| University of Stuttgart, Germany | ||||||
| Ongoing | Prof. Frank Leymann | Jana Koehler/Zurich/IBM | ||||
| Business Process Integration · Project Page | ||||||
| Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics | ||||||
| Ongoing | Stoyan Poryazov | Jennifer Trelewicz | ||||
| Related to the work that SysBRIK department is doing in the capture and analysis of structures of business (e.g., business processes, organizational structures, collaboration structures, etc.),
Research and document the characteristics of human resource models, including rate of change and level of reliability of characteristics.
Learn requirements for the business models, including formal and weakly-formal concepts. Develop criteria for determining the most-critical terminology and characteristics of the models.
Research the highest-quality business and systems literature, developing and collecting technical definitions, consistent with the criteria above.
Enumerate the user roles for visualization.
Recommend a graphical foundation for all of the entities, connections, and operation of the models.
Enumerate future opportunities for extention of the models. · Project Page | ||||||
| North Carolina State University | ||||||
| Ongoing | Professor Munindar P. Singh | E. Michael Maximilien | ||||
| Web services promise to change the way in which information systems are organized and
applied. The service-oriented computing (SOC) vision is that, first, providers will offer several
(potentially competing) services and, second, prospective users of services will dynamically
choose the best offerings for their own purposes. For example, you might choose the best hotel
booking service or the best bookseller, where you alone decide what is best for you. That is,
services enable the IT version of mass customization.
However, current approaches only partially address the above vision. They enable services
to be described and listed in public registries (analogous to telephone directories). But current
approaches provide no means of selecting among multiple services that appear to perform
the same function. In terms of our example, you would be forced to make an ill-informed
decision about which of the many hotel booking services or booksellers to use. Moreover, the
SOC vision presupposes a variety of potentially specialized services that would serve special
needs. Because large numbers of specialized and not widely known services are involved, a
practical approach cannot merely preselect a few famous companies such as amazon.com, but
must apply at a much larger scale.
Our research is based on two main theses:
• Service selection can be rationally carried out only on an empirical basis—that is, how a
given service has behaved, not how it was advertised.
• Given the large number of services, users must share information about their experiences—
in effect, multiplying the benefit of their empirical evaluations by sharing them.
Such sharing can be realized through agents who enable cooperation among the parties.
Accordingly, our research develops an agent-based approach for service selection that includes a
flexible notion of trust based on reputation. The agents transparently attach to existing services
and enable their dynamic selection. In other words, a system supporting and incorporating
service selection as envisaged would be a true cooperative information system. · Project Page | ||||||
| Rousse University | ||||||
| Ongoing | Katalina Grigorova
| Jennifer Trelewicz | ||||
| Related to the work that SysBRIK department is doing in the capture and analysis of structures of business (e.g., business processes, organizational structures, collaboration structures, etc.),
Develop a computer representation model for the business architectures captured by the tools and represented externally as XML. XML is used for exchange between tools and wide operability.
Design a database approach to the storage, updating, and searching of these models in memory
Prototype and document these in Java as concrete algorithms for business architecture modeling · Project Page | ||||||
| Russian Academy of Sciences, Steklov Institute of Mathematics | ||||||
| Ongoing | Igor Volovich | Jennifer Q. Trelewicz | ||||
| Related to the work that SysBRIK department is doing in the capture and analysis of structures of business (e.g., business processes, organizational structures, collaboration structures, etc.), we will study complex networks describing connections between business organizations. We will rigourously define the notion of the business connection and model the business process. We plan to perform an empirical study of the topology of the business connections between companies of various sizes in different countries to test the theoretical concepts. We will study also the topology of business connections between departments and employees in a single big company. We will develop appropriate mathematical models of the business connections. · Project Page | ||||||
| University of Georgia | ||||||
| Ongoing | Dr. Amit Sheth | Rama Akkiraju Joel Farrell Richard Goodwin | ||||
| We are collaborating with Professor Amit Sheth of University of Georgia in defining an approach to semantically annotate Web Services. This work is important to elevate the current Web Services standards to semantic levels so that (semi) automatic service discovery, composition and execution can be accomplished. This work brings together two exciting areas of Research- Web Services, and Semantic Web. · Project Page | ||||||
| University Politechnica of Bucharest | ||||||
| Ongoing | Theodor Borangiu | Ana Lelescu | ||||
| IBM UR Relationship in Estearn Europe | ||||||
| University Polytechnica of Timisoara | ||||||
| Ongoing | Vladimir Cretu | Ana Lelescu | ||||
| IBM UR Relationship in Estearn Europe | ||||||