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Service Front Ends
Juanjo Hierro: jhierro [AT] tid.es
Description
Internet users are expecting that the Web will support their daily life becoming the front-end through which they will get access and mix services (either application services, content/data delivery services) which are truly useful for them, matching their needs at any moment, in a context/knowledge-aware manner.
Several European projects, either EU FP, national or industry funded projects are addressing relevant research challenges in the area of Services Front Ends, dealing with research topics such as context modeling and management, or evolution of web technologies that enable users, organized in communities, to mash-up, configure connect, and share services in a knowledge-aware manner. Furthermore, the FP7 ICT Work Programme 2009-2010 is foreseen to include a dedicated research topic on Service Front Ends, in the area of Service Architecture and Platforms for the Future Internet, focused on technologies enabling communities of networked users with different levels of expertise to search for, compose, configure, share and use services while supporting device and context aware service adaptations.
The Services Front End (SFE) Collaboration Working Group in FP7, chaired by the EU FP7 FAST project, together with the User-Services Interaction (USI) NESSI Working Group, with the support of the Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit of the European Commission (SSA&I, D3, Mr. Jesus Villasante, Head of Unit), have organised the 1st international workshop on Service Front End technologies in the future Internet of Services.
The objective of this workshop is to set up a collaboration schema among projects in order to effectively deliver:
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A common vision on the technologies and architecture associated to Service FrontEnds in the future Internet of Services
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Open specifications and, potentially, open source reference implementations ofcomponents in the envisioned architecture
When agreed, results of these joint effort will be submitted for adoption by the NEXOFRA initiative promoted by NESSI.
A first draft of a vision paper on the area of service front ends is available from this link
A website with more information about this working group is currently under construction, for more information click here
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