Open Services Ecosystem Supporting Collaborative Networks

Abstract

Abstract. The growing complexity of the information and communication technologies when coping with innovative business services based on collaborative contributions from multiple stakeholders requires novel and multidisciplinary approaches. Service orientation is a strategic approach to deal with such complexity, and various stakeholders' information systems. Services or more precisely the autonomous computational agents implementing the services, provide an architectural pattern able to cope with the needs of integrated and distributed collaborative solutions. This paper proposes a service-oriented framework, aiming to support a virtual organizations breeding environment which is the basis to establish short or long term goal-oriented virtual organizations. The notion of integrated business services, where customers receive some value developed through the contribution from a network of companies is a key element.

Open Ecosystems, Collaborative Networks and Service Entities Integrated Modeling Approach

“…The scientific community related to Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO) research has agreed on the usefulness and convenience of considering Virtual organizations Breeding Environments (VBE) as fertile spaces where CN lifecycle takes place, from its creation to its final dissolution. Similar considerations have been stated for Open Service Ecosystems [1]. In this work, both terms are used interchangeably as in [1].…”

Enterprise Collaboration Network for Transport and Logistics Services

“…Motivated by this difficulty and based on the concept of collaboration layer (CL) proposed and discussed in [16], this paper contributes with one step further by proposing an open generic framework and infrastructure based on the enterprise collaboration manager (ECoM) concept. The ECoM is an implementation of the proposed CL, based on an adaptive suite of services each one tailored to manage a specific collaboration context (CoC).…”

Cooperation Enabled Systems for Collaborative Networks

“…A main research hypothesis is to consider the adaptive computational component CES [6] as a key strategy to promote the openness of complex integrated systems. The elements of the suggested approach are detailed and discussed in the following sections.…”

“…The proposition of a collaboration layer (CL) [6] as a mechanism to isolate the processes and IT culture of each participating service provider; ii.…”

“…The proposition of a generic autonomous computational entity, the collaboration enabled system (CES) [6], aiming to handle the diversity at both organization's and collaborative network levels.…”