SIB Council on Internet and Network Systems (SIB-INS)

Scope:

The scope of this SIB is to bring together the communities of developers and entrepreneurs working on innovative systems for the Internet and other mass-market network systems.

Key-Challenges:

• Develop innovative services to exploit new platforms, protocols and market niches.
• Access the new markets that are available through the expansion of networked services in society.
• Maintain awareness of current and emerging standards for application languages and coordination protocols.
• Share best practice in service design.
• Exploit the use of advanced technologies for automation and data intensive computation.
• Connect communities on the edge of mainstream service provision, such as multi-agent systems and semantic systems.

Mission:

The provision of networked services is a powerful way to innovate traditional systems and to access new markets. The new technologies being developed to take advantage of the scale of the Internet, and other mass-communication networks, are stimulating new styles of innovation and entrepreneurial activity based around smarter services and social communication. This SIB will bring together those with experience in innovating in this new space and those possessing new ideas for automation and data intensive computation on an Internet scale. This gives developers access to like-minded entrepreneurs and industrialists while giving those from commerce and industry a means of expanding markets via new technological ideas.

Description:

One of the strongest drivers for commercial activity in computing is the unprecedented growth in demand for socially oriented interactions; service provision and device diversity. Almost a tenth of mobile users now use social networks on their phone, with the number of social network users worldwide predicted rise to 800 million by 2012. Service-oriented architecture adoption among large firms in Europe is nearly universal with software-as-a-service revenue estimated to exceed ten billion US dollars by 2011. US-listed software firms’ sales of services exceeded those of products in 2002 and the gap in favour of services continues to widen, with end-user spending on IT services in 2009 estimated at around one trillion US dollars (roughly four times the spend on software). Taken together, these figures point to a future in which most people interact with on-line services more than they use traditional software and many will combine this with social networking across a variety of devices. This SIB will promote the new forms of innovation and entrepreneurialism that are adapting to this new environment. It will also monitor emerging markets and standards in order to foster the community of developers in this area and to identify target areas with special potential for innovation in Europe. Specialist sub-groups and innovation events will be organised for these target areas with the aim of bootstrapping focused, joint activity between developers, entrepreneurs and industry.

This SIB is a technology area SIB Council on Future Internet Technologies (SIB-FIT)