1. Adaptive Services Grid FP6 – IST - 004617 www.asg-platform.org Develop a prototype of an open development platform for adaptive services registration, discovery, creation, composition, and enactment.

2. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 1/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction  Administrative Data Program: Information Society Technology, IST-2 Strategic Objective: Open Development platforms for software and Services EU-Project Officer: Michel Lacroix Funding: 7.5M€ Project Period: 2004/09/01 – 2007/02/28 (30 months)  Partner 23 partner, 6 EC-countries and Australia (1) Germany (10), Poland (6), Austria (2), Ireland (1), Norway(2), Finland (1)

3. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 2/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Work Components  C-1 ASG-Interface provide interfaces and mechanisms to ensure access to and semantic interoperability across ASG and its users  C-2 Service Discovery & Composition provide mechanisms to register, discover, and compose services  C-3 Service Creation provide mechanisms for dynamic creation of services, mainly based on automated generation of software components according to semantic service specification and agreements  C-4 Adaptive Process Management provide mechanisms for the enactment, monitoring and management of service and process execution in order to ensure collective QoS and stateful coordination of services  C-5 Services Grid Infrastructure provide a generic open software platform for implementation of the ASG elements together with the core computational grid functionality  C-6 ASG Development Methodology responsible for managing the software lifecycle process of applications using ASG  C-7 Usability and Demonstration will show how ASG-based services will provide advanced new services in the context of specific application domains

4. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 3/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Component Structure ASG Interface Service Composition & Discovery Service Creation Adaptive Process Management Services Grid Infrastructure Telecommunications Telematics IT Enterprise Architectures Additional Sectors Grid Service Registry Grid Service Registry Grid Service Registry Ontologies Development Methodology Dissemination Usability & Demonstration Project Management

5. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 4/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Registry S1 S2 S3 Service Composition S2S3 S1 Grid Services Infrastructure Reply App Adaptive Process Management Register Service Provider Request App Service Requester S1 S2 S3 Scenario

6. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 5/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Innovation in general  Interlock the performance-oriented grid community and the application-services-oriented W3C-world  Using the advantages of - Web Service Description Language - Semantic-oriented Workflow mechanism - Open Grid Service Architecture - Web Service Resource Framework  to develop an Open Platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment with business-oriented Quality of Service functionalities = Adaptive Services Grid

7. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 6/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Examples of Innovation per sub-projects  C-1 ASG-Interface  C-2 Service Discovery & Composition  C-3 Service Creation  C-4 Adaptive Process Management  C-5 Services Grid Infrastructure  C-6 ASG Development Methodology State-of-Art: Web Services based on syntactic information without respect to environmental conditions ASG-Innovation: Grid Services Specification with semantic inter- operability considering pre/post-conditions State-of-Art: Web Services Composition Language ASG-Innovation: Grid-oriented mechanism to register, discover, and compose services using semantic specifications of desired functionality State-of-Art: Meta Object Facility (MOF) mostly used to create UML-definitions ASG-Innovation: using a re-worked MOF- approach to transform semantic specifications to domain-specific language constructs State-of-Art: Service Level Agreements, GRID-oriented reservation of computational performances ASG-Innovation: offering a complex Quality of Service approach to guarantee computational performances as well as discovery, creation, and composition of services in special use cases and with respect to specific business models State-of-Art: Open Grid Service Interface (functionalities to reserve performances and services) ASG-Innovation: merge the OGSA-advantages (GGF) with the W3C-based standards and specifications, to set up an generic, web-based Grid infrastructure with business-oriented Quality of Service functionalities, semantic interoperability and parameterisation State-of-Art: methods and tools for general software lifecycle partly useful to develop WEB Services ASG-Innovation: management concept for a GRID-service oriented software development process (methods and tools as well as mechanism to tailor it to new domains)

8. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 7/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction  Tools, Services, Frameworks, standard contribution, methodology definition, … Grid Services Specification with semantic interoperability considering pre/post-conditions (C-1) Grid-oriented method to register, discover, and compose services using semantic specifications of desired functionality (C-2) Grid-Service-oriented Meta Object Facility (MOF) to transform semantic specifications to domain-specific language constructs (C-3) Generic, web-based Grid Infrastructure with business-oriented Quality of Service functionalities, semantic interoperability and parameterisation (C-5) Management concept for a GRID-service oriented software development process (methods and tools as well as mechanism to tailor it to new domains --- C-6)  Fit into GRID vision … Open platform for adaptive services based on - Web Service Description Language - Semantic-oriented Workflow mechanism - Open Grid Service Architecture and - Web Service Resource Framework Expected results and benefits 1/2

9. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 8/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Expected results and benefits 2/2 Quality of Service approach to guarantee computational performances as well as discovery, creation, and composition of services in special use cases and with respect to specific business models (C-4)  Benefits and use cases … Advanced new services in ASG-specific application domains Telecommunication (Telenor, Telekomunikacja Polska, Polska Telekomunikacja Cyfrowa), Telematics (DaimlerChrysler), Enterprise IT (SIEMENS), … End-user of e-business and e-science processes, developer of Grid-service- based development tools, system developers of Grid- and web-based applications, Service Provider, …  Users of results …

10. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 9/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Exploitation Potential 1/2  Identified markets …  Results positioned within target market segment … Whole E-market (B2C, B2B), Telecommunication (B2C), IT-market (software development industry), … Industry Domains: Engineering, Life Science, Logistic, … Grid Services Specification with semantic interoperability  GRID community Grid-oriented method to register, discover, and compose services using semantic specifications of desired functionality  IT-market Grid-Service-oriented Meta Object Facility (MOF) to transform semantic specifications to domain-specific language constructs  software development industry Generic, web-based Grid Infrastructure with business-oriented Quality of Service functionalities and semantic interoperability  System developer, Service Provider Method for a GRID-service oriented software development process (methods, tools, mechanism to tailor it to new domains)  software development industry

11. Copyright © ASG – C-D Dissemination Work Components Component Structure Scenario Innovation 10/10 Results&Benefits Exploitation Potential Introduction Exploitation Potential 2/2  Commitment of industrial partner … exist by the industrial partners of ASG first Provider of Virtual private networks and services …  Identified competition New kind of Quality of Service and semantic functionality within generic Grid-based service applications based on WEB technologies and linked with quality-of-service- demands  Competitive advantage