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Events

Shaping the future internet-enabled world for digital content
19 March 2010, London, UK Future Internet Assembly (FIA) Workshop
Side Event of the 4th EU Conference on the Seventh Framework Programme
15-16 April 2010, Valencia, Spain The Second Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE) Summer School
Co-organized by TSL-CSD, ICS-FORTH and the ICT Project S-Cube
28 June-2 July 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Future Internet Symposium 2010: Towards a Converged, Consolidated and Sustainable Future Internet
Call for papers!
20-22 September 2010, Berlin, Germany ICT 2010: Digitally Driven
27-29 September 2010, Brussels eChallenges e-2010 Conference and Exhibition
Call for Papers Deadline - 26 February
27-29 October 2010, Warsaw, Poland

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News

Published! 'Internet of Services', the newsletter about Software & Services, Issue n°1 of 2010 (17/2/2010) The Future of Cloud Computing, Opportunities for European Cloud Computing beyond 2010 (26/1/2010)
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Software & Service
Architectures and Infrastructures

Towards the Internet of Services

The Internet of Services is a vision of the Internet of the Future where organisations and individuals can find software as services on the Internet, combine them, and easily adapt them to their specific context. Users should be able to use software services that do exactly what they need. The Internet of Services will consist of virtualisation technology that will make network, storage and computing resources available. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of these configurable computing resources and services. Services use these resources and will be built using SOA (service oriented architectures) principles.

Research

Objective 1.2 "Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation" and "Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering" of the FP7-ICT Programme for Research and Development is funding research to realise the "Internet of Services" vision.
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Policy

European Industry should benefit from the opportunities that the "Internet of Services" brings. This might require policy actions at the European or Member State level. Two lines of work have started: