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COPS workshop. IEEE WETICE 2005.

14 June 2005

Is P2P the unique solution for Knowledge-rich collaboration working environments?

Isidro Laso [email protected]

New Working ENvironments Unit. DG Information SocietyEuropean Commission

Contents

• Peer economics.

• P2P IT technologies.

• Conclusions

Peer power

• There are nearly 1 billion people onlineworldwide – along with their shared knowledge,social contacts, online reputations, computingpower, and more.

• Mass cooperation is becoming economical(e.g: skype, ebay, weblogs, google,Procter&Gamble, etc)

• It is defining and new peer economy.

A new peer economy.

• A. Smith: Chainproduction

• D. Ricardo:Specialization

• Working in Groups. Among

peers.

• Collaboration: Seamless workto achieve common goals:cooperation + competition

XXI century

Shift from excellence at the point of production towards excellence ingoverning spatially dispersed networks of collaborating peers.

XX century

Peer production• A new pillar for production, in addition to the

firm and the market.• Based on the ubiquitous communication

technologies provided by Internet.• It is currently used to easily share commodities

such as information, knowledge and media.• Meeting ground and scheduling coordination

might allow new types of collaborativeproduction into physical goods (e.g. carsharing, etc)

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprise (WETICE’05) 0-7695-2362-5/05 $20.00 © 2005 IEEE

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Peer Applications

• Problem solving by crowds, e.g.: InnoCentivenetwork.

• Digital content creation, e.g.: Linden Lab’ssecond life (virtual online world), blogs.

• Marketing, e.g.: LEGO group.

• Planning and forecast, e.g.: HP services division

• Collaborative open-source development, e.g.:Sugar-CRM.

Consequences

• Networks are becoming the locus of innovation.

• Firms are becoming much more porous anddecentralized.

• Ultimately, all this could point the way to afundamental change in the way people worktogether. BW June 20 2005.

Contents

• Peer economics.

• P2P IT technologies.

• Conclusions

Why P2P technologies?• The Net can connect, like no other medium, many

people with many others at the same time.• Current technologies: file-sharing, blogs, group edited

sites-wikis, social, are not scalable enough either realtime enabled as to fulfill users’ needs.

• We need P2P technologies that allow us to tap into amillion minds simultaneously. “If I can tap into amillion minds simultaneously, I may run into one that’suniquely prepared”, Alpheus Bingham, vice-president forEli Lilly’s e.Lilly research unit.

• E.g: innocentive, a network of 80,000 independent‘problem solvers’ who have already work for Boeing,DuPont and procter &Gamble (one third of 12 requestssolved successfully).

Interaction among peers. ITimplications

• A P2P middleware for collaboration amongpeers.

• Negotiation techniques among peers.

• P2P tech for synchronisation amongdistributed workspaces.

• Discovery of peers.

P2P middleware for collaborationamong peers

• A P2P middleware will abstract the complexity ofdistributed working environments, solvingproblems such as:– Scalability,

– Routing,

– Replication,

– Discovery of peers, resources and services,

– Management of shared control and data among peers.


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P2P. RTD challenges*

• Dynamic discovery of peers, resources andcollaboration@work services. Medium-termchallenge.

• Use of software agents, web services, relaynetworks, etc, to implement P2P systems forcollaboration@work with no central authority.Medium-term challenge.

• New privacy and secutity paradigm related to p2pconnectivity and IPv6 features within teams.Long-term challenge

* Described in the EU-ESA Collaboration@work Experts group 1st report

Next generation Collaborative working environments

• Mobility to allow work anywhere at anytime, thereby increasingproductivity. RTD challenge: Seamless connectivity

• Collaboration* to ensure the work with whoever owns the neededknowledge, thereby boosting productivity and creativity. RTDchallenge: Management of complexity

• Virtualization of the working environment to allow contextualizedservices, thereby increasing creativity. RTD challenge: Virtualization

• Augmentation of human capabilities with artefacts, therebyproductivity. RTD challenge: Robotics.

*. around a 50% of all companies’ activities are related to interactionbetween individuals and between them with the environment.

Goal: To orchestrate networks of spatiallydispersed workers, partners and customers

IT trends

• Utility-like services:– P2P technologies for discovery and management of peers:

software agents, relay networks.

– grid for number-crunching (imulation, finance and science)

– Other kind of utility-like services: seamless connectivity

• Wireless and sensor technologies (including adaptivecomputing): Internet of things, ad-hoc networks.

• Commodity-like software: Software as a Service,Semantic Web.

• Robotics: to augment human capabilities

Where IT trends meet RTDchallenges

VirtualizationSeamlessconnectivity

Management ofcomplexity

Wireless and sensortechnologies

Virtualizes the worldAllows mobility andinteraction with theenvironment

Gleans a connectedview of the realworld (nano-scale)

UtilityProvides access to the"virtualized" world

Provides "always on"connectivity. "Plug &Play"

Allows access to"virtualizedresources" required tohandle complexproblems (tera-scale)

Commoditization ofsoftware

Offers servicesabstracted from the"virtualized" world

Offers Software as aService. Facilitatecollaboration andapplicationintegration

Facilitate complexconfigurations andcompositions ofservices

-like services(P2P, grid)

Conclusion

• P2P technologies are the best solution for aPeer economy.

• P2P might not be the unique solution formanaging distributed working environmentsat global scale.

• However, P2P technologies are to be anessential component of any futureDistributed working environment.

SO 2.5.9 “Collaborative WorkingEnvironments”

6th EU Framework Programme for Research

Isidro Laso Ballesteros

IST Programme


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SO Collaborative WorkingEnvironments.

Goal To develop next generation collaborativeworking environments (NGCWE), thereby

– increasing creativity and

– boosting innovation and

– productivity.

NGCWE will enable seamless and naturalcollaboration 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 nomadicpersonal access to knowledge should besupported.

SO Collaborative Working Environments.Characteristics of NGCWE

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• NGCWE environments should providecollaboration services to make possible thedevelopment of worker centric, flexible, scalableand adaptable tools and applications.

SO Collaborative Working Environments.Objective

Collaborationservices

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Research and developmentactivities on NGCWE

• Theoretical research: Collaborative Workingmethods

• Research and development on Core Services forcollaboration

• System integration into collaboration tools

• Development of complex applications

• Support for internationally agreed referencearchitecture for CWE

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Research and development activities on NextGeneration 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

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Middleware (SOA)

Groupidentification

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Group resourcesDiscovery and allocation.

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Collaborative Work Environment providingcore collaboration services:

Digital representationof physical objectsGroup

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Semantic ModellingOf Groups

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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 WorkingEnvironments. (“Innovative workplace practices inmanufacturing accounted for as much as 89% of thegrowth in ‘multifactor productivity’, i.e. beyond ICTincreases”. San Francisco Fed, 2004)

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1st Focal Layered task:Theoretical research (II)

• Concepts: theory and logic; languages; notations;generic metaphors and models.

• Methods: structured approaches for workplacetransformation, matching a specific workplace tometaphors to models to technology.

• Core services: basic, generic services forimplementing transformed workplaces byenhancing available platforms. E.g.:synchronization, persistence, …

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1st Focal Layered task:Research and development on Services Components (III)• 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 becustomizable to different communities, making use of different(mobile) devices.


Middleware (SOA)

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2nd focal layered task:Research on tools for collaborative work

• Content-rich ICT endowed environments willrequire more sophisticated tools.

• Tools for managing groups of workers in complexworkplaces.

• Generic tools and services to support these moredemanding models.

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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 virtualmanufacturing;

– Collaboration in media/content production workers;

– Collaboration among e-Professionals;

– Collaboration with and among knowledge and informationworkers in remote and rural settings.

– e-Training for collaborative and remote workers (horizontal)

Innovative validating applications for collaborative work incontent-rich, mobile and fixed collaborative environments

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3nd focal layered task:Development of Complex applications (II)

• Cross domain fertilization domain would enrichthese applications

• These applications should leverage, whereappropriate, on experience from collaborativegames (disruptive approaches)


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Other tasks (I)

• To promote joint research activities withnational programmes,

• To define future research agendas,

• To identify emerging topics and researchgroups world wide.

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Other tasks (II)

• To achieve internationally agreed referencearchitecture for collaborative work(guidelines), including core componentsproviding seamless collaboration.

• Through Collaboration with international researchand standardization activities.

• Build on international RTD activities in particularUSA, 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

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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, includingWork 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

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SO 2.5.9. Integrated ProjectsSO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects(II)(II)

• Generic Tasks:– Clustering and coordination ofactivities among the IPs in orderto achieve a common ‘upper layer’Collaborative Work Platform andto 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 forcollaborative work by:

• Knowledge creation

• Workshops, committes, etc.

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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (III)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (III)

• The use of Experience and ApplicationResearch (EAR) approach is encouraged.

• EAR is defined by the ISTAG: they aredesigned for an early involvememnt of usersand to create links to structures, businessprocesses and workplace practices of theorganisations.

• Examples of EARs budget: 700,000 �


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SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (IV)SO 2.5.9. Integrated Projects (IV)

• EARs are expected in theICT-rich domains mentioned :

1. collaborative design and engineering, in particularrapid prototyping and simulation, virtualmanufacturing;

2. Media/content production,3. e-Professionals and4. knowledge and information workers in remote and

rural settings

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SO 2.5.9.SO 2.5.9. TargetedTargeted RTDRTDProjectsProjects

• Only in the 1st and 2nd layers.• Tasks:

– To explore emerging alternativesto pave the way for additionaltechnological advances in the field.– Disrupting approaches are encouraged. For example:

• Is there an alternative to Semantic web more adequate tocollaborative work?

• To investigate ICT-bio, ICT-cogno and ICT-nanoconvergence in the context of New Working Environments.

• To explore human robotics working environments.• To extrapolate collaborative games experience to

collaborative work

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• Aim:– to promote and support the networking and

coordination of research and innovationactivities needed for European leadership inICT-enabled Collaborative WorkingEnvironments.

– To ensure that the work is consistent across IPsand STREPs.

SO 2.5.9.SO 2.5.9. CoCo--ordinationordination ActivitiesActivities

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SO 2.5.9.SO 2.5.9. CoCo--ordinationordination ActivitiesActivitiesandand SpecificSpecific Support Actions (II)Support Actions (II)

• Tasks:– To promote joint research activities with

national programmes, to define future researchagendas or to identify emerging topics andresearch groups world-wide.

– Collaboration with international research andstandardisation activities to achieveinternationally agreed reference architecture forcollaborative work.

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• Actions targeting SMEs developingcollaborative tools and application areencouraged (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. SMEsSMEs

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• Aim:– To complement the ERA pilot project on CWE

launched in the call 3, namelyBRAINBRIDGES.

– strengthen and complement research carried outunder ESA, EUREKA and national initiatives.

– In particular, links to Eureka ITEA projectsrelated to Nomadic and Cyber-Enterprisedomain applications should be described toassess synergies and inter-dependencies in termsof timing and funding.

SO 2.5.9.SO 2.5.9. ERAERA activitiesactivities


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For More Information...For More Information...• Main source of information: www.amiatwork.com

Includes:– 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 beincorporated to this web ring, please send an email to:

[email protected]• SO EC contact person: Isidro Laso-Ballesteros

– [email protected]


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