Tutorial Date: 31 May 2009

Introduction Speakers Sponsors and Acknowledgements Recording

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.