TRUSTCOM: Trust and contract management framework enabling secure collaborative business processing in on-demand created, self-managed, scalable, and highly dynamic virtual organisations

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0628

Key words (English)

Virtual organisations; e-business; trust technology

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: 001945

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.2 Communications technologies

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

Recent years have seen an unprecedented acceleration in the evolution of the Internet as the technological vehicle underpinning the expansion of service provision and inter-/intra- enterprise integration in all market sectors. This brings about the prospect of ad hoc integration of systems across organisational boundaries to support collaborations that may last for a single transaction or evolve dynamically over many years. This sets new requirements for scalability, responsiveness and adaptability that necessitate the on-demand creation and self- management of dynamically evolving virtual organisations (VO) spanning national and enterprise borders, where the participating entities (enterprises or individuals) pool resources, information and knowledge together in order to achieve common objectives. The provision of cost effective trust and contract management .solutions for VO ecosystems that enable secure collaborations in such VOs is the most demanding and timely research challenge in this field.
TrustCoM will conduct multidisciplinary research into complex, adaptive and self-organising systems in order to design and implement a novel reference trust and contract management framework that will enable secure collaborative business processing within on-demand created and self-managed, dynamic collaborative networks of businesses and governments built on top of the emerging convergence of Web Services, agent and Grid technologies.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 03.0628