EzWeb

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EzWeb

• An open web mashup platform for the
  next-generation Internet of Services
• Juan J. Hierro
• Telefónica ID

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EzWeb Project motivation

• The EzWeb Project will deliver main components of
  the front-end web access platform in NESSI
  compliant architectures.

End-users
Problems they face

• Need to enable users to design and share their
  workspace and applications is key
• Speed up the development cycle
• Help to better adjust to target users needs

• Want to configure their own portal to the web
  (Google already in this race)
• Want to correlate content (e.g., a video, a map)
  and services (e.g., buy a video, order a taxi)
• Seamless single point from which to manage daily
  life processes and things around

• cannot afford development of customized
  applications
• Need to mix COTS apps from different vendors but
  cannot afford EAI costs
• ASP solutions are few (they require a huge
  investment) and have not delivered their promise
  too monolithic, not customizable

• Need to develop a suistainable business ecosystem
  where services get provided by different parties
  (no single services provider)

• Apps are not delivered in time and do not easily
  adapt to changes users have to solve problems on
  their own
• Applications are too monolithic difficulty to
  incorporate innovation from third parties
  (available in the Internet)
• Knowledge is not properly exploited

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Main results and contribution to NEXOF

• EzWeb will contribute to the NESSI Reference
  Architecture and Conceptual Model definition in
  what the front-end web access layer respects
• EzWeb and related projects will provide an open
  source reference implementation of front-end
  components in NESSI
• Context-aware Mashup/wiring/tagging/navigation/cor
  relation/discovery web platform (handling of
  interaction between users and resources)
• Resources market-place support components
  (resources registration, link to back-end
  services, usage accounting)

END-USER
Context-awareness
RESOURCES
Large companies
tagging
SMEs
discovery
correlation
composition (mash-up / piping)
Discovery Composition Orchestration
Visual design Visual composition Semantic
catalogue
SELF-SERVICE ( MAKE IT YOURSELF ) IKEA
philosophy
individuals
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EzWeb Main functionalities

• Interaction is adapted and relevant to context,
  given the term context the widest meaning
  possible (device, situation, social context, )
• Users become part of the development lifecycle
  they build and personalize their own applications
  by self-servicing from an universe of available
  resources
• Users collaborate and share resources (contents
  and applications) as well as knowledge about them
• Environment is proactive and assists users
  through smart agents that exploit knowledge about
  context and learn from users interaction
• Captured knowledge is analyzed in order to
  propose automation of routine processes
• At the Internet, open marketplace and
  suistainable business ecosystem where back-end
  providers publish resources and brokers/
  aggregators make these resources available to
  end-users

web resources becomes a basic concept which put
a face on contents and services, making then
visible and tangible to end-users (putting a
face on SOA)
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EzWeb Main research topics

• Semantic description of context and resources
• Ontologies for describing context
• Ontologies for describing resources
• Integration of ontologies and folksonomies
• Folksonomies quality management
• EzWeb front-end Platform
• Dynamic context description management
• Context-aware mashup / wiring
• Context-aware rendering
• Context-aware navigation (exploiting correlation
  between content and services)
• Pull and push-style modes of interaction
• EzWeb Marketplace Support
• Resource Marketplace registration/population
• Context-aware resource discovery/navigation
• Resource usage accounting, payment and billing
  targeted to support advanced economic models

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EzWeb A truly open consortium

• Truly open initiative
• Open Source approach facilitates liason with
  other open source initiatives as well as
  incorporation of additional partners
• Spanish partners funded through national RD
  program Avanz_at_
• Current liason with EU FP7 FAST, CELTIC
  MyMobileWeb
• Aiming to create a global open alliance on
  Service Front Ends with other interested projects

• Universities
• Universidad Politecnica Madrid
• Research Centres
• IMDEA
• CENATIC
• Fundación CTIC
• ITI

• Industry partners
• Telefónica ID
• Intercom Factory
• Yaco Sistemas
• GESIMDE
• TreeLogic
• Codesyntax
• Integrasys
• Alimerka

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Enabling the next wave of services
NETWORKED EUROPEAN SOFTWARE SERVICE INITIATIVE