Collaborative Engineering Environments for Virtual Organisations

Verdeza, Nicolas Penaranda; Galeano, Nathalíe; Romero, David; Mejía, Ricardo; Molina, Arturo

doi:10.1504/ijitm.2009.024607

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“…BPMN is increasingly adopted in research projects as a language to specify guidelines for virtual organizations. For example in the ECOLEAD project Peñaranda Verdeza et al 2009) the BPM centric approach has been used to define a set of general and replicable business processes models for future instantiations into specific virtual organizations, providing rationale of activities that should be carried out by a set of actors in order to achieve the expected business process results. The ECOLEAD architecture presented in (Rabelo et al, 2006;Rabelo et al, 2008) is made of different services: (i) horizontal services, such as mailing, chat, task list, file storage, notification, calendar, wiki, forum, etc.…”

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Fostering distributed business logic in Open Collaborative Networks: an integrated approach based on semantic and swarm coordination

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Given the great opportunities provided by Open Collaborative Networks (OCNs), their success depends on the effective integration of composite business logic at all stages. However, a dilemma between cooperation and competition is often found in environments where the access to business knowledge can provide absolute advantages over the competition. Indeed, although it is apparent that business logic should be automated for an effective integration, chain participants at all segments are often highly protective of their own knowledge. In this paper, we propose a solution to this problem by outlining a novel approach with a supporting architectural view. In our approach, business rules are modeled via semantic web and their execution is coordinated by a workflow model. Each company's rule can be kept as private, and the business rules can be combined together to achieve goals with defined interdependencies and responsibilities in the workflow. The use of a workflow model allows assembling business facts together while protecting data source. We propose a privacy-preserving perturbation technique which is based on 2 digital stigmergy. Stigmergy is a processing schema based on the principle of self-aggregation of marks produced by data. Stigmergy allows protecting data privacy, because only marks are involved in aggregation, in place of actual data values, without explicit data modeling. This paper discusses the proposed approach and examines its characteristics through actual scenarios.

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Section: Establishing Open Collaborative Network: a Technological Viewmentioning

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Fostering distributed business logic in Open Collaborative Networks: an integrated approach based on semantic and swarm coordination

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“…It has been pointed out in several works [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][21][22][23][24] that the success of a VO largely depends on the commitment, the mutual trust and the flexibility of the participating entities. These factors should be supported by a number of knowledge management technologies [13,17,18] to achieve the goals of the VO.…”

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“…A virtual organization (VO) provides a cost-efficient method for different autonomous entities, such as organizations, departments and individuals, to share resources in a virtual marketplace [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. This type of coalition offers a wider range of services in a more cost-efficient and competitive way than the classical service provisions that come from separate organizations without cooperation.…”

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