DBE Concept Paolo Dini LSE PEARDROP Meeting Bruxelles, 22 May 2007 Andrea Nicolai T6

OPEN SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE Licence-Based and Open Source Services Who Maintains it? Some knowledge is shared Some knowledge is protected DBE Concept Who Governs it?  Every stakeholder needs to contribute to the maintenance, governance, and sustainability of the infrastructure  The strength of a shared medium of communication and business interaction is the catalysis of democratic processes for its sustainability.  DBE concept is an architecture + an economic model + a shared enterprise  Accountability, transparency and trust are necessary to achieve the DBE vision

Theoretical Applied Legend Networks Digital Business Ecosystem Implementation Evolution Testing Adoption Language DBE in 2003 and Now Science Business Computing Memory Paradigms Empirical & Action Research Open Source Language Critical Theory of Technology Social Constructivism Social Science

An Interesting Theoretical Result of DBE Research The lack of theory that is often lamented in software engineering is actually not a lack at all: There is plenty of theory underpinning software engineering, it just does not happen to be all Mathematics and Logic A good part of the theory comes from Social Science and Language Software Engineering is a social process!

ExE DBE Studio EvE OSSOSS Evolution Market, Business Domain, Regional Catalysts Testing Computer Science Mathematics, Biology, Physics Digital Business Ecosystem Methodology Software Services Business modelling, Software Design & Development Process Language Providers Consumers Code Generation P2P NLP

Policy Web 2.0 Linguistics Socio-Economic Impact Normative & Regulatory Framework Contextual Feedbacks of Digital Ecosystems Methodology