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Commius: ISU via Email
Michal Laclavík Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences on behalf of
Commius project consortium
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Motivation, problem area • IST Enterprise Interoperability Research Roadmap: to address interoperability as a utility-like capability (Interoperability Service Utility – ISU) for enterprises, a capability that is: – Available at (very) low cost, – Accessible in principle by all enterprises (universal or near-universal access) – “Guaranteed” to a certain extent and at a certain level in accordance with a set of common rules – Not controlled or owned by any single private entity
• Email is good candidate
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Motivation, problem area (2) • • • •
Email is used for interoperability tasks Email – action oriented Asynchronous Context sensitive
• e-mail infrastructure in every organization • communication in a modern organization is over 78% action oriented • Workers interact with their e-mail systems on a daily basis
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Commius project • Commius IST FP7 project Community-based Interoperability Utility for SMEs • 1st Call, 1.3 Network Enterprise objective • Addressing ISU like interoperability • Commius partners envision a future in which SMEs enjoy a zero-cost entry into interoperability based on non-proprietary protocols. • Systems Interoperability – interoperability over SMTP
• Semantic Interoperability – Understanding communication and – documents exchanged
• Process Interoperability – Understanding and supporting business process from communication activities
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Advances over the existing state-of-art
• scientific advances – algorithms for context-driven interoperability: semantic analysis of documents and communications to capture and organise contextual information and knowledge – use of negotiation protocols supported by formal concept analysis and utility theory: achieving semantic agreement between partners
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Advances over the existing state-of-art
• technical achievements – downloadable modular system, to be plugged into existing email infrastructure(s) using any email client or web browser – infrastructure of ontologies, holding information about document types and ways of processing these
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Advances over the existing state-of-art
• Business: overcoming three main barriers – economic costs of entry: a lightweight platform able to interact with simple networked environments (e-mail) – lack of skill: the semi-automatic creation and maintenance of an adaptive, networked organisation knowledge base – cultural: it will be perceived as a straightforward extension of the present collaboration services
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Objectives
• Investigate, design and develop methods and components for system interoperability • To devise a framework for semantic interoperability • To investigate, design and develop methods and components for process interoperability • To deliver an open source framework • To have validated tools • To devise an appropriate exploitation strategy
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Consortium • Softeco Sismat SpA, Genoa, Italy • University of Manchester, United Kingdom • DKFI: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany • Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia • Vienna University of Technology, Austria • Atos Origin, Spain • SingularLogic, Greece • FEDIT, Spain • Aitek SpA, Italy • Techfin SrL, Italy Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007
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Thank you!
Michal Laclavik
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Existing solutions above emails
Backup slides
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Existing Solutions on top of E-mail • kMail • Zimbra • Gmail
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kMail
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ACoMA Aproach • •
ACoMA Core ACoMA GUI –
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EMBET – –
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Transferred via XSL to HTML attachment Recommendation system Knowledge notes in context
OM – Organizational Memory OnTeA –
Pattern based semantic annotation
Technology and Standards • RDF, OWL, SPARQL • Jena, Protégé • XML-RPC • XML, XSL Email Client • Java Mail API OM Organizačná pamäť
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EMBET Experience Management based on Text Notes
Email Text
Domain Ontology
Ontology annotation
Email Server
ACoMA Automated Contentbased Message Annotator
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Set of Detected individuals
Reg. Exp. Ontology
Creating Individual
Ontology class
Individual with properties
Inference
Ontology Individual
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