ISOCO DIP meeting Richard Benjamins Director R&D [email protected]

iSOCO DIP meeting

Richard Benjamins

Director R&D

[email protected]

www.isoco.com

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The founding group

of 5 scientists start

operations at the

Artificial Intelligence

Research Institute (IIIA)

of the Consejo Superior

de Investigaciones

Cientificas (CSIC).

General Electric and

Ya.com trust iSOCO for

its technological

expertise

The Santander Central

Hispano Group (SCH) and

VC firm BCNEmpren

become shareholders of

iSOCO. 64% of the share

capital is now in hands of

employees and family and

friends of iSOCO

Pressing space

constraints move iSOCO

to change to a larger

office in Barcelona. The

Spanish Minister of

Science & Technology

gives the inaugural

address.

Introduction to iSOCOProfile and history

iSOCO opens

offices in Madrid and

Valencia to be closer to

its clients and the

knowledge pools of the

universities

iSOCO consolidates

its position as a

reference of the

application of innovative

information technology to

the solution of business

problems

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MSc

Others PhD

18%10%

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University degrees62%


iSOCO in the MarketOur Focus

iSOCO focuses its research and development efforts towards innovative technologies and solutions that can deliver strategic value for its clients


iSOCO combines two differentiated areas of expertise, iSOCO Solutions and iSOCO Lab, that generate valuable synergies by expediting innovative

leading edge solutions to the market.

iSOCO in the MarketTechnology Owners


Areas where we actiSOCO Solutions

Procurement, sourcing, elextronic negotiation, integration of platforms

eLearning, Intranet and knowledge management.

ecommerce, personalization, aggregation, search and information analysis.

iTRADE iKNOW iCARE


Areas where we actiSOCO Products

iSOCO’s product and services offering has, at its core, a very strong technological component that ensures its differentiation in the market.

iSOCO’s Aggregation product line is designed to fulfil the need of simplifying the process of retrieving heterogeneous information from multiple sources and acting upon it.

iSOCO Quotes allows companies to streamline their strategic sourcing processes while gaining substantial product and services cost reductions through the use of Smart Negotiation techniques

Secure Workflow is iSOCO’s family of workflow management products designed to dramatically enhanced the productivity of professionals in their interactions with the different certification bodies.

Intelligent Data consolidation

Real Cost ReductionTangible process

improvements

AGGREGATION PROCUREMENT SECURE WORKFLOW

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Summary of ClientsBuilding value based relationships

iSOCO ha desarrollado soluciones tecnológicas y creado relaciones de valor con clientes que comparten nuestra pasión por la innovación


R&DThe Mission: Bring the future to the present

Relevant technologies

Semantic Web: add meaning to the Web

Web Services: make applications interoperable

Intelligent Agents: reasoning with heterogeneous web sources

Why those technologies?

•Dedicated funding actions from EU and US governments for Semantic Web

•Large industries invest in Web Services

•Monitored by Forrester, McKinsey, Gartner, etc.


DESCRIPTION FINANCING COORDINATOR

EXTERNALLY FINANCED PROJECTS (PUBLIC FUNDINGS)

ESPERONTO (2002)- Application Service for Semantic

Annotation and Aggregation of Multilingual Web Content..

iSOCO PARTICIPATION IN INNOVATION NETWORKS

Innovation meets the marketplaceInternational Projects and Innovation Networks

European Union- €547.600 funding over 2,5 years.

iSOCO- Total funding of €2.000.000.

European Union- €432.100 over 3 years.

CIMNE(*)

- Total funding of €1.813.375.

iBROW (2000)- Intelligent Brokering Service for

knowledge-component reuse on the World Wide Web.

European Union- €105.000 over 3 years.

University of Amsterdam - Total funding of €1.100.000.

Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce

www.ontoweb.org

ONTOWEB

Europe's Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing.

www.agentlink.org

AGENTLINK

Initiative aiming to build a worldwide, publicly accessible, test bed for the deployment of dynamic, composable, agent based services

www.agentcities.org

AGENTCITIES

European Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Planning.

www.planet-noe.org

PLANET

SIMWEB (2002)- Exploring innovative business

models through integrated e-Commerce strategies.

(*) Centre d’Investigació i Mètodes Numèrics per Enginyeria

SWWS (2002)- Semantic Web Enables Web

Services

European Union- €340.000 funding over 2,5 years.

University of Innsbruck- Total funding of €2.000.000.

http://www.ontoweb.org/

http://www.agentlink.org/

http://www.agentcities.org/

http://www.planet-noe.org/


DESCRIPTION FINANCING COORDINATOR

EXTERNALLY FINANCED PROJECTS (PUBLIC FUNDINGS)

Quotes (2002)- Platform for electronic negotiation

Innovation meets the marketplaceSpanish R&D Projects

PROFIT/MCYT- €300.000 credit.

iSOCO

PROFIT/MCYT- €12.000 funding, 2 months.

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)

- Total funding of € 35.000.

VAUCTIONS (2000)- Secure Auctions.

Science & Tech. Ministry- €96.162 over 2 years.

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)

- Total funding of €500.000.

Iuriservice (2002)- Intelligent FAQ for new judges

Aggregador iSOCO (2002)- Automatic aggregation of financial

and non-financial online information

PROFIT/MCYT- €300.000 credit.

iSOCO

Onto-H (2002)- Intelligent access to cultural

content.

Science & Tech. Ministry- €32.500 3 months.

Residencia de Estudiantes- Total funding of €.120.000.


Our Role in DIPType of Research/Work

Foundational

research

Component-

level research

System level integration

I P Yes Yes Yes

NoE Yes Poss. NR

STRP Poss. Yes Poss.

NR = Not recommended Poss. = Possibility, if clearly justified Yes = Highly recommended

Our strength and interest is developing innovative technology and proof of concept applications/prototypes using semantic web services, e.g.

• Personal assistant that aggregates online information using web services• Orchestrating web services in higher-level services: mortgage

recommendations, company performance tracker, etc.• KM applications, EAI, ecommerce

Source: EC


Our Role in DIPInterests: improving our products to enhance client satisfaction

iSOCO products form a natural technology transfer to the market through early adopter clients

From early SW to full SWPersonal profile based content delivery

eGovernmentFrom local to provincial to state to country

Content aggregationService orchestration

From private market places to open market placesOpen automatic negotiation

Sector: food, utility

Apart from digitising also automatic interoperation of processes

Intelligent Data consolidation

Real Cost ReductionTangible process

improvements

AGGREGATION PROCUREMENT SECURE WORKFLOW

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Our Role in DIPWeb Services, Semantic Web, Intelligent Agents

EmailsDocuments

Static Websites

Online Database(Schemaunknown)

Businessapplications

Web Services

DynamicWebsites

Current Web

Ontology

Agent

Semantic Web

Real World

Password protectedWebsites

Agent Agent Agent

IntelligentAgents

Web Services Web Services Web Services

Users Businesses

Overview of IST project iSOCO is

currently involved in


European Project IBROW (IST-1999-19005)

Partners• UvA – Coordinator (NL)

• UKa (DE)

• OU (UK)

• CSIC (ES)

• Stanford (USA)

• iSOCO (ES)

• VU (NL)

Data• 1.1 Million Euros

• 2000-2003

• www.ibrow.org

Objectives• Intelligent broker for plug and play

of knowledge systems

• Annotation of reasoning components on the Web

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European Project SIMWEB (IST-2001-34651)

Partners• CIMNE – Coordinator (es)

• University of Surrey (uk)

• Universität Koblenz-Landau (de)

• iSOCO (es)

• FNAC (fr)

• Publico (pt)

Data• ~2 Million Euros

• 2002-2005

• www.cimne.upc.es/simweb

Objectives• Provide European businesses with

insights and tools which will enable them to take informed business strategy decisions by adapting their traditional business models to the new, demanding reality

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European Project Esperonto (IST-2001-34373)

Partners• iSOCO – Coordinator (Spain)

• UPM (Spain)

• UdS (Germany)

• UNILIV (United Kingdom)

• Univ of Innsbruck (Austria)

• Biovista (Greece)

• CIDEM (Spain)

• Residencia de Estudiantes (Spain)

Data• ~2 Million Euros

• 2002-2005

• www.esperonto.net

Objectives• Building a bridge between the

current Web and the Semantic Web

• Provide added-value knowledge-based services on top of the SW

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European Project: SWWS (IST-2002-37134)

Partners• Univ of Innsbruck –

Coordinator (Austria)• FZI (Germany)• iSOCO (Spain)• Sirma AI Ltd.(BG)• HP Bristol (UK)• National University of Ireland

(IE)• HP Galway (IE)• BT, Ipswitch (UK)

Data• ~2 Million Euros• 2002-2005• www.swws.semanticweb.org

Objectives• Combining Web Services into

complex services

• Relieve business from burden of expensive software integration

• Build on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI

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iSOCO ValenciaTel +34 96 3467143Oficina 305C/ Prof. Beltrán Báguena 4,46009 ValenciaSpain

iSOCO BarcelonaTel +34 93 5677200C/ Alcalde Barnils 64-68 St. Cugat del Vallès08190 BarcelonaSpain

iSOCO MadridTel +34 91 3349797C/Francisca Delgado 11, 2o

Alcobendas 28100 MadridSpain

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[email protected]

www.isoco.com

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