The STI Semantic Web Services Winter Retreat was held in Mösern in the Tirol area of Austria last week. KMi’s Barry Norton was project coordinator and a tutor on Semantic Execution Environments and other tutors delivering Semantic Web and Services content were Graham Hench, Jacek Kopecký, Katharina Siorpaes, Dumitru Roman, Ioan Toma, Nathalie Steinmetz and…
KMi’s Barry Norton represented the SUPER project on the Business Process Management (BPM07) panel on the future of BPM alongside Jamie Cornes (SunCorp), Michael zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute), Barbara Pernici (Politechnico di Milano) and Steve Tieman (Estee Lauder) in Brisbane, Australia on 26th September. Barry stressed the role of semantics and planned use of Web…
The Second Young Researchers’ Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing (YR-SOC) was held in Leicester last week and has already received critical praise in industry blogspace. There were 15 accepted papers, 8 posters, and invited speakers from JBoss, Pi4 Technologies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, ATX Software and Kings College London. KMi’s Barry Norton was co-founder of the workshop and…
March 2007 saw KMi host a project meeting for the SUPER Integrated Project with more than 60 participants from industry and academia. SUPER aims to develop a technological platform to support the management of business processes in a scalable and semantically interoperable manner. On the agenda were discussions on: the SUPER process modelling ontology stack,…
Last week a glowing final review report arrived for DIP the 3-year 16M Euro Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services. Although we have reported earlier that the final review had been a success it is unusual for an official EU document to be so full of praise. In the words of KMi’s Director, Enrico Motta:…
Yesterday saw the conclusion to DIP, the 3-year 16M Euro Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services with the final review. According to the project funders, the EU commission, the endeavour has been an outstanding success. Concluding the final review the EU Project Officer Kai Tullius stated: “DIP is a flagship project which will serve as…
DIP is a 3-year 11 million UKP EU Integrated Project, on semantic web services, involving 16 partners from 10 countries. Like most EU projects DIP is subject to a two day annual review involving three external reviewers and a project officer from the funding unit. DIP’s second annual review was held last week in the…
