1. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Commius: ISU via Email Michal Laclavík Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences on behalf of Commius project consortium

2. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Motivation, problem area IST Enterprise Interoperability Research Roadmap: to address interoperability as a utility-like capability (Interoperability Service Utility – ISU) for enterprises, a capability that is: –Available at (very) low cost, –Accessible in principle by all enterprises (universal or near-universal access) –“Guaranteed” to a certain extent and at a certain level in accordance with a set of common rules –Not controlled or owned by any single private entity Email is good candidate

3. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Motivation, problem area (2) Email is used for interoperability tasks Email – action oriented Asynchronous Context sensitive e-mail infrastructure in every organization communication in a modern organization is over 78% action oriented Workers interact with their e-mail systems on a daily basis

4. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Commius project Commius IST FP7 project Community-based Interoperability Utility for SMEs 1 st Call, 1.3 Network Enterprise objective Addressing ISU like interoperability Commius partners envision a future in which SMEs enjoy a zero-cost entry into interoperability based on non-proprietary protocols. Systems Interoperability –interoperability over SMTP Semantic Interoperability –Understanding communication and –documents exchanged Process Interoperability –Understanding and supporting business process from communication activities

5. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Advances over the existing state-of-art scientific advances –algorithms for context-driven interoperability: semantic analysis of documents and communications to capture and organise contextual information and knowledge –use of negotiation protocols supported by formal concept analysis and utility theory: achieving semantic agreement between partners

6. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Advances over the existing state-of-art technical achievements –downloadable modular system, to be plugged into existing email infrastructure(s) using any email client or web browser –infrastructure of ontologies, holding information about document types and ways of processing these

7. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Advances over the existing state-of-art Business: overcoming three main barriers – economic costs of entry: a lightweight platform able to interact with simple networked environments (e-mail) – lack of skill: the semi-automatic creation and maintenance of an adaptive, networked organisation knowledge base – cultural: it will be perceived as a straightforward extension of the present collaboration services

8. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Objectives Investigate, design and develop methods and components for system interoperability To devise a framework for semantic interoperability To investigate, design and develop methods and components for process interoperability To deliver an open source framework To have validated tools To devise an appropriate exploitation strategy

9. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Consortium Softeco Sismat SpA, Genoa, Italy University of Manchester, United Kingdom DKFI: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Vienna University of Technology, Austria Atos Origin, Spain SingularLogic, Greece FEDIT, Spain Aitek SpA, Italy Techfin SrL, Italy

10. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Thank you! Michal Laclavik

11. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Existing solutions above emails Backup slides

12. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium Existing Solutions on top of E-mail kMail Zimbra Gmail

13. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium kMail

14. Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium ACoMA Aproach ACoMA Core ACoMA GUI –Transferred via XSL to HTML attachment EMBET –Recommendation system –Knowledge notes in context OM – Organizational Memory OnTeA –Pattern based semantic annotation Technology and Standards RDF, OWL, SPARQL Jena, Protégé XML-RPC XML, XSL Java Mail API