Heute bin ich auf dem Symposium des Theseus Programms in im Bundeswirtschaftsministerium in Berlin. Nach der Eröffnungsansprache von Fr. Dagmar Wöhrl folgten mehrere Vorträge. Im folgenden meine Notizen dazu.

Reaching out for the Future Internet

• Referent: Prof. Joao Schwarz de Silva (European Commission)
• Facts: Google indexed 26 million pages in 1998 - today 1 trillion pages, 210 billion e-mails per day today.
• The internet is going wireless (>4 billion subscribers in 2010).
• Future Internet: Smart Living, eHealth and Smart Health Networks, Smart Transport Networks, Smart Energy Networks
• Internet of Services, Internet of Things, "Twitter of Things" (Anm.: Ich würde die etwas weniger "technokratische" Formulierung des "Internet der Menschen" bevorzugen, die Technik sollte sich danach ausrichten, nicht umgekehrt).

Information Explosion Era and Information Grand Voyage Project

• Referent: Prof. Miki Haseyama (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University)
• Grand Voyage Project (GVP), see also Project Pamphlet (7,5 MB, PDF).
• GVP: potential lies in the non-web-data (Size of Cyber Space: 97% non-web-data (485 EB), web pages 0.3 EB, deep web 15 EB)
• Example Sub-project http://view-hokkaido.jp which lets you navigate in images of Hokkaido.

Technologies for the Internet of Services

• Referent: Prof. Lutz Heuser (SAP AG)
• Innovations through ICT - Europe is the largest ICT market in the world - but it largely imports from US, India and China instead of from its home countries.
• Core Business Services: Identity Management, Trust, Integrity, Scaleability
• The vision of the "Internet of Services".
• Sub-projects in Theseus: ALEXANDRIA, CONTENTUS, MEDICO, ORDO, PROCESSUS and TEXO.

A glance on first results from Quaero

• Referent: Peter van der Linden (Quaero Program Office)
• Quaero Project: five years, budget € 200 Mio., 24 Partners
• First year achievements: 300 people working on the program, more than 100 scientific publications.
• 5 Sub-Projects: 1. Digitalisation and content enrichement 2. Digital media asset management 3. Personalized video 4. Search engines 5. PC-/Mobile-Portals.
• Sample technologies are: object recognition, scene segmentation, speech transcription () and translation.
• Examples: INRIA, Voxalead (transcribes video news channels and displays "hot topics" in a tag cloud) and 2424actu.fr.

Process-oriented Knowledge Management

• Referent: Martin Kimmich (Festo)
• Principle "Knowledge is our raw material" leads to knowledge management and longlife learning.
• Knowledge management is a sum of methods to increase the productivity of business processes
• Integrated Knowledge Exchange Framework (communication layer, integration layer, application and codification layer): communication and codification for generating, capturing, distributing and using knowledge in business processes.
• Crisis leads to "sales push" activities through knowledge tools (e.g. SPIMS, Applications+References and Compedia).
• Global Collaboration Platform is based on Microsoft SharePoint.
• Knowledge Networks (Communities of Practice) are established since 2006 (e.g. for industries and internal projects. Three pillars: 1. Global Collaboration Platform 2. Interactive Meetings
• "Knowing is not enought, we must apply" (Wolfgang Goethe)

Technologies for a Smarter Planet

• Referent: Martin Jetter (CEO IBM Deutschland GmbH)
• The Reality of Global Integration: the world is SMALLER, FLATTER and is about to get a whole lot SMARTER.
• Our world is becoming instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
• The digital and physical infrastructures of the world are converging.
• More (digital) data collected in one year than in 5000 years of human history.
• We need smarter transportation, smarter education, smarter food systems, smarter healthcare, smarter energy, smarter retail, smarter countries, smarter government services, smarter water, smarter public safety, smarter regions, smarter cities (Question that came into my mind: where are the smarter people to do that?).
• IBM's fields of technology to make a smarter planet: 1. New Intelligence (information management, business intelligence, business optimization) 2. Smart Work (right information to the right person at the right time, share and pass on information and knowledge) 3. Green and Beyond (data center assesment and design, intelligent utility network, corporate social responsibility and sustainability) 4. Dynamic Infrastructure (outsourcing, service optimization, virtualisation, cloud computing).

Business Perspectives on Web X.0

• Referent: Dion Hinchcliffe (Hinchcliffe & Company, Blog 1, Blog 2)
• Web 2.0 University
• New ways to do old things
• Principles of Web 2.0 (Patterns from the Book Web 2.0 Architectures)
  • The Web as Platform
  • Harnessing Collective Intelligence
  • Data as the next "Intel Inside"
  • End of the Product Release Cycle
  • Lightweight Software and Business Models
  • Software Above the Level of a Single Device
  • Rich User Experiences
  • Innovation in Assembly
• Web 1.0 (transformation) Web 2.0 (evolution) "Web Squared" (Source: http://hinchcliffe.org/img/web2_and_web_squared_small.png)

  
   

• Working Definition of Web 2.0: "Networked systems that explicitly leverage network effects".
• Story of an organization where Mediawiki was introduced for a small group and after 4 month the whole organization was using it.
• The Map of Opportunity: Growth, Cost Reduction, Transformation and Innovation.
• The major shifts: 1. In who creates the values (the network does) 2. How much control we have over our business 3. How intellectual property works 4. ...
• 2.0 everywhere: product development 2.0 (e.g. crowdsourcing), marketing/sales 2.0 (e.g. online communities), enterprise 2.0 and open business models.
• No small system can withstand sustained contact with a much larger system without being fundamentally changed.
• The motive forces of 21st century economics: network effects, peer production, self-service, open business models, new social power structures.
• From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 = from central production (institutions) to peer production (communities of individuals). This is (for sure) a big shift of control (Source: http://hinchcliffe.org/img/20_business_transformation_process.jpg):

  

The Texo Service Platform - Weaving the Internet of Services

• Referent: Rainer Ruggaber (SAP AG)
• Goal of Texo: tradability and compsability of services.
• Services can target IT (from hardware installation to automatic backup), Business (from strategic consulting to rating) and Consumers (from haircut to music download) and can be delivered physical, IT managed/hybrid and digital.
• Service lifecycle: demand, offering, match-making, usage, feedback and innovation.
• IoS Reference Architecture: Service Innovation and Community, Service Engineering, Service Matchmaking and Service Runtime, Service Consumption.
• AGORA Services Marketplace (Personal comment: I don't like using the big idea of Agora for just an "IT-tool registry").

The NESSI Open Service Framework

• Referent: Prof. Hartmut Raffler (Siemens Corporate Technology)
• NESSI and NEXOF Website and the NESSI Strategic Research Agends.
• The overall ambition of NESSI is to deliver NEXOF, a coherent and consistent open service framework leveraging research in the area of service-based systems to consolidate and trigger innovation in service-oriented economies.
• Internet of Contents (Data and Contents), Internet of Things (Things and Sensors), Internet of Users (Users and Knowledge), Internet of Services in the real and virtual world.

European ICT Research Supporting Intelligent Information Management through  Semantic Technologies

• Referent: Dr. Marta Nagy-Rothengass (European Commission)
• DG Information Society and Media: i2010 and the 7th Framework Program to support RTD on next generation of ICTs contribution to sustainable development of europe into a knowledge society (Link to the Lisbon strategy).
• In FP6 there were 62 projects with about 700 contractors and 270 M€ funding.
• FP6 project focus: Cross-media Content, Content and Knowledge, Knowledge and Audiovisual Search Engines.
• FP7 Cooperation Programme: total budget 32.365 M€ (ICT: 27%), 25 objectives grouped into 7 challenges.
• Example Projects
  • Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS)
  • musing.eu (Multi-Industry, Semantic-based Next Generation Business Intelligence)
  • Ontorule (Ontologies meet business rules)
  • PATExpert (Advaned Patent Document Processing Techniques)
  • super (Semantics Utilized for Process Management within and between Enterprises)
• Twitter Hashtag #SO43.

Semantic Technologies - Achievements and Perspectives

• Referent: Prof. Rudi Studer (FZI)
• Semantic Web: data is published and linked together in structured form.
• Semantic Web Stack
  
• Enterprise Information and Processes: Who? (employee, team/departement, enterprise), How? (unstructured, semistructured and structured processes), What? (documents, tasks, team calendar, meetings) and Where? (physical and virtual storage spaces)
• Audi Example Ontology: Engineers, Construction, Product teams, Computation, Product model, Generation of model, Simulation and DB of parts.
• Theseus Ontology Management Toolbox: protégé, OWL API, jena, Sesame and HERAKLES.
• Towards Web 3.0: Service Web (Dynamics), Semantic Web (Semantics) and Social Web (User generated content).
• Semantic Mediawiki (SMW).

Semantic Technologies to Support Business Process Management

• Referentin: Agata Filipowska (Poznan University of Economics)
• SUPER Project, semantic business process management (SBPM).
• Business Process Lifecycle: Analysis (gather requirements, document current state (as-is)), Design (document to-be, specify how to go there), Implementation (implement to-be in organization and IT, change management) and Control (monitor execution, measure/analyse outcome).
• 5 Problems in practice: 1. Business-IT-divide (Personal comment: I like the term) 2. Compliance of business process models 3. Integration/Composition of business processes 4. Change management 5. (Semi-)automatic retrieval and reuse.