Sea Cage Gateway - Optimal Mobile Grid Support in Aquaculture

Within the scope of the EU project Akogrimo and the respective research collaboration between Telenor Research and Development and the University of Zurich's Communication Systems Group (CSG), these jointly supervised diploma theses aim at an optimal support of fish farming in Norway by means of mobile grid technology. The theses' main goal thus consists in developing a fish farming scenario, called Sea Cage Gateway (SCG), towards a mobile dynamic virtual organization (MDVO). Accordingly, the work covers the following key elements:

• Identify actors and roles in the fish farming value network that would profit from building a virtual organization (VO).
• Characterize relevant business activities within the MDVO with a special focus on commercial exploitation of mobile grid inventions, such as accounting capabilies or context management.
  

• Formalize these findings in an appropriate form, e.g. by means of message sequence diagrams documenting information flows.
• Develop a demonstrator that visualizes SCG with its actors and business flows.
  

This work is split into two diploma theses: While the first (assigned to Michel Hagnauer) takes a closer look at the fish farms themselves, the second (assignd to Markus Sonderegger) assesses the potential of mobile grid technology and MDVOs over the whole value network. Both diploma theses require students who are willing to work mostly conceptually, thus showing excellent analytic skills and a strong background in the economic theories (e.g. with respect to organization), but who are also able to visualize complex coherences in a well-understandable manner. Since this work is jointly supervised by representatives of CSG and Telenor R&D, English as the natural language for communications as well as the written report is assumed.

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