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Welcome to INSERTech @ Autonomics

Conference

Workshop on INnovative SERvice Technologies - co-located with Autonomics 2007

Scope

ICT and Telecommunications are converging rapidly in the service market evolution. This convergence is blurring the borders among different application contexts: a telecommunication service could be configured, activated, and controlled by Web applications, or an IT application could include functionalities implemented by using service capabilities deployed in a telecommunication network.

Services should be recognized by Users affordable and available (accessible ubiquitously), personalised, dynamically adaptable. For instance, the rapid absorption of the Web 2.0 participatory philosophy is making users more and more demanding of actively contributing (presumption). At the same time, Providers need to optimise CAPEX-OPEX and to create new market opportunities, even by adopting new business models. In this context, large amounts of highly distributed data need to be transformed into meaningful information available at proper location for applications and services development.

In order to address these emerging challenges, innovative information and communication technologies are required. Highly distributed service platforms, empowered with autonomic capabilities, may represent a sound technological approach but their architectural definition is still in infancy and further RT&D activities are required to get open future-proof service frameworks.

Specifically such innovative service platform solutions have to meet high level requirements such as:

enabling context/situation-awareness, discovery, advertising, personalisation and dynamic composition of service components;

being characterised by pervasiveness, ubiquity and highly dynamicity;

performing scalability, robustness, resilience, trust and security;

supporting flexible business models in service provisioning;

seamless interworking with current service/control platform solutions.

Innovative technologies and solutions for highly distributed service platforms should be identified to master complexity, dependability, and behavioural stability in complex and dynamic systems even without central design. They should be capable of orchestrating heterogeneous and dynamic resources distributed across multiple platforms, and sharing of services such knowledge, processing, communication, storage and content.

The workshop will address technologies and solutions enabling these innovative service delivery scenarios and architectures. These issues will be investigated in a series of invited talks, provided by researchers from both the academic and industry contexts.

Workshop chairman Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia)

Invited talks

Roberto Ghizzioli (Whitestein Technologies): A Goal-Oriented Approach for Telecom BPM
Peter Deussen (Fokus Fraunhofer): Model Based Reactive Planning and Prediction for Autonomic Systems
Eliezer Dekel (IBM): A Peer-to-Peer Middleware Platform for Highly Scalable and Dependable Services
Corrado Moiso (Telecom Italia): Distributed Service Framework: an innovative open eco-system for ICT/Telecommunications
Thierry Pollet (Alcatel-Lucent): How Web2.0 will radically transform the communications networks
Fabrice Suffre (BT): Aggregation Dynamics in Overlay Networks and their Implications for Self-Organised Distributed Applications
Franco Zambonelli (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia): Supporting Situation-Aware Services with Virtual Macro Sensors
Antonio Di Ferdinando (ICL - Imperial College Of Science, Technology And Medicine): A Framework for Autonomic Networked Auctions