Projects
EUROPEAN PROJECTS
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
LOCAL PROJECTS
ALLOW
The objective of the project is to develop a new programming paradigm for human-oriented pervasive applications. This paradigm will enable pervasive technical systems to adapt automatically and seamlessly to humans involved and embedded in them, explicitly supporting people in achieving well-defined goals in dynamically changing environments and contexts. The key concept that will be developed within the project in order to realize these objectives is called Adaptable Pervasive Flow (APF). A flow consists of a set of actions that is glued together by an execution plan in order to achieve a goal under a set of constraints. APFs extend this concept by situating flows in the real world and attaching them to entities like artifacts or people, by let them moving through different contexts, and by allowing them to adapt to these different contexts. The project will investigate new mechanisms, methods, and principles for adaptable flow-based pervasive applications and will develop a suitable programming paradigm for this framework.
S-CUBE
S-Cube (Software Services and Systems) is a Network of Excellence funded by EU within the context of the 7th Framework Programme. S-Cube is coordinated by University of Duisburg-Essen, and sees the cooperation of 15 partners from 11 European countries.
The goal of S-Cube is to establish a unified, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community which will enable Europe to lead the software-services revolution, helping shape the software-service based Internet which is the backbone of our future interactive society. S-Cube intends to achieve world-wide scientific excellence by pursuing the following objectives:
- Re-aligning, re-shaping and integrating research agendas of key European players from diverse research areas and by synthesizing and integrating diversified knowledge.
- Inaugurating a Europe-wide common program of education and training for researchers and industry, thereby creating a common culture that will have a profound impact on the future of the field.
- Establishing a pro-active mobility plan to enable cross-fertilisation and thereby fostering the integration of research communities and the establishment of a common software services research culture.
- Establishing trust relationships with industry via European Technology Platforms (specifically NESSI) to strengthen industrial competitiveness and address main societal challenges.
- Defining a broader research vision and perspective that will shape the software-service based Internet of the future and will accelerate economic growth and improve the living conditions of European citizens.
LINK: http://www.s-cube-network.eu/
SLA@SOI
The challenge addressed by this project is the need for a service-oriented infrastructure (SOI) that supports consistent SLA management across the various perspectives of the stakeholders involved in a given application, across all layers of an IT stack, and across multiple non-functional domains such as security, performance, availability, reliability. The concept of this project is a systematic grounding of SLAs from the business level down to the physical infrastructure. This way, SLAs can be ultimately enforced or at least automatically adjusted at the lowest possible level, namely the physical infrastructure, and can also be managed along complete service value chains involving various different providers.
ROWS
ROWS is an industrial project in partnership with Verso21, a part of the Opera21 consortium, one of the major Italian System Integrators. The ROWS project aims at designing, defining and implementing a set of innovative tools for supporting the integration of distributed projects. These are based on technological infrastructures identified in the context of Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event Driven Architectures (EDA). In this context, the SOA unit supports Verso21 in identifying, design and developing innovative tools for process integration, and in selecting promising technologies that can be exploited for that purpose within the project.
YourWay!
YourWay! is a bilateral three-year project between between the Service-Oriented Research Unit of FBK-IRST and DoCoMo Euro-Labs. This collaboration aims at the smart combination of task- and resource-driven service composition as a new paradigm for user-centric service provisioning in mobile environments. Service provisioning in mobile environments is characterized by a high level of heterogeneity both at the level of the supporting network as well of the tasks that the user needs to accomplish. Therefore solutions for service provisioning should consist in techniques and tools that provide advanced support for a user-centered, user- driven, automated composition of heterogeneous, distributed, emergent services in suitable compositions. The composition has to be user-centered and user-driven since the decisions and the control of the composition has to be of the user. It has to be automated since all the technical details on how the composition is implemented and enacted have to be hidden to the user. User centered service provisioning aims at satisfying all these requirements supporting the end user in her interaction with an increasing number of services.
Concretely, YourWay! aims at enabling a framework to support the delivery of end user services in mobile environments, such that (a) services built with different purposes and by different parties can be automatically integrated in the framework, (b) the continual automatic adaptation of service compositions is supported, account for the evolution of user contexts, and (c) the user is given support in taking decisions, staying in the loop and has maintaining full control on the operations of his/her mobile handset.
ASTRO
ASTRO is a research project funded by different research initiatives (KLASE, RISICOM, SMTPPS), and by the RISICOM industrial project in partnership with Delta Dator.
ASTRO focuses on integrating distributed business processes, both intra- and inter-organization. The goal of ASTRO is to develop tools supporting the evolution and adaptation of distributed business processes during their lifecycle, from design to run-time, i.e., automated tools that support the specification and design of services and enable the composition of distributed business processes. Such tools must provide an automated, transparent, and user centered support, automatically performing time-consuming and error-prone tasks such as formal analysis of business processes, process discovery, selection and composition, monitoring and analysis of run-time behaviors, and so on. They should operate in a transparent and user centered way by suggesting solutions that can be adopted, refused, or refined by business analysts, designers, and programmers.
STAMPS
STAMPS (Software Methodology and Technology for Peer-to-Peer Systems) is a project funded by the local Autonomous Province of Trento. The objective of STAMPS is to develop methodologies and technologies for building and using peer-to-peer systems, advancing the state of the art in that field. Peer-to-peer systems consist of a totally decentralized, open-ended and continuously evolving network of peers, where each peer owns data sources and services which it can make available to other peers it is acquainted with. Peers can look for other peers who offer particular services, compose services to meet their own objectives, and execute them. The project spans the methodological, technological, and domain levels. At the methodological level, the project aims at developing novel engineering approaches for peer-to-peer systems. At the technological level, it develops peer-to-peer architectures in order to perform open, dynamic, distributed systems for data management and knowledge management. At the domain level, the results of the project will be applied to selected application domains such as eGovernment and Enterprise integration.
