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Tutorial 1
Triple SpaceComputing: Large-Scale Integrated Knowledge Applications
Sunday, September 28, half-day
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Reto Krummenacher I STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT
Jacek Kopecky I STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, AT
David de Francisco I TID, ES

Abstract

In the tutorial, we introduce a newly emerging technology called “Triple Space”, a system which applies the paradigm of space-based computing to realize a coordination middleware managing information formalized using Semantic Web representation languages and coordinating the exchange of machine-readable information among many distributed entities on the Web. Triple Space Computing is a future solution for high scale knowledge distribution and coordination scenarios. We present the concept and the existing implementation, guided by a concrete demonstration based on a Digital Asset Marketplace for a large telecommunications company. Attendees will download and use a Triple Space kernel and learn how to use it as communication and coordination middleware for their Semantic Web applications.

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Tutorial 2
Beyond Google Earth: Surfing Petabyte Maps in the Future Internet
Sunday, September 28, half-day
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Peter Baumann I Jacobs University Bremen, DE

Abstract

Since the launch of Google Earth at the latest it is clear that online services for multi-Terabyte satellite imagery are becoming integral part of our Internet experience. Actually, 2-D imagery is but the tip of the iceberg - the general concept of multi-dimensional spatio-temporal raster data covers 1-D sensor time series, 2-D imagery, 3-D CAT scans (x/y/t) and exploration data (x/y/z), 4-D climate, ocean, and cosmological simulation results as well as life science microarray data (x/y/z/t), and many more. The common data abstraction behind all these is that of a multi-dimensional array of some extent and cell (“pixel”, “voxel”) type. Sizes range well into multi-Terabyte object sizes, in future: multi-Petabyte. Today’s inexpensive high-capacity storage media indeed allow to give online access to such data. We face the appearance of navigational interfaces; the next step will consist of advancing from data stewardship to service stewardship based on open, flexible access interfaces for value-adding processing, analysis, and mining.

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Tutorial 3 - CANCELLED !!! -
Agile Future Internet Applications: An Introduction to Emerging Data, Service, and Process Technologies
Sunday, September 28, half-day
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Raphael Volz I Innovation Consulting GmbH, DE
Veli Bicer I Forschungszentrum Informatik University of Karlsruhe (TH), DE
Steffen Lamparter I Karlsruhe Service Research Institute - University of Karlsruhe (TH), DE

Abstract

The current Internet has emerged as the dominant application platform. Soft ware is no longer installed on computers and distributed on physical media, but accessed as an online service, remotely, on any computer, via standard protocols such as HTTP. With the advent of this network-mediated service delivery, higher level standards have emerged and are proposed. Data is increasingly described in a standardized manner using technologies based on XML, RDF, and OWL. Leading application providers open their systems and expose APIs via Web ser vice standards such as SOAP or REST. Similarly, business process languages such as BPEL and BPMN allow to orchestrate and network workflows across singe applications. Taken together these technologies form the basis for a more agile, flexible and adaptive Future Internet services.

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Tutorial 4
Semantic Management of Business Processes in the Future Internet
Sunday, September 28, half-day
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Agata Filipowska I Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, PL
Marin Dimitrov I Ontotext Lab., Sirma Group Corp., Sofia, BG
Dumitru Roman I STI Innsbruck, AT

Abstract

The design of business processes and information systems within enterprises has undergone a big change in recent years. In order to meet the requirements of business for flexibility and dynamism, more and more often business process are implemented following SOA paradigm. Thus, traditional monolithic applications are replaced by small, reusable components i.e. services that proved to be a very efficient way for outsourcing and business collaboration in multiple domains. The vision that goes along with outsourcing on the basis of service-oriented architecture is that markets of IT services evolve towards dynamic business networks and an Internet of services. However, although the idea of SOA targets the need for adaptivness, existing SOA solutions are difficult to manage without a proper degree of automation. In order to address various drawbacks, the extension of BPM with semantics is proposed.