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Smart business networks: how the network wins

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Realizing scenarios in which business is conducted through a rapidly formed network with anyone, anywhere, anytime regardless of different computer systems and business processes.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 50, Issue 6
              Smart business networks
              June 2007
              84 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1247001
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