Applying enterprise models to design cooperative scientific environments

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Bosin;Nicoletta Dessì;Maria Grazia Fugini;Diego Liberati;Barbara Pes

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano;IEIIT CNR c/o Politecnico di Milano, Milano;Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari

  • Venue:
  • BPM'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2005

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Scientific experiments are supported by activities that create, use, communicate and distribute information whose organizational dynamics is similar to processes performed by distributed cooperative enterprise units. On this premise, the aim of this paper is to apply existing enterprise models and processes for designing cooperative scientific experiments. The presented approach assumes the Service Oriented Architecture as the enacting paradigm to formalize experiments as cooperative services on various computational nodes of a network. Specifically, a framework is proposed that defines the responsibility of e-nodes in offering services, and the set of rules under which each service can be accessed by e-nodes through service invocation. By discussing a representative case study, the paper details how specific classes of experiments can be mapped into a service-oriented model whose implementation is carried out in a prototypical scientific environment.