Sponsors and Acknowledgements
The organisers of the Introduction to Semantic Web Tutorial gratefully acknowledge the contributions from the following:
SOA4All
SOA4All is endorsed by the
NESSI constituency and will contribute significantly to the NESSI Open Framework, which is one of the main challenges of the European Platform on Software and Services. In a broader context SOA4All will be a major contributor to the definition of the
Future Internet of 2015, an initiative of the European Union that aims to define the future of Internet from the physical infrastructure to user applications.
SUPER
SUPER addresses the ever enduring need of new weaponry in struggle for survival in buoyant business environment where profit margins dramatically plummet while competitiveness reaches the new sky high limits.
This project answers the two most urgent issues emerging from BPM:
- shift in control of processes from IT professionals to business natives
- carrying up business process management to a new complexity level
The major objective of SUPER is to raise Business Process Management (BPM) to the business level, where it belongs, from the IT level where it mostly resides now. This objective requires that BPM is accessible at the level of semantics of business experts.
X-Media
X-Media is a 4-year Integrated Project funded by the European Commission as part of Framework 6. It addresses the issue of knowledge management in complex distributed environments. It studies, develops and implements large scale methodologies and techniques for knowledge management able to support sharing and reuse of knowledge that is distributed in different media (images, documents and data) and repositories (data bases, knowledge bases, document repositories, etc.). X-Media has a budget topping Euro 13.6M, (9.9M from the EU). 15 partners are involved from UK, Germany, Italy, France, Slovenia, Greece and Norway.
