Projects: 7th Framework Program

Service Web 3.0

Computer science is on the edge of an important new period of abstraction. A generation ago we learnt to abstract from hardware to software and currently we learn to abstract from software in terms of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The Semantic Web has opened new perspectives in terms of data and information management, and aims to lay the foundations of a new generation of semantically-enabled service infrastructures. This presentation explores the growing field of Serviceware and the potential of its combination with Semantics to enable the Service Web. It also discusses the challenges facing the scalability of an open, heterogeneous and distributed web of semantically enabled services. Techniques like intelligent information retrieval and approximate reasoning combined with a heuristic and goal driven approach will define computer science of the 21st century.

Details: Computer Science in the 21st Century ( 4,47MB)