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Experiences from 3 VO investigations

Alex Gray

Project Domains

• CONOISE-G -Telecoms industry– Aberdeen,Cardiff, Southampton Univ– BT Exact

• COVITE – Construction Industry– Cardiff University, Active Plan

• VOICE – Healthcare– Cardiff University, Velindre NHS Trust

Virtual Organisations

• Diversity of opinions• Collaborative • Architecture to Support Collaboration

– Services - SOA• Quality of Service• Reliability• Policing

– Shared Information– Appropriate Security– Quality and Reliability– Distributed Environment -

CONOISE – G2nd Phase

• Experimental VO• Agents negotiating to form consortia• Bidding• Services• Research

– Quality of Service– Trust and reputation– Policing

Scenario

• Provision of package of text, phone, video

• Constraint Oriented Negotiation in an Open Information Services Environment

Phases

• 1 forming consortia• 2 Bidding and bid evaluation

– Quality of service, Trust and reputation

• 3 Service level agreement• 4 Provision of services and Monitoring

– Policing– Replacement of service providers

• Consortia• Partial

COVITECOllaborative VIrtual TEams

• Construction Industry

• Forming consortia to bid for projects

• Members are usually from different organisations

• Procurement and security

Focus

• Procurement– Distributed access to suppliers DB– New approaches to DDB needed– Autonomous DBs supplying information – Needed new standards

• Security– Simple ring fence– Not flexible enough

VOICEVO access to Information sources

in a Collaborative Environment• MSc/PhD projects• Building on 10/12 years of collaboration• Creating a VO which

– Reflects change to patient centric treatment– Links primary secondary and tertiary care

providers– Role of MDT– SOA– Role of Wireless technology

Status

• Developed a prototype architecture• Investigated services for wireless link• Investigated problem of overcoming

Primary. Secondary and Tertiary links• Investigated which team members are

static and dynamic• Need to access multiple distributed

resources

Thank you to

staff of all the projects

• THE PRESENTATION ERRORS ARE ALL MY OWN WORK