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Commius: ISU via Email
Michal LaclavíkInstitute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
on behalf of
Commius project consortium
Workshop 12g, 26 October 2007 eChallenges e-2007 Copyright 2007 Commius consortium
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 projectCommunity-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-artAdvances 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-artAdvances 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-artAdvances 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
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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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ACoMA Aproach
• ACoMA Core• ACoMA GUI
– Transferred via XSL to HTML attachment
• EMBET– 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• Java Mail API
Email Server
ACoMA Automated Content-
based Message Annotator
Email Client
EMBET Experience
Management based on Text Notes
OM Organizačná pamäť
Text
Set of Detected individuals
Creating Individual
Individual with properties
Reg. Exp.Ontology
Ontology class
Inference
DomainOntology
Ontology Individual
Ontology annotation
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