 Copyright 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Semantic Web Services Future Plans Laurentiu Vasiliu,Tomas Vitvar, Michal SFI Review October 2005

2 SWS Future – Overview SWS operational structure and focus Future Work and Projects –WSMX –New Application Areas of WSMX

3 SWS operational structure and focus: 3 groups Semantic Execution Environment (SEE) –OASIS SEE TC Standardization Development –New direction for WSMX  semantic Grid Semantic Integration in Business (SIB) –Semantic-enabled integration of business systems –Application domains – e-health, e-government, e-business, telecommunications Industrial and Scientific Applications of SWS (INSA) –e-Banking, Business-to-Business –Geospatial applications, Business Process Management

4 WSMX OASIS SEE TC standardization support

5 Project: SWS Architecture with Dynamic Execution Semantics –Peer-to-Peer and Grid –Dynamic Execution Semantics Project: The Web Service Modelling Toolkit –Visualisation of ontologies, logical expressions, choreographies –Managing and monitoring of WSMX –Integration with other partners Project: Mediation for Semantic Web Services –Data Mediator: Transformation functions, Support for more ontology languages –Process Mediator: WSMX Module Project: Standardization of Semantic Execution Environment –OASIS SEE TC Future Projects: Líon (1)

6 Future Collaboration with Irish Industry –Bell Labs Ireland Semantic-enabled Integration of Voice and Data Services SWS and dynamic e-marketplaces and dynamic supply chains –Nortel Ireland SWS in Call Centres –STORM Ireland E-procurement Data and process mediation Future Projects: Líon (2)

7 Future Projects – e-Health – SAOR project Funded by Enterprise Ireland Start: November 2005, duration: 3 years Joint project with University College Hospital Galway –Oncology and Radiology Unit –High interoperability problems Integration of EPR system and diverse databases and devices –WSMX – underlying technology –WSMX as a intermediary between EPR and other systems –Interoperability of data and processes Benefits: Solving interoperability in health care systems in Ireland also in the context of EU RIDE Project Funding: € 340K

8 Future Projects – e-Health – RIDE project Funded by EU Framework Program 6 Start: 1 st quarter 2006, duration: 2 years (CA) Semantic Interoperability of e-Health Systems –Roadmap to achieve interoperability in e-health –SWS (WSMO, WSML, WSMX) as underlying concepts –Analysis of the best practices in providing interoperability Taking up SAOR results –SAOR results will be promoted in the context of the RIDE project (roadmap, workshops, conferences) Funding: € 138K

9 Future Projects – SemanticGov Funded by EU Framework Program 6 Start: January 2006, duration: 3 years (STREP) WSMX – underlying technology for infrastructure for national and European interoperability frameworks –Interoperability between PA within a country and among countries –Discovery and selection of PA services by citizens –Composition and execution of complex services with multiple PA Benefits: SemanticGov input to REACH in Ireland –SemanticGov and REACH aligned with IDABC initiative of EC –Planned collaboration with REACH project –REACH – national interoperability framework for e-gov services –SemanticGov – European interoperability framework enabling integration within the national framework Funding: € 350K

10 Future Projects – SWING Funded by EU Framework Program 6 Start: March 2006, duration: 3 years (STREP) WSMX – underlying technology for semantic web services interoperability for geospatial decision making –SWS framework of suitable ontologies and inference tools for annotation, discovery, composition, and invocation of geospatial web services. –Reduce the complexity of creating semantic descriptions –Increase number of semantically described geo spatial services Funding: € 314K

11 Future Projects – SUPER Funded by EU Framework Program 6 Start: April 2006, duration: 3 years (IP) Semantic Utilised Process Management within and between Enterprises –Build on results of SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web –Business processes executed within multiple heterogeneous systems –Business processes are not accessible to machine reasoning –Semantic Web Services as underlying technology to annotate and integrate heterogeneous BPM systems. Funding: 1.1 Million

12 Future Projects – TripCom Funded by EU Framework Program 6 Start: 1 st April 2006, duration: 3 years (STREP) Development of Triple Space A highly scalable, semantically enhanced communication architecture TripCom will provide inputs to WSMX for triple space usage Funding: € 592K

13 Projects Allocation SEE –Líon (new projects) –SUPER SIB –SAOR –RIDE –SemanticGov INSA –SWING –TripCom –SUPER

14 Summary SWS operational structure: SEE, SIB, INSA New Acquired Projects and new Areas –E-government: SemanticGov –E-Health: SAOR, RIDE –BPM: SUPER –Other: SWING, TripCom Impact to Irish Industry –E-Health through SAOR and RIDE –E-Government through SemanticGov and REACH project