BREIN (Business objective driven Reliable and Intelligent grids for real busiNess), is a project partially funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development. Coordinated by Telefónica I+D and technically managed by the University of Stuttgart (HLRS), the BREIN project has the main objective of ensuring a robust and reliable Grid environment by integrating experiences and results from the Multi-agent and Semantic Web domain, delivering a more powerful business tomorrow.
More concretely, the strategic objectives of BREIN are:
- Enable participants to easily interact with each other via an intelligent, adaptive framework
- Increase the stability and dynamicity of the framework through enhanced intelligent capabilities
- Optimise the collaboration so as to meet the individual participant’s business objectives and balance them with each other
- Provide business entities with a means to optimise their service provisioning (regarding the respective business goals)
In the past years, Grids as a form of interorganizational distributed systems have evolved from a tool for the realisation of eScience infrastructures towards a commercially usable technology. However, there are still a number of unsolved problems, mainly situated in the area of the management of the complexity of such a system as well as the realisation of a robust, secure and reliable environment. Furthermore, additional technical progress is needed to enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to get easy access and to make easy usage of this kind of infrastructures to be able to compete in the Service Provider market.
BREIN started on the 1st of September 2006 with a duration of three years. In total 17 partners from all over Europe were involved in this project (eight industrial partners) to realise the flexible, intelligent Virtual Organisation support to significantly reduce the complexity of modern day business-to-business collaborations.
BREIN integrates experiences and results from the Multi-agent and Semantic Web domain in the Grid to deliver the powerful business of tomorrow. Among other technical characteristics, it incorporates the semantic web’s knowledge capabilities and advanced security technologies. This permits to provide an infrastructure that will allow companies to communicate in a more agile, dynamic and intelligent way.
BREIN will revolutionize electronic business collaborations by taking the classical Grid approach to the next level:
- realizing intelligent, autonomous resources
- supporting complex business definitions
- simplifying communication
- meeting security, confidentiality & privacy issues
- automating collaboration management
- intelligently optimizing business execution.
NEWS – BREIN Exploitable Items Installers version 3 available for download!
The BREIN exploitation item methodology involves collecting the main partners’ interests to be exploited in the future (both commercially or academic), called Exploitation Item (EI), in order to identify the BREIN results. Concretely, the Exploitation workpackage has identified a set of software EIs as well as methodological. The methodological items are related to methods, mechanisms, methodologies as BREIN roadmap, user manuals, reference documents (BREIN architecture), etc. On the other hand, the software packages will be created from the components developed in Implementation WP, grouped in different categories according to exploitation methodology, and packaged into software packages. Moreover, these software packages are classified depending on the package complexity as BREIN Toolkits, formed by groups of components and BREIN Frameworks, composed by groups of BREIN toolkits, BREIN components and additional components.
The third version of these software packages (installers) is already available for download from the BREIN website together with various training material on each of the Frameworks and Toolkits.
For further information visit www.eu-brein.com
