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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
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Shared Information
Appropriate Security
Quality and Reliability
Distributed Environment -
CONOISE – G
2nd Phase
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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
COVITE
COllaborative 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
VOICE
VO 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