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        <article-title>Workshop 2: Building Blocks &amp; Economical Implications of The Internet of Actors</article-title>
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          <string-name>Florian Strecker</string-name>
          <email>Florian.Strecker@actnconnect.com</email>
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          <string-name>Felix Gniza</string-name>
          <email>Felix.Gniza@actnconnect.com</email>
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          <institution>actnconnect</institution>
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          <addr-line>New York</addr-line>
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          <country country="US">United States</country>
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          <addr-line>Nuremberg</addr-line>
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          <country country="DE">Germany</country>
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        <p>The intra- and inter-company work models change from classic, pre-defined, inflexible business processes to agile value creation networks. Human, machines and software components collaborate in an integrated and coordinated way to fullfill their objectives. This necessitates a new dimension of agility, speed of transformation and individuality. We strongly believe that we need an open network of selfcoordinating, modular components that offer fullfledged interoperability to tackle these challenges on the way to autonomous software systems. These components can be called Smart Actors and are the basic building blocks of a Peer-toPeer Agile Value Creation Network. At the same time such a network will offer an economic alternative compared to the classic, centralized platform models of the current ITindustry. In this workshop, we present &amp; discuss the methodology, the modular concept, the economical implications and the foundation of the Internet of Actors (IoA). The IoA will reduce complexity, programming efforts and unclear interfaces. It is going to be an enabler for agile, decentralized, self-coordinating value networks, acting as catalyst for the Internet of Things, Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0.</p>
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