Info day Brussels, 2 June 2005

1. Info dayBrussels, 2 June 2005 Joint research activities and reference architecture. SO 2.5.9 “Collaborative Working Environments” 6th EU Framework Programme for Research Olavi Luotonen IST Programme

2. Index • Joint Research Activities • Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work

3. Joint Research Activities • To promote joint research activities with national programmes, • To define future research agendas, • To identify emerging topics and research groups world wide.

4. ERA Activities • Communities -> • EU Article 169 • EUREKA Article 171 • Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) • National programmes • Regional funds • Full impact by integration of activities also outside this Strategic Objective • Example: • AMI@Work family of ERA communities - technological and social innovation to catalyse human-centric systemic innovation • Brainbridges - ERA pilot for Collaborative work technologies. • Experience and Application Research (ISTAG), cf Living Labs

5. AMI@Work family of communities Collaborate, Create & Innovate @Work - Empowering, Person-centric New Working EnvironmentsLinking people in 25 EU Member States & beyond - First elected chairs & EC facilitators ‘horizontal’ technology themes & SEEM ‘vertical’ challenging verification environments Collaboration@Work Chair : Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT (DE) EC : Isidro Laso Knowledge@Work Chair : Anne Jubert, CRSA (FR) EC : Paul Hearn Rural@Work Chair : Nuria De Lama, Atos Origin (ES) EC facilitator : John Nolan Engineering@Work Chair : Roberto Santoro, ESoCE NET (IT) EC facilitator : Teresa De Martino Logistics@Work Chair : Kulwant Pawar, Univ. Nottingham (UK) EC facilitator : Florent Frederix Well-being Services @Work Chair : Niilo Saranummi, VTT (FI) EC facilitator : Olavi Luotonen Media@Work Chair : Timo Saari, CKIR, HIIT (FI) EC facilitator : Leonie Schaefer Mobility@Work Chair : Hans Schaffers, Telematica Inst. (NL) EC : Michael Ziegler SEEM@Work Chair : Flavio Bonfatti, Univ. Modena (IT) EC : Oluf Nielsen Leadership@Work Special Interest Group Chair : Seija Kulkki, CKIR (FI), EC facilitator : Bror Salmelin LivingLabs@Work Special Interest Group Chair : Mats Eriksson, CDT (SE), EC facilitator : Olavi Luotonen

6. Research groups world-wide coordination activities • To identify emerging topics and research groups world wide. • Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work.

7. Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work • Objective: To achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work (guidelines), including core components providing seamless collaboration. • Through Collaboration with international research and standardization activities. • Build on international RTD activities in particular USA, Canada, Korea and japan

8. Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work - Concept • A common reference architecture which enables the development of reusable and interoperable service and application components for collaboration at work. • It should define all the elements necessary to achieve interoperation among collaborative tools, including: functions, protocols, interfaces, … • It would be implemented via the “upper layer” middleware (layer 1 of the SO) which will facilitate the development of interoperable tools

9. Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work - Standardization activities • Work on Reference Architecture should be also linked to international standardisation activities, including W3C and IETF. • It should take into account existing recommendations • W3C: • SOA (XML, SOAP, ….), Semantic Web, Device indepence, multimodality, … • IETF: • Multimedia architecture (RTP, SIP, SDP, …), LDAP, .. • Others • Incorporating emerging paradigms • P2P, syndicated Blogs, Wikis, communities, ..