WISE: Web Intelligence and Service EngineeringInternational Master Program

Department of Mathematical Information TechnologyUniversity of Jyväskylä (Finland)

Brief Introduction

Vagan Terziyan

University of Jyvaskyla

WISE Program Logo (working draft)

WISE Program Slogan and Key Objective

Everything-as-a-Service Engineering: Designing intelligent software applications

for the web-based service economy.

What is Web-Based Service Economy ?

Everything-as-a-Service Engineering: Designing intelligent software applications

for the web-based service economy.

Web-based service economy: emerging service industry on top of the Internet of Services with global service delivery platforms, which utilizes and expands Web 2.0 and future network infrastructure (Internet of Things) [SAP, Amazon, eBay,

Google, Siemens, Philips, etc.]. According to SAP vision, the Web-based service economy in the Internet of Services will likely be an integral part of future economic innovation, value creation, growth, and employment:http://en.sap.info/vision-of-a-web-based-service-society/11099

What is Web Intelligence ?WISE: Web Intelligence and Service Engineering

Web Intelligence: A new area (Web Intelligence) goes slightly beyond the traditional AI and includes brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network intelligence, self-management, etc., to the classical areas such as knowledge engineering, representation, planning, discovery and data mining. Combined with the Advanced Information Technology (e.g. wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, data/knowledge grids, SOA and Cloud Computing, etc.) the Web Intelligence is becoming a powerful tool to manage the emerging changes and challenges within the ICT domain, which will be very useful for educating skillful service engineers.

Everything as a Service Provider

Everything-as-a-Service Engineering: Designing intelligent software applications

for the web-based service economy.

1. Everything-as-a-Service-Provider

Here the knowledge and abilities of the graduates will target the question: What (infrastructure, platforms, software, interfaces, data, etc.) should be additionally provided to make some product or system capable of performing its functionality (data or capability) as a service for external users, businesses or systems through the Web?

Everything as a Service Consumer

Everything-as-a-Service Engineering: Designing intelligent software applications

for the web-based service economy.

2. Everything-as-a-Service-Consumer

Here the knowledge and abilities of the graduates will target the question: How to design products and systems so that they will be capable of automatic real-time discovery, query and utilization of external data and capabilities for better meeting their design objectives and beyond?

Everything as a Self-Service

Everything-as-a-Service Engineering: Designing intelligent software applications

for the web-based service economy.

3. Everything-as-a-Self-Service

Here the knowledge and abilities of the graduates will target the question: How to make systems self-aware, context-aware and capable of self-configuration, self-optimization, self-protection and self-healing while adapting their design objectives in real time to changing execution environments according to the “Open World assumption” (i.e., a system should be able to handle new situations, which were not known during its design time)?

Program Mission and Learning Outcomes

• On completion of the programme, the graduates:– will be able to use and design complex self-managed Web-based public and

industrial systems, digital ecosystems, platforms, services and applications;– will be able to connect their designs with publicly available data and Web-based

capabilities as services;– will be able to figure-out and approach various challenging aspects of wicked

problems world-wide, which require self-managed service-based architectures for their solutions;

– understand and professionally utilize for that purpose knowledge on enabling technologies and tools;

– perform academic doctoral level studies;– will be skilful in international communication due to the integrated language and

communication studies.

• Students, who will graduate from the programme with a Master of Science in Natural Sciences from the Department of Mathematical Information Technology, will think beyond the routine and will be able not just to adapt to a change but to help to create and control it.

What is Digital Ecosystem ?

– “… will be able to use and design complex self-managed Web-based public and industrial systems, digital ecosystems, platforms, services and applications …”

• Digital ecosystem is a distributed adaptive open socio-technical system with properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability inspired from natural ecosystems. For example, digital ecosystems are extending Service-Oriented Architectures with distributed evolutionary computing, allowing services to recombine and evolve over time, constantly seeking to improve their effectiveness for the users. The digital ecosystem is a pervasive ICT infrastructure with a particular architecture and framework, which exhibits some characteristics of the natural ecosystems. It is considered a step forward of internet, which instead of dealing with packets, carry knowledge and services. For example a knowledge ecosystem is considered as a kind of digital ecosystem and it is an alternative to the traditional knowledge management approach (directive management) towards enabling self-organization and dynamic evolution of knowledge interaction between entities (interlinked knowledge resources, databases, human experts, and artificial knowledge agents) in response to changing environments.

Career Opportunities

• Software (Cloud) Service architects: designing the technical infrastructures of service enabled applications.

• Enterprise architects: architecting and aligning enterprises processes, structure, data and control.

• Web Service (IT) professionals: experts in the development and composition of Web services into enterprise applications.

• Big Data and Knowledge engineers, architects, modelers and analysts: experts in Big Data, metadata and ontology engineering, knowledge management, data and knowledge integration and evolution, in constructing data-as-a-service solutions, data-intensive applications, expert-systems and knowledge based-systems.

• Scientists (PhD program): graduates are well-prepared to successfully pursue a career in academia.

Technological Basis for the WISE Program

Semantic Web, Ontologies,

(Open)Linked Data

SOA and Cloud Computing

Big Data

ServiceEngineering

WebIntelligence

Autonomic Computing,

Agent Technology

WISE-Specific Admission Requirement

• Applicants must have sufficient skills in programming, as well as in using related information structures and algorithms!

Degree Structure

Future Internet (IoT)

Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering

SOA and Cloud Computing

Design of Agent-Based Systems

Everything-to-Everything Interfaces

Radio Networks and Self-Organization

Big Data Engineering

Soft Computing

Simulations for Modeling, Decision Support and Optimization

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Prof. Vagan Terziyan

Prof. Timo Tiihonen

Dr. Oleksiy Khriyenko

Michael Cochez

Dr. Karthik Sindhya

Dr. Olena Kaikova

Program Coordination

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Tentative Study Plan for the WISE Program

Autumn - I Spring - I Autumn - II Spring - II

Semantic Web and Ontology

Engineering (5)

Introduction to SOA and Cloud Computing (5)

SOA and Cloud Computing for Developers (5)

Suomi - I (5)

Introduction to Agent

Technologies (5)

Everything to Everything

Interfaces (5)

Integrated Research Communication (5)

Master Thesis(30)

Agent Technologies for

Developers (5)

Autonomic Systems

Optional Tracks

Radio Networks and Self-

Organization (5)

Selected Topics on Soft Computing (5)

Networking

Practical Introduction to

Semantic Technologies (5)

Data

Simulations for Decision

Support and Optimization (5)

Simulations for Modeling (5) Simulation

Other(5) Other(5) Other(5)

Big Data Engineering (5)

Master Thesis Seminar (5)

Future Internet (5)

Self-Assessment on Study Progress (0)

Service Development Project (15)

Tentative Study Plan for the WISE Program

Autumn - I Spring - I Autumn - II Spring - II

Semantic Web and Ontology

Engineering (5)

Introduction to SOA and Cloud Computing (5)

SOA and Cloud Computing for Developers (5)

Suomi - I (5)

Introduction to Agent

Technologies (5)

Everything to Everything

Interfaces (5)

Integrated Research Communication (5)

Master Thesis(30)

Agent Technologies for

Developers (5)

Autonomic Systems

Optional Tracks

Radio Networks and Self-

Organization (5)

Selected Topics on Soft

Computing (4)

Networking

Practical Introduction to

Semantic Technologies (5) Data

Advanced Course in

Simulation (5)Simulations (5) Simulation

Other(5) Other(5) Other(5)

Big Data Engineering (5)

Master Thesis Seminar (5)

Future Internet (5)

Self-Assessment on Study Progress (0)

Service Development Project (15)

Selected Topics on Soft

Computing (4)

Program advertisement letter (eng., ru.)http://www.mit.jyu.fi/ai/WISE_Letter.pdf

WISE Program Brochurehttp://www.mit.jyu.fi/ai/WISE.pdf

WISE Online(distribute among potential students!)

Official Web Site of the WISE Program: https://www.jyu.fi/en/studywithus/programmes/wise

Advertisement Letter for Potential Students: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/ai/WISE_Letter.pdf

Program Brochure with detailed info: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/ai/WISE.pdf

Instructions on how to apply: https://www.jyu.fi/en/studywithus/programmes/wise/how-to-apply

This Presentation: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/ai/WISE.ppt

Deadline for applications: 15 January