A Business Modelling Language (BML) for Digital Business Ecosystem: The DBE project case

As part of the RTD-based activity to build up a Europe-wide Digital Business Ecosystem, this paper summarizes the results achieved by a the research team of the DBE to develop and use a semantically rich business modelling language (BML) enabling business interactions among SMEs acting in a DBE. Such a language is useful both at design-time, for the development of more advanced Web services, as well as at run-time, to allow the dynamic composition of Web services based not only on syntactical compliance but also on the semantic compatibility of the business models, of the contracts, and of the payment policies. The language and computational perspective have then been integrated within a broader evolutionary framework to enable the progressive improvement of the software services and of the business models related to the SMEs involved at the regional pilot-site level.