| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S63199/01 |
| Title: |
Trusted Coordination in Dynamic Virtual Organisations |
| Principal Investigator: |
Shrivastava, Professor S |
| Other Investigators: |
|
| Researcher Co-Investigators: |
|
| Project Partners: |
|
| Department: |
Computing Sciences |
| Organisation: |
Newcastle University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2003 |
Ends: |
30 September 2006 |
Value (£): |
359,617
|
| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Artificial Intelligence |
Networks & Distributed Systems |
|
| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
|
| Related Grants: |
|
| Panel History: |
|
|
Summary on Grant Application Form |
|
Organisations increasingly use the Internet to offer their own services and to utilise the services of others. This naturally leads to information sharing across organisational boundaries. An inter-organisational business relationship is commonly referred to as a virtual organisation (VO). A VO however, blurs the distinction between 'outsiders ' and 'insiders' and yet, organisations forming a VO will want to preserve their individual autonomy and privacy. A central problem in VO management is how organisations can regulate access to their resources by other organisations in a way that ensures that their individual policies for information sharing are honoured. There is an additional complexity as the organisations might not trust each other. New forms of infrastructure support is required that will be capable of supporting interactions in a (potentially) hostile environment: interactions between mutually distrusting organisations over open networks. Given these observations, development of infrastructure support for inter-organisation interactions pose very interesting research problems.The interactions involved in a VO can vary in nature:1. an interaction may be short- or long-lived;2. interactions may be dynamic: the rules governing the interaction may be subject to re-negotiation and the parties to the interaction may change; 3. the relationship between parties may be asymmetric (requestor-provider) or symmetric (peer-to-peer).The project will develop tools and techniques to enable VOs to be formed and managed in a trustworthy manner. In particular, trusted coordination mechanisms required for service discovery, composition, deployment, dynamic quality of service (QoS) control and monitoring will be developed and their applicability demonstrated .
|
|
Key Findings |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Potential use in non-academic contexts |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Impacts |
|
| Description |
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk |
| Summary |
|
| Date Materialised |
|
|
|
|
Sectors submitted by the Researcher |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
| Project URL: |
|
| Further Information: |
|
| Organisation Website: |
http://www.ncl.ac.uk |