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# International Workshop on
Enabling Service Business Ecosystems - ESBE'09

### Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE'09), co-located with the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2009), Athens, Greece, September 27, 2009.

Edited by

### Vincenzo D'Andrea1
G.R. Gangadharan2
Renato Iannella3
Michael Weiss4

1 University of Trento, Trento, Italy
2 Novay (Telematica Institute), Enschede, The Netherlands
3 National ICT Australia, Brisbane, Australia
4 Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

## Table of Contents

Preface

1. Information-based Control of Service-enabling Ecosystems
   Robin Fischer, Ulrich Scholten, Simone Scholten and Stefan Tai
2. Towards a Framework for Knowledge-based Pricing Services Improving Operational Agility in the Retail Industry
   Tobias Kowatsch and Wolfgang Maass
3. Building a Decision Tree to opt for the Structural Mode of Service Innovation Alliances in High-Tech Sectors
   Adamantia Pateli
4. Conceptualizing Service-Based Information System Evolution as a Complex Adaptive System
   Ghada Alaa
5. Meta-Services - Foundation for Symmetric Service-Oriented Business Ecosystems
   Rainer Schmidt, Axel Kieninger, Robin Fischer and Christian Zirpins
6. Proximity Based Semantic Service Discovery for Pervasive Business
   David Bell

20-Oct-2009: submitted by G.R. Gangadharan
21-Oct-2009: published on CEUR-WS.org