Friday, September 30, 2005

CodeCamp: Execution Environment and Business Modelling Langauage

We had organised the DBE CodeCamp yesterday. The focus was the Execution Environment (ExE) and Business Modelling Langauage (BML). We helped the Software Developers to implement the ExE in their laptops and facilitated the discovery and consumption of a DBE 'Date Service' through a local Wifi and wired network. Conversion of an existing WSDL using WSDL2Java was also demonstrated and a service was consumed through this conversion. Eclipse was briefly introduced to the participants.

The concept of Business Modelling was discussed in great detail explaining the current disadvantages in the information content presented through WSDL and the need for complex information to manage B2B transactions. The BML structure, its alignment to Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and the individual packages were described. Three basic industry models - Manufacturer, Retailer and Broker Business Models were presented using a BML template.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Meteor-S

The Meteor-S project from University of Georgia is focusing on extending the capabilities of Web Services to address the issues of dynamism and scalability. The research areas such as Peer-2-Peer (P2P), Semantics, Ontologies, Domain Models, etc. have some interesting correlations to the DBE project.

The diagram below presents the working components of Meteor-S




Meteor-S main contacts are : Prof. Amit Sheth, Prof. John Miller
The coordinator of the project is: Kunal Verma
Industry collaboration: IBM TJ Watson
The project is partially contributed by: IBM Eclipse Grant 2004, IBM Faculty Award to Dr. Sheth 2004

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Bioteam


The Bumble Bee blog is very interesting and make reference to a lot of activities being done by the DBE project. For instance, the author makes a reference to the concept of competitive environments created by business networks and the formation of business ecosystems led by key players in the industry. The blog has links to a lot of great content that link the aspects of business with nature. The DBE project uses similar views to explore business complexities. Uses these for understanding key terms such as predation, symbiosis, evolution...and for sense making of these issues in the business world in order to help companies grow.