20090622 Amsterdam Semantics Week

Semantics research in Europe

Vision without Execution?

Arian ZwegersEuropean Commission

Information Society and Media Directorate GeneralSoftware & Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit


Overview

• How are we doing in Europe?– In ICT in general– In semantics research

• Framework Programme 7–Future Internet–Objective 1.2


US, 28.3%

Japan, 14.1%

Rest of World, 24.2% Europe,

33.4%

Office equipment, 1.3%

Computer hardware, 12.2%

End-user communications equipment, 4.2%

Carrier services, 44.1%

Datacom and network equipment,

6.4%

Software, 11.1%

IT services, 20.6%

ICT Market, 2006 By region and by product

Total value = € 2,033 billion

Total value = € 680 billion

Source: EITO, 2007

• Europe is world’s largest ICT market• Europe has a large software and services

market


IT service providers in Europe

Revenue 2007, Western Europe (in B€)

Ranking2006 2007

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3

2

6

4

5

7

11

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Market Share2007

7,7%

4,7%

4,7%

3,7%

3,6%

3,3%

3,2%

2,7%

9

10

2,6%

2,2%

8

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11.2

6.8

6.8

5.4

5.2

4.8

4.6

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3.8

3.2

IBM

Capgemini

Accenture

Atos Origin

T-Systems

EDS

BT

SiemensIT

Logica

CSC

Source : Gartner IT services 2007 market share database, May 2008


For software and services:

• Top 100 Western Europe:– 60% of companies from Europe– 43% of revenues stay in Europe

• US companies dominate market

• China and India coming up?

Software providers in Europe Top 5 and top 5 EU companies

Rank Company Nat. Software revenue in Europe (M €)

1 Microsoft US 9,355

2 IBM US 4,200

3 SAP DE 3,807

4 Oracle US 2,889

5 Symantec US 1,270

9 SAGE UK 715

13 Dassault Syst FR 469

18 Logica UK 297

25 Software AG DE 192

Source: EuroSoftware 100 - Key players and market trends 2008, PwC


ICT R&D expenditure in Europe

• Europe is spending less than other regions in ICT R&D

• Public ICT Spending is fragmented across Europe

29.2

93.3

48.8

European Union USA Japan

0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 1.0% 1.2%

France

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

The Netherlands

Sweden

Finland

European Union

United States

Japan

Annual ICT R&D Expenditure (% GDP) Spending on ICT R&D in 2000 (in Billion Euro)


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Semantics? What semantics?

http://searchpoint.ijs.si


EU Semantics research Status based on ESTC

• Market follows general pattern?• Vision

– Various theories, concepts, languages, frameworks, etc

– Various prototype implementations– Various standardisation activities

• Execution– How about technology providers?– How about take-up?– Where is the money?

• Research: a means to an end!?


So?

• Axel Hahn: “Web 3.0 = Google Inc?”• Semantics research in Europe,

exploitation in US?• What can Europe do?

Framework ProgrammesCIP Programme(Software strategy)Other?

• Are we going to act (or not)?


International Co-operation

Science in Society

Research Potential

Regions of Know- ledge

Research for the benefit of SMEs

Research Infrastruc- tures

CAPACITIES

Marie Curie ActionsPEOPLE

European Research CouncilIDEAS

9. Space

8. Socio-econom

ic Research

7. Transport

6. Environment

5. Energy

4. Nano, M

aterials, Production Techn.

3. ICT

2. Food, Agriculture

Biotechnology

1. Health

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7th Framework Programme (2007-2013)

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

€ 32 B

€ 7.5 B

€ 4.7 B

€ 4.2 B

10. Security


ICT Work Programme 2009-2010 ~2 B€ total

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Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics

Network and Service Infrastructures

Components, Systems,Engineering

Digital Libraries and Content

Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare

ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance

Socio-economic goals

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ETPs

i2010 Flagships


The Future Internet Current/emerging problems and opportunities

• Current Internet was never designed to be a critical part of an economy’s infrastructure

• Net-delivered services are reshaping the world (search, media, games, social networking, etc.)

• Tripling of the number of people connected (1 3 B)

• Addition of billions—perhaps even hundreds of billions—of devices (sensors, tags, micro controllers)

• User generated content leads to big increase of creative flow of content and processes

• Balance the perceived need for control with the creativity that spawns innovation—and profit?

• Towards tethered appliances or generative technology?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsb4gtEpawhttp://iiea.com/zittrain/video.wmv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgxGN6cqTA


What is the Future Internet?


Future Internet Various aspects

http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38496.pdfhttp://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/

Second Life

Internet of Services, Service Web

Networks of the Future

3D Internet

Internet of Things

Trust

Security

Conway’s Law: “organisations which design systems are constrained to

produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these

organisations” (1968)


Challenge 1 “Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures”

1.1 Network of the Future

1.6 Future Internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research

1.2 Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation

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1.3 Internet of Things and Enterprise

environments

1.5 Networked Media and 3D Internet

The Future Internet

Call 480 MEuro

Call 4110 MEuro

Call 537 MEuro

Call 5110 MEuroCall 5

90 MEuro

Call 550 MEuro

Call 580 MEuro

Semantics research in EuropeeChallenges 2008, Stockholm

Internet of Services Vision

Adapted from SAP Research, 2008, and SEEKDA, 2008Number of Web services found by SEEKDA

crawler during the past 26 months

A multitude of connected IT services, which are offered, bought, sold, used, repurposed, and composed

by a worldwide network of service providers, consumers,

aggregators, and brokers

- resulting in -

a new way of offering, using, and organising IT supported

functionality


Objective 1.2: Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation


ICT Work Programme 2009-2010 Objective ICT-2009.1.2: Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation

Target outcomes

a) Service Architectures and Platforms for the Future Internet– Service front ends– Open, scalable, dependable service platforms,

architectures, and specific platform components– Virtualised infrastructures

b) Highly Innovative Service / Software Engineering– Service / Software engineering methods and tools – Verification and validation methods, tools and

techniques– Methods, tools and approaches specifically supporting the

development, deployment and evolution of open source software

c) Coordination and support actionsRemember: The Workprogramme text is the official reference for the call

“semantic interoperability should be supported”


Current FP7 projects under Objective 1.2

Support actionsNESSI 2010, Service Web 3.0, Flossinclude

Network of Excellence: S-Cube

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects_en.html

• 181 M€ invested, 120 M€ EC contribution• Timeframe 2008-2011

Service front-endsFAST, m:Ciudad, OPEN, Persist, ServFace

Service ArchitecturesSLA@SOI, SOA4ALL, OMP, Romulus, SHAPE

Virtualised InfrastructuresIRMOS, RESERVOIR, ADMIRE, SmartLM, STREAM

Reference service architectureNEXOF-RA

Service/Software Engineering

(complexity, dependability)

DEPLOY, ALIVE, COMPAS, DIVA, MANCOOSI, MOST, Protest, Q-ImPrESS


And now what?

WE have a problem!What are YOU going to do about it?


Conclusions

• March 2008– Semantic interoperability: a hard problem– Various working groups in the area– Future Internet likely overarching theme, with

semantic interoperability included• June 2009

– European ICT market largely dominated by non-EU players

– EU industry exploitation and take-up of EU funded research in semantics is unclear

– FP7 allows for further research in semantics


Questions?


FP7http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/

Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructureshttp://cordis.europa.eu/software-services

Future Internethttp://ec.europa.eu/foihttp://www.future-internet.eu/

[email protected]

FP7http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/

Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructureshttp://cordis.europa.eu/software-services

Future Internethttp://ec.europa.eu/foihttp://www.future-internet.eu/

[email protected]

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