Adaptive Services Grid: Open Development Platform for Adaptive Services

1. Adaptive Services GridFP6 – IST - 004617www.asg-platform.org <Name> <(Work Component)> <Company/Research Institute> <mail@domain.de> Develop a prototype of an open development platform for adaptive services registration, discovery, creation, composition, and enactment.

2. 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. 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. Architectures Additional Sectors IT Enterprise Telecommunications Telematics Dissemination Methodology Development Usability & Demonstration ASG Interface Service Composition & Discovery Grid Grid Grid Service Creation Ontologies Service Service Ontologies Ontologies Service Registry Registry Registry Adaptive Process Management Services Grid Infrastructure Project Management Component Structure

5. Registry Service Provider Register S1 Service Composition S2 S3 Service Requester S1 S2 S3 Request App Reply App S1 S2 S3 GridServices Infrastructure Scenario Adaptive Process Management

6. 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 anOpen Platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment with business-oriented Quality of Service functionalities= Adaptive Services Grid

7. Examples of Innovation per sub-projects 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 • 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 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. Expected results and benefits 1/2 • 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

9. Expected results and benefits 2/2 • Benefits and use cases … 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) Advanced new services in ASG-specific application domainsTelecommunication (Telenor, Telekomunikacja Polska, Polska Telekomunikacja Cyfrowa), Telematics (DaimlerChrysler), Enterprise IT (SIEMENS), … • Users of results … 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, …

10. Exploitation Potential1/2 • Identified markets … Whole E-market (B2C, B2B), Telecommunication (B2C), IT-market (software development industry), … Industry Domains: Engineering, Life Science, Logistic, … • Results positioned within target market segment … 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. Exploitation Potential2/2 • Commitment of industrial partner … exist by the industrial partners of ASG first • Identified competition Provider of Virtual private networks and services … • Competitive advantage 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