SOCIETY TECHNOLOGIES PRIZE
Application Form
1. THE APPLICANT
Name of product:
/ PAN EUROPEAN - INTERCONNECTED KNOWLEDGE POOLS .A federated STEP-based -Systems Engineering- / EU-KMU
Semantic Web based Services/
Semantic Community Knowledge Web Portals EU/SME.
Name of contact person:
/ Johann MagoriName of company/organisation:
/ Magori Consulting - IngenieurbüroAddress:
/ An der Gruckau 160388 Frankfurt am Main
B.R. Deutschland
Tel:
/ +49/ (06109) 508 976 / mobil: 0174 / 524 401 36Fax:
/ + 49 / (06109) 508 978E-mail of contact person:
/1.2. Short definition of the product for press releases, brochures, … (10-15 words):
NKOS-Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Shared Community Memory.Data-Grid for EU-SME / Semantic Web.
toreflect the basic paradigm of the Web: - self-organization -
- for moving information from where it resides to where it’s needed -
will serve the EU / SME's and those for whom it is not feasible to host their own sites.
Linking Knowledge and " EU-SME " Society.
1.3. Declaration by the applicant:
On behalf of my organisation/company I agree to the product above applying for a European IST Prize.I have read the Terms and Conditions for participation and agree to abide by them. I will supply such further information as the assessors may reasonably request and confirm that, by my knowledge, the information given in this application form is accurate and that I am authorised to disclose it.
Signature: J.Magori
/Date: 30. 04. 2003
1.4. Short description of your company/organisation (max. 500 words, 3/4 page): Ownership, finance, staff, sales, age.....
I am a freelance engineer and I have been running my company " Magori Consulting-Ingenieurbüro " for about 12 years.The focus lies on engineering, construction, design, CAD, programming, software engineering and implementation.Euro-CASE / Page 1 of 11 / Paris -The European IST Prize 2003
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2. INNovative content and Technical information on the product
2.1. Innovative content: Where lies the innovation, is the product based on a novel application of an established technology, or is it new technology (explain briefly the principle or give reference) applied to a known application, is it the first generation or an improved version of an existing product, why is it worth an award and if applicable and available, bench marks, performance evaluation, ....
Max 500 words, 1 page
2.1. Innovative content: Generating answers.The diagram is the tree of nature and logic by the thirteenth century poet,
philosopher, and missionary Ramon Lull. The main trunk supports a version
of the tree of Porphyry,wich illustrates Aristotle's categories.
The ten leaves on the right represent ten types of questions, and the ten
leaves on the left are keyed to a system of rotatingfor
- generating answersin 13th Century
Such diagrams and diskscomprise Lull's Ars Magna (Great Art),
which was the first attempt to develop mechanical aids to reasoning.
It served as an inspiration to the pioneer in symbolic logic,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(John F. Sowa, Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and
Computational Foundations, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., Pacific Grove, CA, ©2000.)
- generating answers! in 21th Century -Semantic Web-(Services)
New kind of technology (first generation- extension of the current Web) that lets companies instantly connect with business partners anywhere on the Internet, and that satisfies the need for constant change.
This technology will enable companies to implement radically new business models and exponentially extend their market reach and grow their businesses in ways they've never dreamed.
The current Web is a repository of flat data without logic, an incredible large information source, is a repository of intelectual capital, is a networked information system, is a giant semiotic system. The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation, in some ways like a global database, it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse of data across various applications. Advanced computational methods for extracting information from large quantities of data are beginning to mature.
Internet provides the infrastructure to enable global communication and ontologies provide a shared and common understanding of a domain, their marriageallows for representation of domain knowledge that can be communicated between people and heterogeneous and distributed application systems. The fundamental role of an ontology is to support knowledge sharing and reuse. This knowledge is used to describe the content of
information sources, through ontologies, and the condition of operation of Web services.Ontologies play a
crucial role for the Semantic Web...( In this context "structural" ontology -- a machine readable set of definitions that create a taxonomy of classes and subclasses and relationships between them).
The Semantic Web is a Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but also for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. Facilities and technologies to put machine understandable data on the Web are rapidly becoming a high priority for many communities.
2.2. Technical description: What is your product, how does it work, what is its purpose, where and how is it used, who are the users, what is the IT content, how does the product fit in with other products of your company/organisation, .... Max 750 words, 1 ½ page
The time has come to bring together the " vision and reality " to start designing the
"International system of interconnected - Semantic Community Knowledge Web Portals / Services-EU-SME"of thefuture, respect of property rights, and profits of its traditional form, will have a wider, faster, and easier distribution of "Engineering solution / dynamic ebusinessthat could be accessed, browsed and searched remotely.
The strategy includes collaborative information provisioning by the community members.
Forrester Research distills the succesfull use of Internet-technology into two components , specialization and interoperability. Specialization will attract others to you; Interoperability will attach others to you.
The battle for market leadership will not be between enterprises but between Value Chains.
Daratech-
Knowledge networks and communities of practice are the key to successful knowledge management.
Interconnected -Web Services-Semantic Community Knowledge Web portals serve as portals for the information needs of particular communities on the web (EU/SME) by enabling the development and maintenance of specific "EU-SME" communities of interest, is an open, Internet-based infrastructure.
The system will utilize enhanced Internet services, support a decentralized, self-organizing approach, through novel Knowledge Management solutions aimed at enhancing creativity, innovation, competencies, and responsiveness. It is based on an ontology as a semantic backbone for accessing information on the portal, for contributing information, as well as for developing and maintaining the portal. The projects are expected to explore and validate novel "intelligent" knowledge management technologies, applications, methodologies and practices aimed at leveraging numerous and variedsources (knowledge about products, services, customers, suppliers, business partners,.. in all shapes and forms). This includes multidisciplinary solutions for capturing, organising, mining and, exploiting, exchanging and trading knowledge.
To create a knowledge continents from information islands, knowledge assets from information resources, and knowledge bases from fragmented data , to weave loose pieces of information into a coherent presentation adequate for sharing knowledege with the needs of end users.- / EU-SME's.
This includes multilingual/multimodal interaction systems that are adaptable to the user’s preferences and lifestyle and will increase the European added value of work by strengthening synergy between strategic technology developments and priority policy areas such as employment, competitiveness (of SMEs), equal opportunities, economic and social cohesion and sustainability in the EU Information Society.
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2.3. Brief history of the product (max. 500 words, 3/4 page): When was the product development started, what is the development schedule, how was the development financed, what is the estimated cost to date, is the product a result of a co-operation with a company / organisation / university....
In June/July 1999 I started to draw up my proposal/project/business concept. In October 1999, I presented my business concept at the Venture Capital Congress in Frankfurt am Main for the first time in order to raise startup capital.I contacted different institutions such as "Technologie -Stiftung Hessen GmbH, MMSC Multimedia Support Center Hessen, IRC Hessen/Rheinland-Pfalz". Since those institutions highly recommended my project it was necessary to integrate a number of universities and colleges from at least two different European countries, thus increasing the chance to realize the project.
The following European universities have agreed to actively participate in my project:
1.University of Sheffield,
The Department of Computer Science,
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 4DP
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 21800 ; Fax: +44 (0) 114 22 21810
URL:
Email: :
Prof.Mike Holcombe
Prof.Dr.Marian Gheorghe
2.Budapesti Müszaki Föiskola ( Banki Donat Polytechnic)
Nepszinhaz u.8.
1081 Budapest, HUNGARY
Telefon: +36-1-210-14-50 ;Fax: +36-1-333-67-61/ 334-3971
URL:
Prof.Dr. Kadocsa György Email:
Prof.Dr. Dioszegi György
3.University of Pitesti
Computer Science Department
Targu din Vale 1
0300 Pitesti, ROMANIA
Tel/Fax 0040-48-216448
Prof.Dr. Dumitru Cristea Email:
Prof.Dr.Tudor Balanescu Email:
Prof.Dr.Florentin Ipate
4.CITY Liberal Studies / Affiliated Institution of the University of Sheffield /
Computer Science Department
Head Offices Tsimiski Building
13, Tsimiski Str.,
546 24 Thessaloniki, GREECE
Tel. +30 31 224.186, 275.575 ; Fax. +30 31 287.564
URL: ;
Email: ;
Prof.Dr. Petros Kefalas ;
Prof. Dr.Ketikidis ; Prof.Dr.Bamidis
The following universities are interested in the project due to synergie effects with other pending European projects:
5. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Information Systems, New Media
Augasse 2-6,
A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA
phone +43-1-313 36 / 4443, fax +43-1-313 36 / 746,
e-mail ;
URL: ;
URL:
Prof.Dr. Gustaf Neumann ;
6.AIFB / Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren /
Universität Karlsruhe
AIFB,University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe , GERMANY
URL:
Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Alexander Maedche ;Prof.Dr. Rudi Studer
Phone: +49-(0)721-608 6558 ; fax: +49-(0)721-608 6580
Email:
Ontoprise managing director Hans-Peter Schnurr, Karlsruhe
7.Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Karsten Tolle, DBIS-Datenbanken und Informationssysteme
E-Mail :
8.Universität GH Essen
Dipl.-Wirt.Inform. Reinhold KlapsingWirtschaftsinformatik und Software-Technik
E-Mail :
-how was the development financed, what is the estimated cost to date, is the product a result of a co-operation with a company / organisation / university....
- Up to now, I haven’t been given any financial support. The costs amount to approx. 80 000 €.... and I financed the project from my own resources.
-is the product a result of a co-operation with a company / organisation / university....
- No, I drew up the project plan myself.
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3. Implementation and marketing
3.1. When was the product introduced or when will it be introduced into the market?
It is possible to implement the project within one years.3.2. Is or will the product be exported to foreign markets? (specify)
The project belongs to the services sector.3.3. How many products have been sold from the marketing date until now, excluding products distributed for beta testing or under favourable conditions (e.g. for promotional purposes....)?
3.4. What is/will be the selling price of the product (€)?
The average price for a research/investigations is approx. (skimming preis strategie) 30 €.3.5. How is the product sold, e.g. directly or through agents, in home and export markets.
Internet "Web services".Semantic Community Knowledge Web Portals, an Internet-based service complements and extends the existing information networks of enterprises, value-added networks (VANs), and private transaction networks that need the business efficiency gains possible through improved supply chain.
3.6. How does the product fit and reinforce your company’s business strategy in selected market sectors? Please describe your company's strategy and plans for development in this business segment.
1.General design principles: minimal constraint, minimum redundancy, extensibility, simplicity, and robustness.2.A Semantic Community Knowledge Web Portals prototype is built; co-ordinated by Management Committee, Supervisory board of editors, Working Group leaders and Executive Board.
3.Adaption to specific needs of different countries (countries involved)
4.Market introduction in co-operation with Universities, Institutions(countries involved) and SME's.
Publication in technical journals and other media as well as workshops and presentations. Close co-operation with other European projects (synergetic effects)
5.An Internet-infrastructure-service for collecting, analyzing, and distributing informationa unifying communications infrastructure for moving information from where it resides to where it’s needed, for collecting information from many sources into an integrated picture.
The first step will allow manufacturers and distributors to make their product literature and catalogs available online for engineers to browse.
6.That engineering solution /catalogs / service be maintained up-to-date and generated dynamically from source material
7.That engineering solution /catalogs / service be searchable by content using common concepts rather than merely navigated through hyperlinks.
8.That catalogs be cross-searchable so that suitable entries satisfying a query can be found in multiple catalogs.
9.On-line ordering, delivery scheduling, part locating, and other services-( Solution Consulting, Project hosting, Smart Supply Chain Management, Collaborative Logistics Network, Knowledge Broker, Knowledge Value Networks, Tacit Knowledge Management, Knowledge Trading, Knowledge Empowered Service, Electronic Consultative/Collaborative Commerce, Activity based Knowledge Analysis... ) will then be added incrementally.
10.Instead of user-initiated interaction via commands and/or direct manipulation, the user is engaged in a cooperative process in which human and computer agents both initiate communication, monitor events and perform tasks.
My intention to involve several SME's from every country participating in the project.
The choice of which SME's to involve will be left up to the working group leaders of the concerned countries so that the practical implementation of development results can be efficiently and quickly achieved, for improving competitiveness, potential market value, capacity to generate employment by opening new markets or starting up new enterprises, contribution towards extending the acceptance and understanding of Information Technology by society, and anticipated societal benefits.
Please fill in the table below in €1,000:
2002
/2003(forecast)
/2004(forecast)
/2005(outlook)
Your product’s sales
/Est. total size of this market segment
/Your product’s sales
/Est. total size of this market segment
/Your product’s sales
/Est. total size of this market segment
/Your product’s sales
/Est. total size of this market segment
Home market
Exports
TOTAL
Financial surplus*
(deficit)
*Profit (deficit) that you estimate to make due to the sales for your product (sales - various cost, research, production, taxes,....)
Explain briefly the sources of these figures
3.7. If available, please provide marketing/business plans in annex. A marketing/business plan includes e.g. definition of the customer segments, competing products and competitive advantages, key financial issues, distribution channels, implementation strategy, … .
3.8. What kind of customer support do you provide?
Customer service and installation of service included.3.9. When relevant enclose a photograph of your product showing its size.
4. Related Products
4.1. Do you know of any similar products in this area? If yes, please name the specific product and its producer.
SWAD-E and EuropeW3C Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe. Promoting development and adoption within Europe;
" NOT creating new or rival communities " (Charles McCathieNevile )
The focus on this initiative is on providing practical demonstrations of how the Semantic Web can address problems in areas such as: site maps, news channel syndication, thesauri, classification, topic maps, calendaring, scheduling, collaboration, annotations, quality ratings, shared bookmarks, Dublin Core for simple resource discovery, Web service description and discovery, trust and rights management and how to effectively and efficiently integrate these technologies together.
SWAD DAML; The purpose of the SWAD DAML project is to contribute to the development of a vibrant, ubiquitous Semantic Web by building critical Semantic Web infrastructure and demonstrating how that infrastructure can be used by working, user-oriented applications.
SWAD Simile; W3C is additionally working with HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT's Lab for Computer Science on Simile, which seeks to enhance interoperability among digital assets, schemas, metadata, and services across distributed individual, community, and institutional stores and across value chains that provide useful end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemas, and metadata held in such stores.
SWAD Oxygen;The MIT/LCS Oxygen project is designed to enable pervasive, human-centered computing through a combination of specific user and system technologies.
DESIRE. Distributed teams of academics, university librarians and professionals are now involved in the development of large-scale information gateways across Europe. These gateways offer catalogues of Internet sites and resources, which can be searched or browsed by subject.These are the highest quality portals on the Internet.
On-To-Knowledge: Content-driven Knowledge-Management Tools through Evolving Ontologies
Ontobroker/On2brokerprovides brokering services to improve access to heterogeneous, distributed and semistructured information sources as they are presented in the World Wide Web.
Ontology Based Access to Distributed and Semi-Structured Information
IBROW - An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web
KA2 -- Knowledge Annotation Initiatiative of the Knowledge Acquisition Community
DARPA Agent Mark Up Language (DAML) The goal of the DAML program is to create technologies that will enable software agents to dynamically identify and understand information sources, and to provide interoperability between agents in a semantic manner.
<BIG>Protégé Project allows domain experts to build knowledge-basedsystems by creating and modifying reusable ontologies and problem-solving methods. </BIG<BIG>Protégé generates domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools and applications from ontologies.An extensible KR tool for constructing ontologies, customizing knowledge-acquisition forms, and entering domain knowledge. </BIG>
OntoAgents - a Project in the DARPA DAML PROGRAM, Enabling Intelligent Agents on the Web, based on Darpa Agent Markup Language,University of Karlsruhe, Protege Group at Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University......
OntoWeb- Ontology-based information exchange forknowledge management and electronic commerce..
Chimaera is a software system that supports users in creating and maintaining distributed ontologies on the web. Chimaera was built on top of the Ontolingua Distributed Collaborative Ontology Environment. Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University.
Ontology Interchange Language (OIL).</RCCWP:NIHEAD</RCCWP:M>The development of OIL is governed by a Steering Commitee and an Advisory Board; the project is sponsored by the European Community via the IST projects Ibrow and
and On-to-knowledge.
PROCAT-GEN Project: Telematics IE 8035 Application Area
a project to create pilot applications for preparation and network delivery of multi-media product catalogues for engineering components. PROCAT-GEN is an innovative application of SGML, network and multi-media technology to bring real benefits both for the users and suppliers of product catalogues;
Géant project (connectivity objectiv of the eEurope2002 action plan.)
KAON – The Karlsruhe Ontology and Semantic Web Framework, is a open-source ontology management infrastructure targeted for semantics-driven business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology management and application. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web......
4.2. Does your project compete/complement/enhance these products?