 Copyright 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. TransIT-funded Project: Digital Enterprise Research LFUI: Sustainability and Business Development Antragssteller: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Dr. Martin Hepp

2 Goals of the Project Sustainability and Management Support: Make a lasting asset Business Development: Disseminate DERI expertise and IPR into business applications and foster high-tech start-ups based on semantic technology in Tyrol and elsewhere Student Exchange: Strengthen DERI‘s attractiveness for top PhD candidates by well established exchange tracks with Stanford and others Research on e-tourism applications of semantic technology

3 Project Facts Start Date:January 1, 2005 Duration 36 months Funding: –Sustainability 396K € –Business Dev. 691K € –Stud. Exchange 310K € –Total 1397K € 38 „Deliverables“ with measurable results Progress control by 3 “Milestones” (M12, M24, M36)

4 Sustainability of the Organization: Establish Scientific Leadership Scientific Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Executive Directors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Strang Dr. Martin Hepp Senior Researchers and Cluster Leaders Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Wolf Dr. Michal Zaremba Dr. Ying Ding Dr. Axel Polleres Dr. Sven Groppe

5 Second Level of Scientific Management and Workforce 10 Senior PhD Students14 Junior PhD Students: -> Candidates for Senior Position in the Future

6 Strong Management Team Business Development Operational Management Human Resources Management Financial Management Project Management Public Relations Software Development System Administration (IT- Department) Event Management

7 Junior Staff Already employed 5 Master Students of the Department of Computer Science Innsbruck: Already employed 4 Bachelor Students of the Department of Computer Science Innsbruck:

8 Student Exchange I DERI IBK – DERI GWY

9 Student Exchange II DERI IBK – Stanford University collaboration on unifying framework for describing, analyzing, and executing of services in service oriented computing joint workshop series called "Semantic Web Service Challenge" to start in spring 2006, and to be held in Stanford, jointly organized by DERI Innsbruck, Galway and Stanford collaboration with Protégé and National Center for Biomedical Ontology Collaboration with Department of Structural Engineer and Geomechanics on WSMO collaboration on Semantic Business Process Management

10 Student Exchange II, facts DERI Innsbruck - DERI Galway 16 students/staff from DERI GWY to DERI IBK 12 students/staff from DERI IBK to DERI GWY Legal and administrative framework in place Full integration of incoming students into research framework of the host institution DERI Innsbruck – Stanford University 3 students from DERI IBK to Stanford 1 faculty from Stanford to DERI IBK Legal and administrative framework in place Full integration within Stanford Logic Group of Stanford University

11 DERI Business Development Mission: –make the need, importance and added value of SWS research understandable and visible for the IT industry. –Establish in DERI and academia awareness of industry requirements and needs –act as a catalyst for applied research activities and cooperative projects –Create and sustain added value for the IT environment in Tyrol and Austria Implementation: –Recruit DERI Business Development Team –Total funding ~700K € (36 months) –Achieve self-sustained funding by end of 2007

12 DERI Business Development Business Plan 1.Cooperative Research / Development projects Applied research sponsored by industrial partners Feasibility studies Customized Ontology Engineering 2.Training and education activities „Awareness“ Workshops Technical Tutorials 3.Product / Tools offerings upgrade assets available in DERI into marketable quality assured components or pre-products Details defined in 25 Milestones, to be accomplished by end of 2007

13 DERI Business Development Main Activities for the upcoming months –3-day Ontology WS for Arcelor (Spain, Steel Industry) Cooperative. Project set up, 5K €, Jan 2006 –Ontology / SWS „Compelling Events“ for the Industry Start-up WS in cooperation with trans IT, Feb 2006 –„Applied Ontologies“ Seminar, UIBK, Feb 2006 Ontologies Engineering Tutorials –Cooperative project with System One (Austria, Bruno Haid): Combine Social Software with SWS Project Roadmap, 240K €, Jan 2006 –Evaluate and classify DERI assets (ongoing)

14 DERI Business Development DERI BD Core Team –Sigurd Harand, Senior Business Development Manager –Ilona Zaremba, BD Management and Organization –Martin Hepp, Cluster Lead, Semantics in Business Information Systems –Michael Stollberg (BD Implementation) –Holger Lausen (DERI Tools, Tutorials) BD Support Team (on demand) –Researchers of DERI Innsbruck and DERI Galway –Partner Organizations

 Copyright 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Thank you! Dr. Martin Hepp