Plenary Lecture 7 Controlling Digital Ecosystems for Sustainable Development

摘要

A digital ecosystem is a distributed adaptive open socio-technical system with properties of self-organisation, scalability and sustainability. As an emerging field of study, "digital ecosystems" is informed by knowledge of natural ecosystems and is still being defined. The term is used in the mainly in computer industry, high tech industries, and academia. The digital ecosystem initiative has two target groups:1.SMMEs (of any business sector) which need customised ICT applications and services for improving their efficiency through process and organisation integration and for extending their business beyond local barriers;2.ICT-related organisations: system integrators, service providers, software component developers (with emphasis on open source communities and open systems developers)This goal is reached through the implementation of new paradigms which exploit the advantages of the EU economical structure (based on SMEs and on diversity and local identity), through the implementation of a sustainable development by protecting the environment.Humanity has created a hard-to-solve equation:SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY = CIVILIZATION + POLLUTION. The last term of this equation concerns soil pollution, water pollution, air pollution, as well as mental pollution (i.e. the new dimension of pollution affecting the human emotional intelligence by informational blast). We shall focus on the measures concerning the European aquis and praxis in environmental management, which have been implemented in our region.Translating the above given literal equation into a pure mathematical one is a hard task and even harder is applying the mathematical equation to practice.These issues are the subject of a series of grants that I have been working at, together with my students, and which will be shortly discussed here.