision to Theory of Constraints -- New Trends in Digital Factories -- Distributed Intelligent Automation Solutions for Self-adaptive Manufacturing Plants -- Exploiting Knowledge Based Systems to Support Manufacturing of Functional Food Products -- Using the Life-Cycle Paradigm to Support Factory Planning Approaches -- Agent-Based Simulation and Management of Complex Systems -- An Agent Based Information System for Project Portfolio Management -- An Agent Based Model of the Nash Demand Game in Regular Lattices -- Cloud Computing Integrated into Service-Oriented Multi-Agent Architecture -- Collaborative Tactical Planning in Multi-level Supply Chains Supported by Multiagent Systems -- Evolutionary Model of an Innovative and Differentiated Industry -- Human Attributes in the Modelling of Work Teams -- Metamodelling for Agent Based Modelling: An Application for Continuous Double Auctions -- Price-Setting Combinatorial Auctions for Coordination and Control of Manufacturing Multiagent Systems: Updating Prices Methods -- The Design of an Agent-Based Production Scheduling Software Framework for Improving Planning-Scheduling Collaboration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems, BASYS 2010, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2010. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics that may help gaining a deeper understanding about next generation systems for innovation and manufacturing. They are organized in topical sections on co-innovation networks in industry; industry ecosystems and emergent business models; advanced production engineering; new trends in digital factories; and agent-based simulation and management of complex systems.