Open Philosophies for associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems

Objective

Digital Ecosystems are emerging as a novel approach for the catalysis of sustainable regional development driven by SMEs. The two overarching aims of the OPAALS NoE are to build an interdisciplinary research community in the emerging area of Digital Ecosystems, and to develop an integrated theoretical foundation for Digital Ecosystems research spanning three widely different disciplinary domains: social science, computer science, and natural science.

The main claim that OPAALS makes is that in order to achieve sustainable digital business ecosystems of SMEs and software components we need to understand in depth the collaborative processes and ICTs that underpin the continuous creation, formalisation, and sharing of knowledge in the form of business models, software infrastructure for e-Business transactions, and new formal and semi-formal languages. Our strategy is based on the development of an Open Knowledge Space. Because this process must be sustainable and scalable it must be recursive and self-reinforcing. It follows that OPAALS is the first step in a recursive, reflexive, and self-reinforcing community building process that will culminate at the end of the project with an Open Knowledge community of research and innovation inclusive of all the stakeholders of digital ecosystems but mainly of academic institutions and SMEs. We will integrate the research outputs in automatic code generation, autopoietic P2P networks, and distributed accountability, identity and trust into the existing infrastructure from the DBE project.

These technical and scientific research activities will be balanced by research in the role of formal and semi-formal languages in epistemic communities and in new Open Source models emerging in public and commercial projects. Finally, we will develop a unifying evolutionary framework for language in order to base the evolutionary and adaptation characteristics of the digital ecosystems on the main medium of social constructivism: language.

Field of science

• /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/software
• /natural sciences/biological sciences/ecology/ecosystems
• /social sciences/economics and business

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2005-2.5.8 - ICT for Networked Businesses

Funding Scheme

NoE - Network of Excellence

Coordinator

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Address

Houghton Street
London
United Kingdom

Participants (14)

CREATE-NET (CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TELECOMMUNICATION EXPERIMENTATION FOR NETWORKED COMMUNITIES)

Italy

Address

Via Solteri 38
38100 Trento

FACHHOCHSCHULE SALZBURG GMBH

Austria

Address

Urstein Sued 1
Puch Bei Hallein

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

India

Address

Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur
208016 Kanpur

INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS EM TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO

Brazil

Address

Avenida Sao Luis 86 Cj.192
01046-000 Sao Paulo

KIGALI INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rwanda

Address

Avenue De L'armee
Kigali

T6 SOCIETA COOPERATIVA

Italy

Address

Via Genova 30
00184 Roma

TAMPEREEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO

Finland

Address

Korkeakoulunkatu 10
33720 Tampere

TECHIDEAS ASESORES TECNOLOGICOS, S.L.

Spain

Address

C/norte 84, Local 33
08950 Esplugues De Llobregat (Barcelona)

THE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE

United Kingdom

Address

Nethergate
DD1 4HN Dundee

THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

United Kingdom

Address

GU2 7XH Guildford

UNIVERSITAET KASSEL

Germany

Address

Moenchebergstrasse 19
Kassel

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND IN BIRMINGHAM

United Kingdom

Address

Perry Barr
B42 2SU Birmingham

UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

Ireland

Address

National Technological Park, Plassey
Limerick

WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Ireland

Address

Cork Road
Waterford