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COMMIUS

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Project Title: COMMIUS – COMMunity-based Interoperability Utility for SMEs

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Funding Scheme: STREP
Description: COMMIUS aims to deliver an adaptable and customisable software prototype, providing SMEs with 'zero-cost of entry' into interoperability using the ideas behind the Interoperability Service Utility. This will be made possible by a number of innovative scientific, technical and business advances over the existing state-of-art.
Objectives:
  • To investigate, design and develop methods and components for system interoperability. Commius uses the SMTP protocol and thereby interconnect existing ICT infrastructures to serve as an interoperability infrastructure for semantic and process interoperability layers.
  • To devise a framework for semantic interoperability. Pursuit of this includes the investigation and development of reference business models, structures and semantic descriptors.
  • To investigate, design and develop methods and components for process interoperability. Thus, methods will be developed which enable users to model recurring business processes. We will examine novel ways to configure process model dependent, cross enterprise (e-Mail) communications and consider novel approaches to (semi-) automatic process detection.
  • To deliver an open source framework for interoperability and collaboration suitable for seamless integration within a network enterprise environment and focused on SME's needs. The Commius solution will be modular and adaptable to different ICT infrastructure standards (which is often quite low in many SMEs). It will be able to evolve with enterprise interoperability needs. Open source is a key issue for the Commius interoperability framework and will support new business opportunities for SMEs in Enterprise Interoperability markets.
  • To develop a pilot application which allows the validation of three industrial use cases: (a) support SMEs in the management of customs and export procedures in Spain, (b) network of SMEs cooperating in a large software production application in Italy, and (c) support enterprise resource planning interoperability in Greece.
  • To devise an appropriate exploitation strategy. Target market for Commius is SME's including low technology SMEs which make up a large market sector and which are in need of more systematic adoption of practices for ICT supported interoperability and collaboration.
Consortium:
  • Softeco Sismat SpA (IT) - Coordinator
  • University of Manchester (UK)
  • DFKI - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DE)
  • II SAS - Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
  • TUV - Vienna University of Technology (AT)
  • ATOS Origin (ES)
  • SingularLogic Information Systems & Applications SA (GR)
  • FEDIT – Federacion Espanola de Entidades de Innovacion (ES)
  • Aitek SpA (IT)
  • Techfin SrL (IT)
Duration: 36 months
Current Status: Completed
Website: http://www.commius.eu
Link to Deliverables: http://interop-vlab.eu/ei_public_deliverables/commius-fp7-213876-in-execution/list-of-commius-deliverables

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Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) play an important role in the quest of European enterprises (typically SME's) to become more competitive and to enlarge their markets while transforming towards new business models and developing innovative products and services. This portal is powered by ENSEMBLE («Envisioning, Supporting and Promoting Future Internet Enterprise Systems Research through Scientific Collaboration»), a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project funded under the European Commission FP7 Programme.

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  • Contact Point: Cristina Martinez Gonzalez
    Head of Future Internet Enterprise Systems Cluster
  • Address: European Commission,
    DG-Information Society,
    Internet of Things and Enterprise Environments Unit,
    BU25 - 3/103, BE - 1049 Bruxelles
  • Tel: +32-2-2969464
  • Fax: +32-2-2968387
  • Secretary: +32-2-2995717 (Ms de Neuville)
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