FInES Research Roadmap 2025

A Summary of Key IdeasMichele Missikoff (CNR)

FInES RR RapporteurTask Force of the FInES Cluster, Unit D4

October 2011

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Objectives of new FInES Research Roadmap

• To draw the main lines for future research in the domain of FInES: Future Internet Enterprise Systems

• Such research lines are positioned in a long-term, highly innovative vision, with 2025 as time horizon.

• This activity follows, and is based, on the previous FInES RR published last year

• Hope to be an input to the Commission for the next Horizon 2020 Work Programme

SPECIAL CREDITS

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Petra Ahrweiler David OsimoGash Bhullar Mor SagmonRobert Constable Weiming ShenAsuman Dogac Paolo SpagnolettiKlaus Fischer John Sutcliffe-

BraithwaiteAntonio Grilo Lars TaxénSergio Gusmeroli Martin ZelmAntonio Manzalini

and to: Cristina Martinez, Man-Sze Li, Diana Vlad-Calcic

Roadmapping Methodology

Task Force organization• SAG: Scientific Advisory Group, 15 experts

fully dedicated to the RR scientific support and contribution

• ESC: Expert Scientific Committee, 15 experts partially dedicated to the RR support and validation

• EB: Editorial Board. A restricted groups of people dedicated to the collection of contributions, drawing up and editing the report

With the contribution of all FInES Projects

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The FInES RR Task Force Organization

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Editorial Board

FInES Projects &

Contributors

RTD Community

RTD Community

and Stakeholders

RTD Community

Support Committes(SAG & ESC)

RTD Community

and Stakeholders

The ‘essence of Roadmapping’

• Roadmapping, seen essentially as a Knowledge Management endeavour

• Activities started with the definition of the overall knowledge organization

• 4 FInES Knowledge Spaces: (i) Socio-technical, (ii) Enterprise, (iii) Enterprise Systems, (iv) Enabling Technologies

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The 4 FInES Knowledge Spaces

1. Socio-economic Space (SOCE)the larger context in which enterprises operate. It includes topics such as:the social responsibility of enterprises, the impact on the environment and their carbon footprint, until the system of values goes beyond the pure financial dimension.

2. Enterprise Space (ENTP)the key traits of future enterprises, the emerging business and production models, new governance and organization paradigms, new forms of cooperation all geared towards the continuous innovation paradigm

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The 4 FInES Knowledge Spaces (cont’)

3. Future Enterprise Systems (ESYS)ICT solutions and socio-technical systems aimed at supporting the emerging future enterprises. In essence: FInES, aligned with business needs and rationale identified for the future enterprises.

4. Enabling Technology Space (TECH) –ICT solutions, including knowledge representation, cooperation and interoperability, trust and security advanced services, etc., necessary for the development of FInES. In particular, ICT enabling solutions that be needed for the purpose of FInES.

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The positioning of FInES Spaces

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Socio-economic

Enterprise

FInES

Technology

FInES Knowledge Flow

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Instances

Editors

Docs

Contributors

FInES Community

FInES RR/Txt

Folksonomy

Folksonomy

WebFInES RR/Web

1. A Vision on the Socio-economic Space in 2025

1. The need for a socio-economic discontinuity

2. Different growths for wealth and well-being in reduced economic expansion

3. Towards a totally connected Society

4. Innovation in a Knowledge-based Society

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1. Socio-economic key comments

• increase of the standard of living must happen in a socially adequate manner.

• include young people and give them a perspective in life.

• The BRICS countries are also sources of opportunities for companies of developed countries.

• “Sustainability” is a more important issue than “growth”

• Inclusion and not separation should be a leading principle.

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2. The Future Internet-based Enterprise

2a. Quality of Being: a first characterization

2b. The Operational Dimension

2c. New approaches to Future Enterprises Governance

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2a. Quality of Being: a first characterization

1. Humanistic Enterprise

2. Inventive Enterprise

3. Agile Enterprise

4. Cognisant Enterprise

5. Sensing Enterprise

6. Community-oriented Enterprise

7. Cloud Enterprise

8. Glocal Enterprise

9. Green Enterprise

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2b. The Operational Dimension

The following operational areas are connected in a spiral/fractal fashion

• Invent• Plan• Build• Operate• Manage&Monitor• Dissolute

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2c. New approaches for Future Enterprises Governance

• Enterprise as a complex artefact• Enterprise Engineering: need for a

systematic approach• A World of Models, based on Design

Science• But... Accepting the limitations of a

modelling approach• Surviving with partial models, to be

addressed with Complexity Theory• E.g., from BPM to Complex Event Proc

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2. Enterprise Space key comments

• the “value creating" models (constellations) are replacing the traditional “value adding" ones, such as value chain.

• “Inventive” is a too demanding characteristic for an enterprise

• Enterprise Engineering methods address low-level practical issues, missing the holistic socially interlinked trends

• Humanities, natural sciences and the arts need to be considered in harmony to support a successful FI enterprise

• Green Enterprise… enough! Better Recycling Enterprise

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3. The Future Internet-based Enterprise Systems

This the Core Space, organised in three dimensions:

1. Knowledge Dimension, since before doing it is necessary to know,

2. Functional Dimension, to see what will be the main functions of a FInES,

3. Engineering Dimension investigate new development techniques, with a specific focus on software applications.

Each dimension will be articulated with its Research Challenges

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3.1 The Knowledge Dimension

RC1. Unified Digital Enterprisefull digital image of the enterprise (Enterprise

Architecture Fwk), with conceptual and factual (data) knowledge, behavioural and structural aspects, at various levels of details

RC2. Linked Open Knowledgeto connect and integrate actual knowledge/ data,

in/outside of the enterprise (Web of Knowledge)

RC3. Complex Systems Modellingwith sections fully specified and sections

characterised by non deterministic behaviour

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3.2 The Functional Dimension of a FInES

RC4. Innovation-oriented enterprise production platforms

Invent – Plan – Build – Operate – Manage&Monitor – Dissolute

RC5. Unified Digital Enterprise (UDE) Management System

Constantly evolving the UDE to guarantee a digital reality mirroring the analogical reality

RC6. Cooperation and collaboration platformsSmart Objects, Apps, people: all seamlessly Intp

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3.3 The Engineering Dimension of FInES

RC7. Proactive FInES Mashup (Design)combined top-down (goal- and human-driven) and

bottom-up (event- and object-driven) design

RC8. Autonomic Computing Components and Subsystems (Build)

Dynamic (re)organization of computational business resources resources mirroring (collective intelligence).

RC9. Flexible Execution platforms (Exec)Different integrated paradigms, Agents, Smart

Objects, Utility and Commodity Clouds

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The Science Base of FInES

• Much of the above Research Challenges need rigorous, well-founded approaches

• In the future FInES researches it is highly advisable to include activities related to Science Base

• Beyond EISB. E.g.:– Design Science– Complexity Theory– Fuzzy self-organising systems– Semantics– Enterprise Engineering

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3. FInES Space key comments

• What is an Enterprise System?• Unified Digital Enterprise makes the mistake of

equating the tool with the thing itself• Unified Digital Enterprise is a very important

challenge• Knowledge dimension: we should consider adding the

consumption of knowledge and its business value• are WfM and BPM solutions able to meet the new

enterprise business dimension, made of activities which are non-procedural, non-hierarchical, fuzzy & probabilistic, human-centric, serendipitous, parallel jobs?

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4. Future Technologies for FInES

ICTs are not our core research interest, but we rely on to achieve the sought FInES

• Networking• Knowledge• Application• Computation and Storage• Natural interaction

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4. Future Technologies for FInES

4.1 Future Networking technologiesConverging, seamless scaling networking

infrastructures

4.2 Future Knowledge technologiesa – Diffused Knowledge Base Technology

b – From raw data to knowledge assets

c – Innovation-oriented knowledge assets

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(4. Future Technologies for FInES)

4.3 Future Application Technologies

a - Proactive and autonomic computingb - From deterministic to fuzzy

computingc - Beyond system consistencyd - Governance application technologiese - Top-down problems definition and

bottom-up systems aggregation

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(4. Future Technologies for FInES)

4.5 Future computation and storage technologies

From Cloud to Ground Computing (IoT). Glocal computing. Interoperability, trust&security, ...will be largely achieved. New computational models

4.6 Future Natural InteractionDisappearance of HCI. Evolution of NUI.

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4. Technology Space key comments

• 'knowledge' cannot be assigned to 'objects'. Knowledge is a truly human thing; if you take away humans, there is no such thing as 'knowledge‘

• The section should be named "Future socially-enriched knowledge Technologies“

• The statement "the role of humans in the creation of knowledge assets will progressively turn marginal" is in my view utterly false

• Complex-system engineering is less dependent on technology than traditional systems engineering

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Consultation process

• Consultation method and tools– Online form– Voting on key issues– Adding text to comment or propose

alternative ideas

• Experts consultation– 15 experts, almost 100 contributions

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Future Activities

• Active participation in the next FInES Cluster Meetings, in particular:– 12 October 2011– 20 December 2011

• Activate a wide consultation process

• Integrate the Editorial Board

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Future Activites (cont’)

• Collaboration with other similar initiatives– ActionPlanT, FISA, EFFRA, ...

• Substantially enlarge the online collaboration method and tools:– Wiki, Folksaurus, Online Forms, Deliberation

tool, but also Word files ...

• Online digital version of FInES RR, for future community sustainability

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FInES Research Roadmap Second Version Development Timeline

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CLl2 Cluster Meeting 20/12

31/8 30/9 31/10 30/11 31/12 31/1 28/2

SAG & ESC input

Project input

Cl1 Cluster Meeting 12/10

Include Knowledge

Cafe

V1.9 = V1.0 + R1 +R2 + Cl1

R1 Consultation

R2 Consultation

V2.0 = V1.9R3 +Cl2

R3 Consultation

Fourth Semester: M18 – M24. Development of Online FInES RR Portal

Conclusions

• The key work (first RR draft) has been achieved ahead of schedule

• Final version expected on M18 (planned M24)

• Focussed activities in the last semester:– Implementation and test of advanced

online co-working platforms– Community building– FInES Folksaurus and FInESpedia

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A Possible Dream

• Possibility of Governance of research initiatives and programs

• FInES Research Roadmap as a ‘territory’ to explore

• Projects are the ‘explorers’– Where are their research efforts heading to?– Can we trace their achievements?– Are there (undiscovered) overlappings?

Complementarities?– What are the ‘crwded territories? And the

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