Masters by research project


in the area of ebXML (electronic business XML)

1st meeting, 3rd April 2002

Attendees:

Current topic:

Creation, derivation and negotiation of a Collaboration Protocol Agreement (CPA) from two Collaboration Protocol Profiles (CPP's) or from a CPA template.

Time frame:

ebXML reading
plus writing
ebXML report
 1st
meeting
 candidacy report
project organisation
more reading
prototypes
 analysis, design, implementation and
validation
 thesis writing
last 5 months
 today
 2 month
 10 months
 3 months

Supervision:

Tim McGrath
  • ebXML, e-business knowhow
  • EDI experience
  • Up-to-date information on current ebXML issues
  • Contact persons in business or ebXML community
  • Motivation
Andrew Marriott
  • XML experience
  • Unix way to do things
  • How to do "academic research"
  • Motivation

Subgoal:

To do something useful and make it freely available. In detail try to work with the openebXML project in Sweden and Free Software in general. Writing a paper. Hopefully give Tim something positive back in return for his help.

Environment:

In order to do programming some environment is necessary. The Java registry, the openebXML project, the ebXML projects in Korea, XML Global or further resources could be contacted.

Critical personal milestone:

If I am not happy with the progress of my work in this masters by research project by the month June, July 2002 I will consider to change to a masters by course work!

Next tasks:


Thanks for this meeting.  Sacha