FIFR@COIN

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This page describes how COIN, as an Affiliated Project, relates to the Future Internet Functional Requirements (FIFR).

Contents 1 Project Information 2 Statement 3 Related Future Internet Functional Requirements 3.1 Visionary 3.2 Incremental

[edit] Project Information

Project Name: COIN (Enterprise COllaboration and INteroperability)

Project Homepage: http://www.coin-ip.eu/

Contact Person: Sergio Gusmeroli, COIN technical coordinator, sergio.gusmeroli@txt.it

Architecture Diagram

[edit] Statement

The COIN project aims, among the other objectives, at supporting the access to the Future Internet (and mostly to the future IOS) by Enterprises and SMEs in particular. In Subproject 3 (SP2 The Generic Service Platform) and work package 6.2 (WP6.2 The SaaS-U business model) we are developing the COIN IT platform, the COIN Collaboration platform and their related business models. More in particular, 6 of the COIN outcomes are strictly related to 6 of the FIFRs, 4 visionary and 2 incremental, and in our opinion they form the first steps towards Future Internet Service Offer:

1. COIN evolutionary and pervasive service platform (WP3.2) is related to FIFR Visionary 2.c Availability of network services;
2. COIN business knowledge and negotiation platform (WP3.4) is related to FIFR Visionary 3.d Intelligent environments;
3. COIN SaaS-U (Software as a Service-Utility) business models (WP6.2) is related to FIFR Visionary 7.g Business models;
4. COIN trust, security and dependability platform (WP3.3) is related to FIFR Visionary 11.g Trust management;
5. COIN baseline Generic Service Platform (WP3.1) is related to FIFR Incremental 4.a Service aggregation;
6. COIN Collaboration Platform (WP3.5) is related to FIFR Incremental 6.d P4P services.

[edit] Related Future Internet Functional Requirements

[edit] Visionary

2. Network technology

c. Availability of network services

  Comment: 'Need: Enterprises need to access reliable and available services in the FI. Enterprise business processes
  instances are in general executed several times within the time span of a collaboration (e.g. an invoice could be sent
  hundreds of times between enterprises involved in a collaborative project). In COIN we are developing a distributed, 
  P2P-inspired architecture for service models repositories and registries, in order to guarantee a high degree of availability
  without a single point of failure represented by the service platform in itself. It has also to be explored the case of 
  redundancy and duplication of service end-points in the heterogeneous service platforms federation which is supposed to 
  constitute the backbone of future Internet of Services. FIFR. Enterprise environments need guaranteed end-to-end SLAs 
  for service orchestrations supporting their vital/critical business processes.'

3. Context awareness

d. Intelligent environments

  Comment: 'Need: Enterprises need to fill the conceptual and technical gap between their high-level, business-oriented 
  service requests and the low-level, IT-oriented service descriptions (although semantic) of the Service Platforms. In addition, 
  whenever service requests come from enterprise networks and not from a single enterprise, they could be very complex (e.g. a 
  free composition of and-or-not statements) and sometimes include preferences (e.g. with probability) and also contradictory 
  statements coming from the opposite interests of the involved enterprises (e.g. buyer’s and seller’s policies). In COIN we 
  are developing an intelligent, agent-based negotiation environment for service requests decomposition, in order to facilitate 
  the matchmaking with the service semantic descriptions and their composition in service aggregations. FIFR. A fully 
  configurable automatic intelligent environment for multiple service requests decompositions and reasoning explanation.'

7. Service Orchestration

g. Business models

  Comment: 'Need: Enterprises need innovative business models to access the IOS. In particular, the roles and 
  relations between platform providers, service providers and enterprises, to be seen both as consumers but also providers of 
  services (pro-sumer), need to be studied and investigated. In COIN we are developing the concept of SaaS-U, which 
  foresees that interoperability and collaboration services could be extracted from existing Enterprise Applications and become 
  a commodity for Enterprises and SMEs in particular. We will also develop a value proposition for the SaaS-U and study how 
  SaaS-U could support and increase the innovation capability of Enterprises. FIFR. Innovative business models and 
  agreements for interconnected multiple platform providers and the myriad of services providers in the future Internet of 
  Services.'

11. Trust

g. Trust management

  Comment: 'Need: Enterprises need trusted environments to conduct their business. This encompasses not only the 
  complex network of relations, alliances, competitions, references which establish the so-called business trust, but also the 
  end-to-end chain of IT service/platform providers which could support enterprises business processes (IT trust). In COIN 
  we are developing a flexible and configurable platform for triple-A security (Authentication, Authorization, Accountability) 
  and data protection along the business chain of enterprise collaborations. Different security levels need to be harmonized and 
  up- down- lifted according to the business exigencies. FIFR. Linking business trust and IT trust mechanisms for a 
  comprehensive Trust Management system.'

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4. Service Orchestration

a. Service aggregation

  Comment:  'Need: Enterprises need powerful service platforms for semantically-enabled service aggregation in the 
  future Internet of Services. This includes not just the open Internet of billions of publicly available services, but also FInES 
  (Future Internet Enterprise Systems) variously distributed between on-premises and fully outsourced in professional service 
  parks or service clouds. In COIN the generic service platform is devoted to provide aggregations of interoperability (e.g. 
  data mappings, business process synchronization, models transformations) and collaboration (e.g. human communication, web 2.0 
  participation, shared working spaces) services for Enterprises. FIFR. FInES will encompass various aggregation of 
  services, partly deployed on-premises, partly in professional data/application centers and partly in the open Internet of 
  Services (also user generated).'

6. Collaboration

d. P4P Services

  Comment: 'Need: Enterprises need Collaboration Platforms which will be able to link people-to-people communication 
  with enterprise business processes. The convergence between methodologies, tools and standards for human and enterprise 
  collaboration is one of the major challenges. In COIN we are developing a Collaboration Platform, which is able to support 
  both hierarchical (e.g. supply chains) and not-hierarchical (e.g. business ecosystems) collaborations, by means of user-driven 
  but service-oriented business workflows. FIFR. Human and enterprise collaboration are the two sides of the same coin.'