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Multi-stage manufacturing, typical in important industrial sectors, is inherently a complex process. The application of the zero-defect manufacturing (ZDM) philosophy, together with recent technological advances in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), presents significant challenges and opportunities for the implementation of new system architectures that contributes for the continuous improvement of the production. This paper describes the experience gained in the GO0D MAN project which aims at realizing a fully functional, replicable and therefore widely exploitable solution, employing multi-agent systems, smart on-line inspection tools, data analytics and knowledge management technologies. In particular, the paper presents the challenges tackled during the deployment of the GO0D MAN system architecture in three relevant industrial use cases, which represent more than 80% of the manufacturing sector.

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The internet is acknowledge as the main tourism communication medium and business facilitator. However, its functionality in this sector has been limited to e-commerce and focused on meeting the demand, thus underusing its potential as an essential tool for offer development, through the opportunities created by e-business. Since tourism is an eminently relational activity that strengthens itself from the sum of the joint efforts of its components, but oten fragmented and dispersed, this article advocates the adoption of online interorganizational collaboration platforms, which provides na environment for interactions, cooperation, and knowledge sharing amongst the social actors of tourist destinations. The proposal is based on the methodology of discourse analysis of extant literature on the internet economy and social network theory in tourism, exemplifying the advantages and difficulties that may arise from such a strategy. Recognizing that the available literature on this subject is scarce, three questions are also identified that can be tackled by future research.

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Providing public services through the internet is an effective approach towards an encompassing number of citizens being covered by them and for cost reduction. However, the fast development of this area has fostered discussion and legislation regarding information security and trustworthiness. In addition to security mechanisms for data processed and stored internally, service providers must ensure that data exchanged between their servers and citizens are not intercepted or modified when traversing heterogeneous and uncontrolled networks. Moreover, such institutions should provide means enabling the citizen to verify the authenticity of the services offered. In this way, the present work provides a comprehensive overview regarding the security posture of Portuguese public institutions in their online services. It consists of non-invasive robustness evaluation of the deployed solutions for end-to-end data encryption and the correct use of digital certificates. As a result, we provide some recommendations aiming to enhance the current panorama in the majority of the 111 online services considered in this study.