Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures

Towards the Internet of Services

The Internet of Services is a vision of the Internet of the Future where everything that is needed to use software applications is available as a service on the Internet, such as the software itself, the tools to develop the software, the platform (servers, storage and communication) to run the software. Cloud computing (visit our website!) is a relatively new model of Internet-based computing, whereby servers, storage, networking, software, and information are provided on demand.
Anybody who wants to develop applications can use the resources in the Internet of Services to develop them. Advantages of the “Internet of Services” include the little investments needed upfront to develop an application and the possibility to build upon other people’s efforts. The risk involved in pursuing new business ideas is diminished, and might lead to more innovative ideas being tried out in practice.

Event

• "Internet of Services Collaboration"
  16-17 October 2012, Brussels, Belgium
  
  This event is co-organised by the HOLA! project and the European Commission. It is foreseen for coordinators of FP7 ICT projects funded under Objectives 1.2 from Call 5 and Call 8. Projects outside these areas that are contributing to the Future Internet Assembly and that want to collaborate with the Objective 1.2 projects are welcome.
  
  More information on the event agenda, venue, registration faciclities as well as on the input you will be asekd to provide will be made available closer to the event.
  
  Please check regularly this web site for updates on this event.
  

• "Removing barriers to Cloud Computing in Europe"
  10 May 2012, Brussels, Belgium. (for workshop documentation, please click here)
• "Research in Future Cloud Computing"
  2nd May 2012, Brussels, Belgium. (see related information under 'Events', left box)
  
  

Research

Objective 1.2 "Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation" and "Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering" of the FP7-ICT Programme for Research and Development is funding research to realise the "Internet of Services" vision.
More information about

• The eighth call for proposals and Work Programme 2011-12
• Ongoing FP7 projects
• Many of the FP7 projects contribute to the Future Internet Assembly, a meeting place for projects of Challenge 1, researching the Future Internet
• Another area of attention is Open Source software
• The projects are building on research carried out during the FP6-IST programme in the area of Software and Services and Grids

Policy

European Industry should benefit from the opportunities that the "Internet of Services" brings. This might require policy actions at the European or Member State level. Some lines of work have started:

• A study on 'Quantitative Estimates of the Demand for Cloud Computing in Europe and the Likely Barriers to Take Up' (ref. SMART 2011/0045)
• A study to prepare Guidelines for public procurement of ICT goods and services
  (ref. SMART 2011/0044)
• A public consultation on Cloud Computing (deadline 31/8/2011)
• A study to assess the economic and social impact of Software and Software based Services
  (ref. SMART2009/0041)