ECOBUSINESS

A Multi-agent Approach to Digital Business Ecosystems

Coordinatore	"MICROART, SL"    more  Organization address address: BALDIRI REIXAC 4-6 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8028 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Magí Cognome: Lluch-Ariet Email: send email Telefono: +34 933631753 Fax: +34 934039379
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	404˙877 €
EC contributo	404˙877 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IAPP
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-09-01   -   2012-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	"MICROART, SL"  Organization address address: BALDIRI REIXAC 4-6 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8028 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Magí Cognome: Lluch-Ariet Email: send email Telefono: +34 933631753 Fax: +34 934039379	ES (BARCELONA)	coordinator	145˙738.00
2	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Angela Cognome: Noble Email: send email Telefono: +44 (0)131 650 9024 Fax: +44 (0)131 650 9023	UK (EDINBURGH)	participant	259˙139.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The purpose of EcoBusiness is, on one hand, to increase the productivity and the position in the market of MicroArt (and other similar SMEs) by applying cutting edge techniques and methodologies coming from academia, either from the field of management and economics, through the MSE-UEDIN, as well as from the field of artificial intelligence and information systems, through the collaboration with CISA-UEDIN, while giving the opportunity to the university (UEDIN) to test the products of its research in a real scenario while acquiring all the expertise from a real SMEs market network. On the other hand, this programme pretends to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge by the experts at MicroArt on recent research fields such as interaction-centered knowledge sharing, information ecosystems, and digital business ecosystems, while offering the researchers at UEDIN the necessary knowledge to know how to test and evaluate their research findings and results in real-like scenarios.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Digital business ecosystems are slated to support collaboration among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and benefit stakeholders such as the government and society at large.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

With the global financial crisis threatening the well-being of struggling businesses, SMEs in Europe need all the help they can get. The EU-funded project 'A multi-agent approach to digital business ecosystems' (Ecobusiness) is exploiting cutting-edge tools to help SMEs. It has developed a digital infrastructure and environment for networked organisations to support knowledge sharing, collaboration, evolutionary business models and development of open, adaptive technologies.

Ecobusiness's primary goal is to develop the first multi-agent digital business ecosystem (MADBE) for SMEs in Europe, based on the emerging digital business ecosystem (DBE) concept. The latter enables an in-depth look at the behaviour of SMEs and how they evolve in a specific ecosystem.

Two years after its initiation, the project designed the first prototype of the system offering a suite of learning, optimisation and negotiation tools. These would enable a single organisation to offer the services package in a more dynamic and efficient way, either independently or jointly with other SME's, increasing collaboration and competitiveness significantly.

once the final product is thoroughly tested and distributed to SMEs, it is destined to increase productivity, facilitating collaboration with different stakeholders and other businesses. The benefits of such improved cooperation are expected to reach not only the companies themselves, but government infrastructures and citizens as well.