The national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in the development of ICST in France.
In SemEUsE, INRIA teams are ARLES and TUVALU.
INRIA-Arles
Researchers of the ARLES research group (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/arles) at INRIA-Rocquencourt will contribute to SEMEUSE, bringing their expertise in the area of service-oriented middleware for pervasive computing/ambient intelligence and related evolution towards semantic pervasive services.
Members of the ARLES team have contributed to a number of European and industrial projects. They are currently coordinating the IST FP6 STREP PLASTIC project on Providing dependable and Adaptive Service Technology for pervasive Information and Communication (http://www.ist-plastic.org/). They have further a key role in the IST FP6 IP Amigo project on Ambient Intelligence for the networked home environment, in particular coordinating the WPs on the system architecture design and on the design and prototype implementation of an interoperable middleware based on semantic service paradigms (http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/amigo/).
INRIA-TUVALU
The TUVALU team is involved in middleware research, and as a development team, aims at improving and accelerating the transfer from the academic institutions and R&D teams towards the industry, by developing collaborations and partnerships with the industry, (large, medium and small enterprises), R&D and software organizations and consortia from Europe and worldwide. The goal is to accelerate the understanding and the reuse of R&D work and software, primarily transferred via the Open Source channel and integrating the Open Source into the Real World and the market. In the SEMEUSE project, ObjectWeb@INRIA contributes mainly to the monitoring and tooling efforts, reinforcing the industrial positioning of the proposed ESB. This contribution extends current activities in the ESB and SOA space, particularly in relation with the OW2 Consortium and its community.
The OW2 Consortium, http://www.ow2.org, is an open source community committed to making available to everyone the best and most reliable middleware technology. OW2 mission is to develop open source code middleware and to foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium was initiated on January 1, 2007 through the merger of ObjectWeb and Orientware, two leading open source middleware communities of renown industry players, innovative start-ups, prominent academic organizations and individuals from across the world.
TUVALU coordinates the ANR RNTL 2005 JOnES (Java Open ESB) platform project (http://esbi.objectweb.org).
