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Preparatory WorkshopPreparatory WorkshopBrussels, 13 April 2005Brussels, 13 April 2005
SO 2.5.9 “Collaborative Working Environments”
6th EU Framework Programme for Research
Isidro Laso BallesterosIST Programme
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SO Collaborative Working Environments. Goal
To develop next generation collaborative working environments (NGCWE), thereby • increasing creativity and • boosting innovation and • productivity.
NGCWE will enable seamless and natural collaboration amongst a diversity of agents (humans, machines-robots, etc).
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NGCWE will be:• distributed, • knowledge-rich and • virtualized working environments.
Professional virtual communities and nomadic personal access to knowledge should be supported.
SO Collaborative Working Environments. Characteristics of NGCWE
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• NGCWE environments should provide collaboration services to make possible the development of worker centric, flexible, scalable and adaptable tools and applications.
SO Collaborative Working Environments. Objective
Collaboration services
Collaboration environments
Collaboration tools
Applications for collaboration
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SO Collaborative Working EnvironmentsWhere are we positioned at?
P2P Architecture
Distributed, scalability
Commodity-like software
Wireless &
sensors
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End-to-end connectivity andsecurity (IP v6), QoS, Multicasting,
LSA, computing resources (DC, Grid)
Internet of ThingsMobility, LBS, context awareness
Seamless access to content & Knowledge. Plug&Play SOA
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Collaboration @ work
P2P Architecture
Distributed, scalability
P2P Architecture
P2P Architecture
Distributed, scalability
Commodity-like software
Wireless &
sensors
Utility-likeNetwork
Mov
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on to
war
dsT
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rgen
ce o
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End-to-end connectivity andsecurity (IP v6), QoS, Multicasting,
LSA, computing resources (DC, Grid)
Internet of ThingsMobility, LBS, context awareness
Seamless access to content & Knowledge. Plug&Play SOA
Commodity-like software
Wireless &
sensors
Utility-likeNetwork
Mov
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on to
war
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Commodity-like software
Wireless &
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Utility-likeNetwork Commodity-like
softwareWireless
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End-to-end connectivity andsecurity (IP v6), QoS, Multicasting,
LSA, computing resources (DC, Grid)
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Collaboration @ workCollaboration @ workCollaboration @ work
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Research and development activities on NGCWE
• Theoretical research: Collaborative Working methods
• Research and development on Core Services for collaboration
• System integration into collaboration tools
• Development of complex applications
• Support for internationally agreed reference architecture for CWE
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Research and development activities on Next Generation Collaboration Working
Environments. Medium-term and Long-term perspectives
• Medium-term activities (horizon 2010): within the
Strategic Objective 2.5.9 of the IST FP6.
• Transition activities: Part of the projects to be
launch during 2.5.9 IST FP6 Strategic Objective
will ensure a smooth transition towards FP7.
• Long-term activities (Horizon 2015): During FP7.
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Work to be done within SO 2.5.9
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
Three layered tasks following a systems approach:
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Network Access (IP v6, wireless, )
Middleware (SOA)
Group identification
Synchronization and Persistence of
Distributed workspaces
Group Traceability
Group resources Discovery and allocation.
Augmented group
Presence
GroupManagement
Service composition
Visualisation
COLLABORATION TOOLS
vManufacturing eMedia eProfessionals eRural …
VALIDATING APPLICATIONS
Collaborative Work Environment providingcore collaboration services:
Digital representation of physical objectsGroup
Security
Environmentawareness
Semantic ModellingOf Groups
Sharing support
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1st Focal Layered task:Theoretical research (I)
• Methods and concepts to:• To reduce failures in diverse teams in
particular when the cultural diversity is high..
• To improve work practices in Collaborative Working Environments. (“Innovative workplace practices in manufacturing accounted for as much as 89% of the growth in ‘multifactor productivity’, i.e. beyond ICT increases”. San Francisco Fed, 2004)
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1st Focal Layered task:Research and development on Services
Components (II)• Research and development of service
components for collaboration to complement existing middleware and platforms, such as:• synchronisation and persistence of distributed group
workspaces; • discovery and allocation of group resources;• group identification, traceability and security; • management and interfacing between groups of
physical materials and digital representations; • and environment group awareness, with a special
emphasis on mobility. • This Services Components will deliver a high
quality experience to co-workers based on flexible management of services and should be customizable to different communities, making use of different (mobile) devices.
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2nd focal layered task: Research on tools for collaborative
work• Bringing together core services into
collaboration tools• These tools will offer sophisticated services.• Focus on:
• Group management,• Visualization services,• Augmented group presence,• Sharing support,• Seamless interaction,• Semantic modeling of complex groups of workers,• Service composition.
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3nd focal layered task: Development of Complex applications (I)
• In ICT-rich domains mentioned in the text:• Collaborative design and engineering, in particular
rapid prototyping and simulation in the context of virtual manufacturing;
• Collaboration in media/content production workers;
• Collaboration among e-Professionals;• Collaboration with and among knowledge and
information workers in remote and rural settings.• e-Training for collaborative and remote workers
(horizontal)
Innovative validating applications for collaborative work in content-rich, mobile and fixed collaborative environments
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3nd focal layered task: Development of Complex applications (II)
• Cross domain fertilization domain would enrich these applications
• These applications should leverage, where appropriate, on experience from collaborative games (disruptive approaches)
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Other tasks (I)
• To promote joint research activities with national programmes,
• To define future research agendas,• To identify emerging topics and
research groups world wide.
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Other tasks (II)
• To achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work (guidelines), including core components providing seamless collaboration.
• Through Collaboration with international research and standardization activities.
• Build on international RTD activities in particular USA, Canada, Korea and japan
• Linked to international standardisation activities, including W3C and IETF.
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S.O. 2.5.9 Instruments for layer
IP
IP
IP
IP
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
STREP
STREP STREP
STREPSTREP
CA/SSA
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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (I)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (I)
• Budget: 70% (around €30 Mio)• Integrated, goal-oriented R&D:
• Cut across the 3 layered focal tasks, including Work on:
• innovative concepts and methods, • core collaboration services, • tools for collaboration, AND • validation on testbeds and large demonstrators.
• Critical mass is required to have impact
IP
IP I
P
IP
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed
collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (II)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (II)
• Tasks: • Clustering and coordination of activities among the IPs in order to achieve a common ‘upper layer’ Collaborative Work Platform and to avoid overlapping in the development of tools for collaborations.• To contribute to ERA activities with National and
regional funding agencies.
• To contribute to achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work by:
• Knowledge creation
• Workshops, committes, etc.
IP
IP I
P
IP
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed
collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (III)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (III)
• Application domains: The ICT-rich domains mentioned in the official text are:
1. collaborative design and engineering, in particular rapid prototyping and simulation, virtual manufacturing;
2. Media/content production, 3. e-Professionals and 4. knowledge and information workers in
remote and rural settings
IP
IP I
P
IP
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed
collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (IV)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (IV)
• The use of Experience and Application Research (EAR) approach is encouraged.
• EAR is defined by the ISTAG: they are designed for an early involvememnt of users and to create links to structures, business processes and workplace practices of the organisations.
• Examples of EARs budget: 700,000 €
IP
IP I
P
IP
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed
collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
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SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. Targeted RTD ProjectsTargeted RTD Projects
• Only in the 1st and 2nd layers.• Tasks:
• To explore emerging alternatives to pave the way for additional technological advances in the field.• Disrupting approaches are encouraged. For example:
• Is there an alternative to Semantic web more adequate to collaborative work?
• To investigate ICT-bio, ICT-cogno and ICT-nano convergence in the context of New Working Environments.
• To explore human robotics working environments.
• To extrapolate collaborative games experience to collaborative work
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasks
STREP
STREP STREP
STREPSTREP
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• Aim:• to promote and support the networking
and coordination of research and innovation activities needed for European leadership in ICT-enabled Collaborative Working Environments.
SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. Co-ordination Activities and Co-ordination Activities and Specific Support Actions (I)Specific Support Actions (I)
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed
collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasksCA/SSA
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SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. Co-ordination Activities and Co-ordination Activities and Specific Support Actions (II)Specific Support Actions (II)
• Tasks:• To ensure that the work is consistent across IPs
and STREPs.• To promote joint research activities with
national programmes, to define future research agendas or to identify emerging topics and research groups world-wide.
• Collaboration with international research and standardisation activities to achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work.
Validating Applications
Core (crucial) Services for distributed
collaboration at work
Tools for collaborative tasksCA/SSA
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• Actions targeting SMEs developing collaborative tools and application are encouraged (2nd and 3rd layers)
• Aim:• To achieve better interoperability of
complementary services and tools.• To leverage on innovative SMEs.
SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. SMEs SMEs
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• Aim:• To complement the ERA pilot project on
CWE launched in the call 3.• strengthen and complement research
carried out under ESA, EUREKA and national initiatives.
• In particular, links to Eureka ITEA projects related to Nomadic and Cyber-Enterprise domain applications should be described to assess synergies and inter-dependencies in terms of timing and funding.
SO 2.5.9. SO 2.5.9. ERA activities ERA activities
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For More Information...For More Information...
• Main source of information: www.amiatwork.comIncludes:• Workshops on CWE.• Collaboration @ Work Expert Group (CWEG):
• 1st Report on NGCWE vision and ICT challenges• 2nd Report on Applications scenarios for NGCWE
• Advisory group• Research papers and project results.
• Web Ring of CWE related projects (If you want to be incorporated to this web ring, please send an email to: [email protected]
with copy to [email protected])• SO EC contact person: Isidro Laso-Ballesteros