Official Launch of DBE Project

The 28th to the 30th of January saw the official launch of the EU funded DBE (Digital Business Ecosystem) project in Brussels. TSSG are one of the 20-member consortium in this very exciting project whose overall objective is to provide Europe with a recognised advantage in innovative software application development by its SME industry. It is believed that this can only be achieved with a vision which leads to a paradigm shift: the complexity of distributed software production and new forms of networked business require a multi-disciplinary approach based on Biology, Physics and Social Sciences mechanisms and models. DBE will launch a disruptive technology paradigm for the creation of a digital business ecosystem for SMEs and software providers. The project will provide an open-source distributed environment, which will support the spontaneous evolution, adaptation and composition of software components - which also embed business rules - and services.

The kick-off meeting, with 70 people present, provided an arena for researchers from very different disciplines to come together and understand different viewpoints of the proposed research. The project is the largest ever EU funded open-source project: 150 person-years of work is planned across 20 organisations in 9 EU member states. 60 people will work on the project full time.