A Model for Digital Business Ecosystem and Topological Analysis

Author

Wang, Juan ; de Wilde, P.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Eng., Shenzhen Univ., Shenzhen

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Firstpage

603

Lastpage

604

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to model a complex evolving system, a digital business ecosystem (DBE) that takes the specific needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into account. It aims to provide an open-source distributed environment to support the spontaneous evolution and composition of services for SMEs. A two-tier architecture model as a simplified version of the system is presented, consisting of a business network layer and a P2P communication layer that interact with each other and evolve over time. The benefit of the model-driven approach is to allow us running discrete event simulations on it to study, e.g how the topology of the SME network affects the topology of the P2P communication network.

Keywords

business communication; discrete event simulation; peer-to-peer computing; public domain software; small-to-medium enterprises; software architecture; P2P communication network topology; business network layer; complex evolving system; digital business ecosystem; discrete event simulations; medium-sized enterprises; open-source distributed environment; small-sized enterprises; spontaneous service evolution; topological analysis; two-tier architecture model; Business communication; Discrete event simulation; Ecosystems; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Mathematical model; Network servers; Network topology; Open source software; Service oriented architecture; Business ecosystem; Communication; Services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services Computing, 2008. SCC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3283-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCC.2008.63

Filename

4578593