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SEAMLESS in a picture

SEAMLESS in a picture. Consortium Co-ordinator : University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) Other universities : Kosice (Slovakia), Maribor (Slovenia), Poznan (Poland), Stuttgart (Germany) Research institutions : AITEX (Spain), CSTB (France)

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SEAMLESS in a picture

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  1. SEAMLESS in a picture • Consortium • Co-ordinator: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) • Other universities: Kosice (Slovakia), Maribor (Slovenia), Poznan (Poland), Stuttgart (Germany) • Research institutions: AITEX (Spain), CSTB (France) • Software developers: ANTARA (Spain), ATC ROM (Romania), ISOFT (Bulgaria), KELYAN (Italy), TIE (Netherlands) • Service providers: JAPTI (Slovenia), PRC SCCI (Slovakia), T-Online (Hungary) • Objective: ICT services in the enlarged Europe • Semantic based search engine for potential partners • Support functions for negotiation (info exchange, quotations) • Support functions for collaboration (business documents) • Support functions for integration of enterprise information systems • So providing user companies with easy, entry level ICT solutions. 1

  2. Focus on small companies • Craft & Trade companies (<50 employees) • Active in manufacturing and construction and related services • More than 90% of European enterprises (> 60% of employees) • Forced by main customers to “passive” eBusiness (e.g. basic purchase) • Presenting slow increase of “active” eBusiness (eSales, SCM, CRM) • Fundamental role of mediators • Chambers of commerce or (sectoral, regional) company associations • Local development agencies or application service providers • Supporting small companies in organisational and bureaucratic activities • Can interpret company needs and represent them • Can help adapting new solutions to the expectations of the associated companies • Can ensure the rapid introduction of a critical mass of companies • Then, they are the best channel to promote innovative services • Can help overcoming technical problems and act as trust enablers • Ontologies management – Sectoral-Regional Ecosystem approach

  3. General picture A technological platform at every mediator

  4. Four main components /1 • Ontology-based services … • To create, update and manage ontologies at different levels • To map pairs of ontologies (concepts, languages) • To perform automatic translation of queries, data and documents • Distributed storage system … • Derived by adaptation from the SRRN of the SEEMseed project • To store the data types generated / used by the platform • To provide subscription and notification services • To execute queries on a network of eRegistries / Repositories

  5. Partner profiling and searching Collaboration services Negotiation services Product/service modelling Translation services Four main components /2 • User-oriented application services … • To support profile definition, partner search, negotiation and collaboration • To integrate existing enterprise information systems

  6. Four main components /3 • Security functionality … • To realise the SEAMLESS security requirements and policy • To take advantage of the SRRN native security mechanism

  7. GLOB COMM LOCL Distributed Storage System Mediator Basic (embedded) Services To / from other Mediators Pre-existing(legacy) EnterpriseSystem AutomaticTranslation Automatictranslation To / from other eServices User Access Control The mediator platform

  8. SEAMLESS ontologies • Local ontology (LOCL) • The single company has its own enterprise information system • (then it imports / exports data from / to the mediator platform) • The single company has no enterprise information system • (then it starts using ICT by accessing the mediator platform) • Common ontology (COMM) • Every mediator provides a semantic environment to the associated companies • Representing the concepts they use in business transactions • Expressed in the local language to be easily understood and accepted • Global ontology (GLOB) • A semantic bridge expressed in English as lingua franca • For enabling mediators (and their companies) to communicate • Although using different languages and data models • Two or more GLOBs can coexist and mutually map

  9. GLOB GLOB Cross-reference Derivation COMM Annotation LOCL A three-level hierarchy • And three components • Data model (structured data, documents, etc.) • Taxonomy (to classify products/services) • Vocabulary (additional biz terms)

  10. EDITOR • Ontology EDITOR • For building a GLOB • Deriving a COMM from its GLOB • Annotating a LOCL with its COMM OntologyXXX • Ontology MAPPER • Relating data model concepts • Relating taxonomy terms • Relating vocabulary terms • And producing the transformation files Ontology ZZZ MAPPER • Semantic TRANSLATOR • It receives a biz document • Applies the transformation instructions • And generates the translated document Transformation file TRANSLATOR Input biz document Ontology the process steps

  11. User SEEM Registry and Repository Network Application Layer Service Layer Distribution Layer Repository Layer SRRN Briefdescription • Basedonembyonicdevelopment (SEEMseedproject). • FederatedRepositorywithsemanticcapabilities • Abletostoreanykind of data and itsdescription (metadata) • Metadatastored in RDF • NativelyqueriedonSparql, ebXMLbasedXMLQuery • Access control (digital certificatesbased) • Subscription / notification • Versioning, transactionIDtraceability, Logsonnodes…

  12. SRRN in SEAMLESS Givesupporttothesemanticservices Store and share theOntologies. Store and share themapping files betweenontologies. Subscription / notificationonchanges Secureaccessto data Access rightsthroughsecurityframework Givesupporttothecollaboration and negotiationprocesses Store / share companiesdescription Store / share product/servicesdemand / offer etc… Givesupporttothequerycontroller Broadcastqueries Ontologiesmesh

  13. Components

  14. All together

  15. Current Status • Different 3rd party applications integrated in the SEAMLESS and offering advanced services • Semantic enabled crawler • Product Configurator • Open Source ERPs • Pilots • 4 TEXTILE pilots (Spain*, Slovakia, Romania*, Italy) • 2 B&C pilots (Poland*, Slovenia) • 1 Generic pilot (Hungary) • 40 SMEs involved in the national and international pilots • 2 GLOBs, 7 COMMs, +10 complete LOCLs developed • To be finished in 3 months.

  16. QUESTIONS? Juan Vte Vidagany antara information technology jvvidagany@antara.ws

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