Published in July 2015, this book establishes the theoretical foundations and design principles of collaborative e-Work, e-Business and e-Service, their models and applications, design and implementation techniques. Collaboration in highly distributed organizations of people, robots, and autonomous systems is and must be revolutionized by engineering augmentation. The aim is to augment humans’ abilities at work and, through this augmentation, improve organizations’ abilities to accomplish their missions. Chapters include:

1. Definitions, Scope, and Significance
2. Design with Collaborative Control Theory
3. Rationalization
4. Optimization and Control
5. Tools for e-Work
6. e-Work in Product and Service Development
7. e-Logistics, e-Production, and e-Supply Networks
8. Factory Sensors and RFID Networks
9. e-Service Industry
10. e-Learning and e-Training
11. Emerging Trends and Research Challenges