Keynote Lectures

Software is Eating the World, APIs are Eating Software
Steven Willmott, Independent Researcher, Spain

Typed Graphs and Linked Data - Modelling and Analyzing Social-semantic Web Data
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France

Accelerating the Electric Mobility Market Through New Services and an Efficient Market Mode
Andreas Pfeiffer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Enterprise 2.0 - Research Challenges and Opportunities
Zakaria Maamar, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar

Abstract

Software is becoming increasingly critical in many industries - from optimizing processes and information sharing, to powerful data analysis and embedded controllers. At the same time however, this software is becoming ever more componentzied and inter-connected. Using core web technologies such as HTTP, XML, JSON and others, Web APIs are becoming the glue that weaves together these multiplying software components. This talk covers how  software can often dramatic and change the fortunes of companies in a sector as well as how APIs and related Web Information technologies are part of this big transition.

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The Web became a virtual place where persons and software interact in hybrid communities. These large scale interactions create many problems in particular the one of reconciling formal semantics of computer science (e.g. logics, ontologies, typing systems, etc.) on which the Web architecture is built, with soft semantics of people (e.g. posts, tags, status, etc.) on which the Web content is built. The Wimmics research lab studies methods, models and algorithms to bridge formal semantics and social semantics on the Web. We address this problem focusing on the characterization of typed graphs formalisms to model and capture these different pieces of knowledge and hybrid operators to process them jointly. This talk will present some of our results and their applications in several projects.

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How to connect different providers of electric mobility services and ensure an efficient design? An eRoaming platform as well as the contractual and technical framework required to implement this concept throughout Europe have already been developed by the Berlin-based joint venture Hubject. In addition an open interface protocol, the “Open InterCharge Protocol” (OICP), has been defined and can be accessed online by market participants for free since March 2013. Hubject GmbH is a joint venture formed by the BMW Group, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, RWE and Siemens based in Berlin. The company was formed in 2012 and operates a cross-industry business and IT platform connecting infrastructure, service and mobility providers throughout Europe.

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This talk discusses the latest development in the Enterprise 2.0 aka the Social Enterprise. Blending Web 2.0 technologies with enterprise information systems is setting the stage for a new generation of information systems that will help today’s organizations open up new communication channels with their stakeholders including customers, suppliers, and competitors. Contrary to traditional enterprises with a top-down command flow and a bottom-up feedback flow, the same flows in the Enterprise 2.0 cross all levels and in all directions bringing people together in the development of creative and innovative ideas to accomplish business tasks. The power of Web 2.0 technologies stems from their ability to capture real-world phenomena such as collaboration, competition, and partnership that can be converted into useful and structured information sources from which enterprises can draw information about markets’ trends, consumers’ habits, suppliers’ strategies, etc. In this talk we advocate that existing practices for managing enterprise information systems need to be re-visited in a way that permits to capture social relations that arise inside and outside the enterprise, to establish guidelines and techniques to assist IT practitioners integrate social relations into their design, development, and maintenance efforts of these information systems, to identify and tackle challenges that prevent capturing social relations, and finally to define techniques that assess the impact of social relations on the enterprise performance.