Background

The VU has developed the e3value modeling language to understand and analyze digital business ecosystems and platform. It is a graphical language (e.g. similar to the UML), that represents the parties in an ecosystem or platform and what they exchange of value with each other. The method is used in practice and software tooling is available.

Problem

An e3value model can be quantified, and if done correctly, several calculations can be done. However, finding the data for these calculations is a manual task, requires a significant amount of time, and is inefficient.

Solution orientation

The student will develop a software prototype that uses heuristics, natural language processing and/or machine learning to find data on the Internet that can be used to quantify e3value model.

We make available a number of these e3value models for which the quantification is already done and/or for which the quantification needs to be done. A number of scenarios will be developed that demonstrate how data collection for e3value models can be done in a semi-automated way.

Organizational context

This project is a VU-internal project in collaboration with The Value Engineers (see www.thevalueengineers.nl).

Required

An independent student, familiar with graphical conceptual modelling techniques such as the UML, and willing to learn e3value. Also knowledge on natural language processing is useful.

Supervision