Course description

The present trend of globalisation in computing and social networking sets high requirements on the computing and communication solutions supporting these activities. A new infrastructure layer is being created to deal with business network establishment, support for participation into multiple networks simultaneously, adaptation to heterogeneous technologies, operating principles and regulatory domains. 

This course gives an introduction to service ecosystem architecture and its related concepts, observes a few business-oriented principles, and further analyses the potential and techniques for constructing service ecosystem infrastructure services. 

The course is directed towards the MSc and doctoral studies. It is recommended for the students interested in topic areas at

• Collaborative and Interoperable Computing within the Distributed systems and data communication subprogramme, and
• Service-oriented software engineering with in the Software systems subprogramme.

A strong prerequisite requirement is set on the course Scientific Writing, as half of the coursework is invested on individual litterature study and writing task.

During the course, the participants will actively gather information about the collaboration challenges and problems in an open networked environment. As potential solutions, modern middleware, business process management, and virtual organisation architectures are studied.

Course pages

 Basic information about the course (objectives, material, forms of taking the course) is available at   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/summanen/opetus/kuvaukset/CollaborationOfAutonomousBusinessServices.html

Specific information for the spring 2011 course is available at https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/i/summanen/teaching/CollaborationOfAutonomousBusinessServices/2011/