CINCO

The CINCO group mission is to develop solutions for service interoperability and management of dynamically formed service collaborations and peer communities. The solutions are grounded to a global infrastructure that supports interoperability and contract-based community management (establishment, control and breach recovery), and complemented with service-oriented software engineering practices.

Below, you can find our recommendations for referencing our work depending whether you wish to refer CINCO group work in general, or specific features of Pilarcos architecture or prototype infrastructure services.

Overview:

• Lea Kutvonen, Toni Ruokolainen, Sini Ruohomaa, and Janne Metso. Service-oriented middleware for managing inter-enterprise collaborations. In Global Implications of Modern Enterprise Information Systems: Technologies and Applications, Advances in Enterprise Information Systems (AEIS), pages 209-241. IGI Global, December 2008.

Service-interoperability and collaboration control infrastructure:

• Lea Kutvonen, Toni Ruokolainen, and Janne Metso. Interoperability middleware for federated business services in web-Pilarcos. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, Special issue on Interoperability of Enterprise Systems and Applications, 3(1):1-21, January 2007.

Community establishment facilities; multiway matching of service offers; decision-making support, including reputation-based trust decisions:

• Lea Kutvonen, Janne Metso, and Sini Ruohomaa. From trading to eCommunity management: Responding to social and contractual challenges. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) - Special Issue on Enterprise Services Computing: Evolution and Challenges, 9(2-3):181-194, July 2007.
• Sini Ruohomaa and Lea Kutvonen. Making multi-dimensional trust decisions on inter-enterprise collaborations. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Availability, Security and Reliability (ARES 2008), pages 873-880, Barcelona, Spain, March 2008. IEEE Computer Society. PDF.

Service interoperability and type safety:

• Toni Ruokolainen and Lea Kutvonen. Service Typing in Collaborative Systems. In 2nd International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2006). Springer-Verlag, March 2006.

Unifying external business processes:

• Alex Norta and Paul Grefen. Discovering Patterns for Inter-Organizational Business Collaboration. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 16(3/4):507-544, December 2007.

Surveys:

• Sini Ruohomaa and Lea Kutvonen. Trust management survey. In Proceedings of the iTrust 3rd International Conference on Trust Management, 23-26, May, 2005, Rocquencourt, France, pages 77-92. Springer-Verlag, LNCS 3477/2005, May 2005. PDF.
• Sini Ruohomaa, Lea Kutvonen, and Eleni Koutrouli. Reputation management survey. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2007), pages 103-111, Vienna, Austria, April 2007. IEEE Computer Society.