Requirements
Capabilities
Design Patterns
Components

VO Management

The Virtual Organisation Management (VOM) deals with three different thematic areas relating to the Virtual Organisations :

Virtual Organisation (VO) creation and management : covering issues relating to the management of the life cycle of a VO (e.g. identification, formation, operation, evolution and dissolution) as well as management of policies for VO and models to virtualise distributed hosting environments;
Security for VO: covering issues relating to the secure federation of autonomous administrative domains, especially exploring models related to WS-Federation;
Semantics in VO : covering issues relating to the adoption of semantic models and languages to improve the processes of resources and services discovery in VO.

Having the final goal to produce a set of design patterns for common components in SOA and Grid, we analyse representatives of heterogeneous business and industrial sectors like, for instance, Architects, Industry & Retail, Leisure & Entertainment, Chemistry in order to gather concrete needs and requirements , and to identify capabilities for each one of the above mentioned areas.

On the basis of the identified capabilities, a set of design patterns (middleware agnostic) are produced and, after a gap analysis with the current middleware and solution available, more specific implementation patterns are produced. The latter ones will be the basis for the implementation of the common components.