March 2009NESSI NEWSLETTER n° 11

We hope you enjoy this eleventh edition of NESSI’s newsletter. Remember, this newsletter is designed for Members and Partners, for projects and Working Groups, for YOU – you can contribute by sending an email directly to newsletter@nessi-europe.eu

ContentEditorial ……………………………………………… 1NESSI elections ……………………………… 2, 12NESSI chairman interview ………………………… 3The building of NEXOF …………………………… 4ServiceWave 2008 ………………………………… 5News & events …………………………………… 8Strategic Projects …………………………………10Working Groups ……………………………………11NESSI at your service ……………………………12

EditorialWelcome to this first newsletter for 2009. The New Year is a great opportunity to reminisce on 2008 and draw up our plans for the year ahead.

2008 – NEXOF takes off2008 was an incredible year for NESSI. The first semester saw the launch of 6 NESSI Strategic Projects supported by industry, academia and European or national funds. A total of 60 organi-sations committing 120 M€ to research towards NEXOF – the NESSI Open Service Framework.

As soon as the summer started, NEXOF launched its first Invitation to Contribute – reaching out to all players involved in ICT and interested in providing technology to NEXOF’s building process. Over 110 organisations from China, Europe and the United States answered the call and investigation teams are now at work. This open contribution process is at the heart of NEXOF - showing the importance of building NEXOF through the largest possible collaborative process from ICT stakehold-ers - beyond the NESSI community.

2008 – collaboration between eMobility, EPoSS, ISI, NEM and NESSI moves forward ...During 2008, the ETPs eMobility, EPoSS, ISI, NEM and NESSI moved from defining their respective areas of work towards a fully-fledged collaboration. Why? Because building the Future Internet is a common aspiration we can attain working in synergy.

While each domain from telecommunication to data and media, from services to robotics require specific breakthroughs, deliv-ering end-to-end scenarios to cater to users’ needs through innovations require that all aspects be coordinated.

The infrastructure of the future will certainly be the Internet – but not the existing one, which does not as it stands offer sufficient levels of safety, security, privacy, interoperability, openness and trust to provide users with a reliable support for services. To refine this approach, the ETPs created a working structure to define, together, the common understanding and vision of the Future Internet.

... and it was visible at ServiceWave 08

The ETPs also collaborated with aca-demic networks CoreGrid and S-Cube and national platform INES to design the first edition of ServiceWave, a four-day

event that took place at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in December 2008. Co-located with the Future Internet Assembly, ServiceWave 2008 was the first joint event designed as a fo-rum for researchers, educators and industrial practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, ex-periences and concerns the Future of the Internet of Services. It incorporated a Future Internet track where many different points of views were presented, a scientific track with over 100 submissions and industrial panels and keynotes that gave all present the opportunity to envision the future.

2008 – two new Working GroupsTwo new Working Groups came to life in 2008, the i-Government and the Open Source Software. The first one targets di-rectly users and the services that will ease the interactions both between different pub-lic administrations within and across borders as well as between the citizens and their

national public administrations. Very active during 2008, the i-Gov Working Group is working on a position paper that further details the services opportunity.

Another major aspect is the need for Open Source channels in NESSI – both as contributors to NEXOF’s Architecture and as targets for the provision of new services relying on NEXOF. The Open Source Software Working Group is active along a multi-faceted plan to ensure bidirectional links to the Open Source community.

2009 – a fresh round of elections2008 was exciting and prolific in activities – 2009 does not show any signs of slowing down!

The elections held at the end of 2008 led to Mr. Reinhold Achatz, head of Corporate Research and Technologies, Siemens’s central research unit, to take over as chairman of NESSI. In this newsletter, Mr. Achatz details the challenges ahead and the Board decisions yet to come. The elections also led to Mr. Frédéric Gittler, from HP Labs, becoming the new NESSI Steering Committee chairman – a position that requires a driv-ing talent and operational skills in ensuring that NESSI contin-ues to move forward at such an active pace.

Finally, Stefano De Panfilis, R&D Laboratory Director at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica was nominated Technical Director of NESSI, a position that reinforces his role as a key coordinating actor for NEXOF.

ServiceWave

Mr Reinhold Achatz has been elected as NESSI Chairman

NESSI elects new chairmanFor NESSI, after 3 years of operation, it was election time. Mr. Reinhold Achatz has been elected as NESSI Chairman, as well as four Vice-chairs, namely– Dario Avallone (Engineering)– Jose Maria Cavanillas (Atos Origin)– Bruno Nouzille (Thales)– Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM)

Mr. Reinhold Achatz, head of Corporate Research at Siemens, was nominated in November 2008 to also lead the new soft-ware house in which Siemens bundled software development capabilities of its Corporate Technology (CT) department and the software programming capabilities for its three Sectors Industry, Energy and Healthcare. Upon his nomination in November 2008, Mr. Achatz said:

“Linking the technology-oriented software competencies to CT’s research and development activities will optimally support the Sectors in developing systems and help establish a uniform software strategy throughout the integrated technology compa-ny. With standardized processes and a common development infrastructure, software development will be simpler, faster and more efficient. We’re creating a central software house within the company to further drive the integration of the product de-velopment process.” Interviewed in February 2009, Mr. Achatz also spelled out his views on the future of NESSI.

Turn to the following page for the interview of the new NESSI chairman.

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NESSI - the year aheadNESSI Elections

Editoral Contd.

2009 – the Future Internet opportunity continuedIn 2009, the Future Internet collaboration has already led to the publication of the Future Internet vision. It will be followed by the more detailed Research Agenda. In parallel, individual organisa-tions from the ETPs will analyse the opportunity to move towards a private-public partnership on this topic. Major events will in-clude the Future Internet Assembly in Prague under the Czech Republic Presidency in May 2009 and in Sweden in November. In parallel, Service Wave 09 will also be the opportunity to cement this collaboration highlighting the numerous aspects required for the Internet of Services to come to life.

2009 – NEXOF’s second call and new research projectsOf course, 2009 will be focused on the building process of NEXOF, with the second invitation to contribute detailed in this newsletter and the opportunity for all players to contribute. The deadline for full submission has been set to the 17th of March 2009. Don’t miss it!

2009 – collaboration across bordersAnother major axis is the links between NESSI and national initiatives. To date, 6 countries have set up software and serv-ices initiatives, including Bulgaria, Hungary, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Spain while Israel and Italy are analys-ing the opportunity for similar platforms. Expanding the existing collaboration with the national initiatives is in direct support of better research coordination – a key founding goal of an ETP. During 2009, we will enhance our support to the national initia-tives and make their role more obvious through our newsletters, online portals and events.

2009 – Users, Users, UsersFinally, NESSI wants to enhance users participation to its devel-opment. One of the activities will be to involve users as actors in Service Wave 09, a conclusion also derived from the feedback received from ServiceWave 2008. Another activity decided by NESSI in January 2009 is to build on the scenarios that have been developed across NESSI Strategic Projects and in SRAs such as the Grid SRA to create a repository of scenarios. These scenarios will then be used to build specific actions geared to increase the understanding and definition of the innovation serv-ices can bring to existing and emerging application domains. Watch for other activities to come on this major topic during the whole of 2009.

Announcing Service Wave 09 In 2009, ServiceWave joins forces with ICSOC. We will also take the opportunity of co-locating with the Future Internet Assembly event in Stockholm in Sweden in November 2009. Stay tuned for full details on the ICSOC-ServiceWave 09 conference in the next NESSI newsletter. Turn to page 7 to read more about the call for papers and workshops for ICSOC-ServiceWave 09.

Join us at ICSOC-ServiceWave 0924–27/11/2009, Stockholm, Sweden

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Focus onReinhold AchatzHead of Corporate Research and TechnologiesSiemens

Interview of the new NESSI ChairmanQ - Mr. Achatz, in December 2008 you were elected chairman of NESSI. What was your motivation in being a candidate for the organization’s chairmanship?When NESSI was launched back in September 2005, Siemens was one of its founding partners, alongside twelve other or-ganisations that were behind the initial vision. Today, NESSI has fulfilled the first phases of that vision, building up, along the way, a community of more than 350 organizations from in-dustry and academia and laying the foundations for an Open Service Framework – NEXOF – that will ease the deployment of competitive services in a context of interoperability and security. Over the next few years, NESSI’s key assignment will be to pur-sue the implementation of NEXOF in such a way as to motivate the entire ICT community, even beyond the NESSI community, to participate in on-going research and to ensure NEXOF’s ac-ceptance across all target application areas. There is good rea-son to be optimistic about NEXOF’s future: already, over 60 or-ganisations have committed 120 million € to on-going NEXOF research. My vision – and my interest in the chairmanship – is to ensure that the NESSI vision opens the door to full delivery of NEXOF.

Q – What are the major challenges – and opportunities – that face NESSI?From the start, we positioned NESSI in a context of applica-tions – highlighting its value in enabling the delivery of services to users from all domains. As this process evolved, it became evident that the underlying infrastructure for delivering services will be based on the Internet. However, today, the Internet does not provide the required levels of safety, security, privacy and trust that are prerequisites for commercial services. The Future Internet is therefore at the core of Europe’s future. It will set the stage for ICT players, public institutions and everyday people to benefit from easily-accessible, personalized and ubiquitous services. What is our role as providers of such services? To ensure that the ubiquity does not come at the price of privacy, and to ensure that advances and innovations are delivered in a simple, easy to use, straightforward way. This will help to further demolish the digital divide. The Internet of Services is at the heart of this approach. NESSI’s role is to ensure that, through the full collaboration of ICT players, it realizes its promise.

Q – Which services should be made available first? Many areas offer high potential; but four stand out as being particularly important.The first is the health care sector. Here, access to patient records and increased use of data mining will support much better health assistance while reducing the likelihood of malpractice. Against the background of globalization and longer life expectancy, the risks of experiencing a health problem while travelling outside one’s own country are much higher than before – and services are the key to ensuring access to one’s own health information while at the same time providing the required level of data protection. What is more, a range of supporting services may ease associated information exchanges in terms of adaptation to the local context – be it lin-guistic, cultural, or technological.A second and related area to the one I just mentioned is the

aging of populations. As the cost of a hospital stay continues to escalate while the power of technologies such as remote sensing and analysis continues to grow, it makes sense to consider the benefits – both to society and to individuals – of home care of the elderly and of those with chronic illnesses. We see opportunities for assisted living – an approach that can be greatly enhanced by easy-to-use and accessible communica-tion services.

Energy is a third area that has moved from being a national is-sue to a global one. Here, advanced communication services will help balance energy production and consumption around the world through the development of a smart grid. Advanced services will also support carbon trading.

The fourth major area where we see great opportunities and where developments are already on-going is that of i-Gov-ernment; ensuring access to public information and easy-to-use services for citizens – when and where they are required through a range of communication media. One commonality of all these domains is that every single Future Internet-based service requires the highest level of trust and security – without impeding the distribution, availability, accessibility and impact of the service. That’s an equation that NESSI is working to resolve and that is at the heart of the Internet of Services.

Q – In your new role as chairman you have an ambitious agenda. What do you think is realistic in terms of NESSI’s role?NESSI’s role is to enable the delivery of services through NEXOF since NESSI itself will not develop services. It is up to individual players to deliver these services. Therefore, NESSI’s role in this is, beyond the delivery of NEXOF, to foster collaboration be-tween players in the domains where it sees the most potential for new services. To achieve this, NESSI will continue to identify where research is required. It will set up the necessary collabo-rations to ensure that the NESSI Open Service Framework be-comes reality. Most of these collaborations will take the form of research projects. NESSI has shown during its short existence that it can move from theory to practice. The NESSI Board, which I now chair, is in charge of NESSI’s strategic and opera-tional decisions – a model that has delivered results and which I will continue to apply.

Q - When will we see first decisions of the NESSI Board under your chairmanship?We have two major axis of work. On the one hand, continuing research to deliver NEXOF, and on the other, the development of a coordinated approach to a public-private partnership to further sharpen the focus of our program. For the first point, the Board, with the support of the NESSI Steering Committee, has defined the major areas of research for 2009 and 2010. The elaboration of NEXOF, with the support of all the NESSI Strategic Projects and under the coordination of Strategic Project NEXOF-RA, is on track and has just opened its second Invitation to Contribute. The next major milestone will be the European Commission call 5 for proposals in ICT. For the second point, the evolution towards a public-private partnership is under discussion among related ETPs. A first vision document was issued in January 2009 and a Strategic Research Agenda is under elaboration. It will then be up to the ETPs to hand over to the organizations that will drive the creation of such a partnership. I intend to drive the setup of this partnership.

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Interview - The building of NEXOFStefano de PanfilisNESSI Technical DirectorR&D Labs Director, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

Q - Mr. De Panfilis, you have been involved in NESSI from the start, coordinating the development of the Strategic Research Agenda and since 2008 the building of NEXOF. What makes NEXOF so important?

Stefano de Panfillis: NEXOF is the Open Service Framework, and when we proposed to build such a framework, it was the logical conclusion when moving from vision to Strategic Research Agenda and from there to planned delivery. Why? Because the driving force behind NESSI is to ensure that serv-ices can be deployed easily and effectively, and this can only be achieved if all service providers can rely on secure, trusted and interoperable environments.At the ServiceWave conference in Madrid in December 2008, the industrial panels concluded on one very important element, the need for such environments to emerge – not controlled by a single company but shared by all.

Q – If NEXOF is being built by NESSI, how do you see its adoption moving beyond the NESSI Community?A – Yes, it is true it is promoted by NESSI, but it is not built by NESSI only, we have designed a completely open and trans-parent process to ensure that all ICT stakeholders contribute to NEXOF’s architecture and that the decision process itself in-volves the contributors themselves.We have already tested this approach through the 1st Invitation to Contribute, which attracted over 100 contributions from all over the world – far beyond NESSI and even beyond the com-plete community of all the European Technology Platforms. We have issued the 2nd Invitation to contribute, with the 17th March deadline to pursue this process.In parallel, we also have 6 research projects carrying out their work whose results will be contributed to NEXOF. Again, these projects, which are NESSI Strategic Projects (*), include organi-sations independently from whether they are NESSI members or not. In fact, we designed the NESSI research structure to help channel contributions from on-going and new research projects – from all origins. So NEXOF is built by the entire ICT community and will benefit the entire ICT users and developers communities.

Q – What in practice is NEXOF going to deliver? NEXOF is a complete framework. On the one hand, we want to ensure that we deliver an architecture. But on the other hand, we are also working to provide at least one implementation of NEXOF. We decided on this approach to foster a framework whose implementation can be carried out by other parties, leading to multiple implementations but ensuring their interop-erability. Our implementation of NEXOF is therefore important to

provide a reference implementation that in turn will lead to the notion of certification of NEXOF implementations – validating the interoperability without which services will not be able to be de-ployed transparently on any NEXOF compatible environment.

Q – Is NEXOF an open source framework? NEXOF itself is not designed for open source, but we are de-signing a NEXOF reference implementation using open source to facilitate the understanding of NEXOF’s features and ben-efits. The other implementations I just mentioned could be ei-ther open source or proprietary, the importance of NEXOF lies in the shared architectural principles, not in the internals of its implementation. This is also why the open process we are using to build NEXOF is so important – ensuring that ICT stakehold-ers contribute existing and upcoming developments, based on functionality and not on a separation between open source and proprietary. If you look even within the NESSI community, it is a collaboration between different ICT companies – and not all of them are exploiting open source based business models. So the real issue about NEXOF is the Open Service Framework to ensure interoperability of services – building on implementa-tions that can be open source or proprietary or both.

Q – What are the next steps? We initiated NEXOF early 2008, and so far we have 6 running research projects strategic to NEXOF as well as compliant projects. We have 8 investigation teams following the 1st invita-tion to contribute and are selecting the next ones on the 23rd and 24th March 2009 in Brussels. We identified key research topics in the SRA volume 3.2 released in February 2008, and we are prioritizing these during the first semester of 2009. In parallel, we are working on building an interactive online environ-ment that will ease the visibility of NEXOF, the link to the different NESSI Strategic Projects and the fostering of these research pri-orities by the whole community. The next two years are crucial for NEXOF’s development.We are also building a central repository of scenarios gathered from the entire services research community and will make this available to increase the involvement of users in NEXOF – an-other key direction that we want to tackle during 2009.

Q – One last word?Today, everybody recognises that the security and privacy issues can seriously block the adoption and expansion of services. The need for these issues to be tackled leads to the mandatory creation of a services framework - NEXOF is addressing exactly that need, and we will continue to operate the open contribution process and reach out to as many ICT stakeholders as possible.

NESSI Strategic Projects

NESSI Open Service Framework Invitations to contribute

NESSI CompliantProjects

(*) – the six NESSI Strategic Projects are EzWeb, MASTER, NEXOF-RA, RESERVOIR, SLA@SOI and SOA4ALL

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ServiceWavean opportunity for the industry to present their corporate vision of the future.

ServiceWave 08December 10th – 13th, Madrid, Spain http://servicewave.eu

What was our goal in setting this conference series?We wanted to address the major need for a strong collabora-tion between industry and academia in the area of services and the Future Internet. This is in fact in the initial mandate of the Technology Platforms which were proposed by the European Commission to industry as a tool to define the vision and re-search collaborations necessary to address strategic areas of the European Economy. Since this initial vision, 36 platforms have been created in areas ranging from intelligent textiles to software and services. With ServiceWave 2008, we took this

mandate further – through the col-laboration of the organisers from European and National Technology Platforms with Networks of Excellences and the international conference ICSOC.

As organisers, we had a dream …A first edition is always full of chal-lenges – the main one being the

reality check. When we proposed ServiceWave, we had a dream: to foster the creation of cross- community excel-lence by gathering academic and industrial experts from vari-ous disciplines.

… did we see it come to life?The first edition convinced us – and more importantly the audi-ence- that this is not only possible, it is absolutely mandatory. From the feedback received through the rating forms, the con-ference was acclaimed for presenting so many different view points on the Future Internet, as well as the quality of the indus-trial panels, the keynotes and the scientific papers.

The speakers took up the ServiceWave opportunityFrom Spanish Ministry for Sciences & Innovation General Director José Manuel Fernandez de Labastida to European Commission Director João Da Silva, the opening speakers high-lighted the importance of services research and the growth oppor-tunities that emerge in a highly interconnected world – moving from an Internet that interconnects computers and people to an Internet of Things that creates sensory networks of cars, machines, house-hold appliances, energy meters and more. The Internet of things is and will create the opportunity for new applications in efficient transport, intelligent energy, education, health and well-being re-lying on innovation in services to deliver these innovations to all, citizens, businesses and public organisations.The industrial speakers took the ServiceWave opportunity to present their corporate vision. BT’s Bob Briscoe, leader of the Future Communications Architecture Programme, focused on how to fix the Internet

and support new cost models based on quality of the transmis-sion rather thanon arbitrary quantities. This presentation was actually a preview of his longer article published in the December 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum on “A Fairer, Faster Internet pro-tocol”. Through this presentation, Bob gave us a fascinating insight into how a protocol change could lead to business mod-els better adapted to the service reality. His presentation was really a “when technology meets business” approach – directly demonstrating the need for the mixed audience from industry, academia and public organisations of ServiceWave HP Labs’s John Manley, director of the Automated Infrastructure Laboratory, gave us a fascinating overview of how Cloud Computing will be structured to really enable the cloud of services. John highlighted that the billions of services required a flexible yet powerful infrastructure to really come to life, and corporations are targeting their primary focus to the in-frastructure needs, the service opportunities or both – a subtle balance for all large IT companies. Carlos Gavilanes, from Telefónica’s Corporate Strategy, introduced his company’s strategy to create an open world fostering co-creation of serv-ices. He commented that “Users are increasingly participating in the creation of the contents/services they consume, and this is already happening in telecom”. He highlighted that Telefónica has defined a corporate strategy to build on this trend, giving access to selected internal resources through platforms to fos-ter the enhancements and emergences of new services rely-ing on the operators’ networks. He clarified that openness did not mean free; neither does it imply not being secure. Revenue sharing models are part of the strategy, as well as secured APIs that implement controlled access to information.George Rittenhouse, vice-president Bell Labs Research at Alcatel-Lucent, introduced the longer term vision for architec-tures that put the user at the centre of the environment. Under the title “Services Research in a Services Economy” Philippe Janson from IBM Research explained that, as more and more people in the industrial world move from agriculture and manu-facturing jobs into services job, increasing the productivity of the services sector is vital to the continued growth of the econ-omy. Research in this area is pursuing four avenues towards this end: understanding and improving the structure of service delivery processes, improving the quality of service delivery, op-timizing the use of all resources, especially human resources at the core of service delivery, and managing risks in service deliv-ery. All these techniques and disciplines are the ABC of sound management in manufacturing but are typically under-used in the services sector. Correcting this is leading to the rise of a new academic discipline: Services Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME).Luis Correia, the eMobility platform applications working group leader, introduced the need for Europe to be disruptive when carrying out research in the Future Internet. While today the mobile phone or the computer represent the unique inter-faces to information, tomorrow users will become part of the picture through intelligent textiles, interactive backpacks and more. Similarly, we are building location based services by identifying the user’s location – but how about reversing the approach and mak-ing an evolving environment aware of the user’s presence? Overall, he highlighted the need for a disruptive

It was reallynice to have such an excellent mix of industry and academics and public organisa-tions participation.

WHAT DID WE LEARN?ServiceWave 2008 took place in Madrid, from the 10th to the 13th of December 2008. This was the first edition of the ServiceWave conference series, elaborated through a col-laboration between the National and European Technology Platforms eMobility, EPoSS, INES, ISI, NEM and NESSI as well as networks of excellence CoreGrid, Eiffel and S-Cube and

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Lively industrial panels bridging the gap between the technology and the market

“The panels were excellent”

approach to create totally new opportunities based on enlarg-ing the concepts and interaction channels of users. ServiceWave would not have been complete without a pri-vacy and security speech, a task taken up by Volkmar Lotz, Security and Privacy manager at SAP. He highlighted the many needs that emerge from the new levels of collaboration, including the fact that novel services often require deliberate exposure of information and resources, which in turn leads to stringent requirements on usage control for privacy protection and secure collaboration. John Strassner from the Waterford Institute of Technology took us on a tour of the issue of sup-

port in the Future Internet – when things break down, who are you going to call?

Scientific papers were presented over 2 daysThe ServiceWave 2008 scientific call was a great success – with 28 papers selected from over 100 submissions and printed in

Springer proceedings. All the selected papers were presented during Thursday and Friday, with 2 or 3 parallel sessions every morning and afternoon.

Industrial panels served as a reality check ...Three industry panels were the opportunity for lively debates and sometimes conflicting views on three major topics: è is Future Internet more than a buzzword?è what is the impact of IT services in the economy?è how do we build the broad service industry convergence

between IT and Telecommunications?The panels highlighted the gap that separates the market from the research. One of the discussions focused on the fact that “the problem is on the market, we have the technology” – a statement that certainly did not federate the audience! But if this is a business problem, who is going to fix it? And what actually is the problem? The gap was even further evidenced by the fact that telecom operators want to provide mashups of services – while in fact users are looking for a simplicity and ubiquity that requires mashups of telecom operators. Another important element that emerged is the generation gap – the largest applications (in terms of number of users) that emerged in the last couple of years have been invented by younger people - under 30 and sometimes even 20. This is

also driving the openness and collaboration strategies of many corporations in putting out environments that foster the crea-tiveness of users and developers.A third element of discussion was the sheer scale of things to come – the billions of users, the millions of available resources, an unprecedented scale in which consumers will be the kings. The issue is not pushing technology out and being directive about its usage, it is about clearly defining the purpose and fostering the emergence of new ideas. The role of open-source was also debated, and the general agreement was that that “Open Source Software acts as a lu-bricant, with the need for a platform on which others can build”. A clear support for an enabling platform for the services of tomorrow.

... and left us with a set of “unknowns” – on which to build ServiceWave 09 !The industrial panels highlighted the major concerns that are not yet solved. Who owns a service? What will be marketed? What happens when, as in the current evolution, machines be-come users and consumers of services? In fact, the final question was phrased as “To what element will some unknown owner be able to attach an unknown value to be paid by unknown users?”A set of unknowns on which we intend to build Service-Wave 09.

The workshops – 7 half-day sessions to interact on a SaturdaySeven workshops were organised, with topics ranging from in-ternational collaborations to open alliances. Despite this being Saturday, the workshops attracted an interested audience, with each workshop gathering from 10 to 25 people and a total audience of 120 over the day.

What were the main comments from the audience?At the end of ServiceWave 2008, we handed the audience rat-ing forms and 27 were returned to us, about 11% of the audi-ence. Overall, 81% rated the conference positively.

Positive comments included+ the industrial panels were excellent+ the scientific papers were of high quality+ listening to all the different points of view on Future Internet+ networking between different communities

28 paperswere selected and proceedings are available in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5377

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Saturday at ServiceWave 2008 – workshop attendees enjoying lunch

ServiceWave 08December 10th – 13th, Madrid, Spain http://servicewave.eu

The ServiceWave Gala Dinner took place in Bokado restaurant

+ the USB key provided included the scientific proceedings+ the social event and private visit to the Museo del Traje

The audience also expressed concerns, mainly– the unavailability of the Internet connections during the

conference– the preference for workshops to precede the conference– the high number of parallel sessions for the scientific

presentations

What will we do next? Take you to Stockholm …We are pleased to announce that Service Wave 09 will again take the opportunity of the FIA event to co-locate in the same week. The week will start with FIA on Monday and Tuesday morning, followed by Service Wave 09 from Tuesday afternoon onwards.

… for the joint 7th ICSOC-Service Wave 09 conferenceThis year, ICSOC will be back in Europe for its 7th edition. We are uniting forces and creating a joint event: the ICSOC-ServiceWave 09 event. A single conference, taking the cross-community excellence one step further.Watch out for the call for papers that will be released early March with a deadline in June, as well as the call for workshops. We have integrated two types of workshops: scientific workshops for which proceedings will be published in a format similar to ICSOC 08, and application workshops without proceedings de-signed to host working groups, research projects, etc as in the previous ServiceWave 2008.Scientific presentations will be intermingled with industrial key-notes and panels, and we will add user sessions.The Web site will be updated by the 16th March with all the 2009 information – stay tuned to: www.servicewave.eu and www.icsoc.org

ICSOC-ServiceWave 09 Join us in November 2009 to see- how far has the technology evolved?

- what is the cutting-edge research on the Future Internet of Services?

- where is the industry going?

ICSOC-ServiceWave 09Great sponsorship opportunities !ServiceWave 2008 enjoyed the support of 9 sponsors. Our sponsorship packages were very competitive and we are working on the new ones to offer you one of the best value for money sponsorship opportunity in the world!

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NESSI preparing for new research opportunitiesDuring 2009, the European Commission will publish new op-portunities to fund collaborative research through ICT Call 5. The SRA Committee identified the critical topics for NEXOF with the support of the Strategic Research Agenda and NEXOF teams. These topics are detailed in the NESSI SRA Volume 3.2 available online and published in February 2008.In addition to this information, NESSI will prioritise these topics with an SRA iteration during April 2009 with a public release in May 2009. In parallel, NESSI will support its members in the creation of col-laborative research through an online process that will be made available early April.Interested in becoming a NESSI member? Please visit www.nessi-europe.eu.Membership is open to all ICT stakeholders and full details are available online.More information about the NESSI research structure, please visit www.nessi-europe.eu\ResearchStructure which details the Strategic and Compliant projects approach. The existing NSPs are available online under the Projects section.

More information about the FP7 Calls? Visit http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm

NESSI’s National Initiatives task force group coordinated by Atos OriginFollowing the session on national collaborations during ServiceWave 2008, Javier de Vicente coordinated a conference call meeting on 12/2/2009.The visibility of the National Initiatives (NIs) on the NESSI Web site will be increased, with links to each NI as well as an event calendar. Monthly conference calls have been agreed for 2009 and a joint manifesto is being prepared.The task force is open to all national initiatives active in the area of software and services.Interested? Please email directly to Javier de Vicente at francisco.de-vicente@atosresearch.eu

NESSI opens call for 2nd invitation to contribute to NEXOF – deadline 17th March 2009Don’t miss this opportunity to join the building of the Open Service Framework of the future. Turn to page 4 for an interview of Stefano De Panfilis, technical director of NESSI and page 10 for the full text.

ETPs eMobility, EPoSS, ISI, NEM and NESSI release their vision on the Future InternetThe European Technology Platforms joined forces one year ago to define a common vision towards the Future Internet. Their collaboration was made visible both during ICT 2008 where they organised a common session of information and during ServiceWave 2008 which they co-organised. The ETPs released

NESSI News & Events

NESSI at ICT 2008ICT 2008 took place in November 2008 in Lyon. With over 4,000 attendees, this is a high visibility event. NESSI’s infor-mation booth, alongside all the other ETPs, had a great loca-tion directly at the entrance of the conference floor. With seven sessions, NESSI related topics spanned from presentations by the eHealth working group on opportunities for collaborative re-search to NEXOF presentations and strategies.

ICT 2008 was a great opportunity for NESSI to further test the increasing level of interest in NEXOF, and requests for partici-pation by registering existing research projects as compliant projects.

All presentations and minutes are available online on the ICT 2008 Web site

From R&D to standardisationhttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=846

Advanced technologies for Virtualised Systems and platforms for the Future Internet

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=782

Next Generation Services Front Ends in the Future Internet of Services: Research Challenges and Opportunities

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=609

NESSI eHealth Working Group – towards a future health scenario

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=708

Priorities for future research on Grids: EU and International Perspectives

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=635

Research Challenges and contributions for NEXOF, the NESSI Open Service Framework

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=689

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the first public draft of their common vision in January 2009, available from www.future-internet.eu. The ETPs are pursuing their work to move from vision to strategic research directions.

Service Wave 09 moves to Stockholm and joins forces with ICSOCIn 2009, the 7th edition of ICSOC joins forces with the 2nd edition of ServiceWave for the ICSOC-Service Wave 09 con-ference. Hosted by the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm, the conference will take place from 24/11 to 27/11, immediately after the Future Internet Assembly. The conference will include industrial keynotes and panels, a scientific track as well as workshops. The online information will be available on the 16th of March at www.servicewave.eu and www.icsoc.org with a preliminary call for research papers circulated before that. Calls for workshops will also be issued, with a choice of sci-entific workshops with published proceedings and application workshops which do not require prior proceedings.

Research Papers:Abstract due: June 8, 2009 Full paper due: June 15, 2009Notification: July 31, 2009Camera ready due: August 23, 2009

ConferenceStart: November 24, 2009 End: November 27, 2009

NESSI featured in the Jacquard 2008-2009 brochureThe Dutch Software & Services programme Jacquard maintains close ties to NESSI. The latest 2008-2009 brochure features NESSI and can be viewed at http://www.jacquard.nl/?p_id=355&m=433&s_id=433.The same link provides you with the short movies on six Jacquard research projects.

ServiceWave 2008 speaker Bob Briscoe from BT featured in IEEE SpectrumThe December 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum includ es the ar-ticle by Bob Briscoe from BT on the way towards “A Fairer, Faster Internet protocol”. This was also the topic of his speech in ServiceWave 2008. For the online presentation, please check www.servicewave.eu. For the article, please turn to http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/7027

SSOKU 09 – 13 and 14 January 2009NESSI’s Gregory Lopez, coordinator of the NESSI Open Source Software Working Group and Stefano De Panfilis, NESSI Technical Director, presented NESSI advances during SSOKU 09.You can visit http://www.eu-ecss.eu/contents/conference/programme for the SSOKU programme and here to view the live recording of Stefano De Panfilis’s presentation http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/2009/01/soku-by-nessi.html

Upcoming events and important dates The NESSI working groups and strategic projects will partici-pate to the following events, through workshops, sessions, panels or participation.

17/3/2009 Deadline for contributions to 2nd Invitation for NEXOF

23-24/3/2009 NEXOF Investigation Teams workshopwww.nexof-ra.eu

2/4/2009 Workshop on Trends and Future Direction in IT-Telecom Convergence and Long Term Research in the Internet of Serviceshttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/events-20090402-converg-innov_en.html

4-6/5/2009 SYSTORhttp://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/

7-8/5/2009 Research Connectionshttp://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2009/rtd-2009

11-13/5/2009 FIAwww.fi-prague.eu

3-6/6/2009 OSS 09 http://oss2009.org/

10-11/6/2009 Collaboration meeting SSAI unit for FP6 and FP7 projectshttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/home_en.html

16-19/6/2009 SSAIE Summer Schoolhttp://www.ssme2009.tsl.gr

23-24/11/2009 FIA - Stockholm, Sweden

24-27/11/2009 Joint ICSOC-ServiceWave 09 Conference Stockholm, Sweden

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NEXOF-RA launches 2nd Invitation to ContributeNEXOF-RA, the NESSI flagship Strategic Project within the EU Seventh Framework Programme, is building an Open Reference Architecture for service framework through a collaborative proc-ess. In this context, NEXOF-RA invites leading actors; both form Industry and Academia, to join this important community effort by participating to the different “Invitations to Contribute” calls.

After the success of the first call issued in July 2008 in terms of proposals received, researchers interested and number of Investigation Teams set up to build the first set of components of NEXOF, a Second Invitation to Contribute was launched in February 2009.

This time, we seek contribution on:è Core Service Framework Area è Runtime Service Composition è User Interaction Area è Metadata for Service Front End Resources (Phase I) è APIs for Service Front End Resources (Phase I) è Infrastructure Area è Infrastructure Usage and Management Interfaces è Security Area è Multilevel security for SOA è Dynamic security in SOA è Quality of Service Area è Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Quality of Service

(QoS) è Federated and Autonomic Management in SOA

To participate, the following deadlines applyè submission of position paper by March 17th, 2009 è join the kickoff meeting on March 23rd & 24th, 2009 in

Brussels

To obtain further information or check the full text and any up-dates, please visit the NEXOF-RA website (http://www.nexof-ra.eu/open_construction_process). You can contact the coor-dinator of each topic of interest with additional questions you may have.

Strategic Project Reservoir attracts full press coverageNSP Reservoir has generated a great visibility in the press. Visit the page at http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/press/ to view all the press has to say on Reservoir and its on-going research to-wards services virtualisation.

Reservoir featured in the Euro Report by 451 GroupAnalyst William Fellows from the 451 Group focused a Euro Report publication on Reservoir. The report “As a Future Internet of cloudy things emerges, Reservoir focuses on federation”.

The full report is available courtesy of the 451 Group on the NESSI Web site at www.nessi-europe.eu

SLA@SOI and Reservoir selected in the top 100 players in Cloud ComputingThe two NSPs SLA@SOI and Reservoir have been selected in the ranking established by SYSCON’s Cloud Computing jour-nal. For the full ranking, please link to http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/770174

Reservoir partner IBM announces SYSTOR 09IBM R&D Labs, partner in NSP Reservoir, announces the SYSTOR 09 conference on “the Israeli Experimental Systems”. All NSPs are invited to participate and the full programme will be online at http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/

Reservoir NSP results presented by NESSI partners IBM and SAP at CebitIBM Research and SAP Research, members of the Reservoir project, will present some of the Reservoir work in CeBIT. The demonstrated work will include technology for live migration of SAP applications across IBM servers located on different net-works. The demonstration represents first steps towards real-izing the Reservoir vision of application mobility across data centre boundaries.

SLA@SOI, SOA4ALL and S-Cube to present NEXOF and related key topics during 2009 Summer School SSAIEThe Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE) Summer School will take place from the 16th to the 19th June 2009 in Heraklion, Crete. The programme includes presentations by NESSI Strategic Projects SLA@SOI and SOA4ALL, as well as Network of Excellence S-Cube. NEXOF will be one of the topics of the Summer School.

The full information can be found at http://www.ssme2009.tsl.gr/index.php

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Working Groups Corner

The NESSI Working Groups receive dedicated logos and publish manifestosDedicated logos have been designed for three NESSI Working Groups – the Open Source Software, the SMEs and the i-Gov-ernment. Each of these working groups also published a dedi-cated information flyer. You can view them on the NESSI Web site at www.nessi-europe.eu or contact the NESSI Office for printed copies.

The Open Source Software Working Group to organise a workshop at OSS 09The workshop proposed by the OSS NWG has been accepted in the upcoming OSS 09 conference which takes place from 3 to 6th June 2009. For more information, http://oss2009.org/

The Open Source Software Working Group publishes its 2009 roadmap

An updated version of the OSS WG manifesto is available on the website with the roadmap for 2009. Foreseen milestones for the coming year include: è Issuing a position paper on collaborative schema to sup-

port delivery of open service platformsè Analysing OSS licenses and compatibilityè Establishing a OSS glossaryè Carrying out a study on OSS education

More information? Interested to join? Contact julie.marguertie@thalesgroup.com or visit the NESSI Web site / Working Groups section at www.nessi-europe.eu

NESSI SOI Working Group continues For the past two years, the NESSI SOI WG benefited from the support of the NESSI-Grid support action. While NESSI-Grid has ended successfully, the NESSI SOI WG remains in opera-tion. The NESSI hosted page is available at www.nessi-europe.eu and the SOI Wiki is at http://www.soi-nwg.org/. The result of the activities of the SOI NWG can also be found online in the report on Business Grids.

Report from NESSI TSD WG – meeting at INRIA premises in Lyon on November 28thThe main objectives of this second 2008 meeting was to present position papers of NESSI Working Group (NWG), as well as to discuss ideas for future proposals related to the call 5 of the ICT programme. Summary and conclusions from the past NESSI activities as well as FP7 projects (PICOS, PrimeLife, MASTER, NEXOF, SWIFT, COMIFIN, Consequence and Avantssar) were presented. An outline action plan for 2009 was drawn.

Interested to join or participate? Contact Aljosa Pasic from Atos Origin at aljosa.pasic@atosresearch.eu

TSD NWG Future announces two upcoming eventsThe TSD NWG will participate to the workshop “Measurability of trustworthiness of complex ICT systems and services” in Brussels on 9th March 2009.The Future Internet will likely consist of a number of complex, evolving and interacting ICT systems and services. In order to measure and assert a desired level of trustworthiness in this emerging environment, the workshop aims to discuss and identify key advances and future research challenges to be ad-dressed in terms of related metrics, methods and tools. The Workshop is organized by the FP7 AMBER (www.amber-project.eu) and Think-Trust (www.think-trust.eu) Coordination Actions, with the active support from the European Commission’s DG INFSO Unit “Trust and Security”. The TSD NWG will also participate to the workshop on “Securing the Future Critical Financial ICT-Infrastructure” in Frankfurt on the 16th and 17th of March 2009.The EU Coordination Action “Protection And tRuSt In FinanciAL infrastructures” (PARSIFAL) project is targeting an ambitious objective: to coordinate stakeholder activities needed to pro-tect a Critical Financial and Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure, specifically those areas which span beyond a single bank or a single country. This workshop invited the financial industry stakeholders to meet and stimu-late research coordinators on relevant topics, that would help to align the EU R&D communities engaged in ICT Trust, Security and Dependability with the EU CFI stakeholders needs.

SME Working Group reports on 2008 and plans 2009è During 2008, 6 SMEs were selected to be part of the

NESSI 2010 and NEXOF-RA projects advisory boards. This has proved fruitful, and this core group has held sev-eral physical and telecom meetings and will continue to do so every month to both assist these projects and to put more focus on SME activities within NESSI.

è Since teleconference and physical meetings prove difficult, in 2009 we will try another approach...we have reactivated the NESSI SME web pages on the NESSI Web site at www.nessi-europe.eu and also created a “linked in” com-munity referenced from these which are being animated as we speak. If you are an ICT SME or would just like to con-tribute to our activities, please do join us there.

è The main activities on the SME agenda/action list at the moment are:

èwelcoming and integrating old/new SMEs as NESSI partners

èproducing of a NESSI SME flyer for usage at event where we encourage organisations who have a need to a Software and Services orientated SME network with our members

ècapturing more structured information from our mem-bership to assist with the above exercises

èbrainstorming of an ICT SME orientated proposals for FP7 Call 5

èPlease note the new SME Working Group logo - feel free to start using it in your footers to grow and brand our community

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NESSI at your service

How many countries have software and services initiatives linking to NESSI?

èBulgaria http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/nessibg/

èHungary http://nessi.hu/welcome-to-the-nessi-portal

èNorway www.nessi-norway.no

èPoland www.ppti.pl

èSlovenia www.nessi-slovenia.com

èSpain www.ines.org.es

èThe Netherlands www.iipsaas.nl

News about NESSI’s membershipDo you know how many organisations are NESSI members today?

The NESSI community unites 366 member organisations from 33 countries. The community is spread between large industrial corporations (22%), SMEs (25%), academia (49%) and users (4%).

How much did the NESSI grow over the last 12 months? Over the last 12 months, the community has grown from 297 members to 366, an increase of 23%.

NESSI elections & contactsNESSI’s partner elections took place in November and December 2008. The NESSI Board and Steering Committee are now organised as follows:

NESSI BoardChairman Reinhold Achatz Siemens Vice-chair Dario Avallone Engineering Ingegneria

InformaticaVice-chair Jose Maria Cavanillas Atos OriginVice-chair Bruno Nouzille ThalesVice-chair Yaron Wolfsthal IBM

NESSI Steering CommitteeChairman Frédéric Gittler HP LabsVice-chair Patrick Anglard ThalesVice-chair Stuart Campbell TIE – SME relationsVice-chair Juan J.Hierro Telefonica – Future

Internet relationsVice-chair Klaus Pohl UniDueVice-chair Santi Ristol Atos Origin

NESSI Technical Director

The NESSI Steering Committee nominated Stefano De Panfilis as NESSI Technical Director.

All the NESSI representatives can be contacted either directly by email or by sending a request to the NESSI Office.

USERS

ACADEMIA

SME

LARGEINDUSTRIALCORPORATIONS

4%

49%

25%

22% 2008297 Members

2009 +23% 366 Members

NESSI’s Web site evolves To highlight the importance of NEXOF as the key delivery of NESSI and the role of NESSI Strategic and Compliant projects, we have redesigned the Web site to make this information more accessible.

NEXOF is just one click away – from the home page, click on the NEXOF logo on the top right and you will go directly to the NEXOF page. The supporting NEXOF-RA project can also be reached for full details on the structuring and Invitations to Contribute.

NESSI Strategic Projects have each been allocated a page on the NESSI Web site under the Projects heading – from this page, their individual Web sites are also one click away.

Do you want to have all the information in a single location? The news and events from all these projects have been syndicated under the News & Events heading.

Finally, we have also activated direct links and will be adding these in the coming months.è NEXOF

www.nessi-europe.eu/NEXOFè Publications

www.nessi-europe.eu/Publicationsè SMEs

www.nessi-europe.eu/SMEs

If you are a working group or NSP leader and wish to active a specific direct link on the NESSI Web site, please send your request to the NESSI Office.

NESSI Office at your serviceWe remind you that the NESSI Office provides services to all NESSI members, partners and organisations. The NESSI Office flyer details these services and the full information can be found on the Web at www.nessi-europe.eu. If you need a meeting room, if you are looking for another member, if you would like to join a working group, contact the NESSI Office.

The NESSI Office also issues an Office newsletter with the latest news about its services, occupancy and NESSI membership.

Next NESSI newsletter – don’t miss this opportunity to provide your latest news.The next NESSI newsletter will be issued in the first week of May 2009 and distributed both online and in printed form dur-ing FIA which takes place in Prague from 11 to 13 May 2009. News, events and « focus on » sections are available to pub-lish information about NESSI Working Groups, Strategic and Compliant Projects as well as all activities related to the Future Internet and Services events.

Watch out for the 12th edition – featuring an interview of the new NESSI Steering Committee chairman – Frédéric Gittler, and the latest developments on NEXOF.

Please send in your contributions prior to the 15th April 2009 to newsletter@nessi-europe.eu.

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