 | Enabling the adoption of Grid computing in intra- and inter-organizational business environments
The BREIN project aims to compensate for deficiencies in Grid computing by taking a more “business-centric” approach. It is working toward the development of a framework that involves formal representations of supply chain structures, business goals, skeleton process models, process planning and process instantiation patterns, patterns for intra- and inter-organizational interactions, formal representations of the aims, capabilities, and activities of human and artificial actors, and simulation toolkits supporting complex decision making in non-standard decision processes.
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To this end, BREIN will combine the flexibility and stability of Grid technologies with strength of methods for business modeling, the intelligence and adaptability of AI systems as developed for multi-agents—particularly agency concepts, planning, and optimization strategies—with knowledge technologies, especially from the semantic Web, and embedding security technologies into these approaches.
As a large Integrated Project, BREIN will be a major initiative within the European Commission’s 6th Framework Program. Sixteen partners participate in the BREIN consortium, including Telefonica, Stuttgart Airport, Atos Origin, Datamat, Ansys, and leading institutions from academia. The overall budget is around €9 million.
BREIN will further enhance security in Grid environments in the context of Agents and Semantic Web integration. The overall BREIN security objective is to further close the gap between high-level business security requirements and low-level security measures. This gap could be addressed by semantically describing security needs, mapping these to lower-level security measures, and thereby driving and/or configuring lower-level security measures.
Agents could support this mapping process, in particular through the interpretation and negotiation of security requirements and the translation into and selection of security measures. Specific security experience in the agent community may furthermore be of benefit, such as the well-researched organizational aspects of security—such as roles, hierarchies, trust, reputation, norms, rules, and sanctions. The contribution of the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC):
BREIN’s security objectives are aligned with European Microsoft Innovation Center’s vision of “semantic-aware security.”
The European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC)center will focus its efforts on security and continue on the security work in the ongoing projects TrustCoM and NextGRID. The European Microsoft Innovation Centercenter will also be leading the Rapid Prototyping Workpackage.
For more information, visit the project’s Web site at:
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