20090622 Amsterdam Semantics Week

Semantics research
in Europe

Vision without Execution?

Arian Zwegers
European Commission
Information Society and Media Directorate General
Software & 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

Semantics research in Europe

ICT Market, 2006
By region and by product

• Europe is world’s largest ICT market
• Europe has a large software and services
market Office equipment,
1.3%
Computer hardware,
Rest of World, 12.2%
24.2% IT services, 20.6%
Europe, End-user
33.4% communications
equipment, 4.2%

Software, 11.1%

Japan, 14.1%
Datacom and
network equipment,
Carrier services,
6.4%
US, 28.3% 44.1%
Total value = Total value =
€ 2,033 billion € 680 billion
Semantics research in Europe Source: EITO, 2007

IT service providers in
Europe
Market Share Ranking
2007 2006 2007
IBM 11.2
7,7% 1 1
Capgemini 6.8
4,7% 3 2
Accenture 6.8 3
4,7% 2
Atos Origin 5.4 3,7% 6 4
T-Systems 5.2 3,6% 4 5
EDS 4.8 3,3% 5 6
BT 4.6 3,2% 7 7
Siemens
IT
4 2,7% 11 8

Logica 3.8 2,6% 8 9

CSC 3.2 2,2% 9 10

Revenue 2007, Western Europe (in B€)

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

Software providers in Europe
Top 5 and top 5 EU companies

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

1 Microsoft US 9,355 For software and services:
2 IBM US 4,200
3 SAP DE 3,807 • Top 100 Western Europe:
– 60% of companies from Europe
4 Oracle US 2,889 – 43% of revenues stay in Europe
5 Symantec US 1,270
9 SAGE UK 715 • US companies dominate market
13 Dassault Syst FR 469
18 Logica UK 297 • China and India coming up?
25 Software AG DE 192

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


ICT R&D expenditure in
Europe
Annual ICT R&D Expenditure (% GDP) Spending on ICT R&D in 2000
(in Billion Euro)
Japan 29.2
48.8
United States

European Union

Finland

Sweden 93.3

The Netherlands European Union USA Japan

Spain

United Kingdom • Europe is spending less
than other regions in ICT
Germany
R&D
France
• Public ICT Spending is
0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 1.0% 1.2% fragmented across Europe

Leading Internet companies
Communication
Free email Resources
Instant
messaging RaaS

Search SaaS
engines

Information Services
Sharing
files

Social networks Content

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 Programmes
CIP Programme
(Software strategy)
Other?
• Are we going to act
(or not)?

7th Framework Programme
(2007-2013)

Biotechnology
2. Food, Agriculture

Production Techn.
4. Nano, Materials,
COOPERATION

Research
8. Socio-economic
6. Environment

7. Transport

10. Security
5. Energy
1. Health

9. Space
3. ICT
€ 32 B

€ 7.5 B
IDEAS European Research Council

PEOPLE Marie Curie Actions
€ 4.7 B

Research Research for Regions of
Research Science in International
CAPACITIES Infrastruc- the benefit of Know-
Potential Society Co-operation
tures SMEs ledge
€ 4.2 B

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

ICT Work Programme 2009-2010
~2 B€ total

i2010 Socio-economic goals
Flagships
Digital Towards ICT for ICT for
Libraries sustainable Mobility, Independent
and and Environmental Living,
ETPs Content personalised Sustainability Inclusion
healthcare and Energy and
Efficiency Governance
Network and
Technology roadblocks

Service

Future and Emerging
Infrastructures

Technologies
Cognitive Systems,
Interaction,
Robotics

Components,
Systems,
Engineering


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=ZAsb4gtEpaw
http://iiea.com/zittrain/video.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgxGN6cqTA

What is the Future Internet?


Future Internet
Various aspects
Internet of Services, Service Web 3D Internet

Trust
Conway’s Law:
“organisations which design
systems are constrained to
produce systems which are copies of
the communication structures of these
organisations” (1968)
Security

Networks of the Future
http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38496.pdf Internet of Things
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/
Second Life

Challenge 1 “Pervasive and Trustworthy
Network and Service Infrastructures”

Call 4 Call 5
80 MEuro 37 MEuro
The Future Internet

1.3 Internet of Things
1.5 Networked Media
and Enterprise
and 3D Internet
environments Call 5
1.4 Trustworthy ICT

Call 5 110 MEuro
90 MEuro 1.2 Internet of Services,
Software and Virtualisation

Call 4
110 MEuro
1.1 Network of the Future

Call 5
Call 5 1.6 Future Internet experimental facility 80 MEuro
50 MEuro and experimentally-driven research


Internet of Services Vision

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

Number of Web services found by SEEKDA
Adapted 2008, Stockholm Europe 2008, and SEEKDA, 2008
Semantics research in
eChallenges from SAP Research,
crawler during the past 26 months

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 “semantic interoperability
for the Future Internet should be supported”
– 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 actions
Remember: The Workprogramme text is the official reference for the call

Current FP7 projects
under Objective 1.2

Service front-ends
FAST, m:Ciudad, OPEN, Persist, ServFace Service/Software
Engineering
(complexity,
dependability)
Service Architectures
DEPLOY, ALIVE,
SLA@SOI, SOA4ALL, OMP, Romulus, SHAPE
COMPAS, DIVA,
MANCOOSI, MOST,
Protest, Q-ImPrESS
Virtualised Infrastructures
IRMOS, RESERVOIR, ADMIRE, SmartLM, STREAM

Reference service architecture
NEXOF-RA

Network of Excellence: S-Cube

Support actions
NESSI 2010, Service Web 3.0, Flossinclude

• 181 M€ invested, 120 M€ EC contribution
• Timeframe 2008-2011
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/projects_en.html

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?


For more information

FP7
FP7
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/

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

Future Internet
Future Internet
http://ec.europa.eu/foi
http://ec.europa.eu/foi
http://www.future-internet.eu/
http://www.future-internet.eu/

E-mail
E-mail
infso-st@ec.europa.eu
infso-st@ec.europa.eu


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