Research
The researchers in our institute have been building an execution infrastructure for the Semantic Web Services (SWS) based on the Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm of loosely coupled components. While SOA is widely acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize the world of computing, that success depends on resolving several fundamental challenges, and especially in the case of open SOA environment the existing specifications do not address several issues. We aim in our institute to define a skeleton of the SWS system and implement the overall infrastructure with the aim of automating service discovery, negotiation, adaptation, composition, invocation, and monitoring as well as service interaction requiring data, protocol, and process mediation. We call this infrastructure a Semantically Enabled Service oriented Architecture (SESA). While there are already several specifications in the space for Web Services there are still elements missing, for example there is no specification describing how the particular components/services of the SWS infrastructure would work together. That work is carried out by our institute's researchers in standardization bodies such as OASIS and W3C. The contribution of our institute is to define and implement the fixed set of services of an infrastructure that must be provided to enable a dynamic discovery, selection, mediation, invocation and inter-operation of the Semantic Web Services to facilitate the SOA revolution towards open environments.
Currently, our institute focuses on the following essential components to boot-strap the overall approach:
Click on a component in case to get more information on its functionality:
In addition, SESA provides a definition of the overall SESA mission and Roadmap describes the overall architecture in more details.
STI Research Plan
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A large research body needs a structure to facilitate the potential strength implicitly present in its size. This report is about releasing the full potential that STI Innsbruck has in this respect. We derive objectives from the overall vision of STI and align them with researchers and research projects through the means of research units.
