Objective One of the greatest challenges in Grid Computing (GC) regards the ability to explicitly share and deploy knowledge to be used for the development of innovative Grid infrastructure, and for Grid applications - the Semantic Grid (SG). ONTOGRID objective is to produce the technological infrastructure for the rapid prototyping and development of knowledge-intensive distributed open services for the SG. The results aim at developing grid systems that optimise cross-process, cross-company and cross-industry collaboration, which ONTOGRID will show by adopting a use case-guided development and evaluation strategy based on two test case applications, delivering a prototype at the project's end. The project will develop a new methodology together with a framework and reference architecture for the SG, compliant with the OGSA, driven by requirements from, and evaluated against, two use cases: Quality Analysis for Satellite Missions (involving integration of heterogeneous information sources) and Insurance settlement (involving large number of human and computational services and information transport). Within this framework we will enhance current Knowledge Technologies (ontology tool suites, software agents & negotiation techniques, metadata annotation, reasoning methods), to be Grid-aware (or Grid-enabled) in order to become scalable, secure and robust. These services and technologies will allow us to enable a selection of Grid Services (GS) to become knowledge aware/assisted and to show how GS might operate at the knowledge level. The resulting infrastructure will be subject to algorithmic analysis and performance evaluation for the SG components. ONTOGRID will cooperate with other FP6 projects. It will make its results available to them and solicit their cooperation to influence the architectural design of a SG. We will adopt and influence standards in SG and GC, in particular the OGSA high level service specifications and relevant GGF groups concerned with metadat Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineeringontologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarehumanitiesartsarchitectural designengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.2.8 - Grid based systems for complex problem solving Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID EU contribution No data Address Campus de Montegancedo, s/n 28660 Boadilla de Monte Spain See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ACKLIN B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data BOYD INTERNATIONAL B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Stationsstraat 11 NL-5000AE Tilburg See on map Total cost No data DEIMOS SPACE S.L. Spain EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE COMPONENTS S.A. Spain EU contribution No data Address Francisca Delgado 11, 2nd floor 28108 Alcobendas See on map Total cost No data TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE Greece EU contribution No data Address University Campus Kounoupidiana GR-73100 Chania, Crete See on map Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address L69 3BX Liverpool See on map Total cost No data THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address See on map Total cost No data