KEYWORDS The problem of network reconfiguration arises when essential deviations in actual work processes exist. The network execution is accomplished by permanent changes of internal network properties and external environment. It requires dynamic network adaptation in accordance with the current execution environment and the goals and decisions of the configuration phase. Although the problem of the network configuration was presented in details in a number of recent papers (Teich, 2003,

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... ihna-Matos, 2005, Ivanov et al., 2004, 2005, 2006, the research on network execution is still very limited. Adaptation, complex business system, structuredynamics control, modeling. ABSTRACT Dynamics and globalization of modern markets force the business integration and building of various collaborative business structures (e.g., supply chains). The issues of modeling and optimization of such complex business systems are cross-linked and multidisciplinary.A challenge is a combined formation of the supply chain structural-functional configuration and the information infrastructure for implementation of interactions and coordination in supply chains. A important point of such simultaneous formation consists in ensuring of the business-processes continuity, information availability, and system catastrophestability. The paper lays the special focus on the structural and parametric adaptation of models describing structure-dynamics control processes in the supply networks. The SCM modeling and optimization issues are crosslinked and multi-disciplinary. They differ from those in the classical control theory and operations research by highly specific features of the SCM complexity and uncertainty (Ivanov et al., 2006). So specific modeling and optimization methodologies and techniques are required. This paper focuses on the problem of dynamical adaptation of the supply networks. Section 3 outlines study addressing supply networks structural and parametric adaptation in the framework of structure-synamics control. Sections 4 lay the special focus on the structural and parametric adaptation of models describing structure-dynamics control processes in the supply networks as well as on the formal statement of structural and parametric adaptation problems for supply networks models. Proceedings 20th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation Wolfgang Borutzky, Alessandra Orsoni, Richard Zobel © ECMS, 2006 ISBN 0-9553018-0-7 / ISBN 0-9553018-1-5 (CD)