Summer internship 2013
CINCOlab establishment project
The CINCO group (Collaborative and interoperable computing group) studies solutions for open service ecosystems where inter-enterprise collaborations can be established, controlled and governed with supporting automatic agents and ecosystem infrastructure services tailored for each collaboration lifecycle step. The inter-enterprise collaborations can be composite services like supply chains, eBusiness solutions, or service mashups where each of the involved services are provided by independent organisations. The challenges in ecosystem and collaboration governance involve service selection, interoperability management at semantic and pragmatic levels, breach management, and control of nonfunctional properties such as trust and privacy.
The CINCO group is involved with MSc and PhD level education with courses on Service Ecosystems, Business Process Automation and Service-oriented Software Engineering, and seminar series on Trends on Enterprise interoperability and Trends in Service-oriented Computing. In addition, various topics on MSc thesis are available each year.
In order to enhance learning, we want to provide a virtual laboratory environment in which to try out service-oriented engineering methodologies for inter-enterprise collaborations, services and ecosystems. In addition, various tools and tool chains within these engineering tasks can be made available. Further, as there is no single, commonly accepted computing platform for service ecosystems in commercial strength available yet, we want to make alternative environments available for trial.
The CINCOlab establishment project will include tasks for
- installing and configuring various software platforms and production tools;
- receiving student exercise descriptions and preparing technical documentation for using the provided technical tools in the laboratory;
- prepare some example ecosystem elements for startup of the laboratory service, BNM and repository information;
- prepare instructions for students to apply for virtual working environments from the Ukko cluster or other departmental computing facilities at which to run their study projects;
- and other related tasks.
For the project workers we expect sufficient knowledge about service ecosystem aspects, for example, enterprise service buses, modeling tools, service production with MDE disciplines and tools, business processes, or nonfunctional property engineering. The tasks in the project will be adjusted to fit the special skills of the worker. Furthermore, we expect good skills in English and ability to produce good, clear material for students.