SIB Council on Future Information Systems (SIB-FIS)
Keywords:
Computing, Software Services, Software Architectures, Open Source
Scope:
Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering. This Objective integrates research activities in the areas of services, software, grid and virtualization technologies. The software that controls and links networks and services together.
Key-Challenges:
- Service Architectures;
- Software Engineering;
- Virtualization of Resources;
- Open Source;
- Complexity.
Mission:
Software and services are critical to product innovation and economic growth. They control vital aspects of our daily lives. The ability to produce software and deliver services in an efficient way is a fundamental aim of this SIB and to create solutions that not only fulfill end-users needs but can also bring sustainable revenues to the stakeholders who then have to invest in the platforms that instantiate those solutions.
Description:
Software and service technologies are increasingly important to the global economy and society. They are found everywhere, from familiar personal devices to computers, mobile phones, mp3 players and to the systems used to control telecommunications, energy and financial networks.
A marked shift towards open services means there is a need to promote service innovation through open multi-faceted platforms that provide both, technical components as well as dynamic means for performance monitoring and compensation.