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ICT-2009.1.3 Internet of Things and Enterprise environments
FP7-ICT-2009-5 Support Action (SA) Project
“Envisioning, Supporting and Promoting Future Internet Enterprise Systems Research through
Scientific Collaboration”
Deliverable D1.3.1
Project's 1st Workshop Report
Disclaimer:
The ENSEMBLE project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. This document reflects only
authors‟ views. EC is not liable for any use that may be done of the information contained therein.
Workpackage: WP1 - Community Building and Dissemination
Authors:
Irini Matzakou (NTUA), Sotiris Koussouris (NTUA), Fenareti
Lampathaki (NTUA), Yannis Charalabidis (NTUA), John Psarras
(NTUA)
Status: Final
Date: 19/09/2011
Version: 1.00
Classification: Public
Ref. Ares(2011)1020656 - 27/09/2011
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ENSEMBLE Project Profile
Partners
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA),
Decision Support Systems Laboratory, DSSLab
Co-ordinator
Greece
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Di
Analisi Dei Sistemi Ed Informatica “A. Ruberti”
(CNR)
Italy
Coventry University (CU)
United
Kingdom
UNINOVA - Instituto de Desenvolvimento de
Novas Tecnologias (UNINOVA) Portugal
INTRASOFT International S.A. (INTRASOFT) Luxembourg
Contract No.: FP7-ICT-257548
Acronym: ENSEMBLE
Title: Envisioning, Supporting and Promoting Future Internet Enterprise
Systems Research through Scientific Collaboration
URL: http://www.ensemble-csa.eu
Start Date: 01/09/2010
Duration: 24 months
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Document History
Version Date Author (Partner) Remarks
0.10 20/07/2011 Irini Matzakou (NTUA) Initial table of contents
0.20 28/07/2011 Irini Matzakou (NTUA) Initial draft
0.30 03/08/2011 Sotiris Koussouris (NTUA) Updated draft incorporating changes on
sections 3.2 and 3.3
0.40 26/08/2011 Fenareti Lampathaki (NTUA) Updated draft incorporating overall changes in
structure
0.50 04/09/2011 Irini Matzakou (NTUA) Updated draft adding section 5
0.60 05/09/2011
Sotiris Koussouris (NTUA),
Fenareti Lampathaki (NTUA),
Yannis Charalabidis (NTUA)
Updated draft circulated for internal technical
review
0.70 14/09/2011 Sotiris Koussouris (NTUA) Updated draft addressing internal technical
review comments
0.80 16/09/2011 Fenareti Lampathaki (NTUA) Updated draft addressing internal quality review
comments
1.00 19/09/2011 Yannis Charalabidis (NTUA),
John Psarras (NTUA) Final version submitted to the EC
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Executive Summary
This deliverable reports on the 1st workshop that was co-organized by ENSEMBLE project and was
entitled Samos 2011 Summit on “Future Internet: The power to change society”.
The Samos 2011 Summit, took place in July 4th to 6th, 2011 in Samos, Greece at the Research and
Training Institute of East Aegean (INEAG) premises and gathered more than 80 high-level ICT
experts from the area of research, industry and SMEs, interested in Future Internet Enterprise
Systems advancements. It was held under the auspices of the European Commission – DG
Information Society and Media and the FInES Custer, and was co-organized by the ENSEMBLE FP7
project, the Greek Interoperability Centre of the National Technical University of Athens and the
University of Aegean. The Summit was also supported by the COIN project (Enterprise Collaboration
& Interoperability), webinos project (Secure WebOS Application Delivery Environment), PADGETS
project (Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media) and ENGAGE project
(An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Governmental Data Provision towards Research Communities and
Citizens) FP7 projects.
Interesting positions on Policy and Vision for Future Internet Enterprise Systems, presentations on
Research and Innovation in the area of Future Internet, interactive workshops on Interoperability
Science, Visionary Scenarios for the Enterprise and New research Areas and the ISU, were just a part
of the three day agenda that will be outlined in more detail in the present deliverable.
This deliverable is also available online as a stand-alone proceedings report from the Samos 2011
Summit website and the FInES Cluster website.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................ 8
2 Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, Monday July 4th,
2011 ........................................................................................ 9
2.1 Session I: Policy and Vision for Future Internet Enterprise Systems ........... 9
2.1.1 The European Commission framework and outlook on Future Internet
Enterprise Systems ....................................................................................... 9
2.1.2 2020 and beyond: Future Internet for Enterprises drives Governance and
Society ....................................................................................................... 10
2.1.3 Utility service infrastructure in the Future Internet: PPP models and policy
impact ........................................................................................................ 10
2.1.4 Future Internet in the boarders of the European Union: The case of Western
Balkans ...................................................................................................... 11
2.1.5 Questions ................................................................................................... 12
2.2 Session II: Shaping Research and Innovation in the area of Future
Internet: Large Scale attempts................................................................... 13
2.2.1 “From Enterprise Interoperability to Service Innovation: an evolutionary path
from COIN to MSEE FInES Integrated Projects” ............................................ 13
2.2.2 FI-WARE: the core platform of the PPP Future of Internet ............................. 14
2.2.3 The IMAGINE FoF IP Project in the Factory of the Future .............................. 14
2.2.4 The WEBINOS IP Project on Future Web Operating Systems ......................... 16
2.2.5 Questions ................................................................................................... 16
2.3 Session III: Innovative ideas and initiatives in the area of FInES and
beyond ........................................................................................................ 17
2.3.1 “3D Internet: Application of Agent Technologies and Functional Digital Mock-
Ups” ........................................................................................................... 17
2.3.2 “COCKTAIL - Challenges and Approaches of Software as a Service Deployment
for SME's” ................................................................................................... 18
2.3.3 “Business Innovation and FInES” ................................................................. 18
2.3.4 “Seamless Interoperability demonstrators for businesses and governments - The
Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC)” ............................................................ 19
2.3.5 “Seamless Interoperability demonstrators for businesses and governments - eID
Federation Demonstrator” ........................................................................... 19
2.4 Session IV: Poster session – Projects Stands – Networking ...................... 21
2.4.1 Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC), Pilots and demonstrators on automated
interoperability............................................................................................ 21
2.4.2 PADGETS Project, on policy through social media ......................................... 21
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2.4.3 ENGAGE Project, on open data .................................................................... 22
2.4.4 ENSEMBLE Project, on scientific interoperability ............................................ 22
2.4.5 UNITE Project on strengthening cooperation between research teams ........... 23
2.4.6 SYNERGY Project on knowledge-oriented collaboration.................................. 23
3 Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, Tuesday July 5th,
2011 ...................................................................................... 24
3.1 Keynote Speech .......................................................................................... 24
3.1.1 The Greek Digital Agenda in times of crisis: How Next Generation Networks can
change the landscape ................................................................................. 24
3.2 Session V: ENSEMBLE – FInES Workshop ................................................... 26
3.2.1 FInES State of Play and the ENSEMBLE approach ......................................... 26
3.2.2 A preview of the Research Roadmap for Future Internet Enterprise Systems .. 27
3.2.3 Towards a Science Base for Interoperability in Future Internet ...................... 28
3.2.4 Challenges of the Advanced Enterprise: Deep Self-organization ..................... 29
3.2.5 Anatomy of Business Networks: Future Internet Enterprise Systems
Interoperability ........................................................................................... 29
3.2.6 The Activity Domain Theory – A Framework for Investigating Enterprise
Systems ..................................................................................................... 30
3.2.7 Enterprise Interoperability, Future Internet, SMEs Network: a Use Case for FI
requirements .............................................................................................. 31
3.2.8 The ENSEMBLE Workshops objectives .......................................................... 32
3.3 Session VI: ENSEMBLE – FInES Workshop Results and Next Steps ........... 33
3.3.1 Experts Workshop on Visionary Enterprise Scenarios and New Research Areas 33
3.3.1.1 Working Group 1:“Leviathan” Economy ..................................... 33
3.3.1.2 Working Group 2:“Big Brother” Economy ................................... 36
3.3.1.3 Working Group 3:”Gold Rush” Economy .................................... 38
3.3.1.4 Working Group 4:”Hippie” Economy .......................................... 39
3.3.2 Experts Workshop on Interoperability Science Base ....................................... 41
3.3.2.1 Working Group 1: “Neighboring Scientific Disciplines & Paradigms”
............................................................................................... 41
3.3.2.2 Working Group 2:“Problems and Solutions Formal Description
Methods” ................................................................................. 43
3.3.2.3 Working Group 3:“EISB Core Solution-oriented / Application
Elements / Tools” ..................................................................... 45
3.3.2.4 Working Group 4:“EI Epistemology / Scientific Approach and Action
Plan” ....................................................................................... 48
3.3.3 Next Steps in ENSEMBLE – FInES ................................................................. 51
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4 Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, Wednesday July 6th,
2011 ...................................................................................... 52
4.1 Session VIIa: Workshop: Realizing the vision of the ISU: public interest,
competitive service offering and service innovation .................................. 52
4.1.1 Workshop Introduction ................................................................................ 52
4.1.2 Research findings on the ISU in COIN and Service Innovation in manufacturing
ecosystems ................................................................................................. 53
4.1.3 FI PPP Core Platform and the ISU ................................................................ 53
4.1.4 Achieving business and government interoperability through PaaS and SaaS .. 54
4.1.5 Social Economics of services and service innovation ...................................... 54
4.2 Session VIIb: Workshop: ENGAGE Project on Open Data and Citizen
Engagement ................................................................................................ 56
4.2.1 The PADGETS Project on social media gadgets for opinion-mining ................. 56
4.2.2 The NOMAD Project on social media for non-moderated croudsourcing .......... 56
4.2.3 The WeGov project on participatory governance through Future Internet ....... 57
4.2.4 The ENGAGE Project on Open and Linked Data for Science and Society ......... 57
4.3 Session VIIc: Workshop FInES Roadmap Development: Discussing on the
key terms .................................................................................................... 58
4.4 Session VIIIa: Workshop: Realising the vision of the ISU: public interest,
competitive service offering and service innovation .................................. 61
4.4.1 Government Service Utility (GSU) to drive ISU implementation ...................... 61
4.4.2 Future Internet service infrastructures: deployment challenges ...................... 61
4.5 Session VIIIb: Towards FP8: New Opportunities and ideas for FInES ....... 62
4.5.1 UNITE & research collaboration programmes and initiatives (People ITN,
ERASMUS, PhD) .......................................................................................... 62
4.5.2 Generative Internet: The future of Internet between Social and Informational
phenomena ................................................................................................ 62
4.5.3 Opportunities for Publications in ISI Journals about the EISB ......................... 63
4.6 Session IV: Closing of the Samos 2011 Summit ......................................... 64
4.6.1 The Samos 2011 Summit Declaration on Future Internet for Enterprises and
Society ....................................................................................................... 64
5 Samos Summit by Numbers .................................................. 66
Annex A: More Information ......................................................... 67
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1 Introduction
More than 80 high-level ICT experts and decision makers from 20 countries participated in this year‟s
Summit on “Future Internet: The Power to Change Society”, that took place from 4th -6th
July
2011 in the island of Samos.
The Samos Summit was held with the support of the European Commission – DG Information Society
and Media and was co-organised by the University of Aegean, the Greek Interoperability Centre of
the National Technical University of Athens and the ENSEMBLE FP7 project – a supportive action to
the EC Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Cluster.
The Samos Summit was supported by research and development centers of Google, IBM, Microsoft,
INTRASOFT International SA., Engineering, Whitehall Reply and Athens Technology Centre.
The conference included a large number of speeches, questions and answers sessions, presentations,
workshops and other relevant activities from different stakeholders within the field of Future Internet,
such as academic researchers, Public and Private Sector representatives, ICT enterprises
representatives, practitioners, policy makers, people involved in technology and innovation and any
other persons who wish to contribute to the development of Future Internet and its power to change
society.
Within difficult times for most ICT enterprises, researchers and practitioners, this Summit has been an
excellent example of sharing knowledge, exchanging and cultivating new and innovative ideas,
discussing on the future internet perspectives and generally cooperating and interacting for a
common purpose: to further promote Future Internet and exploit its unique characteristics for the
transformation and support of the society of the future.
Two concrete results can be coined to 2011 Summit:
The grounding of the Enterprise Interoperability science base, an effort was made to reach
new levels in describing and solving interoperability problems among systems, enterprises
and organizations for the good of the society.
The initiation of the new Research Roadmap for Future Internet enterprise systems, a
pioneering activity to shape the new directions of European research in the domain.
The above wishes and wills of the ICT research community have been expressed in this year‟s Samos
Declaration, available in the summit web site, being endorsed by numerous members of the
community.
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2 Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, Monday July 4th,
2011
2.1 Session I: Policy and Vision for Future Internet Enterprise
Systems
The EU Agenda for Future Internet and enterprise systems by EC, Industry and Research
Representatives
Chairs: Euripides Loukis, Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Rapporteurs: Carlos Agostinho, UNINOVA, Portugal/Fenareti Lampathaki, NTUA - DSS Lab, Greece
Euripides Loukis opened the Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet and introduced the first
session, which contained four opening speeches.
2.1.1 The European Commission framework and outlook on Future Internet Enterprise
Systems1
Bernard Barani, Assistant to the Director, DG INFSO,
European Commission
The European Commission representative and DG INFSO
Assistant Director, Bernard Barani, in his speech, stressed
that in alignment with the FInES FP8 orientations there is a
need to redefine the enterprise, reducing the boundaries
and creating the trend that everybody is an Enterprise,
thus paving the way to the advent of the intelligent Virtual
Kingdom. The vision of Future Enterprises is for them to be
innovative and distributed with an active presence on the
“cloud”.
In this line, call 8 provides 70 M€ in Objective 1.2 to
promote among other things interoperability across clouds
as well as service and software engineering, and 80 M€ for
objective 1.4 on trustworthy ICT. Mr Barani also mentioned
opportunities under the FIRE initiative, namely for
distributed test beds that can be used for the Enterprise.
Future Internet PPP calls will open the 28th of May 2012,
intending to support the follow-up on the use cases.
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Finally, the future research programme Horizon 2020, has been unveiled. It still needs to be
negotiated at the EC level, but it should put around 80 Billion € available from 2014, not just for
research nor for innovation, but in an integrated way with challenges focusing on science,
competitiveness and societal values.
2.1.2 2020 and beyond: Future Internet for Enterprises drives Governance and Society2
Yannis Charalabidis, ENSEMBLE Project, Greece
ENSEMBLE project representative Yannis Charalabidis
presented the challenges for 2020 and beyond. Historically,
interoperability has been gaining importance since the 1980‟s
and so far research projects have spent 1000 man-years with
this issue. However, we spent 60 years developing systems
that run isolated, thus in the future that needs to change
drastically with interoperability overcoming functionality in
terms of importance for the Enterprise success.
Interoperability should, therefore be a concern right at
systems conceptual stage. Recognizing this need, ENSEMBLE
is working on a research roadmap for FInES over the next 10
years and on the Enterprise Interoperability science base, as
tacking interoperability problems will become more difficult
over the years without a properly formalized scientific base.
Some of the drivers identified for the next 10 years of FInES, include social tools for the enterprise to
enable a fusion of society with the enterprise, interoperability by design thus avoiding excessive
consumption of efforts to enable integration and collaboration, distributed computation power with
the cloud, and machine intelligence to overcome human time consumption in most decisions. We
need to make user demand meet the industrial offerings, as well as society meets the enterprise.
2.1.3 Utility service infrastructure in the Future Internet: PPP models and policy
impact3
Man-Sze Li, FInES Cluster Co-Chair, IC Focus, UK
Man-Sze Li, co-chair of the FInES-cluster, from IC Focus, UK, outlined the crucial need for utility
service infrastructures in the Future Internet. Mrs. Li introduced the internet evolution with a focus on
the European Internet industry growth, 2009-2014. In 2009, internet industry companies had
combined revenues of more than 110 M€, whereas by 2014 the Internet industry revenues should
rise to 31% of total ICT, up from 23% in 2009. Mrs Li explained the service paradigm as evolved
from an IT plug, an IT Switch and an IT tap to an IT Store with an ecosystem view, relationship-led
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rather than cost-based, exploiting utility service infrastructure, and making new needs, i.e. co-design,
co-creation, co-development.
An ISU-like utility service infrastructure is
important for Future Internet to increase the
capability of SMEs to join new markets, to catalyze
the development of new types of services and new
models for the provisioning of such services, to
enable new service ecosystems and to drive
innovation. Mrs Li presented a set of input
variables for building an investment profile for
service utility based on research undertaken in
COIN project. The applicability of competition
models to service utilities was questioned, since
the economics of FI PPP cannot rely on cost-based
pricing or pricing based on traditional supply-demand and Pareto Optima. Finally, Man-Sze pinpointed
that the policy framework remains paramount and decisive in determining the trajectory of FI
development.
2.1.4 Future Internet in the boarders of the European Union: The case of Western
Balkans4
Andrej Krenker, Consalta d.o.o, Centre for eGovernance Development, Slovenia
Finally, Andrej Krenker from the Centre for
eGovernance Development in Slovenia argued that
Future Internet brings forward new opportunities and
challenges in the borders of the European Union and
more specifically in Western Balkans. Despite the
common goal of an inclusive, sustainable and smart
Europe, it was stressed that EU and the Western
Balkans do not collaborate as efficiently as they could
under a common R&D (S&T) strategy. Andrej
underlined that both regions can gain benefits by
potential cooperation schemes: On the one hand,
Western Balkans have younger population (highly
motivated to succeed) and many points of scientific
excellence, but are in need of finances, and R&D
infrastructure and equipment. EU, on the other hand, needs human resources, ideas, knowledge, and
new markets, which Western Balkans already have.
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2.1.5 Questions
The closing question and answer session included the following questions:
-What initiatives do you envisage to enhance collaboration in research for FI among EU and US?
-How can technology support social change?
-How society-driven technology affects the roadmap?
-How interoperability design will follow international principles? How designing software and services
in multi-lingual environments will happen?
-How can someone get in touch with companies found and operating in Western Balkans?
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2.2 Session II: Shaping Research and Innovation in the area of
Future Internet: Large Scale attempts
Key Initiatives in the area of Future Internet (FIA, FInES, FoF, IoS, IoT): The outlook of
Integrated Projects in the area
Chairs: Ricardo Gonçalves, UNINOVA, Portugal
Rapporteurs: Carlos Agostinho, UNINOVA, Portugal / Spyros Mouzakitis, NTUA - DSS Lab, Greece
Ricardo Gonçalves opened the second session which contained three speeches:
2.2.1 “From Enterprise Interoperability to Service Innovation: an evolutionary path
from COIN to MSEE FInES Integrated Projects”5
Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-solutions, Italy
Sergio Gusmeroli from TXT e-Solutions, Italy, explained that interoperability is important to achieve a
smart sustainable and inclusive growth strategy. The concept “Smart” is being addressed by the
Digital Agenda for Europe and its purpose is to make every European entity digital, which is only
possible through interoperable open platforms and standards. However, SMEs lag substantially behind
big firms: only 9% of SMEs use electronic invoices, and only 11% of them have technology-based
human resource management. If SMEs could access the computing power over the web, they would
no longer need to buy and maintain
technologies and applications.
The FInES Cluster aims to find out how
the next generation enterprise systems
will be in a context where the border
between enterprise as an organization
and enterprise service are gradually
disappearing. In this framework, not
every software provider should have its
own interoperability solutions. These
should be opened and put available to
everyone, and this is where Enterprise
Interoperability and Enterprise
Collaboration can form the two sides of
the COIN project. Each concept stands
on its own, but brought together they can multiply the resulting benefits. From a technical point of
view, services can be extracted in an ISU (Interoperable Service Utility) style to be made available to
all enterprises. From a business model point of view, this will work in a SaaS-U (utility services)
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manner and the proposed public-private-partnership is offered for earlier and pragmatic provision and
diffusion of Public Utility services in the industrial ecosystem by local Authorities. This will allow new
business values (e.g. social solidarity, eco-sustainable manufacturing and Service innovation) not just
for the tertiary sector but mostly for agriculture and manufacturing industry.
A new project, i.e. MSEE, will start in October to deal with the manufacturing service Ecosystem. The
main idea is Service Orientation. A new business model is introduced, basing competitiveness on the
service they provide instead of the product, e.g. selling dressing services instead of selling suits. In
order to implement this framework, Enterprises need to develop new approaches oriented towards
business collaboration and solve research challenges concerning alignment of product and service
lifecycles.
2.2.2 FI-WARE: the core platform of the PPP Future of Internet6
Stefano de Panfilis, Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica, Italy
Stefano de Panfilis presented the project FI-WARE, whose
concept is to put together the Internet of People, the Internet
of Knowledge, the Internet of Services, the Internet of
Networks and the Internet of Things. The key aspects of the
project are oriented towards an open architecture that
encompasses service areas and supports the creation and
delivery of services. It is a major technology-oriented project
whose vision is to build enabling technologies that allow the
implementation of multiple types of services for multiple
stakeholders, such as suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers,
retailers, consumers and governments. Service Delivery, Cloud
Hosting, Internet of Things, Data context, Interface to the
Network and Devices, Security and Trust and development tools
for the community are among the core elements of the final
platform.
Collaboration with other projects that belong to an extensive range of usage areas (from
environment, to logistics, safety, agriculture, or instant mobility) and the involvement of other
partners are considered of major importance. Thus, FI-WARE will have open calls for external
participation on 2013.
2.2.3 The IMAGINE FoF IP Project in the Factory of the Future7
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Antonis Ramfos, INTRASOFT International, Luxemburg
Antonis Ramfos from INTRASOFT International
presented the project “IMAGINE - Innovative End-to-
End Management of Dynamic Manufacturing Networks”
which targets to address interoperability issues in the
manufacturing sector. Nowadays, manufacturing
organizations need to develop new products faster and
at the same time accommodate the dynamicity of the
market and the customer requirements. To respond to
that, the industry is seeking modularisation of
manufacturing functions, reaching out for more efficient
resources and innovation, to which IMAGINE intends to
reply.
Manufacturing organizations of the future will be
increasingly performing in networked environments.
There will be global production chains outsourcing and
subcontracting, where the customer will become an
integrant part, and the manufacturing partners will
operate towards a shared manufacturing goal. In fact,
the major challenge of manufacturing is to pose a shared
goal among enterprises, thus needing to re-evaluate and revamp existing management approaches
and toolsets.
Another important challenge is how to orchestrate information from different entities in order to
achieve the shared manufacturing goal. In fact, future enterprise systems need to move from static
and inflexible services to dynamic manufacturing networks. In this context, EAI (Enterprise
Application Integration) also traditionally supports limited point-to-point connections but has no
global visibility, no timely reaction to problems and no easy entry points for SMEs.
To tackle all those challenges, IMAGINE lifecycle methodology addresses network configuration,
design, governance and monitoring. It enables the creation of collaborative and dynamic
manufacturing networks in order to achieve improvements in productivity lead-time and agility for the
design, engineering and deployment of manufacturing processes and systems. The last phase enables
to identify potential problems in time, and take the adequate measures immediately and before the
final release the product.
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2.2.4 The WEBINOS IP Project on Future Web Operating Systems8
Dimitris Askounis, National Technical University of Athens / Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC),
Greece
Dimitris Askounis from NTUA presented WEBINOS, an EU funded project aiming to deliver a platform
based on open source solutions for web applications across devices such as mobile, desktop, home
media, etc. It is an industry driven project and focuses on the development of future internet
systems, defining and delivering key enablers for future Web operating systems with the motto
“single service for every device”. An indicative set of the scenarios envisioned will enable collaborative
sharing of music, events, video-on-demand, and seamless navigation. During its three years of
implementation, WEBINOS will deliver terminal specifications, open source platform developments,
proof of concept applications and demos, with the first applications becoming available in the next
months.
2.2.5 Questions
The closing question and answer session included the following questions:
-Could you elaborate / explain how FI-WARE relates to “SMART PLANET” by IBM & what the IBM role
in the project is?
-Does IMAGINE intend to address existing Enterprise Systems Applications (ESA), such as ERP, etc.?
-Who & how would the generic enablers be maintained by? Who would be responsible for ensuring
their continuous development and free & open availability to all?
-Why “Evolution” is missing from your model of Enterprise Interoperability and Collaboration Systems
and Services?
-How do your projects contribute to shaping research and innovation in the area of Future Internet?
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2.3 Session III: Innovative ideas and initiatives in the area of FInES
and beyond
New projects in the FInES cluster: Innovative ideas for future research
Chairs: Keith Popplewell, Coventry University, UK
Rapporteurs: Sotiris Koussouris, NTUA - DSS Lab, Greece/Vivian Kiousi, INTRASOFT International,
Luxemburg
Keith Popplewell opened the third session of the Summit, which consisted of five presentations on
new and innovative ideas concerning Future Internet.
2.3.1 “3D Internet: Application of Agent Technologies and Functional Digital Mock-
Ups”9
Klaus Fischer, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Klaus Fisher initiated his presentation discussing about the background and motivation of the 3D
Internet and explained the innovation capabilities that computer “agents” possess, which can be seen
as autonomous entities operating in the physical or in
virtual worlds. The work presented by Mr Fisher was
based on the MAS Design Framework, which offers the
possibility to utilise and implement different layers of
modeling and takes as a starting point the description of
interaction between the different stakeholders and
organisations, which are then translated down to
systems for facilitating the modeling phase. Mr Fisher
discussed about the 3D Internet and real-time ray
tracing and demonstrated a video showing a very
detailed model of a natural environment, stating that the
presented virtual world is much more detailed that the
one used in Second Life, but the trade-off is that it is too
heavy at the moment for implementation on personal
computers.
Mr Fisher, after the presentation of the ISReal Platform10
mentioned that semantics are still a major issue for the
3D Internet, however standards for the 3D Internet are available and it is quite easy to link business
models to virtual 3D spaces. However tools for assisting creation of 3D spaces are still an issue and
there is much research to be done in this direction.
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2.3.2 “COCKTAIL - Challenges and Approaches of Software as a Service Deployment for
SME's”11
Markus Bauer, CAS Software GmbH, Germany
Mr Bauer started his presentation
by presenting CAS Software AG and
the company‟s portfolio and
continued with a presentation of
the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
concept and the benefits that are
there for both software vendors
and customer at the same time
(such as low maintenance and
implementation costs and flexibility).
Moreover, he also presented the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) concept, stating that this approach
offers huge benefits for the software vendors, as they are provided with the necessary platforms and
they can focus on their core business objectives. Mr Bauer then introduced the German research
project COCKTAIL, which aims at offering a PaaS infrastructure so that Apps can be deployed over it,
offering scalable mash-ups and SaaS infrastructures to the stakeholders. According to Mr Bauer, the
definition of an app for COCKTAIL is a software implementation that cross-cuts all layers, covers a
focused user scenario, contains interaction patterns, data definition, validators, business rules,
customer specific code, etc. Mr Bauer concluded stating that apart from the technological issues,
there are still many organizational challenges that need to be tackled, as new business models derive
from the app concept, while at the same time is essential that processes in a company are tailored for
efficiently serving SaaS customers.
2.3.3 “Business Innovation and FInES”12
Michele Missikoff, CNR-IASI, Italy
Mr Missikoff started his presentation by announcing the
BIVEE project, which will start on the 1st of September 2011
and will last for 36 months. Starting from the assumption
that globalisation and extensive use of knowledge may be
an answer to the current financial crisis, he expressed the
vision of the project, which is the continuous alignment of
businesses and software architectures. He stated that
currently we could see two different levels towards
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transforming an enterprise, which are tightly interconnected: Improvement and Innovation. BIVEE
will implement a platform to be integrated with existing enterprise software applications that will help
to identify innovation needs and opportunities and understand the adoption of innovation through
simulation and data analytics. The platform will target network collaboration and interoperable
virtual/real enterprises and will also be used by other experts, facilitating the concept of
intermediation.
2.3.4 “Seamless Interoperability demonstrators for businesses and governments - The
Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC)”13
Dimitris Askounis, National Technical University of Athens / Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC),
Greece
Mr Askounis presented the Greek Interoperability Centre, focusing
on its scope and aim, the currently deployed network of partners
and research associates. He provided an overview of the Centre‟s
research orientations, the on-going and completed projects, as well
as the training and capacity building services.
He also introduced the GIC‟s researchers exchange programme
and the Centre‟s research publications and contributions. Mr
Askounis stressed out that GIC since the beginning of its creation is
publishing the “GIC interoperability guides” that contain valuable
information and figures regarding Enterprise Interoperability and
then gave a brief description of the various GIC demonstrators that
are currently running in the Decision Support Laboratory of
National Technical University of Athens.
2.3.5 “Seamless Interoperability demonstrators for
businesses and governments - eID Federation
Demonstrator”14
Harry Tsavdaris, National Technical University of Athens /
Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC), Greece
Mr Tsavdaris, GIC‟s technical manager, presented then in
more detail two of the GIC‟s demonstrators. The first one,
called “eID Federation Demonstrator”, demonstrated a way to
deal with the management and federation of eID credentials,
which is a very common problem especially in the public
sector, as the organisational structure is quite “soft” and
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constantly changing. The second demonstration was about the “GIC Social” widget that allows users
to manage and aggregate from a single environment their social network accounts and feeds, such as
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
The closing question and answer session included, amongst others topics, the extent to which
today people reach the far steps of innovation (not the initial steps), the explanation of the SaaS
providers‟ strategy and the means and systems used for presenting innovative knowledge.
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2.4 Session IV: Poster session – Projects Stands – Networking
During this session, participants had the opportunity to see and discuss in front of posters and
workstations from several research and academic projects in the area of Future Internet.
2.4.1 Greek Interoperability Centre (GIC), Pilots and demonstrators on automated
interoperability
Harry Tsavdaris, GIC Technical Manager,
presented a set of GIC‟s demonstrators to the
Summit‟s Participants. He explained that GIC
elaborates and develops demonstration
scenarios for highlighting interoperability
aspects, technology solutions and research
directions in e-Government, e-Business and e-
Participation application domains. Mr Tsavdaris
stressed out that in GIC, proof-of-concept
activities, demonstrators and test-beds focus
on promoting and advancing interoperability
research in the South-Eastern Europe, the
Mediterranean region and in the wider
European Research Area. Moreover, they facilitate the decision making procedures on behalf of
businesses or governmental organizations, whose personnel may not have the necessary know-how
to evaluate them or is not even aware of such solutions, by clarifying the choices at hand.
Participants had the opportunity to use in practise the demos on the workstation‟s PC (see in picture)
and study more about each demo from its brochure provided on the GIC‟s desk.
2.4.2 PADGETS Project, on policy through social media
Researchers representing this project,
presented PADGETS as a project that
introduces the concept of a Policy Gadget
(PADGET) – similarly to the approach of
gadget applications in web 2.0 – to
represent a micro web application that
combines a policy message with underlying
group knowledge in social media (in the
form of content and user activities) and
interacts with end users in popular locations
(such as social networks, blogs, forums,
news sites, etc.) in order to get and convey their input to policy makers.
Apart from the project overview, scope, approach and impact, PADGETS researchers also gave
information about the project‟s developments and achievements, its current status, its latest news
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and future activities. Finally, the Summit‟s participants were provided with the project‟s brochure,
which provided them the opportunity to get further information.
2.4.3 ENGAGE Project, on open data
Only a few days after its kick-off meeting in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA,
Athens), the ENGAGE eInfrastructures Research Project on Open Data was also present at the Samos
2011 Summit. ENGAGE targets at the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure,
incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation,
semantic annotation and visualization tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and
governance-related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering
the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens.
Partners and researchers that are currently involved in this project, informed the Summit‟s
participants about this new project, its scope and its goals.
2.4.4 ENSEMBLE Project, on scientific interoperability
ENSEMBLE project is a coordination and support action (CSA) that combines systemic approaches,
scientific multi-disciplinarity and innovative Web 2.0 collaboration tools with a community-driven
mentality, to significantly increase the impact of the future internet enterprise systems domain.
Mrs Vivian Kiousi and Mr Christos Georgousopoulos (photo), ENSEMBLE representatives from
INTRASOFT International, informed the Summit‟s Participants about the challenges and key issues for
the scientific foundations of Enterprise Interoperability, as the project‟s goal is to transform the
Enterprise Interoperability application area into a vibrant scientific domain.
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2.4.5 UNITE Project on strengthening cooperation between research teams
Ricardo Gonçalves, main representative of the UNITE
Project, was providing the Summit‟s participants with all
the necessary information about the UNITE Project, which
aims to support the flow of skilled people among
universities, research institutes, and business-related
companies between the EU Member States. Mr Gonçalves
also mentioned that within the project, a set of targeted
workshops and doctoral symposiums are being organized
across the enlarged Europe, in order to build-up synergies
and support networking and collaborations. Based on the
structure of the federated theme “Future Internet", UNITE
aims at creating three virtual communities around the
Internet of Services, the Internet of Things and a virtual
community for the other areas from the Future of Internet
(Network of the Future, 3D and Media Internet,
Trustworthy ICT).
2.4.6 SYNERGY Project on knowledge-oriented collaboration
Keith Popplewell, main representative of the SYNERGY Project, explained that SYNERGY researches
the knowledge sharing and collaboration support needs of stakeholders working collaboratively within
partnerships based on Virtual Organisation (VO) business models. It aims to enhance effective
knowledge sharing between organisations and to stimulate collaboration by developing a highly
intelligent technological system based on collaboration patterns and knowledge flows. The goal is to
enhance support of the networked enterprise in the successful, timely creation of, and participation in
collaborative VOs by providing an infrastructure and services to discover, capture, deliver and apply
knowledge relevant to collaboration creation and operation.
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3 Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, Tuesday July 5th,
2011
3.1 Keynote Speech
3.1.1 The Greek Digital Agenda in times of crisis: How Next Generation Networks can
change the landscape15
Sokratis Katsikas, General Secretary for Communications at Ministry of Infrastructures, Transports &
Networks
Mr Sokratis Katsikas presented the vision of the Greek
Digital Agenda, focusing mainly on the need for increased
broadband coverage and penetration, in order to close the
existing digital gap in Greece and prepare that way, a
smoother transition to the Next Generation Networks
(NGNs). Notably, he mentioned that special focus will be
given to less advantageous areas.
He presented and analysed thoroughly the Broadband
Strategy within the Greek Digital Agenda, taking into
consideration the present situation in Greece regarding the
Internet use, the corresponding legislation and the general
needs in broadband internet, explaining how Greece will
benefit from the economic and social impact that the
increased Broadband coverage and penetration will bring.
Moreover, he mentioned the aims of the Broadband
Strategy stressing out that they are fully in line with the European Broadband guidelines and the
European Digital Agenda 2020.
Finally, he talked about the future actions and the four axes that the Greek Digital Agenda will focus
on:
The FTTH project, which concerns the development of a passive infrastructure of open access
that will provide broadband connection over fibre optics to one plus million households and
companies, all over the country
The MAN Project, aka the Metropolitan Area Networks, which are already deployed in 72
cities of Greece
The Rural Broadband, that will serve municipalities of 26.000.000 hectares surface and
approximately 340.000 citizens
The SYZEFXIS II, which is the Greek National Network for the Public Sector
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Mr Katsikas closed his presentation by concluding that the Greek Digital Agenda includes a Single
National Broadband Strategy with clear actions within the next years, with planned investments in the
Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and the aim to create a stable and effective regulator, as well as a
legal framework to generate new investments and innovative services, in order to further maximize
the benefits of new services to citizens and consumers. After his speech, Mr Katsikas answered to a
few questions addressed by the audience.
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3.2 Session V: ENSEMBLE – FInES Workshop
The collaborative workshops of the FInES cluster, on research roadmap and
interoperability science.
Chair: John Psarras, National Technical University of Athens, Decision Support Systems Laboratory
(DSS Lab), Greece
Rapporteurs: Fenareti Lampathaki, NTUA - DSS Lab/Vivian Kiousi, INTRASOFT International,
Luxemburg
Prof. John Psarras, chair of Session V and coordinator of the
ENSEMBLE Project, made a brief presentation which included a
short introduction to the session and its scope and then he
presented the ENSEMBLE Experts Scientific Committee. He
welcomed to the session the Members of the Experts Scientific
Committee that were present at the Summit, i.e. David Chen
from the University Bordeaux 1; Robert Constable from the
National Institute for Creative Art, Univ. of Auckland; Antonio
Grilo from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Neobiz
Consulting; Ted Goranson from Sirius Beta; Sergio Gusmeroli
from TXT e-solutions; Norbert Koppenhagen from the
University of Mannheim & SAP AG; and Lars Taxén from the
Linköping University.
3.2.1 FInES State of Play and the ENSEMBLE
approach16
Fenareti Lampathaki, ENSEMBLE Project, NTUA - DSS
Lab, Greece
Ms Fenareti Lampathaki opened her speech with an
introduction to the Future Internet Enterprise
Systems (FInES) domain. She presented the context,
the historical path and the current state of play by
giving more insight to the projects, the task forces
and the stakeholders in FInES. Then, Ms Lampathaki
focused on the ENSEMBLE Project explaining its
approach towards establishing the scientific
foundations for Enterprise Interoperability, its
implementation phases and its results so far. Finally,
she closed her speech by briefly stating the Samos
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2011 Summit objectives:
To create a shared vision for the Enterprise Interoperability Science Base (EISB) and discuss
its core elements towards the 1st Wave of evolution
To present an initial set of extreme visionary scenarios for Future Enterprises and elaborate
on specific future research challenges
To bring together academia, industry and public administration under the perspective of the
FInES Cluster and
To outline a joint forward-looking vision in the Samos 2011 Summit Declaration
3.2.2 A preview of the Research Roadmap for Future Internet Enterprise Systems17
Michele Missikoff, CNR-IASI, Italy
Michele Missikoff from CNR-IASI talked about the new FInES Research Roadmap (RR), noting that it
closely follows the guidelines and policy of the European Union (Europe 2020, European Digital
Agenda, Innovation Union Green Paper, etc.) and stressing out its innovative approach by introducing
the term folksonomy. Taking into account that a folksonomy is a system of classification derived from
the practice for collaboratively creating and managing tags in order to annotate and categorize
content, Mr Missikoff aimed that way, to show that the Systematic Knowledge-based & Social
Collaboration approaches are the key to a successful RR.
Then, he presented the Structure of the FInES RR Methodology, which consists of:
The Task Force Organization (community, stakeholders, contributors, Advisory Group, etc.)
The Method of Work (i.e. the knowledge flow among the community, the editors, the
scientific advisors, etc.)
The Preliminary Content Organization (Folksonomies and FInES Knowledge Spaces)
The Supporting Tools (Collaboration Environments, Content Management Systems,
Folksonomy Platforms, etc.)
The Phases and Timing, i.e FInES Community Consultation (2011), Large Open Consultation
(2011-2012), New FInES Research Roadmap Released (2012)
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3.2.3 Towards a Science Base for Interoperability in Future Internet18
Ricardo Gonçalves, ENSEMBLE Project, UNINOVA, Portugal
Representing the ENSEMBLE Project, Mr Ricardo
Gonçalves talked about the Enterprise Interoperability
Science Base (EISB) and how it aims to transform the
Enterprise Interoperability application area into a
scientific domain. Then, he elaborated on the steps that
need to be implemented towards the development of the
envisioned EISB.
First of all, he mentioned the three different but logically
connected “waves” for developing the different elements
of the EISB:
Wave 1: “Basic elements”
Wave 2: “Hypothesis and Experimentation”
Wave 3: “Empowerment”
Then, he analysed in more detail the Methodological
Approach for the EISB Definition, taking into consideration the neighboring Scientific Domains, as well
as the State of the Art and the current landscape in the Enterprise Interoperability Research Domain.
He mentioned that there are evidences of interoperability problems, methods and tools in the
neighbring domains (extensibility of other Scientific Domains) and then, he explained in which way
and what we can use in EI from other scientific domains (learning from other Scientific Domains).
Then, he analysed the 12 Scientific Areas of EI as they have been introduced within the ENSEMBLE
Project and closed his presentation with the proposed tools and ingredients of the EISB.
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Invited Experts Position Statements
Within this session, ENSEMBLE Experts Scientific Committee (ESC) and validation community
members present their views on the Future Research challenges.
3.2.4 Challenges of the Advanced Enterprise: Deep Self-organization19
Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta, US
Mr Ted Goranson, based on his research experience
regarding Enterprise Interoperability, presented his
approach to the Enterprise Interoperability Science Base.
He explained that engineers, in order to produce radical
tools and systems (e.g. Future Internet tools and
Systems) are anticipating the delivery of new science
beyond the existing. Therefore, he focused on the
significance of investing money on the EISB research, in
order to produce a science base that will have new
knowledge that will help the high qualified engineers to
build better and more advanced tools and systems. To
support his opinion, he gave similar examples of investing
money to science bases for Health and Physics and
explained how engineers, having new knowledge beyond
the already developed science, were more effective and
able to build innovative tools and systems.
Concerning the EI domain, he split his presentation to three axes (science of modeling, science of
computer programming, science of logic), talking firstly about the evolution of process modeling to
collaboration modeling and the future goal of value feature modeling, explaining at the same time the
interoperability aspect of this axis. Then, he talked about the science of computer programming and
its impact on interoperability. Finally, after making a short mention to Virtual Enterprises, he talked
about the science of logic and its evolution from hard logic to fuzzy logic and to soft logic, as a future
goal. He closed his speech by mentioning that the equal development and focus on each one of these
three axes makes possible the realization of the goals of each one of the other axes.
3.2.5 Anatomy of Business Networks: Future Internet Enterprise Systems
Interoperability20
Norbert Kopenhagen, SAP AG, University of Manheim, Germany
Norbert Kopenhagen, Vice President for technology innovation solutions packaging at SAP AG in
Walldorf and external PhD student & research assistant at the Chair of Enterprise Information
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Systems (ERIS), in the University of Mannheim, opened his speech with a presentation of the
Enterprise Systems Research activities at the University of Mannheim, noting that ERIS and SAP are
strong forces in the upper-Rhine region, with SAP one of the leading IT innovation centers, ready to
contribute to European initiatives around future Internet-based Enterprise Systems.
He explained the ERIS look at Enterprise Systems holistically, from a lifecycle perspective and from an
innovative solution perspective, by working interdisciplinary and combining behavioral research from
social sciences with design science research from computer science.
After mentioning the interoperability challenges in
procurement, he introduced the so called “B-Zone” Design
Principles, used and followed within his research activities in
SAP and ERIS, explaining that these principles can
significantly improve interoperability performance in
heterogeneous business networks. According to these design
principles, optimal convergence of complex systems like
procurement networks with a large number of
heterogeneous performance drivers and interoperability
points can only be achieved by means of iterative cycles of
design, artefact intervention, and improvement. He
continued his speech mentioning that there is strong
evidence that the identified design principles are having a
positive impact on business performance of collaborative
business networks, but he admitted that this evidence needs
further research in terms of further extending and enhancing the above-mentioned principles.
Finally, he closed his presentation by expressing his commitment for further concept proof and
extensions, gained from both practice and research and he expressed to all the Summit‟s participants
his high interest and openness for input and collaboration.
3.2.6 The Activity Domain Theory – A Framework for Investigating Enterprise Systems21
Lars Taxén, Linköping University
Mr Lars Taxén from Linköping University, taking into consideration his perspective on EISB and FInES
so far, opened his presentation by stating some FInES challenges, explaining that there should be
given more emphasis on the social and human aspects, as well as on managing complexity of the
Future Internet Enterprise Systems.
Thus, he continued his speech by introducing the Activity Domain Theory, a socio-technical
perspective on human activity, based on practise and collaboration, as well as the System Anatomy, a
method to manage extremely complex projects by showing dependencies between system
capabilities. He stated that “the most important issue when working with complex things is to work
from how things depend on each other”22.
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He concluded his presentation by giving some potential
contributions of the above-mentioned domains (Activity
Domain Theory and System Anatomy) to EISB and
FInES. More specifically, he suggested that they can be
used as a theoretical basis for the EISB (e.g. for
integrating social, individual and technological aspects),
as an illustration means of what the EISB looks like
(e.g. as an anatomy showing dependencies between
capabilities of the EISB) and as basis for articulation of
vague concepts (“Enterprise”: constellation of activity
domains, “business model”: organizational anatomy,
“interoperability”: between activity domains, etc.).
Finally, he proposed integrating / coordinating FInES
projects based on the anatomy concept, as it provides a
common understanding about what to do.
3.2.7 Enterprise Interoperability, Future Internet, SMEs Network: a Use Case for FI
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Guy Doumeingts, INTEROP-Vlab, France
Guy Doumeingts, General Manager of INTEROP-Vlab
(I-Vlab), opened his speech by making a short
presentation of the INTEROP-Vlab, its history, its
duration, its scope and its basic characteristics in
terms of people, bodies and countries that contributed
to the current outcome. After talking about the
originality of the I-Vlab approach, he moved on with
the project‟s Member Poles that form a strong set of
SMEs Network, which he characterized as “a Global
Eco-System” by the interaction between the
aforementioned poles.
Then, he presented the new challenge for the SMEs
Network mentioned before, concerning the need that
has aroused to change their business: in order to be
competitive, SMEs should collaborate and complement
their core competencies. As a consequence, a wide
scope of Enterprise Interoperability issues arises, which has a direct effect on their business.
Therefore, Mr Doumeingts indicates that SMEs must be transformed to be adapted to a changing
world, in three ways: Internally, by rapidly implementing and adopting advanced solutions to support
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internal cooperation; externally, by connecting the Networked SME to its environment and by
adopting the FInES recommendations.
He also presented a use case for “Future Internet Requirements” that the SMEs and the according
Enterprise Networks should fulfill from now on, explaining how Future Internet will contribute to
strengthening the structure of the SMEs Network, supporting their collaborative activities and
enhancing the various relations among them.
Finally, he concluded his speech by noting that there should be a high motivation from all I-Vlab
Poles and an extended (global) approach so as to define a complete set of “Future Internet
Requirements” that each SME should fulfill, in order to better collaborate with the others, becoming
that way more competitive.
3.2.8 The ENSEMBLE Workshops objectives24
Yannis Charalabidis, ENSEMBLE Project, Greece
Before moving on to the ENSEMBLE Workshops, the Summit‟s Chair Yannis Charalabidis, made a brief
presentation of the ENSEMBLE Workshops Objectives. As far as the Future Enterprise Scenarios
Workshop is concerned, its main purpose was to kick-start the debate among experts through
brainstorming and public consultation activities, towards a shared vision, able to inspire collaborative
and interdisciplinary research in FInES. Within this workshop, the participants were split in 4 parallel
working groups in order to generate reflections on the future Enterprise and the emerging Research
Areas based on the scenarios framework mapping 4 different hypothetical future economy scenarios
to the axes: Prevailing business strategy (Enterprise Values vs. Societal Values) and Degree of
contribution to value generation (Machine Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence). Each group was
assigned one scenario with the purpose of answering a set of questions concerning the following
issues:
1. The characteristics of the enterprise (Management, Production, Logistics, HR, Marketing and
the according needs in ICT)
2. The technological breakthroughs and new ICT offerings (i.e. the future FInES architecture
elements) needed by the enterprise then and the according emerging research directions
3. A simple storyboard, describing how an enterprise can tackle a specific challenge in the
future
For the Interoperability Science Workshop, Yannis Charalabidis mentioned that it falls within the
scope of the Wave 1 – Basic Elements activities and can be characterized as a rather brainstorming
exercise. In the 4 working groups in which the participants were split, the moderators presented in
more detail the concept and scope of each group and then the participants were asked to elaborate
on a series of questions related to the theme of each group.
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3.3 Session VI: ENSEMBLE – FInES Workshop Results and Next
Steps
Results from the Workshops on the Roadmap and Science Base
Chairs: Yannis Charalabidis/Fenareti Lampathaki, NTUA - DSS Lab, Greece
Rapporteurs: Sotiris Koussouris/Spyros Mouzakitis, NTUA - DSS Lab, Greece
3.3.1 Experts Workshop on Visionary Enterprise Scenarios and New Research Areas
3.3.1.1 Working Group 1:“Leviathan” Economy25
Rapporteur: John Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Moderators: Yannis Charalabidis, Michele Missikoff
Concerning the Overall Management, Values & Visions of the Enterprise of the Future within the
“Leviathan Economy”:
Flat organisation rather than hierarchical
Participative, Democratic
Welfare Sensitive (value system society-unfriendly behavior – machines can be used to
support enterprises and society as a whole as its best, SOCIETY: Top Down + Bottom Up
Concerning the Processes
Formal Processes: Highly formalised rational – supported by huge databases
Connection: Focused on connect more than execute
Process Oriented / Distributed: Highly Distributed – Logistics and Production: Highly Adapted
and Distributed. Machines will decide how/where for sourcing and organised diffused product
chains
Customer – Citizen Driven Service Co-generation: Publisher of future fully automated – citizen
journalism – Emphasis on content evaluation – Recused permanent personnel
“Prosumer” – health of people as driving objective. Manufacturing guide people to desired
behavior
Production: Resource efficient
Concerning the Human Resources
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Better Working Conditions
New Values: Management: Online network management worldwide through sensors,
continually reporting and automatically analysing the reports and the output information and
fusing the output information to discover actions to be taken with acceptable risks
Flexibility: New Value systems – Extreme flexibility of labor jointly efficient workforce –
People moving in and out of enterprises, projects, etc. – “Workepreneur”
Marketing & Intelligence
Instant online marketing analysing world market automatically and decide upon customers
opinions on a product campaign brand etc. – for the company‟s marketing strategy and plans
Business Intelligence Unit having central role in the enterprise
SSH: Social Sciences and Humanities Central in Marketing
Concerning the ICT Tools for the Enterprise
High Bandwidth Tools – Zero energy communications
IoT assumed Universal Communicator (merge between B2B and B2C)
Machine Learning
Business Cockpits – Supports Intelligent mining – Decision Support
Fuzzy Systems
Adaptive Self-Healing Self Controlling
Solving NP hard – solving NP hard optimization problems in linear time
Mash Up and PSI
Data Interoperability and Process Modeling
Intelligent SOA – New paradigm of development network apps and services - Real time
events – Knowledge History – Real time information – active processor Meta-Labs – Real time
Action Interconnected Process (global)
Multi-model events & Multi-model Systems
Trust and Security Platform
Enterprise Modeling Map – Tool as a map for all the employees
DSS2 – Decision Aid Systems
Semantic Web for Enterprises – Semantic Search for enterprises
Intelligent Social Media – Social Graph System / Quantum computing
Automatic evaluation of news (multimedia)
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MM – UI Q Multi channel, multi model (voice-gestures) – advanced user interaction system.
The Simple Storyboard
The Instant, Real Time, Participative Product Development
Perspective: The CeO
This Work Group‟s company is a highly connected SME, with flat organisational structure,
where customers participate in product design and a third-generation “ERP” system is
constantly supporting decisions with on-line data coming from various sources in various
means
Description of the product development scenario
o The company is using advanced event tracking and opinion mining systems to
constantly gather, monitor and process customer opinions at real time
o When there is a need for a new or differentiated product, the Business Intelligence
system (which uses multimedia event tracking over a huge social network of
employees, customers and collaborating enterprises) automatically proposes new
product features
o Then, using advanced collaborative applications with proper personalisation,
potentially interested customers (also identified through the BI system) are invited to
take part in product shaping (given some incentives, proposed by the BI system)
based on shared revenue models
o Any supply-chain and production management issues (even NP-hard problems) are
being solved a priori (via simulation) by the “DSS 2.0” system of the enterprise,
which also optimizes for energy consumption, “green-ess” and overall value for the
society, still allowing for enough profit with the envisaged market share
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o If too much constraints are put by the co-designers, then the systems decide to
propose alterations, relax some constraints or even drop the whole project at very
early stages
o When the product is actually launched, any shortcomings are used by the systems to
automatically find a solution/
3.3.1.2 Working Group 2:“Big Brother” Economy26
Rapporteur: Sergio Gusmeroli
Moderators: Fenareti Lampathaki, Carlos Agostinho
Concerning the Enterprise Characteristics:
Profile: Large Multinational Corporations
Management:
Technocratic, Meritocratic, Hierarchical, Formal Structure, Top Level Collaboration, Dominant
but not Aggressive, Risk of Oligarchy
Production & Logistics:
Fully Automated Production Management, High Investment in IT Systems, Centralized IT
Architecture, Optimization and Control, High Intelligence Everywhere
HR:
Permanent Loyal Interaction with Employees, Competencies that SME‟s don‟t have (e.g.
Psychologists), Incentives to Innovation, Compensation Rewarding Performance, Fierce
Competition for Talented People
Marketing:
Market is King!, Success of the OEM is Success of the Entire Network, OEM provides
Marketing Services of all Network, Personalized Marketing
Other
Strategic IP Management, Border Between Working Time and Private Life is Blurry
Concerning the Technological Breakthroughs:
Internet of Things
Sensors Everywhere, Intelligence Everywhere, Ambient Intelligence, Smart Objects, Avatars,
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Internet of Services
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Advanced Private Clouds (SCM, CRM, ERP, etc.), Powerful Forecasting and Simulation Tools,
Employees Generated Services, Interoperability of Clouds
Internet by and for People
Advanced Collaboration Environments, Corporate Social Networks, Corporate Managed
Employees Privacy and Security, Profiling
Internet of Knowledge
Advanced Decision Support, Business Intelligence, Risk Management, Innovation Life-cycle
Management (Info-Gotchi)
The Simple Storyboard
Perspective:
Ideas sourced from Employees but evaluated and selected by Managers with the support of
highly intelligent decision making system
Description:
1. Corporate strategy identifies interesting areas for innovation (e.g. Electric cars)
2. Employees have been encouraged to put their innovative ideas (e.g. New battery change
automatic system) into the corporate innovation management system
3. Automatic semantic clustering of similar ideas, orchestration/composition of complementary
ideas, market risk analysis through simulation, business plan hypothesis generation
4. Small panel of managers takes decisions through virtual/augmented reality simulation
environments and meetings
5. Most innovative employees are compensated and participate in the revenue sharing
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3.3.1.3 Working Group 3:”Gold Rush” Economy27
Rapporteur: Robert Constable
Moderators: Sotiris Koussouris, Keith Popplewell
Concerning the Enterprise Characteristics:
Functions:
Management:
o Instant access to wide range of information
o Collaboration based on short term and informal agreements
o Management is decentralised, but linked electronically
o Managers will be flooded with KPIs but humans make the decisions
Production:
o Automation replace much of the workforce
o Production networks between enterprises
o Monitoring and quality control of shop-floor activities
Logistics:
o Good transportation will be necessary and the Internet must work perfectly
o Tendency towards silos (key players define interoperable systems)
HR:
o Individual autonomy-no unions or enterprise wage agreements
o Distant working/work from home scenarios
Marketing:
o Narrow product range (more one-size fits all approach)
o IT systems on everything and everyone that direct the marketing features
o Music and other entertainment downloaded. Extensive use of the internet in music
education
o Advanced levels of opinion mining
Other
o Global interoperability standards
FInES Research Directions
Decision-making on imprecise/incomplete information(soft logic)
Sourcing of core competences
Systems to predict customer needs in advance
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Virtual scenarios as common as real ones
Interoperability will be embedded in all research models
Responsiveness
Multi/Inter-disciplinary design tools
Need to contextualize the flood of sensor information
Intelligence middleware to allow dynamic collaboration
Universal Language and/or Universal Translation services
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Rapporteur: Enrico Ferro
Moderators: Spiros Mouzakitis, Ricardo Gonçalves
Concerning the Enterprise Characteristics:
Functions:
Management:
o Responsible to the customer
o Adaptive, dynamic consortia creation (agility)
o Democratic (employees can vote)
o Collaborative
o Trust between individuals in a company and among organizations.
Production:
o User/Eco-Friendly, sustainable
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o Trust on what is produced
o Production value added
o Needs of people kept in account, also minorities (long tail)
Logistics:
o Limited to the minimum
o Elimination of polluting activities
HR:
o Environment of peace and love in the organization
o Focus on people, give them opportunities, present them to the management,
harnessing everybody‟s brain power.
o Small groups principle/community, retain talent, attract people
o Learnability, learning organization
o Providing challenging, interesting environment without burning HR out
Marketing:
o Altruistic spirit to be promoted as the company style
o Social network based
o People needs/values, harvest innovation ideas (crowdsourcing)
o Informing, educating customers
The Simple Storyboard
Perspective:
In 2030, Research centers, Universities and volunteers share results of medical experiments
in a common open-data infrastructure.
A European-wide distributed computing network, that utilizes this data, called
CureCancer@Home.
Share their computer resources for simulation of protein folding and other molecular
dynamics (MD).
With the goal of curing various types of cancer.
Suddenly: CureCancer@Home announced significant scientific results -> formulate drugs that
cure Lung Cancer.
John is CEO at Bioshare, a large pharmaceutical corporation.
John uses smart devices/applications to mobilize his team
The discussion with them is being assisted by an argument visualization tool utilized by an
expert discussion moderated
Video-conferences with other major pharmaceutical companies + scientists to collaborate and
to minimize work for drug formulation and toxicology tests
During conferences, employees can watch the discussion through live streaming on their
smart devices and participate with voting / suggestions / debate / veto
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Simulation software (that integrates complicated simulation software libraries, freely available
on the internet), to provide options for sustainable product prices and revenue sharing
models
3.3.2 Experts Workshop on Interoperability Science Base
3.3.2.1 Working Group 1: “Neighboring Scientific Disciplines & Paradigms”29
Rapporteur: Antonio Grilo
Moderators: Ricardo Gonçalves, Michele Missikof
Question 1
In terms of major methods used in Enterprise Interoperability, what are the neighboring domains that
you think are missing? Under which category?
The methodology started by triggering debate around the Social Science category, but it followed to
other areas too. The question has prompted the identification of several neighboring domains that
were considered relevant by the different participants.
The following neighboring domains have been identified, but there was no attempt (due to time
constraints) to categorize them in the existent taxonomy:
Neurosciences
Psychology
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Quantum sciences
Evolutionary complex systems and also computer-based evolutionary systems
Philosophy
Economy ecology, Econometrics, and behavioral economic theories
Society systems
Socionome (fitness for purpose).
Meta-modeling
Arts / Music / Performing Arts science
Learning theories
Industrial Engineering and Management
Question 2
Pick 5 neighboring domains (2nd or 3rd tier) and identify a set (at least 3) of formal methods for EI
Problems and Solutions description.
There was an overwhelming response to the query made. However, the information obtained was not
very structured. The results are as follows:
Complexity and Information: Theory of Complexity, Fractal Methodology, Systems of
Systems, Complex Adaptive System, Theory of Catastrophes
Multi-representation of discrete variables: Event systems, Petri Nets, Queuing Theory, Markov
Chains
Agent-based simulation, Fitness and Goal Orientness, Machine Learning, Knowledge Maps
and Representation, Coordination Artifacts in Software Systems
Decision Theory
Axiomatic Design Theory, Network Analytics (social sciences), Process modeling, Balance
Sheets for (Engineering Economics), Value Stream Mapping (lean management), Monte Carlo
Simulation (risk analysis)
Coordination Theory (Economics), Game Theory (Economics), innovation Economics, New
Institutional Economics
Activity Theory (Cognitive Psychology), Actor-Network Theory (Cognitive Psychology),
Information Science
Systems Security Methodologies (CRAM or OCTAVE Risk Analysis)
Applied Performance Psychology and physiology
Distributed systems, Pattern Recognition, Cybernetics, Meta-Modeling, Simulation,
Evolutionary Modeling, Complex Event
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Question 3
Pick 5 EI scientific areas and identify for each of them evidences of interoperability problems in
neighboring domains
There were only a few direct responses to this question, without much detail:
Open Government Data
No common platform concerning both location-based AR and pattern-based AR. There are
applications needing both
Virtual company dossier
Interoperability of Objects in the IoT
Capability of materials‟ data on ecology/recycling across the supply chain
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Rapporteur: David Chen
Moderators: Sotiris Koussouris, Fenareti Lampathaki
Working Group’s Objectives:
To outline the boundaries and interrelations of the EI problems and solutions space
To investigate the need of defining a formal method for the description of EI problems and
solutions
To elaborate on existing formal methods that may be applied in the context of EI
To identify the main characteristics that such formal methods should contain
Discussion on formal methods to describe EI problems and solutions
Difficult to identify a formal method for the whole stack of EI problems
We are not sure this may exist already
We need to identify the problems prior to describing them
For semantic problems, if we identify the problem the we can have an Ontology as
description
In case there are several different methods, there may be an Io problem between those
Methods should focus on generic problems and solutions
Barriers
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Formal Methods for EI: In Favour and Against
IN FAVOUR AGAINST
Existing Standards (e.g. to describe web resources
POWDER)
Human nature
Rigorous Definition, Precise Understanding Descriptive in Nature (too complex)
Formal methods allow automation Sciences without formal methods do exist (e.g.
Medicine)
Shared Definition of Reality “Wicked” problems
Stratification of Knowledge
Precondition for Hypothesis Testing
Main characteristics of description methods for problems and solutions
Description Aspects (What?, Where?, Who?, When?)
Atomic vs. Composed
Systematic, Easy to Apply and Process, Allow Computer Support
Natural Language based
Visual, easy to understand
Common Description Framework for Problems & Solutions
Taking into account dependencies
Examples of appropriate descriptions for EI Problems
IO Problem between Enterprises -> E/R ontology description
Business Io -> formal methods form social sciences
Value flows between entities/Barriers that exist -> Systems
Dynamics, Agent based models, social networks)
Business Process IO Ontologies
Different Organisation Structures Organisation Management (Organisational Chart)
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3.3.2.3 Working Group 3:“EISB Core Solution-oriented / Application Elements / Tools”31
Rapporteur: Norbert Kopenhagen
Moderators: Spiros Mouzakitis, Keith Popplewell
Working Group’s Objectives:
• To present the different proposed Scientific Areas of the EISB
• To identify solutions, applications, tools and research challenges in each area
• To generally discuss the proposed approach regarding the Scientific Areas
Discussions were made on the following areas:
Cloud Interoperability (CI)
Research Challenges
o CI also effects policy context and legal interoperability/obligations
o Data protection/separation, security, privacy
o Switch mechanisms between clouds
o Move of data between clouds
o Migration services to other vendors
o Locking effects
o Cloud of services and cloud of enterprises network interoperability
o Cloud/Cloud Interoperability
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o Capabilities of virtualization solutions
o On-premise backend integration
Tools
o Monitoring tools
o Migration tools
o Advanced virtualization tools
o Standardized API„s
o Integration infrastructures/services to backend system landscapes
Social Networks Interoperability (SNI)
Research Challenges
o Data Migration
o Heterogeneous network causing new data silos and redundancies
o Communication across social networks
o Privacy
o Legal challenges
o Data Ownership, IP
Tools
o Harmonized interfaces
o Open APIs
o Central Data management for personal data
o Data/IP protection
Knowledge Interoperability (KI)
Research Challenges
o Different ‟language„ between science and business
o Different languages, terminologies, understanding between different organizations in
a network
o Knowledge creation, pattern recognition, simulation
Tools
o Advanced collaborative environments
Knowledge mining tools
Text mining
Semantic mapping tools and meta data repository
2nd life tools etc.
Effective video conferencing
o Knowledge discovery tools
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o Advanced decision support tools
Software Systems Interoperability (SSI)
Research Challenges
o Intellingent Middleware
o Interoperability of user/computer interaction
o Service sharing between software systems
o Semantical/syntactical inconsistensies
o Standard requirememts
Tools
o Open platforms
o Open standards
o User centered design standards
o Model driven software engineering
eID Interoperability (eIDI)
Research Challenges
o Multiple Identities, Global Identies
o Legal restrictions variation across EU countries
o Tools
o Improved Identity Management Tools (incl. SSO)
o Identity Federation
o Global identity management„
o Unified data schemas
Object Interoperability (OI)
Research Challenges
o Terminology
o Things interoperability
o RFID standards not interoperable
Ecosystems Interoperability (EI)
Research Challenges
o Teminology
Data Interoperability (DI)
Research Challenges
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o Terminology
o Linking data sources
o Data stream reasoning (news data, climate data...)
o Public sector open data
Tools
o Enterpise service bus
o Event driven architecture
Services Interoperability (SI)
Research Challenges
o Service frontend/interfaces (mash-ups etc.)
o Co-design and co-creation
o Semantic interoperability
o Non-functional properties (no-coded assets)
Tools
o Service adapter
o Standards (open APIs)
o Dev Tools for co-engineering of services
o SI by design
3.3.2.4 Working Group 4:“EI Epistemology / Scientific Approach and Action Plan”32
Rapporteur: Ted Goranson
Moderators: Carlos Agostinho, Yannis Charalabidis
Workshop Objectives:
In the beginning, there was an opening session concerning the “science base”. Then, some position
statements have been made from the participants of the Working Group:
Guy Doumeingts expressed his doubts about using software engineering because of the explicit
requirements excluding humans and various diverse domains.
Antonis Ramfos expressed his opinion by noting that we need to follow methods of existing
interoperability applications/examples to understand needs of stakeholders in the domain.
Euripides Loukis said that there must be a business case and options for degrees of interoperability.
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Then, the following two questions have been addressed to the participants:
Question 1: Name 3 main outcomes / results / benefits for industry and society, if we
succeed in making EI a scientific domain
Findings on Question 1
New ways to measure success
Faster, cheaper, better enterprises
Benefits to ICT suppliers
Free market enablers
Educational benefits
Prevent crises
Notable Observations:
Robert Kopenhagen: The main benefit, for industry and society, from the scientific domain, is that
greed and ego will disappear and this will allow for greater discovery without loss allows greater
spectrum of metrics (beyond finance) normalizes services with production
Ted Goranson: 1) allows for visibility by users like process models did (changing management
science)
Charalampos Alexopoulos: 1) reduced spending 2) disaster and unsafely avoidance 3) easier
development of supporting software
Yannis Charalabidis: 1) solves many problems once (generically) 2) easier to communicate ideas
because of formal basis 3) software development improved
Question 2: Describe 3 activities/key ingredients that we should do/use in order to
achieve making interoperability a scientific domain (the HOW)
Findings on Question 2
Extract from existing processes
Characterize problems
Enterprise model (for reference of benefits)
Build tools
Evangelize
Change community
Notable Observations:
Euripides Loukis: 1) extract formalisms from existing methods 2) characterize factors and outcomes
3) case studies for problems
Ted Goranson: 1) create a prize, validated by tools builders 2) educate the financial community 3)
take problem away from the engineers
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Guy Doumeingts: 1) look at systems (components, boundaries, etc.) in context of „end state‟ 2)
exploit „system of systems‟ theory
The workshops had a large attendance, and a lively participation from all. There was a genuine
envirornment with people willingly contributing with their expertise. The participants had
heterogeneous backgrounds, from computer sciences, music, social sciences, economy, business
management, etc., which was very enriching and gave a far more broader perspective on the EISB
and Enterprise Scenarios results.
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3.3.3 Next Steps in ENSEMBLE – FInES33
Keith Popplewell, ENSEMBLE Project, Coventry University, UK
Vivian Kiousi, ENSEMBLE Project, INTRASOFT International,
Greece
During this presentation, Mr Popplewell and Mrs Kiousi
presented the different groups that participate in ENSEMBLE
apart from the project‟s partners (Scientific Committee,
Validation Community) and their roles, while they also
mentioned ENSEMBLE‟s dissemination channels, providing a
plan for the upcoming dissemination and collaboration
possibilities that have been identified or developed by the
project (such as special issues in acknowledged journals).
Moreover, the Web infrastructure of the project was described, which amongst other Web2.0
communication channels makes use of a dedicated Wiki and a Collaboration space that should be
used for the consultation, verification and maintenance of FInES results.
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4 Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, Wednesday July 6th,
2011
4.1 Session VIIa: Workshop: Realizing the vision of the ISU: public
interest, competitive service offering and service innovation
Chair: Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-Solutions, Italy
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Man-Sze Li, IC Focus, UK
Mrs Li opened the workshop with an introduction to the Interoperability Service Utility (ISU). She
gave a conceptual view of the ISU, explaining that it is an infrastructure that aims to provide
Interoperability as a utility-like capability for enterprises and as a general public good.
Concerning the ISU and the Future Internet, she expressed a set of questions on whether and how
the Future Internet will embrace the ISU and the corresponding basic concept of services, the
universality, accessibility and neutrality of them, the notion of continuous commoditization of ICT and
the utilities as a basis for software service infrastructures.
After giving a brief example of Software as a Service Utility (SaaS-U) Business Case in an Electric
Ecosystem, she gave some preliminary conclusions and thoughts concerning the Enterprise Networks
and the Future Internet that they will inhabit.
Finally, assuming that the existence of the ISU is a pre-condition for realizing the Future Internet as a
“Universal Business System”, she addressed to the audience some questions/thoughts for further
research and discussion:
Who is/are going to develop and maintain the ISU and according to what principles and
interests?
How to preserve the neutrality of the IoS and the open competition among added value
service providers, while providing basic Utility Services as a public good?
Is the commoditization of certain basic services a necessary pre-condition for stimulating
entrepreneurship and innovation?
What would be the optimal governance model for the ISU?
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4.1.2 Research findings on the ISU in COIN and Service Innovation in manufacturing
ecosystems35
Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-Solutions, Italy
Sergio Gusmeroli, after making a short introduction about the concept of the ISU, introduced the
term of the “Future Internet Solar System”. He explained that, in order to position Europe as a leader
in the Future Internet, initiatives in Europe should be centred on the development of Future Internet
Federated, Open and Trusted (shortly, F-O-T) Platforms. A multitude of such F-O-T platforms could
constitute the fundamental enablers and the ecosystems of the Future Internet on which existing and
new “smart” applications could be built upon. Many different types of F-O-T platforms will be
available, allowing specific applications to use the capabilities of one or more platforms depending on
their needs36.
Then, Mr Gusmeroli made a short presentation about the Future Internet-Ware (FI-Ware) Platform,
which will serve objectives of usage areas and will have the ambition of fulfilling the needs of a
broader market. After presenting some FI-Ware Use Cases, he moved on by talking about the relation
between the ISU and the Future Internet PPP Generic Enablers, as well as the relation between the
ISU and the Future Internet Enterprise Systems.
Afterwards, he made a short presentation about the COIN Project, its scope regarding the Software
as a Service Utility (SaaS-U), its general architecture, as well as the ISU implementation within the
COIN Project, along with a set of COIN ISU Evolution Scenarios. He closed his presentation by
proposing three discussion topics concerning the ISU in the public interest, the ISU and its
competitive service offering, and finally the ISU and the according service innovation.
4.1.3 FI PPP Core Platform and the ISU37
Stefano De Panfilis, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy
Stefano De Panfilis opened his presentation by stating that it is impossible to build unique monolithic
reference architecture for the Internet, due to the many elements of the Internet (Internet of
Services, Internet of People, Internet of Knowledge, etc.) and the complex heterogeneous nature of
this field. He explained that too many aspects have to be taken into consideration and at the same
time, from very different perspectives.
Therefore, he introduced the “Generic Enablers”, i.e. a single specific functionality offered by the
“Future Internet Core Platform Architecture”. Generic Enablers are reusable and commonly shared
functional building blocks, serving a multiplicity of usage areas across various sectors.
He finished his speech by talking about the close relation between the Generic Enablers and the ISU,
stating that an ISU is a specialisation of a Generic Enabler with respect to a specific role and
addressing some relevant questions for further research and discussion.
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4.1.4 Achieving business and government interoperability through PaaS and SaaS38
Constantine Steriadis, Oracle Hellas, Greece
Mr Steriadis from Oracle Hellas, after briefly mentioning some
details about the company that he was representing and its
achievements towards complete, open, integrated systems, he
presented the ORACLE Cloud Platform and its basic architecture.
He moved on by talking about the realization of the Cloud in
Government, especially focusing on matters such as the savings
in budget, the information security, the reference architecture,
the private cloud versus to the public cloud and the various
technology matters that will arise.
He went on by talking about some certain use cases, where the
shared services provided are a good example of interoperability and one of the most obvious
realizations of G-Cloud (Government Cloud). Firstly, he mentioned the Greek Government eGateway,
named ERMIS, which is based on Oracle Fusion Middleware, the Norway and the Oslo City Council
BPM Shared services and the Belgium Federated Portal (Fedict).
He summarized his presentation by stressing out the need for interoperable business software
(Fusion Apps), for cloud infrastructure in order to host Interoperability (Fusion Middleware), for
packaged Interoperability for verticals (AIA Packs & PIPs) through OASIS SCA & BPMN and closed by
mentioning his company‟s active participation & contribution to various relevant communities &
standardization bodies.
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Enrico Ferro, ISMB, Italy
Mr Ferro from ISMB, Italy talked about innovation drivers
that can further promote interoperability, starting from
the idea of Enterprise Collaboration as a Service Utility,
mentioning that innovation could promote and further
develop this field. However, Mr Ferro explained that there
hasn‟t been done enough research and work towards
business innovation and value creation in Enterprise
Interoperability.
He continued his speech by giving an overview of the
Innovation Landscape, taking into account both the
Technological Breakthroughs and the Business Models
innovation, presenting at the same time some of the most emerging technologies, such as SOA,
Cloud, as well as some of the most emerging Business Models (long tail, open innovation, multi-sided,
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servitization, etc.) and how these are going to further promote enterprise collaboration and
interoperability. After mentioning some emerging results from the use of innovation in enterprise
interoperability, he talked about the salient features of Enterprise Collaboration as a Utility Business
Model, focusing on the cost of this idea and discussing on whether there could exist or not, sufficient
return on investment to justify purely commercial investments in the ISU.
He closed his speech with some concluding remarks, talking again about the ISU economical
sustainability, as well as the role of the EC and the Public Sector towards ISU Business Models.
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4.2 Session VIIb: Workshop: ENGAGE Project on Open Data and
Citizen Engagement
Chair: Euripides Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece
4.2.1 The PADGETS Project on social media gadgets for opinion-mining40
Charalambos Alexopoulos, Vassiliki Diamantopoulou, University of Aegean, Greece
Mr Alexopoulos and Mrs Diamantopoulou presented the PADGETS Project, by initially giving some
general details concerning its domain and its objective to design, develop and deploy a prototype
toolset that will allow policy makers to graphically create web applications that will be deployed in the
environment of underlying knowledge in Web 2.0 media.
After mentioning the project objectives, they explained the idea of the project, what exactly a
PADGET (Policy gADGET) is and how it operates and serves its stakeholders. Then, they gave a
detailed view of the project‟s current status and its impact so far and at they moved on by presenting
some of the project‟s pilots, one in the Centre for eGovernance Development, one in the Observatory
for the Greek Information Society and one in the Regione Piemonte. They especially focused on and
analysed the features and functionality of the second one, which is called the “eID Pilot” (“eID
PADGET”).
Before closing their speech with the future work within the project, they made a brief presentation of
the core technologies behind the PADGETS Platform, including the Social APIs, the Opinion Mining
and Simulation Modeling Tools, as well as the PADGETS‟ high-level architecture.
4.2.2 The NOMAD Project on social media for non-moderated croudsourcing41
Aggeliki Androutsopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Mrs Androutsopoulou presented a new project, called the “NOMAD Project” on Policy Formulation and
Validation through non-moderated crowdsourcing. She talked about the challenges that the NOMAD
project is dealing with, especially in a time when Web 2.0 provides heterogeneous content that is
inserted daily and spontaneously updated by its users. The NOMAD project will offer new and more
advanced tools, designed to support the participation within the scope of the policy making
procedure, as well as to leverage the vast amount of user-generated content for supporting
governments in their political decisions. Such ICT supportive tools analyze and classify the opinions
expressed on the informal Web and put data from diverse sources to an effective use.
She moved on with the general idea of the project and its scope to provide decision-makers with fully
automated solutions for content search, acquisition, categorisation and visualisation that work in a
collaborative form in the policy-making arena. She also presented the project‟s objectives, the Work
Package structure, the implementation strategy and the architecture of the overall system. She closed
her speech by explaining the relation of this project with other on-going or already completed
projects within the relative field and by presenting the project consortium and partners.
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4.2.3 The WeGov project on participatory governance through Future Internet42
Somya Joshi, Gov2u, Belgium
Mrs Joshi opened her presentation by talking about the wider domain of e-Government and Social
Networks (Web 2.0), about the large penetration of Social Media in everyday life, about e-
Participation, as well as the challenges posed to governance today, as the Governmental agencies, in
terms of ICT, seem to be unprepared to handle the unpredictable amount of citizens that make use of
the Internet and the various electronically provided services.
She moved on by explaining that the WeGov project brings together the policy and citizen
engagement worlds via social networking technologies. Then, Mrs Joshi gave more details about the
project, its scope, the partners involved, its state of progress, as well as its key features that
contribute to innovation.
She continued her speech by talking about a set of challenges that the WeGov Project is facing, in
terms of sustaining stakeholder interest & active participation, as well as dealing with the various
socio-technical work-flows and following the various technical changes that constantly take place
concerning the Social Network APIs.
She moved on with her presentation by giving some examples of the changing face of governance
and she concluded by talking about the WeGov Project‟s next steps.
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Spiros Mouzakitis, National Technical University of Athens - DSS Lab, Greece
Mr Mouzakitis opened his speech by giving a rationale on the current situation concerning the vast
amount of Public Sector data, the existing open data sites and services that are difficult to navigate,
hardly linked and present only on national level, as well as the lack of encouragement for citizen
participation, up to now.
Therefore, he moved on with the ENGAGE idea which aims to gather data from governmental
organizations and systems (the Gov Cloud) and create an open service platform, integrating large
amounts of public sector data, processing tools and resources, in support of the research
communities dealing with governance and policy modeling, complex systems simulation, public
administration transformation, government 2.0, information and communication technologies, future
internet and social sciences.
He moved on with the project objectives, as well as with the so called “two-way” usage scenarios,
one for “Delivering Public Sector Data to Researchers and Citizens” and one for “Delivering Open Data
Needs and guidelines to Public Sector Organizations”.
Next, he presented and analyzed the ENGAGE e-Infrastructure ecosystem, the ENGAGE overall
architecture and the ENGAGE global reach. He closed his speech by talking about the key issues and
research activities within the 1st year of the project and briefly mentioning the project consortium.
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4.3 Session VIIc: Workshop FInES Roadmap Development:
Discussing on the key terms
Chair: Michele Missikoff
Participants: Michele Missikoff, Robert Constable, Ricardo Gonçalves, Keith Popplewel, Lars Taxen,
Sotiris Koussouris.
Michele Missikoff briefly illustrated the Roadmap methodology, starting with the slides presented the
day before, illustrating the methodology and better elaborating on the 4 FInES knowledge spaces.
Some concerns were raised about the fact that the proposed methodology does not follow a typical
approach, defining first the starting point (e.g., State of the Art), then the Vision (i.e., where we want
to go), and finally the path to proceed from the start to the destination.
Mr Missikoff reports that before achieving this exercise it is necessary to agree on the structuring of
the technical-scientific landscape, i.e., to agree on the Knowledge Spaces and, possibly, a further
articulation of them in a top-down process. This is a preliminary achievement of paramount
importance to produce a Research Roadmap (RR) that is not biased by the current technology and
the current activities/projects, but intends to achieve a disruptive view on research challenges,
research areas, grand objectives.
So, the first objective is to think about the Vision not as an extrapolation of what exists today, but in
a free unconstrained fashion, thinking where we will be willing to be in 10+ years from now.
The discussion then focused on the notion of a Vision. Many intend the term as „what we wish to
achieve in our FInES domain‟ in the target year of the RR. Instead, after a discussion, we agreed that
the term „vision‟ is better used to delineate the target socio-economic future, leaving the research
challenges to another chapter of the report. Furthermore, in this Vision it is opportune to rely on the
numerous studies that have been published under the „umbrella‟ of the Commission, reporting values
such as the social cohesion, environment protection, and quality of life of the European citizens.
The discussion then focused on the 4 FInES Knowledge Spaces:
1. Socio-economic, mainly elaborated according to the relevant EC documents (e.g., previous
Cluster documents, Europe 2020, Digital Agenda, Innovation Union, ...)
2. Enterprise. There are various approaches to characterise an enterprise for our purpose. Here
we intend to focus mainly on business aspects. The idea is to avoid a too specific approach,
or a bias to a specific industrial sector (e.g., automotive, energy, textile & cloths, etc.)
Then we will refer to a widely applicable framework. In the discussion we identified 4 possible
frameworks:
Qualities of Beings
Here we considered the existing FInES RR that proposes a number of features that future
enterprises may (hopefully) exhibit: the so called QoB (Qualities of Being: please refer to the
cited FInES RR for more details.)
Green Enterprise
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Cognisant Enterprise
Inventive Enterprise
Cloud Enterprise
Community-based Enterprise
Glocal Enterprise
Comment: it was agreed that these QoB are still valid. Therefore, they will be kept in the new
RR.
Structural Approach
This is somehow a traditional way of representing an enterprise44 that draws upon a generic
departmental organization of an enterprise.
Logistics
Production
HR
Marketing
Management
Comment: from the behavioral point of view, this approach focuses on business functions. It
has been criticised in the past because it is not keen to model the enterprise behavior as a
whole, e.g. by means of business processes. However, it is well known and largely
accepted45.
Operational Approach
This is a general operational approach that focuses on the fundamental lifecycles found in the
enterprises. The list below implies several cycles progressing at different speed. The inner
cycle is composed by <operate, manage> the outer cycles includes all the 5 phases.
Invent
Plan
Build
Operate
Manage
Comment: this operational approach is an extension of the more traditional Plan-Build-Run
largely known in ERPs46 and SOA47.
Activity Domain Theory (http://www.neana.se/ea.ppt)
This is a specific proposal that has been presented the day before.
Object, Motive
Actors-Roles
44 Thompson JD (1967), Organizations in action, McGraw-Hill New York 45 Daft Richard L. (2009), Organization Theory and Design, Tenth Edition, Sout-Western Cengage Learning 46 http://www.sap.com/uk/services/consulting/build/index.epx 47 http://www.soa.com/solutions/your_business_needs/
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Meditational means
Common understanding
Enactment
Activity modalities
Human predisposition for acting
Comment: this proposal was attracting much attention, however the majority of people were
not familiar with is and it appeared that a closer look was needed before reaching the needed
understanding.
3. Enterprise Systems,
4. Enabling Technologies.
Then, the time dedicated to the meeting was over and the analysis of the current harvested keywords
was postponed to a later phase, to be carried out remotely.
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4.4 Session VIIIa: Workshop: Realising the vision of the ISU: public
interest, competitive service offering and service innovation
Chair: Man-Sze Li, IC FOCUS, UK
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Yannis Charalabidis, NTUA, Greece
Yannis Charalabidis presented the GSU Model and its three parts, i.e. the Service Provision, the
Service Orchestration and the Service Aggregation. He moved on with his speech by presenting a set
of “Life Events” for the citizens, as well as a set of “Business Events”, for Enterprises and SMEs,
explaining how these events are interacting with a GSU. Then, Mr Charalabidis gave some examples
of the application of the GSU in Governance and continued with the presentation of the GSU Node
Architecture, as well as the contents of the Government Interoperability Service Registry. Closing his
presentation, he talked about the emerging research challenges concerning the GSU, he mentioned
the key players in the GSU/ISU ecosystem and he concluded by stressing out that the GSU is a Grand
Challenge for the next generation of ICT-enabled Governance, which promises to change the way
services are created, shared and consumed by citizens.
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Bernard Barani, European Commission
Bernard Barani opened his presentation by mentioning that the motivation of an Internet-enabled
service economy and society emerges various challenges that we should deal with, in order to
develop and build innovative FI service infrastructures. Starting from the Digital Agenda for Europe
and presenting the current situation in the use of the various Internet services provided, he concludes
that there is a need for very high speed networks (i.e. Broadband Internet). Then, he moved on by
talking about other challenges towards FI service infrastructures, including cloud computing,
interoperability, openness, data protection and liability, as well as research and standardization. He
concluded by stressing out that all the above mentioned challenges are in the heart of the Digital
Agenda for Europe, in order to achieve the deployment of Future Internet services with a Single
Digital market perspective.
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4.5 Session VIIIb: Towards FP8: New Opportunities and ideas for
FInES
Chair: Euripides Loukis, University of the Aegean
Moderators: Fenareti Lampathaki, NTUA - DSS Lab, Greece/Ricardo Gonçalves, UNINOVA, Portugal
4.5.1 UNITE & research collaboration programmes and initiatives (People ITN,
ERASMUS, PhD)50
Ricardo Gonçalves, UNINOVA, Portugal
Mr Ricardo Gonçalves talked about the lack of cross-cut co-operations among the various FP7
projects, stressing out that these research projects tend to contribute and share experiences only
within the corresponding clusters and that, except for the participation and discussion in large
conferences, the various results tend to stay for a long time closed within consortiums.
Therefore, he introduces the term of “secondment” of research teams, i.e. the exchange of research
teams for short/medium periods of time, as a means of spreading innovation and improving the
quality of higher education and research, trying to keep the multiple European cultures in close
cooperation.
In this framework, he presented the UNITE project and its concept towards promoting active
secondment of research teams and strengthening cooperation in community supported research. He
also talked about the UNITE team, its objectives and its strategy. He continued with the secondment
concept and presented the candidate countries to exchange research teams, the demand and offer
matrix concerning the various topics covered and other relative aspects of the project.
4.5.2 Generative Internet: The future of Internet between Social and Informational
phenomena51
Michele Piunti, Whitehall Reply, Italy
Michele Piunti from Whitehall Reply, talked about the generative internet, explaining that the Internet
is a means not only for consuming information, but also generating new one, through the use of the
social media. He especially notes that “We would not think next coming internet without having in
mind a clear model of what humans want, how do they behave, reason, think”.
Considering the extended Internet Ecosystem which includes Smart Devices, Traditional Media,
Institutions, Crowdsourcing, Enterprises, Organisations, Public Administrations, etc., he introduces six
ideas for the future of the Internet. He talks about the “User Centric Experience” concept, the
Cognitive Approach, the Information and Entertainment concept, the Environments and Societies, the
ambient and intelligent future smart environments and finally, about the evolutionary, cross
disciplinary approach of “interaction as a paradigm”. The implementation of the latter is based on a
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brand new suite for building extended ecosystems of Humans, Services and Things in practice. In this
framework, he talked about Whitehall Reply and its activities towards the aforementioned goal of
“interaction as a paradigm”.
4.5.3 Opportunities for Publications in ISI Journals about the EISB52
Ricardo Gonçalves, UNINOVA, Portugal/Keith Popplewell, Coventry University, UK
Ricardo Gonçalves and Keith Popplewell gave a short presentation which had as its central objective
to encourage publishing in internationally recognized international scientific journals all the major
results coming from FInES researchers. They explained that this can lead to the empowerment of the
FInES community at scientific level and to the creation of a pool of reference papers of international
recognition level, with strong potential for worldwide cites (i.e., increase the number of cites to EI
research results), as well as to the receiving of sound contributions towards EISB, from an open
worldwide call for papers. After mentioning some relative publications in some special issues in 2010,
they moved on with the future work-plan for publications and called all the FInES representatives to
work together, prepare and provide their publications and contribute to the EISB with focused and
high quality submissions.
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4.6 Session IV: Closing of the Samos 2011 Summit
Yannis Charalabidis, chair of the Samos 2011 Summit, gave a brief presentation of some indicative
numbers concerning the Summit (also available on the next section “Samos Summit by Numbers”),
thanked all the participants, speakers, organizers and everyone that contributed to this high-level
meeting on Future Internet and closed the Summit with the following ambitious Declaration, setting
future goals and next steps in the field of Future Internet.
4.6.1 The Samos 2011 Summit Declaration on Future Internet for Enterprises and
Society
Samos, Greece, 6th July 2011
We, the participants of the Samos 2011 Summit on “Future Internet: The Power to Change Society”,
being active citizens, members of the academic and industrial communities, members of SMEs and
researchers of Future Internet Enterprise Systems, Information Technology and Social Sciences.
Recognizing:
that knowledge and innovation are important means for tackling the global economic crisis while also
being predominantly a key factor for sustainable economic growth and competitive advantage of
enterprises;
that today‟s global challenges are complex in nature, characterized by non-linear development,
cascade spreading and unpredictability (as seen in financial crisis, volcano ash cloud, epidemic
spreading, large-scale blackouts), therefore requiring the collaborative effort of scientists, private and
public institutions, and citizens;
the strategic importance of information and communication technologies in dealing with complexity
and unpredictability, establishing and ensuring open and competitive economies;
the global context of the development of information society, which necessitates the transcendence
of national horizons into transnational collaboration schemes and programmes across disciplines;
Acknowledging:
the European Digital Agenda 2020, which strives to foster information society development and to
provide the building blocks for sustainable growth, for all citizens and businesses;
the Innovation Union, that brings innovation forward as the best means of successfully tackling major
societal challenges, which are becoming more urgent by the day;
the European Framework Programme for research and innovation, which provides an evolving
constitutional agenda for supporting scientific research and pre-competitive industrial development on
information and communication technologies, social sciences, energy and environment, education and
sustainable development;
the FInES Cluster Position Paper, that summarizes the FInES Cluster vision to ensure that the full
potential of the Future Internet is accessible to, relevant for, and put to use by European enterprises
including SMEs;
the FInES Position Paper on Orientations for FP8 promoting a European Innovation Partnership for
Catalysing the Competitiveness of European Enterprises.
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We call upon:
the United Nations, the European Parliament, the European Union Presidency and Council of
Ministers, the European Commission, National Governments, international organisations and NGO‟s,
elected representatives and decision makers within the industry, SMEs and every active citizen
To:
Support research and innovation in the domain of Future Internet systems and services in the factory,
in the enterprise and within a connected, inclusive society, in order to empower them in their quest
for high quality, ubiquitous digital services and products
Foster collaboration among scientific communities, industry, SMEs and citizens, towards an open,
coordinated and effective global business ecosystem
Embrace and apply the results of ICT research and innovation in everyday business, to drastically
increase enterprises‟ and factories‟ prosperity
Endorse and promote the Enterprise Interoperability Science Base development, for cultivating the
path towards the identification and solving of problems for enterprises and society
Collaborate towards the further elaboration, adoption and pursue of the Research Challenges of the
FInES Cluster Research Roadmap.
In light of the above considerations, we have gathered at the Samos 2011 Summit on “Future
Internet: The Power to Change Society” and now call on all institutions and individuals addressed
above, to take decisive steps at global, European, regional and local level, regarding the development
and adoption of new and advanced ICT solutions for innovative and competitive enterprises and
factories - thereby providing the means for a proper response to the challenges of the future.
Samos Summit Participants
6th July 2011, Samos, Greece
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5 Samos Summit by Numbers
• 84 participants – invitees
• 15 countries represented53
• 30 organizations present
• 24 projects represented
• 40 presentations
• 200 person-hours of collaborative workshops
• 630 on-line viewers (Ustream)
• 1,000 visitors in the Samos Summit site, during the 3 days, from 27 Countries
• 300 tweets, reaching thousands of people
• High coverage in the Greek press (Samos Radios, Samos TV, more than 15 press
publications)
• More than 1,000 photos
• More than 10 video statements
53 (Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Turkey, UK, US)
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Annex A: More Information
[1] Samos 2011 Summit Declaration available at: http://samos-summit.blogspot.com/2011/07/samos-2011-
summit-declaration_06.html
[2] Samos Summit 2011 Website available at: http://samos-summit.blogspot.com/
[3] Slides and Presentations of Samos 2011 Summit available at: http://samos-
summit.blogspot.com/2010/07/agenda-372010.html
[4] Photos available at: https://picasaweb.google.com/y.charalabidis/Samos2011SummitOnFutureInternet
[5] Videos available at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fines---sammos-summit