Toward Digital Business EcoSystem Analysis

This chapter is concerned with a new approach to metamodeling-oriented synthesis of the complex, non-monolithic, (Internet-distributed system) adaptive system of Systems, targeting the synergetic research issues of Digital Business EcoSystems (DBES).The starting point is focused on an attempt to identify solid scientifical “roots” of the DBES.A so-called “Terra-like reference model” is provided to introduce the Digital World Theory (trademark Lucian M. Ionescu) that is based on the new key concepts like qubit-focused information flows at the meta and modeling level (UML-oriented platform, ARIS, ADONIS) (http://www.virequest.com).The RomanianVirtual Team (Bucharest-Ro, Craiova-Ro, Springfield, USA) adds some original results with respect to holistic approach for both conceptual design and synthesis methodology of the DBESystems. The main research directions address the following topics: System of Systems (A.M. Stanescu, M.A. Moisescu, I.S. Sacala), Data Mining and Open-Source-oriented tools (V. Georgescu) and, last but not least, computational biology (L. Badea).The chapter also summarizes some European results that have been provided during the IST (Information Society Technology) European Commission-funded project like DBES [http://www.digital-ecosystems.org/].Two important messages are to be sent toward the target audience: (1) Taking into consideration the three categories of “EcoSystems” (1996) Digital Information and Communication Technologies EcoSystems, Business EcoSystems, Innovation EcoSystems. The DBES synthesis is a mission to be completed in the next few decades. To live and to work within “Blue Ocean” (concept introduced by Dr. Kim) is concerned with both dissemination and successful stories implementation of Collaborative Network Organization for global e-economy supporting e-democracy. (2) A convergent transdisciplinary research effort should be necessary to harmonize among various new scientifical disciplines: microeconomics and macroeconomics, social networks, e-services sciences computational biology, bioinformatics, a.s.o.Finally, the work-in-progress research is presented and the Living Laboratory/Virtual Team are Ecolead Collaborative Network Organizations.