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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.

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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

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General picture

A technological platform at every mediator

SEAMLESS Collaborative Environment

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Supplier

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Contractor

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SEAMLESS Collaborative Environment

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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



• User-oriented application services …– To support profile definition, partner search, negotiation and collaboration

– To integrate existing enterprise information systems

Partner profiling and searching

Collaboration services

Negotiation services

Product/service modelling

Translation services



• Security functionality …– To realise the SEAMLESS security requirements and policy

– To take advantage of the SRRN native security mechanism


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Mediator Basic (embedded) Services

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The mediator platform


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


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LOCL

Annotation

Derivation

Cross-reference

A three-level hierarchy

• And three components– Data model (structured data, documents, etc.)– Taxonomy (to classify products/services)– Vocabulary (additional biz terms)


Ontology the process steps

• Ontology EDITOR– For building a GLOB– Deriving a COMM from its GLOB– Annotating a LOCL with its COMM

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Transformation file

• Ontology MAPPER– Relating data model concepts– Relating taxonomy terms– Relating vocabulary terms– And producing the transformation files

TRANSLATORTRANSLATOR

Input biz document

• Semantic TRANSLATOR– It receives a biz document– Applies the transformation instructions– And generates the translated document

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Application Layer Service Layer Repository LayerDistribution Layer

UserSEEM Registry and Repository

Network

SRRN Brief description

Based on embyonic development (SEEMseed project). Federated Repository with semantic capabilities Able to store any kind of data and its description (metadata)

Metadata stored in RDF Natively queried on Sparql , ebXML based XMLQuery

Access control (digital certificates based) Subscription / notification Versioning, transactionID traceability, Logs on nodes…


SRRN in SEAMLESS

Give support to the semantic services Store and share the Ontologies. Store and share the mapping files between ontologies. Subscription / notification on changes

Secure access to data Access rights through security framework

Give support to the collaboration and negotiation processes Store / share companies description Store / share product/services demand / offer etc…

Give support to the query controller Broadcast queries Ontologies mesh


Components


All together


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.

QUESTIONS?

Juan Vte Vidaganyantara information technology

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