1. Holding slide prior to starting show

2. Experiences from 3 VO investigations Alex Gray

3. Project Domains CONOISE-G -Telecoms industry –Aberdeen,Cardiff, Southampton Univ –BT Exact COVITE – Construction Industry –Cardiff University, Active Plan VOICE – Healthcare –Cardiff University, Velindre NHS Trust

4. Virtual Organisations Diversity of opinions Collaborative Architecture to Support Collaboration –Services - SOA Quality of Service Reliability Policing –Shared Information –Appropriate Security –Quality and Reliability –Distributed Environment -

5. CONOISE – G 2 nd Phase Experimental VO Agents negotiating to form consortia Bidding Services Research –Quality of Service –Trust and reputation –Policing

6. Scenario Provision of package of text, phone, video Constraint Oriented Negotiation in an Open Information Services Environment

7. Phases 1 forming consortia 2 Bidding and bid evaluation –Quality of service, Trust and reputation 3 Service level agreement 4 Provision of services and Monitoring –Policing –Replacement of service providers Consortia Partial

8. COVITE COllaborative VIrtual TEams Construction Industry Forming consortia to bid for projects Members are usually from different organisations Procurement and security

9. Focus Procurement –Distributed access to suppliers DB –New approaches to DDB needed –Autonomous DBs supplying information –Needed new standards Security –Simple ring fence –Not flexible enough

10. VOICE VO access to Information sources in a Collaborative Environment MSc/PhD projects Building on 10/12 years of collaboration Creating a VO which –Reflects change to patient centric treatment –Links primary secondary and tertiary care providers –Role of MDT –SOA –Role of Wireless technology

11. Status Developed a prototype architecture Investigated services for wireless link Investigated problem of overcoming Primary. Secondary and Tertiary links Investigated which team members are static and dynamic Need to access multiple distributed resources

12. Thank you to staff of all the projects THE PRESENTATION ERRORS ARE ALL MY OWN WORK