EU-ESA Collaboration@work

Experts Group's vision

Prof. Juan QuemadaNGCWE Expert GroupNGCWE Expert Group

IST Call 5 Preparatory Workshop on CWEs13th April 2005, Brussels

The NGCWE Expert Group

• NGCWE: • Next Generation Collaborative Working EnvironmentsNext Generation Collaborative Working Environments

• Working since Spring 2004• Coordinated by Isidro Laso, Georgios Tselentis• Around 30 experts

• Outputs:1. Report on

• Next Generation Collaborative EnvironmentsNext Generation Collaborative Environments

2. Definition of 5 ICT-rich Scenarios for CWE

A User Centric Vision

UsersUsers of NG CWEs shall have

seemless accessseemless access anywhere, anytime to

persons, knowledge & virtualised resourcespersons, knowledge & virtualised resources,

in a trusted environmenttrusted environment where

groupsgroups can be created as needed

across enterprises boundaries boundaries

Next Generation CWE

1. Worker centric• Connect first the worker

• Derive after the type of organisation required2. For distributed teams

• Organised in groups• With security & privacy, integrity, ..

3. Providing access to virtualised resources

• Including services, assisting robotics, ..4. Knowledge rich

• With semantic data compatibility5. With seamless mobile access

• Available anytime, anywhere and from any terminal

Main Challenges

1. Reference Architecture2. Ontologies for collaboration3. Plug & Play Interoperable collaboration

at work Service Orientes Architecture4. Smooth “upper layer” middleware

interaction with the underlying layer5. Interaction among peers: robots, systems

and workers

Reference Architecture

Priority: very high Priority: very high Availability: medium term Availability: medium term -> Long term adaptability to changes -> Long term adaptability to changes

Challenge: Challenge: To agree on a common reference To agree on a common reference architecture which enables the development architecture which enables the development of of reusable and interoperable service and reusable and interoperable service and application componentsapplication components for collaboration at for collaboration at work.work.

Reference Architecture View

• Define functions, protocols, interfaces, ..

• as needed to assure interoperability• to be implemented as middleware (open software)

• Build on top of existing recommendations

• W3C: SOA (XML, SOAP, ….), ….• IETF: Multimedia architecture (RTP, SIP, SDP, …), …• ….

• Incorporate emerging paradigms• P2P, GRID, syndicated Blogs, Wikis, communities, ..

• New recommendations submitted to

• existing standards organisations (W3C, IETF, …)

Ontologies for Collaboration

Priority: high Priority: high Availability: medium term Availability: medium term

Challenge: Challenge: to improve to improve modelling languages and modelling languages and modelsmodels to consider the complexity of to consider the complexity of distributed groups of workersdistributed groups of workers

Challenge: Challenge: development of development of ontologies for ontologies for semantic compatibilitysemantic compatibility or for specific working or for specific working domainsdomains

Plug&Play interoperable CWE Service Oriented Architecture

Priority: high Priority: high Availability: long/medium term Availability: long/medium term

Challenge: Challenge: improve currentimprove current infrastructure infrastructure for more for more ubiquitous, secure and reliable CWEsubiquitous, secure and reliable CWEs

Challenge: Challenge: methods for communicating and methods for communicating and describingdescribing collaboration service functionalities collaboration service functionalities

Challenge: Challenge: new mechanisms and methods for new mechanisms and methods for collaboration at work collaboration at work service compositionservice composition. .

Smooth “upper layer” middleware interaction with underlying layers

Priority: medium Priority: medium Availability: long/medium term Availability: long/medium term

Challenge: Challenge: to investigate the to investigate the usage of end-to-end usage of end-to-end IPv6 modelIPv6 model for provision of new CWEs for provision of new CWEs

Challenge: Challenge: better better interfacesinterfaces to manage QoS, to manage QoS, security, VPNs, multicast, and location security, VPNs, multicast, and location

Challenge: Challenge: mediation algorithms to manage mediation algorithms to manage complexity and interworking withcomplexity and interworking with sensor or sensor or mobile networksmobile networks

Challenge: Challenge: overlay networksoverlay networks integrating network integrating network services with content services to adapt CWEs to services with content services to adapt CWEs to network capabilities and contextnetwork capabilities and context

Interaction among peers

Priority: medium-high Priority: medium-high Availability: medium term Availability: medium term

Challenge:Challenge: A middleware for A middleware for dynamic discovery of dynamic discovery of peers, resources and servicespeers, resources and services

Challenge:Challenge: Use of software agents, web services, Use of software agents, web services, etc, to etc, to implement P2P systemsimplement P2P systems for collaboration for collaboration at work at work with no central authoritywith no central authority

Challenge:Challenge: New New privacy and security paradigmprivacy and security paradigm for for P2P with IPv6P2P with IPv6 connectivity features connectivity features

Availability: long term Availability: long term

5 ICT-rich domains identified

1. Collaborative design & engineeringdesign & engineering

2. Collaboration in media/content productionmedia/content production

3. e-Training for collaborative & remote workerscollaborative & remote workers

4. Collaboration among e-Professionalse-Professionals

5. Collaboration with and among knowledge & knowledge &

information workersinformation workers in remote & rural areas remote & rural areas

IST Call 5

IST Call 5 providesIST Call 5 provides

the opportunity to providethe opportunity to provide

solutions to the proposed challengessolutions to the proposed challenges

and to advance towardsand to advance towards

the CWE vision provided by the CWE vision provided by

The NGCWE Expert GroupThe NGCWE Expert Group