Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Software, Services, and Semantics in FP7 Arian Zwegers

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Current practice (Source: Gartner)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 EC situation (Source: European Commission)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 EC situation (Source: European Commission)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Commission Enterprise Architecture Framework (Source: European Commission)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Various models (Source: European Commission)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Functional perspective: domain model (Source: European Commission)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Injecting over €9bn to boost European Information and Communication Technologies

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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 S&S reduce sector fragmentation and align R&D efforts openness: an open initiative mobilising SMEs, academia and industry address key R&D and policy challenges in S&S

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 NESSI Framework NESSI Landscape NESSI Adoption Public Sector (02/2008) Core Services Business Services Proposed Working Group ICT SME Software Engineering Service Engineering Business Process Management Software Oriented Infrastructure User Service Interaction Semantic Technology Trust, Security, Dependability Services Sciences Existing Working Group Health Skills & Employability Future of Internet Open Source Software NESSI Working Groups (Source: NESSI, 2008)

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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 –Vision of Semantically-Enabled Service- oriented Architecture (SESA) –Need for Semantic Execution Environment (See also:

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 ICT Work Programme Future and Emerging Technologies Cognitive systems, robotics and interaction Network and service infrastructures Components, subsystems and embedded systems Digital content and knowledge ICT for health Intelligent car and sustainable growth ICT for independent living and inclusion End-to-end systems for Socio-economic goals Technology roadblocks ETPs i2010 Flagships (Source: ICT WP ) Automatically tagging content with semantic metadata Semantic Foundations Advanced Knowledge Management Systems

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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 Infrastructure/Virtualisation RESERVOIR, IRMOS, SmartLM, STREAM, OMP Users & service front-ends Persist, ServFace, m:Ciudad, ALIVE, OPEN Services SOA4ALL, Romulus, ADMIRE, SHAPE Reference service architecture NEXOF-RA Support actions NESSI 2010, Service Web 3.0 (See also:

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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 SOA As the emerging dominant paradigm for application development which abstracts from software to the notion of a service SOA4All (See also:

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 SOA4All will integrate the service world of large enterprises, SMEs, and end-users SOA4All will transform the Web into a domain where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services enabling them to engage as peers within a network of equals in a seamless transparent fashion (See also: SOA4All

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Semantic Technology Institute Services and clusters Roadmaps service Testbeds and challenges service Standardisation and ref. archi- tectures service Education service Commercialisation service SUPER cluster (Semantic Business Process Modelling) TripCom cluster (Semantic Space-based Computing) LarKC cluster (Web-scale Reasoning) ACTIVE cluster (Semantic Enterprise Knowledge Management) SOA4All/ServiceWeb3.0 cluster (Web-scale service-oriented computing) NeoN cluster (Web of Ontologies) (See also:

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Future research Future Internet Sources: 3GPP, 3GPP2, Qualcomm, WiMAX Forum Second Life Internet of Services, Service Web Networks of the Future 3D Internet Internet of Things Trust Security

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Internet of Tomorrow needs Intelligent Services Source: Joao Da Silva, EC How will the Consumer dynamically discover the existence of a Service Provider? How can the Consumer locate the Provider? How can the Consumer and Provider describe how to connect to each other, in a standard format which can be understood regardless of their IT platforms? How can they exchange messages in a common messaging format which is independent of their underlying platforms? What data format can they use to exchange data independent of their underlying database technologies? 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

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 New roles in services Distribution of Web Services by Country Source: SEEKDA (2007) Around 10,000 active endpoints described with WSDL files Service search engines, service crawlers, e.g. Aleph Service brokers, market places, e.g. StrikeIron

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 Future Internet Coming 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:

Semantic Interoperability: A Practical Approach, I-ESA’08 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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