An introduction to NESSI

1
An introduction to NESSI
Frédéric GittlerHP LabsNESSI Steering Committee
Vice-Chairman
2
Agenda

• NESSI a European Technology Platform
• The NESSI Holistic Model
• NESSI Open Framework approach
• NESSI Open Participation model

3
The story of NESSI

• The context - European Technology Platform
• Private-public partnership
• Industrial leadership
• Uniting all stakeholders
• Around a key, strategic area
• Strategic?
• Europes future growth
• Europes competitiveness
• Link?
• Requires major research and technological
  advances
• In the medium to long term

NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European
research in Services Architectures and Software
Infrastructures
Today, NESSI partners represent 1.7 Million
strong workforce and 490 B in revenues
NESSI has presented an initial Strategic Research
Agenda that represents a global investment of
2.5 B
4
The challenge of NESSI

• Transforming the Internet to service your life
• ensuring that services can be provided to all,
  citizens and businesses alike, in safe, secure,
  reliable, extensible, scalable environments

5
The vision of NESSI

• In the past, we were unconnected
• In the 80s, we moved to a one to one connection
  infrastructure was the key, email as the
  interface
• In the 90s, a one to all connection Web sites
  as the interface
• and today we are overwhelmed by information, by
  its amount, by multiple threads of information
• Easing life requires that personalised
  information be delivered
• Tomorrow, services will personalise and process
  information to cater to user needs

6
The vision of NESSI

• This evolution requires a service oriented
  environment
• NESSI companies have recognised that no single
  company can or should harness the power of such
  an environment
• NESSI is a partnership that will ensure the
  emergence of this environment

7
The tools of NESSI

• The first tool of an ETP is its Strategic
  Research Agenda
• Moving from vision to definition
• Frame the context
• Refine the Technological scope
• Build it together
• Getting organised is key to ensuring
• Smooth operations
• Open contributions

8
NESSI from launch to future
01/2006NESSI ForumNew members start
06/2006NESSI General Assembly
09/20069 Active working Groups
09/2005 NESSI Launch
Building implementing the SRA
Vision
22 partners 200 members SRA Volume 1 Working
Groups
SRA Volume 3 - Roadmap
ContextSRA Holistic View Join us!
9
NESSI is not alone
Software Services
10

Manufacturingindustries, Automotive,Aerospace,
Electro-technical, etc.
Individual Consumer Citizen Worker etc.
Competitiveness InnovationSpeed
Mobile Communications
Networked and Electronic Media
Software Services
Embedded Systems ARTEMIS
Nanoelectronics
11

Manufacturingindustries, Automotive,Aerospace,
Electro-technical, etc.
Individual Consumer Citizen Worker etc.
Competitiveness InnovationSpeed
Mobile Communications
Networked and Electronic Media
Transforming the Internet from information to
services
Embedded Systems ARTEMIS
Nanoelectronics
12
NESSI Landscape
NESSI Adoption
NESSI Framework
13
NESSI Landscape
NESSI Adoption
NESSI Framework
14
Strategic Pillars challenges for FP7

• Service-oriented infrastructure
• Service framework (including Semantic
  Technologies and Complexity Management)
• Trust, Security and Dependability
• Software engineering
• User-service interactions
• Services Sciences
• Networked enterprises
• NESSI Open Framework (Reference Implementation)

15
Strategic Pillars challenges for FP7 (2)

• Service-oriented infrastructure
• Automated deployment of software onto integrated
  infrastructure exposed as services
• Ability to predict non functional properties of
  dynamical deployed applications
• Manageability of shared infrastructure with
  emphasis on experiences of multiple-users
• Service framework
• Define methods, tools and platform for the
  contextual provision of services. (Context
  includes existing services population, QoS,
  policies, environmental conditions, )
• Issues include service discovery, "composition",
  deployment and monitoring.
• The use of semantic description for functional
  and non functional characteristics of software
  and services, to
• achieve scalability at enterprise cross
  enterprise levels
• link formal ontological approach with informal
  web 2.0 approach

16
Strategic Pillars challenges for FP7 (3)

• Trust, Security and Dependability
• Decrease gap between security demand and
  available security resources
• Introducing new and adapting existing TSD
  mechanisms to handle complexity (cross-domain,
  dynamic, )
• Software engineering
• Adjust/adapt Software Engineering approaches,
  methods and processes to service oriented
  software
• User-service interactions
• Context (wide sense) adaptation during
  interaction
• Empowering end-users to make them able to
  personalise their environment integrating
  resources to provide access to content and
  services.
• Using captured and shared knowledge to improve
  productivity during interactions

17
Strategic Pillars challenges for FP7 (4)

• Services Sciences
• Establish model methods for enabling predictive
  services systems with attainable expectations
• Establish model methods for services systems
  that will function according to specification at
  predicted cost throughout intended lifetime
• Networked enterprises
• Provide solutions for business process
  collaboration in business ecosystems based on
  business models
• Establish design principles systems for
  business processes in a service environment
  addressing adaptability, inclusiveness,
  conformability and measurability.

18
Strategic Pillars challenges for FP7 (5)

• NESSI Open Framework
• Reference Model
• Reference Architecture (Open Specifications)
• Reference Implementation

19
Strategic Pillars - Methodology
NESSI Open Framework
NESSI Open Framework
NESSI Open Framework
Socio-Economical Context (Innovation Centre)
20
NESSI Open Framework (2)

• How
• Iteratively, yearly basis, implemented.
• V0 based on current SofA
• V1 deployed at month 18
• Feed by SPs on a yearly basis from year 1. NOF
  providing feed-back from year 2.

21
Choose your level of involvement
NESSI Community
NESSI Partners
Board
Committees
NESSI Office
Steering Committee
NESSI Members
WorkingGroups
NESSI Forum
User Community
SME Community
ICT Industry Community
Academic Research Community
22
NESSI Members
Other Initiative
Working Group
Other Initiative
WorkingGroup
SRA Committee
Steering Committee
23
e-Health
Software Engineering
Services Sciences
Business Process Management
Service Engineering
Trust, Security, Dependability
User-Service Interaction
Semantic Technologies
Service-Oriented Infrastructure
Positions do not reflect layering relationship
24
NESSI Working Groups current status

• Semantic Technologies (25 members)
• 1st Workshop, 22 Nov (Helsinki)
• Trust, Security and Dependability (40 members)
• 2nd meeting, 21 Nov (Helsinki)
• Service Engineering (40 members)
• Kick-off, 13-14 Dec (Brussels)
• Software Engineering (15 members)
• To be announced
• Services Sciences (35 members)
• 3rd Workshop, 22 Nov (London)
• Service Oriented Infrastructure (20 members)
• Kick-off, 13 Dec (Brussels)
• Business Process Management (10 members)
• Kick-off, 13 Dec (Brussels)
• User/Service Interactions (15 members)
• 1st Workshop, 22 Nov (Helsinki)
• eHealth (15 members)