Digital Interoperability with Trust

Recent years have seen an unprecedented acceleration in the evolution and expansion of Internetbased service provision and inter/intra-enterprise integration in all market sectors. This brings about the prospect of ad-hoc integration of systems across org anisational boundaries. Spanning national and enterprise borders, the participating entities pool resources, information and knowledge in order to achieve common objectives. Such new collaborations may last for a single transaction or evolve dynamically o ver many years. This expected market development sets new requirements for interoperability and trust, necessitating the on-demand creation and self-management of dynamically evolving systems. DIGIT will address the extremely demanding and timely research challenge of providing a framework of improved methods, tools and languages with the overall objective to facilitate cost-effective trust and contract management solutions that enable interoperability and secure collaborations in such system of systems. DIGIT will focus on combining the experience of three principal researchers and four international guest scientists with strong international academic and industrial reputation with the initiatives and creativity of 3 doctoral fellows in the challenging e nvironment of three industrial partners.