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

In general, conceptual modelling such the UML is a difficult task for many people. The same holds for the development of e3value modeling. It is important to lower the barrier, specifically for people not experienced in conceptual modelling.

Solution orientation

The student will develop a software prototype that uses a language model to generate an e3value model based on the prompt. Here, the prompt is a textual description of the business ecosystem or platform.

First, a series of e3value models will be collected, and a textual description of these models will be created.  These models and descriptions are used to train the language model that generates the e3value models. Then the effectiveness of the generation will be tested with a number of real life cases.

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. Knowledge of tools like Ollama, PyTorch, Tensorflow and MLflow is useful.

Supervision