Getting ready for the “Grid-Shift”

Madrid, 13/02/2008: Grid Computing is opening new horizons for the software and software service industry. The 2nd ECSS Workshop on April 3, 2008 in Budapest fathoms the challenges the European Union will have to face. Experts from research and industry are invited to an open dialog and to contribute to a joint White Paper for the EC, showing the necessary steps towards a strong, flexible, distributed computing technology development.

The development in the area of grid computing will have radical effects on the software services landscape. It is one of the biggest challenges for the European software and software services area in the coming years and raises many questions, from legal issues to standardization and software service lifecycle, to name just a few. It will also bring new business models and offer new possibilities for SMEs.

The EU-funded project 3S deals with this fundamental shift and analyses the upcoming challenges, both on a technical and a non-technical level.

The 2nd ECSS Workshop - Future dialogues on software services challenges

The “European Community for Software & Software Services – Architectures, Infrastructures, Engineering” (ECSS), founded by the 3S project, plays a central role throughout the project and beyond. The goal is to develop strategic judgements and guidelines that are shared by the widest possible range of stakeholders active in the software services field throughout Europe. The Green Paper, which was published in September 2007, and the first interactive ECSS-Workshop opened the floor for a Europe-wide dialogue between research, industry and intermediaries in the ICT field. The second workshop, which is organized in cooperation with ETAPS (http://etaps08.mit.bme.hu/), will focus on the following challenges: (1) Leveraging semantics for dynamic discovery, matching and composition of software services; (2) Non-functional requirements & business processes and policies for software services provision; (3) Privacy protection and market regulation in convergent electronic communications.

The workshop is open for all interested stakeholders in the field of Software & Software Services and addresses both, the science community and the industry. Participants will have the opportunity, to have direct influence on the White Paper, to play a part in the strategic planning of resources in FP7 and to be published at a European level. More information on the workshop: http://www.eu-ecss.eu/events/2nd-ECSS-workshop/

The evolution of a joint ECSS White Paper

All contributions (which can also be made via online-consultation) will eventually build up the ECSS White Paper, an action paper for the European Commission, defining common long-term views for key areas of S&S in order to foster the competitive position in the area of software services and grid computing worldwide. The ECSS White Paper will be presented at the ECSS International Conference which is planned for end of 2008.

Project Coordinator:
Mª del Pilar de Miguel Ortega
IDeTra
C/ Hermosilla, 48-3ºizda.
28001 Madrid, SPAIN
Tel. + 34 915 774 014
mpilardemiguel@idetra.com

Press Contact:
Robert Scheidl
defrag your mind gmbh
Kirchengasse 13/7
1070 Vienna, AUSTRIA
Tel. +43 1 526 44 68
r.scheidl@defrag.at

About 3S/ECSS:

3S is a project funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 6, Information Society & Media Directorate. It will support the goals of the IST Priority in developing a Joint European White Paper for R&D and Industry in the Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering field. The aim is to push the involvement of the EU to a competitive position worldwide by identifying strategies and technologies that will facilitate future developments and reduce fragmentation. With the creation of ECSS (European Community for Software & Software Services – Architectures, Infrastructures, Engineering) 3S is establishing a platform for networking and knowledge transfer between the relevant scientific and industrial communities and for jointly pursuing the interests of the stakeholders in the field of IST.

The 3S consortium is supported by an Advisory Board with high-level experts from business and science.

Type of project: Specific Support Action
Duration: 30 months
Start Date: 2006-07-01
End Date: 2008-12-31

Further information on 3S/ECSS can be found on http://www.eu-ecss.eu

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