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EPSRC Reference: GR/M15804/01
Title: INVESTIGATION OF ODP ENTERPRISE CONCEPTS
Principal Investigator: Sloman, Professor M
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Department: Computing
Organisation: Imperial College London
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 September 1998 Ends: 31 August 1999 Value (£): 23,640
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Networks & Distributed Systems
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No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Considerable research and commercial efforts invested in the distributed object technology have resulted in a mature technology deployable for enterprises, e.g. COBRA, JAVA-RMI and DCOM. These efforts were related to the information Computational, Engineering and technology Viewpoints of the RM-ODP. However, there has been little work pertinent to the Enterprise Viewpoint and recent OMG activities (e.g. on business objects) point at many outstanding problems that need to be addressed to appropriately positioned objects within enterprises.During his visit to IC, Dr. Melosovic will be investigating concepts such as roles, policies, contracts, services, resources, communities and QoS. He will be working on establishing correspondence between the exsisting IC work on roles and Policies and his latest research on the topic, encompassing the activities undertaken within DSTC on an extended policy framework and the contributions to the ODP Enterprise Language standard.These investigations will enable cross fertilisation between these separate projects, leading to an enterprise framework that combines the ideas from both research groups. Such a framework will form the basis for modelling business concepts to enable better interaction within and across organisational boundaries. The framework will also serve as a foundation for suitable tool set for the enterprise modelling, based on the exsisting IC tool sets for the specifications of policies.
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