Software, Services, and Semantics in FP7

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Software, Services, and Semantics in FP7

• Arian Zwegers

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Overview

• Semantics in the EC
• Internal IT department, DG DIGIT
• IDA
• Semantics research in FP7
• NESSI Technology Platform
• Projects in Software Services
• Future Internet
• Internet of Services
• Conclusions

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Current practice
(Source Gartner)
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EC situation
(Source European Commission)
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EC situation
(Source European Commission)
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Commission Enterprise Architecture Framework
(Source European Commission)
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Various models
(Source European Commission)
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Functional perspective domain model
(Source European Commission)
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Interchange of Data between Administrations
(IDA) Some requirements

• Metadata
• Data accompanying documents
• Policies needed
• Document Identification
• Naming and addressing documents
• Standardised way of identifying, labelling and
  addressing documents (and other objects)
• Semantic Web
• Navigating web sites, intelligent queries
• XML-based common vocabularies
• Common understanding between legislators

(Source European Commission)
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Injecting over 9bn to boost European
Information and Communication Technologies
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NESSI

• Aims to develop a visionary strategy for Software
  and Services driven by a common Strategic
  Research Agenda where innovation and business
  strengths are reinforced.
• Expected impact
• standardisation, common service platform open
  standards
• improve EU competitiveness in SS
• reduce sector fragmentation and align RD
  efforts
• openness an open initiative mobilising SMEs,
  academia and industry
• address key RD and policy challenges in SS

http//www.nessi-europe.eu
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NESSI Working Groups
Business Services
Public Sector (02/2008)
Health
Skills Employability
NESSI Landscape
Future ofInternet
Open SourceSoftware
ICT SME
Core Services
ProposedWorkingGroup
NESSI Adoption
SoftwareEngineering
ServiceEngineering
BusinessProcessManagement
SoftwareOrientedInfrastructure
Existing Working Group
NESSI Framework
UserServiceInteraction
Semantic Technology
Trust,Security,Dependability
ServicesSciences
(Source NESSI, 2008)
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NESSI Semantic Technologies Working Group

• Manifesto Research areas
• Semantic mediation
• Automated reasoning
• Semantic information integration
• Semantic technologies relating to service
  description, discovery and composition
• Web 2.0 technologies
• Research roadmap 2007-2010
• Vision of Semantically-Enabled Service-oriented
  Architecture (SESA)
• Need for Semantic Execution Environment

(See also http//www.nessi-europe.eu/)
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ICT Work Programme
i2010Flagships
End-to-end systems for Socio-economic goals
Digital content and knowledge
ICT for health
Intelligent car and sustainable growth
ICT for independent living and inclusion
ETPs
Network and service infrastructures
Future and Emerging Technologies
Cognitive systems, robotics and interaction
Technology roadblocks

• Automatically tagging content with semantic
  metadata
• Semantic Foundations
• Advanced Knowledge Management Systems

Components, subsystems and embedded systems
(Source ICT WP2007-2008)
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Obj 1.2, Software Services Overview of
projects from call 1
Software Service Engineering (complexity,
dependability) DEPLOY, S-CUBE, Protest,
Q-Impress, FAST, COMPAS, MANCOOSI, MOST, DIVA
Users service front-ends Persist, ServFace,
mCiudad, ALIVE, OPEN
Services SLA_at_SOI, SOA4ALL, Romulus, ADMIRE, SHAPE
Infrastructure/Virtualisation RESERVOIR, IRMOS,
SmartLM, STREAM, OMP
Reference service architecture NEXOF-RA
Support actions NESSI 2010, Service Web 3.0
(See also http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/pr
ojects_en.html)
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SOA4All
SOA As the emerging dominant paradigm for
application development which abstracts from
software to the notion of a service
Context Adapting to meet local environment
constraints, organizational policies and personal
preferences
Web principles To scale SOA to a world wide web
communications infrastructure
Web 2.0 As a means to structure human-machine
cooperation in an efficient cost-effective
manner
Semantic Web To automate service discovery,
mediation composition
(See also http//www.soa4all.eu)
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SOA4All
SOA4All will integrate the service world of large
enterprises, SMEs, and end-users
enabling them to engage as peers within a network
of equals
SOA4All will transform the Web into a domain
where billions of parties are exposing and
consuming services
in a seamless transparent fashion
(See also http//www.soa4all.eu)
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Semantic Technology Institute Services and
clusters
Commercialisation service
Education service
Standardisation and ref. archi-tectures service
Testbeds and challenges service
Roadmaps service
SUPER cluster (Semantic Business Process
Modelling)
TripCom cluster (Semantic Space-based Computing)
NeoN cluster (Web of Ontologies)
LarKC cluster (Web-scale Reasoning)
ACTIVE cluster (Semantic Enterprise Knowledge
Management)
SOA4All/ServiceWeb3.0 cluster (Web-scale
service-oriented computing)
(See also http//www.serviceweb30.eu/
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Future researchFuture Internet
Internet of Services, Service Web
3D Internet
Trust
Security
Networks of the Future
Sources 3GPP, 3GPP2, Qualcomm, WiMAX
Forum http//www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/384
96.pdf http//www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/int
ernetofthings/ Second Life
Internet of Things
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Internet of Tomorrow needs Intelligent Services

• Most of the digital universe will remain
  unstructured
• Tools and techniques will be required to add
  structure to this content to improve search,
  discovery, management, security, and storage
• We will be facing serious problems in
  information
• finding
• extracting
• representing
• interpreting
• maintaining

Source Joao Da Silva, EC
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New roles in services

• Around 10,000 active endpoints described with
  WSDL files
• Service search engines, service crawlers, e.g.
  Aleph
• Service brokers, market places, e.g. StrikeIron

Distribution of Web Services by Country Source
SEEKDA (2007)
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Future InternetComing soon

• Bled conference (March 31 - April 2)
• Bled declaration
• Various aspects of Future Internet
• Issues paper Internet of Services
• Semantically-enriched services
• Enable automatic service discovery, description,
  composition, and negotiation
• Semantic interoperability to facilitate
  composition and middleware support
• Future Internet Assembly

See also http//www.fi-bled.eu,
http//www.future-internet.eu
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Conclusions

• Semantic interoperability a hard problem
• Various working groups in the area
• Future Internet likely overarching theme, with
  semantic interoperability included

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For More Information ...

• FP7
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
• Software Service Architectures and
  Infrastructures
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/home_en.html
• NESSI
• http//www.nessi-europe.eu/
• SOA4ALL, Service Web 3.0
• http//www.soa4all.eu/
• http//www.serviceweb30.eu/
• E-mail
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