20081024 some issues in software and services research

Software and Services

Current Status and Future Research Directions

Arian ZwegersEuropean Commission

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

eChallenges 2008, Stockholm

Overview

• Part I – Internet of Services in Future Internet–Developments–Problems and opportunities–Work Programme 2009-10

• Part II – Open questions


What is the Future Internet?


What does the Future Internet look like?

Sources: 3GPP, 3GPP2, Qualcomm, WiMAX Forumhttp://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38496.pdf

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/Second Life

Internet of Services, Service Web

Networks of the Future

3D Internet

Internet of Things

Trust

Security


What does the Future Internet look like?

Sources: 3GPP, 3GPP2, Qualcomm, WiMAX Forumhttp://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38496.pdf

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/Second Life

Internet of Services, Service Web

Networks of the Future

3D Internet

Internet of Things

Trust

Security

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

produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these

organisations” (1968)


World Internet Penetration Rates by Geographic Regions

579 / 3,776

385 / 800

248 / 337

20 / 34

139 / 576

42 / 197

51 / 955


Current/emerging problems and opportunities

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

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

• Tripling of the number of people connected (1 3 B)• Addition of billions—perhaps even hundreds of

billions—of devices (sensors, tags, micro controllers)• User generated content leads to a massive increase

of creative flow of content and processes• Balance the perceived need for control with the

creativity that spawns innovation—and profit?• Towards tethered appliances or generative

technology?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsb4gtEpaw

Who is going to act?


Are WE going to act or not?

Framework Programmes


International Co-operation

Science in Society

Research Potential

Regions of Know- ledge

Research for the benefit of SMEs

Research Infrastruc- tures

CAPACITIES

Marie Curie ActionsPEOPLE

European Research CouncilIDEAS

9. Space

8. Socio-econom

ic Research

7. Transport

6. Environment

5. Energy

4. Nano, M

aterials, Production Techn.

3. ICT

2. Food, Agriculture

Biotechnology

1. Health

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7th Framework Programme (2007-2013)

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

€ 32 B

€ 7.5 B

€ 4.7 B

€ 4.2 B

10. Security


ICT Work Programme 2009-2010 ~2 B€ total

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Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics

Network and Service Infrastructures

Components, Systems,Engineering

Digital Libraries and Content

Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare

ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance

Socio-economic goals

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ETPs

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Challenge 1 “Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures”

1.1 Network of the Future

1.6 Future Internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research

1.2 Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation

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1.3 Internet of Things and Enterprise

environments

1.5 Networked Media and 3D Internet

The Future Internet

Call 480 MEuro

Call 4110 MEuro

Call 537 MEuro

Call 5110 MEuroCall 5

90 MEuro

Call 550 MEuro

Call 580 MEuro


Services Connected IT services: Fit for active service?

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

crawler during the past 25 months

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

worldwide network of service providers, consumers, aggregators, and brokers

- resulting in -

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


Services Problems and opportunities (1/2)

• Issues with service architectures and platforms– Existing web-based service front-ends are based

on monolithic, inflexible, non-context-aware, non- customizable and unfriendly UIs

– How to deal with many, many diverse services?– How to manage many, diverse underlying

hardware and software resources?Service Architectures and Platforms for the Future Internet (CP)– Service front ends– Open, scalable, dependable service platforms,

architectures, and specific platform components– Virtualised infrastructures

ICT


Services Problems and opportunities (2/2)

• Issues with very large, dynamic, open service networks– From design time to run-time– Quality of open systems without fixed system boundaries– Opportunities with open source software and service

engineering?Highly Innovative Service / Software Engineering (CP)– Service / Software engineering methods and tools– Verification and validation methods, tools and techniques – Methods, tools and approaches specifically supporting the

development, deployment and evolution of open source software

• Lack of coordination of current and future research effortsCoordination and support actions (CSA)

Obj 1.2 Instruments: IP, STREP, CSACall 5 Budget CP: 107 M€, min. 50% to IPs110 M€ Budget CSA: 3 M€


Timetable

• Publication WP2009-10 in November 2008• FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 2009

– Budapest, 22 January 2009• Preparatory workshops and information

days– To be announced

• Call 4– Publication: 18 November 2008– Submission deadline: 7 April 2009

• Call 5– Publication: June 2009– Submission deadline: 22 September 2009???

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/budapest_2009/index_en.htm


Future Internet Bled conference 31 March – 2 April 2008

• Bled declaration–Signed by 76 Challenge 1

projects from call 1 and 2–Various aspects of Future

Internet–How to continue towards

Madrid, Dec 2008?• Future Internet Assembly

http://www.fi-bled.eu


ICT 2008 Lyon 25-27 November 2008

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm


Future Internet Assembly – ServiceWave Conference

Madrid, 9-13 December 2008

http://www.fi-madrid.eu, http://www.servicewave.eu


Conference ”The Future of the Internet”

Prague, 11-13 May 2009


Overview

• Part I – Internet of Services in Future Internet

• Part II – Questions for debate– SaaS, a silver bullet?– Billions of services v service parks?– Future Internet and convergence?– Leading Internet companies?– Shared vision and independent thinking?

SaaS, a silver bullet?

Drivers• Maintenance fees are the

gravy train of enterprise software

• Costs savings (acquisition and maintenance)

• Predictability of software management costs

• Complexity reduction• Increasing provider

accountability• Increasing offerings

available in the market, increasing customer choice

Source: Financial Times, 27 August 2008 The end of a software gravy train

SaaS, a silver bullet?

Drivers• Maintenance fees are the

gravy train of enterprise software

• Costs savings (acquisition and maintenance)

• Predictability of software management costs

• Complexity reduction• Increasing provider

accountability• Increasing offerings

available in the market, increasing customer choice

Inhibitors• Functionality concerns• Reliability of software-on-

demand products and services

• Perceived lack of functionality, security, customisation, and integration capabilities

• Switching costs• Putting critical information

off-premise? • Service provider viability

Billions of services v service parks/ecosystems?

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End 1990s - 20032003 – 2007

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Mid 1980s – mid 1990s

Dot Com thinking

Source: Gartner, 2001

Billions of services v service parks/ecosystems?

Billions of services• Everybody is a potential

service provider• Everybody potentially uses

services from everybody• Requires work on service

discovery, composition, semantics for heterogeneous services

Service Parks• Trusted services from

recognised brands• Sets of services with rules

for combining and modifying them

• Homogeneous semantics• Guaranteed SLAs• Like the old vision, but in

a park only

Number of Web services found by SEEKDA crawler during the past 25 months

Source: Charles Petrie, Christoph Bussler “The Myth of Open Web Services – The Rise of the Service Parks”

IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 2008, pp 93-95

Source: SEEKDA, 2008

Future Internet and convergence

• Competence– Future Internet, convergence demand

additional research competences?– Need to involve other communities in Obj

1.2?

• Impact– How to create impact in Obj 1.2?– Need to involve other communities in Obj

1.2?

Free email

RaaS

SaaS

Sharingfiles

Social networks

Communication

Information

Content

Services

Resources

Search engines

Instant messaging

Leading Internet companies

Free email

RaaS

SaaS

Sharingfiles

Social networks

Communication

Information

Content

Services

Resources

Search engines

Instant messaging


http://www.facebook.com/r.php


• Where is Europe?• Web 3.0 = Google Inc?• What can Europe do?• What can European research

funding do?• European Web-based Service

Industry (ISTAG)

ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/ist/docs/web-based-service-industry-istag_en.pdf

Shared vision and independent thinking?


And now what?

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

Call for Action

• Participate in the debate– Participate in preparatory workshops– Update research lines– See the whole elephant– Consider submission of proposals

• Familiarise yourself with ongoing research– Participate in ICT 2008– Have a look at Future Internet websites– Attend information days– Be critical

• “The Future Internet is OUR future”


For More Information ...

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

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

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

Draft Work Programmehttp://www.senternovem.nl/mmfiles/FP7-ICT%20Workprogramme%202009-

10%20V10-09-08_tcm24-282010.pdf

ICT Proposers’ day, 22 January 2009, Budapesthttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/budapest_2009/index_en.htm

Part Ihttp://www.ictsummit.eu/ict/summit/switzerland/programme-draft.html

[email protected]

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

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

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

Draft Work Programmehttp://www.senternovem.nl/mmfiles/FP7-ICT%20Workprogramme%202009-

10%20V10-09-08_tcm24-282010.pdf

ICT Proposers’ day, 22 January 2009, Budapesthttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/budapest_2009/index_en.htm

Part Ihttp://www.ictsummit.eu/ict/summit/switzerland/programme-draft.html

[email protected]

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