SINTEF (Trondheim, Norway)

Leading research institute with expertise in design and validation of teleservices. Highly experienced in coordination of EU projects.

Role in the project: Project Coordinator and Leader of the WP1 - Scenarios

• Research and development.

• Validate ideas from basic research (PhD of Floch & Sanders).

• Applied to an industrial context: Tools, middleware, service provider.

• Coordinator.

• Contribute with methods and design tools.

FT R&D Spain – Orange (Barcelona, Spain)

Orange is the commercial mark of the Group France Telecom, one of the principal operators of telecommunications of the world, with more than 149 million clients in five continents.

France Telecom’s ambition is to be the first integrated telecoms operator in Europe and leader for convergence, delivering a ‘New Experience of Telecoms’ for its customers.

Role in the project: Leader of the WP7 - Dissemination and exploitation

• Specify the user requirements, system requirements, and integration of the SIMS technology in the operator’s network, helping to implement experimental service components and to contribute to the dissemination of the project results.

• Participate in the definition of requirements and in the trials application, evaluating the SIMS approach along with the service provider Gintel.

• Offer a development platform to third parties that can be used to develop in an easy and standardized way a variety of applications and services available to the end-users.

Appear Networks is a leading provider of wireless communication platforms that enable enterprise mobility solutions for organizations with mobile employees. The Appear IQ suite of products transforms standard wireless data networks into multimedia channels enabling the proactive delivery of personalized, real-time communications (data, VoIP and video) to mobile employees.

Role in the project: Leader of the WP5 - Middleware

• Define a reference architecture for service discovery, composition and feature selection at runtime based on exploiting semantic interfaces and ontologies.

• Design and implement middleware support for service discovery, composition and selection at runtime based on exploiting semantic interfaces.

• Designing and developing middleware support for runtime validation of service components based on semantic interfaces.

SME, vendor of the most downloaded UML tool. Competence on design tools and exchange of models between tools.

Role in the project: Leader of the WP4 - Design tools

• Contribute with design tool and validation tool development according to the requirements of the project.

• Develop tool components in the Poseidon and Apollo UML tools, and integrate the open source components developed by the project partners into the commercial tool products.

SME specializing in development of advanced net centric services to service providers

Role in the project: Leader of the WP6 - Proof of concept

• Commercial service provider.

• Know-how of telecoms service. lifecycle

• Design, Deployment, Platforms.

Norway’s leading technological University, represented by the Telematics dept. with decades of experience in methods and tools for mobile services and systems

Role in the project: Leader of the WP2 - Methods

• Academic research on service engineering and service delivery.

• Basic research on service development support.

Warsaw University of Technology (Warszawa, Poland)

Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), [add hyperreference: http://www.pw.edu.pl/english], is the leading technical university in Poland. The research group participating in the SIMS project is the Mobile and Embedded Applications Group (MEAG) [add hyperreference: http://meag.tele.pw.edu.pl] of the WUT's Institute of Telecommunications.

The MEAG group focuses on middleware for mobile services and ubiquitous computing. The group explores applying modern IT technologies, including Semantic Web techniques, to service development. A current MEAG projects range from the development of a ubiquitous computing middleware to context-aware distributed services to wireless sensor networks-based systems.

Role in the project: Leader of the WP3 - Ontologies

• Development of methods and techniques for the design of ontology-driven semantic interface artefacts (which include artifacts such as service goal and roles). Both the design time techniques (to be embedded in the SIMS tools) and the runtime ones (to be embedded in the SIMS middleware) will be addressed.

• Development of the telecommunications ontology, which will be used for validating the techniques developed the former task and the proof-of-concept software developed in the task below. The ontology will focus on concepts like voice calls, text and multimedia messaging, data sessions, instant messaging.

• A proof-of-concept implementation of the techniques (software). Both the design time and runtime techniques will be implemented. Also, the integration with the components from other workpackages will be performed.