The project finished in April 2007. A demonstration of the prototype software will be presented and will show the composition of a PC Retailer Service with several PC Wholesaler Services and will culminate in the presentation of a consolidated bill using the developed accounting software by TSSG.
WP36: Accounting for Composed Services
A summary of the achievements of WIT’s WP36 Accounting for Composed Services is as follows:
A comprehensive State of the Art research in composed service accounting was performed during in the first 12 months of the project. The output of this activity was the Deliverable D36.1: “State of the Art in Composed Service Accounting”. This document was later revised and republished as D36.3.
A full set of DBE Accounting components has been implemented. This component set is based on the open standard IPDR reference model and is compliant with that model. The accounting components have been classified as either infrastructural or supporting components. Service metering components are infrastructural in the DBE Execution Environment. The mediation, rating and billing components are supporting components and have been modeled as DBE services. These software components have been made available to the general public through the sourceforge project Open Service Accounting (http://openacc.sourceforge.net/). This is detailed in Deliverable D36.4
The raw usage data for protocol independent DBE service usage was analysed and the resulting dataset modelled. This usage data represents a generic set of service operation details regardless of the deployment protocol. An XML schema to represent this usage data for DBE service usage was developed. This data is metered at the point of service consumption and can be extended by the implementation of the service being metered.
A service independent data model represents the business level data required for service accounting. An XML schema to represent this DBE service accounting was designed. The schema extends the IPDR.org 3.5 service accounting schema and incorporates elements to allow for inter-provider charging (composed service charging).
A technology independent model for service metering has been developed. A generic Service Meter type has been modeled to provide a DBE service meter definition.
WP32: Regulatory Framework
At the end of the first 12 months of the project , TSSG was offered the opportunity to partake and lead WP32 Regulatory Framework. TSSG’s role was to create a contract model and a set of tools to support the creation and agreement of electronic contracts, between users of the DBE system. These tools were developed and integrated with the DBEStudio, an eclipse based development environment for creating DBE compatible services.
Three other partners involved in the WP were LSE, ISUFI and UNIZAR (university of Zaragoza). LSE provide the business analysis of how contracts were used by SMEs. ISUFI created models of how Regulatory information could be organized so as to be of use to those SMEs.
Summary of outputs
Refereed Academic Papers
B. Jennings, P. Malone, “Flexible Charging for Multi-provider Composed Services using a Federated, Two-phase Rating Process”, IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2006
B. Jennings, P. Malone, S. van der Meer, “A Two-Phase Rating Process for Dynamically Composed Services”, HPOVU, Porto 2005
B Jennings, P. Malone, G. Gaughan “Charging for Dynamically Composed Services in the Digital Business Ecosystem” eChallenges 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
Finnegan, J., Malone, P., Espinosa Marañon, A. and Bueso Guillén, P., Contract Modelling for Digital Business Ecosystems, IEEE International Conference on Digital EcoSystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST2007), Cairns, Australia, February 2007
P. Malone, B. Jennings, F. Walsh, Accounting for Dynamically Composed Services in Digital Ecosystems, IT&T Conference, Carlow, Ireland 2006
Amir R. Razavi, Paul J. Malone, Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Brendan Jennings and Paul J. Krause, A Distributed Transaction and Accounting Model for Digital Ecosystem Composed Services, IEEE International Conference on Digital EcoSystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST2007), Cairns, Australia, February 2007
Public Deliverables
The full list of DBE public deliverables is available from http://www.digitalecosystem.org/
All DBE deliverables can be found at //repository/projects/DBE-IST-2003-507953/partner/deliverables/
The public deliverables that WIT has contributed to are:
D36.1 State of the art in accounting for composed services
D32.3 An Analysis of "Legal ICTs"
D32.6 Model for Generic Level DBE Contracts and Agreements
D36.3 Revised State-of-the-art in accounting for composed services
Presentations
Some flash presentations explaining the DBE project can be found at http://www.digitalecosystem.org/DBE_Main/downloads
September 2004; Francesco Nachira Complete Introduction to the Digital Ecosystem Area. Available here: [http://www.digital-ecosystems.org/doc/de-intro-complete-09-2004.ppt]
September, 2nd, 2005 - Bruxelles, Unioncamere - Meeting with enterpreneurs, delegation of Confederazione Nazionale dell'Artigianato e della Piccola e Media Impresa (CNA): presentations: "ICT for the SMEs". Available here: http://www.digital-ecosystems.org/doc/ict-cna.ppt
General Publicity
DBE at World Summit on the Information Society: http://www.digitalecosystem.org/Members/aenglishx/eventsfolder/worldsummit/view
Partners
1. IBM Belgium - Business Consulting Services, BE
2. T6, IT
3. London School of Economics, UK
4. Sun Microsystems Iberica, ES
5. Forschungszentrum Informatik, DE
6. Imperial College London, UK
7. INTEL Ireland, IE
8. Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies University of Lecce, IT
9. TUC MUSIC - Technical University of Crete, GR
10. Fachhochschulgesellschaft Salzburg, AT
11. Soluta.net, IT
12. Technology Center Hermia, FI
13. Trinity College Dublin – Computer Science Department, IE
14. University of Birmingham - Computer Science Department, UK
15. University of Central England, UK
16. University of Surrey, UK
17. Aragon Technological Institute, ES
18. CENSIS - Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali, IT
19. Waterford Institute of Technology, IE
