ICSOC-ServiceWave 2009 took place in Stockholm from 23rd to 27th November 2009. With over 300 attendees, this year’s edition took place over 5 days with 47 papers, 11 workshops, 20 demonstrations, 3 industrial panels and keynotes. Presentations and photographs are being uploaded at www.servicewave.eu and www.icsoc.org.
If you attended and wish to provide your comments and did not fill in the onsite evaluation form, please click here to go to our online survey.
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The OGF28 Programme Committee seeks active participation by key projects in Distributed Computing Infrastructures worldwide. In addition to OGF's chartered groups and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, the Program Committee is soliciting proposals for content that support OGF’s mission of accelerating distributed computing adoption in both enterprise and research.
4 January 2010 - deadline for session proposals at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF28/cfp.php
15 January 2010 – notification
Dear Members and Partners, as a conclusion of the NESSI Assembly that took place in Stockholm on the 26 November, please find a draft presentation of possible topics for the SRA Vol 3.3 that will be given to the EC as an an input to the Work Programme 2011-2013. presentation Members and Partners are kindly requested to propose in the next days some topics on a “bullet points” format. Please write to stefano.depanfilis@eng.it and frederic.gittler@hp.com and cc office@nessi-europe.eu . More detailed information can be sent later to the SRA Committee (same addresses).
Dear Members and Partners, as a conclusion of the NESSI Assembly that took place in Stockholm on the 26 November, please find a draft presentation of possible topics for the SRA Vol 3.3 that will be given to the EC as an an input to the Work Programme 2011-2013. presentation
Members and Partners are kindly requested to propose in the next days some topics on a “bullet points” format. Please write to stefano.depanfilis@eng.it and frederic.gittler@hp.com and cc office@nessi-europe.eu .
More detailed information can be sent later to the SRA Committee (same addresses).
In the context of the ICT Call 5 issued by the European Commission, NESSI has published updated rules for projects to be strategic or compliant to NESSI. NESSI Strategic Projects (NSP) have the primary commitment to work in tight collaboration to build common artefacts which are in direct support of the NESSI Mission and Vision, and contribute to NEXOF. NESSI Compliant Projects (NCPs) also play a key role in the overall elaboration of NEXOF. To date, 11 NSPs and NCPs are active – Download the full information to check how you can be part of this exciting approach and implementation – registrations for NESSI Compliant Projects have to be submitted by 15 October 2009.
Organised as a tutorial, it includes slides and notes and can be used as a primer to NESSI. Please, click here to download it.
NESSI announces the release of its Strategic Research Agenda Vol. 3.2, highlighting the key research topics that reflect NESSI's objectives on the Internet of Services, a mayor component of the Future Internet. If you want to download the pdf please, click here. If you want to have a look at the other NESSI SRA volumes please, click here.
NESSI announces the release of its Strategic Research Agenda Vol. 3.2, highlighting the key research topics that reflect NESSI's objectives on the Internet of Services, a mayor component of the Future Internet.
If you want to download the pdf please, click here.
If you want to have a look at the other NESSI SRA volumes please, click here.
The NESSI Office team just publishes the second edition of its Newsletter. Click here to read it.
NESSI publishes a list of recommendations for Improvement of conditions for Innovation in Europe based on “The European Research Area new perspectives” and “A European Software Strategy” documents. Click here to download the draft.
NESSI has just published a new Call for Partners. This is a unique opportunity to become involved in the coordination of NESSI, at a time where the evolution of NEXOF and the development of new services scenarios are at the heart of NESSI. The call is open to all NESSI members – and closes on 15th January 2008.
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NESSI SRA Committee announces availability of the 3rd volume of the SRA - contribution to FP7 for 2009-2010. Click here to download
The SOI (Service-Oriented Infrastructure) Working Group supported by NESSI-Grid issued a new version of its Strategic Research Agenda on grid-like service-oriented utility infrastructures in November 2007. This second SRA version features a complete coverage of a multitude of envisioned business scenarios including their associated requirements and challenges. Furthermore, it incorporates community input collected by more than 40 independent research/infrastructure projects as well as experts of the field.
Click here to download.
NESSI TSD WG produced a report on future research challenges. The report is available on the private area of the TSD Working Group Web page. More information can be obtained by contacting aljosa.pasic@atosresearch.eu
Key themes for the conference:
Meet your perfect partner at ICT 2010
The European Commission today published the Call for Proposals for exhibits at ICT2010 on 27-29 September 2010. The Commission is looking for ideas in the area of upstream ICT innovation as well as close-to-market projects. We invite any organisation involved in European research and development as well as deployment projects and associated support activities to submit an idea for an exhibit. The call is open to all sorts of actors in ICT research: universities, research institutes, non-profit organisations, public authorities and commercial companies including small and medium sized enterprises. Closing date: 30 March 2010.
Go to related site and on http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=5628&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=type-826
The next FIA meeting will take place in Valencia on 15, 16 April 2010. It is held in conjunction with the event “The European Framework Programmes: From Economic Recovery to Sustainability” (www.r2sconference.eu) where among others the Public Private Partnership (PPPs) on Future Internet will be formally launched. Contrary to previous FIA workshops this one will be open for all researchers involved in Future Internet.
The White paper on the Future Internet PPP definition has been published on www.future-internet.eu.
The direct link to the document is: http://www.future-internet.eu/fileadmin/initiative_documents/Publications/White_Paper/EFII_White_Paper_2010_Public.pdf
You can register to join the EFII community at: http://initiative.future-internet.eu/efii-organisation/joining-the-efii-community.html
The European Commission invites you to the Open Constituency Building event on the Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) to be held in Nice on 12 March 2010. This open event aims at raising awareness among all interested stakeholders about the concepts, focus, structure and implementation plans of the Public-Private-Partnership.
Your active participation is more than needed!!
If you want to make a presentation at the event, send your contribution before 28 February 2010 eob.
Due to capacity limitations of the venue the EC kindly ask you to register as soon as possible for logistic reasons.
When: 1 March 2010
Where: Nuremberg, Germany
Location: Nürnberger Messe, CCN Ost
The meeting will take place on Monday 8 February in Brussels and is limited to 30 persons. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to: Baudouin de Sonis, Executive Director e-Forum, www.eu-forum.org, GSM: +32 475 96 06 28. EMAIL: mailto:Baudouin.de-Sonis@eu-forum.org Location: e-Forum offices, 36 Bd du Souverain, B-1170 Brussels
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to: Baudouin de Sonis, Executive Director e-Forum, www.eu-forum.org, GSM: +32 475 96 06 28. EMAIL: mailto:Baudouin.de-Sonis@eu-forum.org Location: e-Forum offices, 36 Bd du Souverain, B-1170 Brussels
ARTEMISIA Association is very pleased to invite you for the ARTEMIS Spring Event 2010 on March 1st and 2nd, 2010 in Nuremberg, Germany. The event wil be hosted in conjunction with Embedded World Conference & Event 2010. This wil be a very efficient opportunity for industry, R&D and knowledge centres to shake hands during these international events. Attached you will find the full programme of the Embedded World Conference.
Please use this link to register for the event: https://www.artemisia-association.org/meeting/action/meeting/meeting/15 For more detailed information about the programme of the ARTEMIS Spring Event 2010, please visit the website: http://www.artemisia-association.eu/spring_event_2010
Please use this link to register for the event: https://www.artemisia-association.org/meeting/action/meeting/meeting/15
For more detailed information about the programme of the ARTEMIS Spring Event 2010, please visit the website: http://www.artemisia-association.eu/spring_event_2010
We inform you about the upcoming workshop on Interoperability, with title: “Service Oriented Architecture pushed to the limit in eGovernment”. This event is organised by epractice.eu, an initiative of the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society and Media and will take place on February 17th in Brussels. For further information, you may visit the workshop announcement or alternatively download the attached call for participation. To make your registration active, please click here.
To be considered for a speaker placement, please download and complete the attached “workshop form for speakers” and submit to the event organisers by February 9that events@eurodyn.com and cc. Vassilia.orfanou@eurodyn.com.
eChallenges e-2010 Conference & Exhibition takes place in Warsaw, Poland, 27 - 29 October.
We are now inviting extended abstracts (1,200 - 1,500 words) for technical papers, visionary papers, business and government case studies. Proposals to arrange 90 minute workshop sessions are also welcome. Related themes and suggestions for papers and sessions are outlined in the Call for Papers www.echallenges.org/e2010/default.asp?page=c4p
ISTOK-SOYUZ project is to explore new opportunities for ICT collaboration between EU and Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries and to foster the EU ICT programme awareness activities in order to increase the number of the international collaboration projects involving partners from EECA countries; in particular, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
More information on www.istok-ru.eu
With the support of an EC funded (ICT Research programme - Trust and Security) Coordination Action, Think-Trust, an Advisory Board RISEPTIS (Research and Innovation for Security, Privacy and Trustworthiness in the Information Society) has been established as an independent group of experts.
RISEPTIS is chaired by Prof. George Metakides (University of Patras) and has a distinguished membership from industry and academia spread over the various expertise fields relevant for the research area of trust and security in ICT. It has finished its report 'Trust in the Information Society" providing visionary guidance and recommendations on policy and research challenges in the field of Security and Trust in the Information Society.
Following recommendations of the Board members and on behalf of the Board I have the pleasure to send you the link where the report can been downloaded from: http://www.think-trust.eu/public-documentation/public-documents.html
ARTEMISIA Association is organising an ARTEMIS Brokerage Event as a start up for the ARTEMIS JU Call 2010 The launch of the ARTEMIS JU Call 2010 is expected in March 2009. Don’t miss the Call information and the opportunity to meet and match with possible consortium partners. So, please note the date of the ARTEMIS Brokerage Event in your calendar. And most important: COME !
ARTEMIS BROKERAGE EVENT
WHEN: 15 & 16 December 2009
WHERE: Sheraton Hotel Schiphol airport, Amsterdam
Visit the ARTEMISIA website for more information and on line registration:
https://www.artemisia-association.org/brokerage_event_call_2010
In the occasion of ServiceWave 2009 conference, MASTER together with PrimeLife and TAS3 organise common workshop on Identity Management in Service Oriented Architecture. The workshop focuses on the intersection and complementary work related to the identity management in dynamic and reconfigurable service architectures and infrastructures. Presented by the projects MASTER, PrimeLife and TAS3. These projects are complementary and given their state of the art, they are likely to provide the reusable results as well as few key elements of a strategy towards embedding Security and Trust in service infrastructures. The workshop takes place on November 23rd, 2009, at 14:30. More information can be found at MASTER website http://www.master-fp7.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124%3Aidentity-management-in-service-oriented-architecture-common-workshop-of-master-primelife-and-tas3&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=1
We would like to draw your attention to the ARTEMIS brokerage event that will be held on December 15 & 16 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel Amsterdam Airport, the Netherlands. (Dec. 15, 10:00hrs till Dec. 16 17:00hrs)
The European Commission is now in the process of preparing the next ICT Research Work Programme for years 2011-2013. In view of this, the Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures unit is updating the research community's vuision for the area, identifying key technological challanges and research priorities, and establishing a research agenda for the coming years. The consultation is hosted by the site http://www.eu-ecss.eu and can be accessed at the URL http://www.eu-ecss.eu/contribution_list_2010.
NEXOF-RA announced the launch of a continuous open requirement process that aims to increase the alignement of NEXOF with the actual needs of the market, by collecting additional scenarios and requirements. If you want to download the current scenarios and requirements please, click here.
MASTER (NSP project) will organise the workshop "Management of Assurance & Security Metrics in Service Orchestration" that will take place within the WISTP 2009, WOrkshop in Information Security Theory and Practices, September 1-4, 2009, Brussels. For further info please, click here
On behalf of Carlo Ghezzi and Klaus Pohl, guest editors for the special issue on Software Services and Service-Based Systems published by the prestigious IEEE transactions on Software Engineering, NESSI is pleased to publish the relevant call for papers that is available here.
The Reservoir Project is listed as one of the 5 research consortiums to follow in the MIT Technology Review 2009 July/August issue in the Cloud Computing Briefing article. For further information please click here.
The nineteenth of the eChallenges annual Conference Series takes place in Instanbul, Turkey from the 21st of October to the 23rd. The NESSI SME WG will make a presentation focused on the contribution of the NESSI Strategic Projects EzWeb and SOA4All to the technological basis and the competitiveness of the SME. For further info please, visit the Conference website.
Click to see the 4th General Assembly draft agenda. For further information visit the website at www.ines.org.es
The Digital World Forum workshop on Applying Low Cost Information Access Devices in Fostering Social and Economic Development will be held on Tuesday 8 September 2009, 09:00hrs to 17:00hrs in Brussels, Belgium. Registration and other details are available at: http://www.digitalworldforum.eu/workshops/20-future/86-wp2-workshop-low-cost-info The workshop is targeting interested members of various European Technology Platforms, device designers, manufacturers, researchers, innovators, suppliers, consumers, and special interest groups with an interest in low cost information access devices. The workshop is expected to deliver a European Perspective on possible application of such devices in fostering social and economic development, thereby closing the digital divide. A programme for the one day event is attached. In the meantime, the Digital World Forum organizers of the workshop are engaging various stakeholders through various means, among them: ● Blogs or opinion articles such as the ones at http://www.digitalworldforum.eu/workshops/20-future/86-wp2-workshop-low-cost-info ● The ensuing discussion forum at http://forum.digitalworldforum.eu/group/WP2 ● Targeted questionnaires to stratified stakeholder populations ● Knowledge sharing at various formal and informal engagements The goal of all this is to create synergy among stakeholders to facilitate building cooperation roadmaps in ICT research, identifying and connecting initiatives at local, regional and global levels. The Digital World Forum is a project of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the primary European instrument for funding research and technology development.
The 4th General Assembly of INES will be held in Málaga from 8th to 10th July. During the first day there will be among the others Jesús Villasante and a NEXOF representative. A Proposals Workshop with other National Software and Services platforms is going to be organised. If you want to download the press release please click here. For further information visit the website at www.ines.org.es
The SRA of IIP SaaS platform has just been released. Please, click here to download the digital version.
This events (2 days workshops) is organised by SCUBE-ICT and it will take place in Minsk (BY) on 25-26 June 2009 and Lviv (UA) on 2-3 July 2009. During the first day of these workshops, the ICT research areas under Call 5 will be discussed and practical insights on research proposal elaboration will be provided, constituting valuable information, especially for researchers new to EU funded research activities. The workshops will emphasise the emerging collaboration opportunities that exist between ICT players from the respective countries and their EU counterparts, by highlighting case studies, namely examples of existing research projects involving Belarusian and/or Ukrainian partners. Further details of both workshops you will find on www.scube-ict.eu.
STASIS, SOA4ALL, BREIN and the NESSI European Technology Platforms Semantics Group now presenting the updated agenda: http://www.stasis-project.net/downloads/files/Semantics_Week_Info.pdf
We look forward to seeing you there!
If you want to download the 12nd NESSI Newsletter and get more info about the ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 Conference, the new Partners which have just joined us and much more please click here.
NESSI welcomes the Commission Communication on ICT strategy issued on 13 Mach 2009 and a specific support for a Future Internet concerted strategy. If you want to know more please, download the press release, the full working document and the reference document.
NESSI i-Gov WG invites for participation to submit a Call for Proposals about Thematic Network to support User Centricity for e-Governance (ICT PSP Work Programme 2009). This Call is for the creation of a Thematic Network to mobilise and coordinate exchanges of experiences amongst the actors and stakeholders, and produce a set of guidelines for enhancing user centricity in e-Goverment services using the current codes and charters in various Member States. For more information please, contact the NESSI i-Gov WG Chairman.
NESSI has just released a 1st draft with a comprehensive presentation of its story, vision, mission, basis, future evolution, a focus on NEXOF and much more. Please click here to download it and feel free to contribute sending any comments and/or suggestions to veronique.pevtschin@eng.it and to barbara.pirillo@eng.it
You are invited to provide your comments and feedback here.
NESSI has just published its 11st Newsletter - the 1st of 2009! In this edition you will find a presentation of 2 new Working Groups, an assesment about ServiceWave 2008 and ICT 2008 just behind us, information about the NESSI Elections and much more! Please, click here to download
The common point of all the national initiatives taken by many European States towards the future of the Internet is that "they all capitalise on future developments of the Internet. It is now our responsibility to make sure that a common vision and approach emerges from these multiple initiatives. Governments need to be able to cooperate with each other in Europe and at the global level to fulfil these responsibilities" argued Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media, in her speech entitled “Internet of the future: Europe must be a key player” at the “Future of the Internet initiative of the Lisbon Council” (Brussels, 2 February 2009). To view her full speech click here.
Deadline to contribute to NEXOF has been extended from 05/03/2009 to 17/03/2009!
The EDFE has been designed to reference numerous financial education programmes offered by public or private institutions in the European Union. The new database includes standardised information on educational schemes and research projects. It is open to all providers and potential users. By improving access to the information on the existing initiatives, the Commission wants to contribute to enhancing the financial capability of both the... For more information please, click here
NEXOF-RA publishes its second Invitation to Contribute. Please, click here to download the full text.
A collaboration meeting for FP6 and FP7 projects is being organised by European Commission ICT Unit Service and Software Architectures, infrastructures and Engineering on 10 and 11/06/2009 in Brusseles. For more information please, click here.
SLA@SOI and RESERVOIR have been ranked in the 100 top most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem in the SysCon journal. For more information please, click here
NESSI Strategic Projects SLA@SOI and SOA4ALL and NoE S-Cube will be part of the Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE) Summer School, presenting NEXOF’s architecture and related topics. For more information please, click here
En event co-organised by the EC (DG INFSO) and the AUC with the support of the EuroAfriCa-ICT EU project will be held from the 25th to the 26th of March. For the first time in Europe, sub-Saharan African and European policy-makers are being brought together with research organisations to address the development of research collaborative projects in the ICT field! For further information about the Event please, click here
TSD WG is going to participate to many Events for 2009! For more information please visit the TSD WG page or click here
NESSI is in the special magazine Jacquard has delivered for 2008-2009. If you want to download this publication or you are interested in the film about the 6 new Projects which are in the Jacquard Programme please, click here.
The ICSEA 2009 Conference organised with the support of NESSI will take place from the 20th until 25th of September 2009 in Porto, Portugal. Please click here for further information.