LASCOT
(ITEA 02027)
PROJECT RESULTS
Collective decisionmaking simplified
Towards a standards-based collaborative business
solution for Europe
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More and more enterprises
and administrations have to
collaborate in order to make
appropriate business decisions
or avert crises. The collapse of
the ‘new economy’ has led to
a renewed interest in software
that can help companies to
recover their business revenue
streams and rapidly seek new
opportunities. The European
economy can benefit from
decision-support facilities based
on the LASCOT technologies.
JOnAS J2EE Application Server-Middleware
ALE
Alert Raising
Common Interface Layer (WSIF)
Alert Raising Tool
FIL
User and Device
Adaptation
Information Filtering
Interaction
ONT
Adaptation
Manager (AM)
Information Ontology
UDA
Engine
User Interaction
Profile Manager
(UIPM)
Interaction
Dialog Manager
(IDM)
WSDF Service
Knowledge Retrieval
Business Processing
HTML Processing
Info Collection
Service
Documents Clustering
Distributed
Business Process
Negotiation
Service
Clusters Visualisation
Graphical Middleware Adapater (GMA)
Linguistic Analysis
Security Infrastructure
MCD
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Design
Tool
NEG
XKMS
Servers
Exploitation
Tool
Negotiation
Negotiation
VIS
Java X3D
Directory
Controller
Authentification
Servers
Authorisation
Servers
CIV IDE
freebXML Registry
Legend
XT-i
THALES
VUB/CAPVIDIA
BULL
MULTITEL/IT-OPTICS/ACIC
CIV
Actor X
Private DB
UDI
Information Classification
3D Engine
Common
Information
View
PIV
CLA
GSS
GIS Engine
Local Security
Agent
- XML Scheme generation
- XML Mapping Tool
- XML (X)Query Tool
- Data Refering Tool
- Legal Rights Rule Mgmt
RDBMS DB
(PostgreSQL)
Graphical Space System
SEC
Log Servers
Configuration
Servers
Data Mapping
Services
(+Data Dictionary )
C# .NET
Adminstration
Console
X500
Directory
Common Information View
Visualization System
BUP
Alert Service
ebXML Registry
Service
Web Service Registration
Private
Infor. View
jUDDI
Acronym
LASCOT
Component
LASCOT
Module
LASCOT software logical architecture
Many of today’s enterprises
attempting to work together to
form collaborative businesses
face significant barriers to the
efficient sharing of information.
This is caused largely by the use
of partial information and the
absence of standard interoperability
mechanisms to underpin key
business decision-making.
The LASCOT project contributes
to a standards-based solution
by defining, developing and
demonstrating a set of concepts
and technologies for collaborative
decision support in networks of
large organisations.
Sharing is vital
The wide range of applications
for which the LASCOT decisionsupport technologies are relevant
occur in large enterprises, public
institutions and ministerial organisations involved in the management
of risk, change and crisis. There is
also potential in the health domain,
especially with respect to the
collection and sharing of patient
data in special cases of sickness or
emergency where speed is essential.
LASCOT offers real opportunities
for a more advanced secured web
service orchestration in which there
is no central coordination, as in
WS-BPEL (web services business
process execution language) – but
rather a network of autonomous
and asynchronous services, as
supported via the WS-Addressing
standard – acting on sensitive
information.
The clustering of information
originating from the web or document
databases without the need for a
time-consuming document preprocessing dramatically increases
the efficiency of people looking for
knowledge, and represents a
growing market.
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Partners
ACIC
Bull
Capvidia
IT-OPTICS
MULTITEL
THALES
VUB
XT-I
Countries involved
Belgium
France
Start of the project
April 2003
End of the project
September 2005
ITEA Office
PROJECT RESULTS
Complementary results and
prototyping
The two-year ITEA initiative
specified, developed and validated
a set of components for this
purpose. It went on to produce
an intermediate mock-up of an
air traffic application, followed by
a final demonstrator prototype
dealing with oil spill pollution in the
Mediterranean Sea.
• THALES developed advanced
software tools for collaborative
decision-making and for the
adaptation of various supplied
information.
• XT-i developed a common
information view (CIV) widely
integrated in the demonstrator,
and experimented distributed
business processing.
• Capvidia extended the ROAD
graphical information system
with a thin client application and
a ‘.Net’ web-service.
Major project outcomes
Dissemination
• 4 publications
• 10 presentations at seminars/
workshop
Exploitation
• 4 new potential products (BXSS
Security, CIV Designer/Web
Service Generator, LIRIC)
• 1 product enhancement potential
(ROAD)
• 6 new services (negotiation,
MCDM, user profile, information
adaptation, graphical middleware,
clustering)
• Call 7 ITEA project SERKET (use
of LASCOT technical results)
Standardisation
• 5 standards studied and
implemented (XACML, WS-BPEL,
X3D, CAP)
• Follow-up of the OASIS
standardisation organisation work
• Contribution to the standardisation
body W3C
Commercial agreement
• Bull and XT-i have a commercial
agreement to push their respective
results in the next technical
proposals
•
VUB produced a server-side
graphical middleware component
and visualisation application, both
based on the ISO standard X3D.
• Multitel developed the LIRIC
software package to perform incontext speech recognition, and
adapted its Natural Language
Processor to carry out the
linguistic text analysis used in
the clustering engine.
• IT-Optics and ACIC finalised the
clustering engine.
• Bull achieved the BXSS (Bull
XML Security Suite) component
based on the SAML, XACML,
XKMS and WS-security standards.
It also performed the integration
of the components provided by
the various partners, in order to
build the LASCOT demonstrator.
Immediate exploitation
• BXSS is used as the basis for a
commercial middleware suite to
be provided by Bull.
• The secured CIV is being
included in Bull’s technical
proposals for its forthcoming
commercial tender bids.
• The CIV environment will be
used by XT-i in a number of
commercial and new R&D
projects.
• THALES’ major technical results
are being widely disseminated
both within and outside the group;
their immediate exploitation is
envisaged in collaboration with
several operational units.
• Walloon partners (Multitel,
IT-Optics, ACIC) identified
several possible uses of the
results in future projects
– and, based on the knowledge
acquired, Multitel plans to
enlarge the scope of its training
programmes.
• Capvidia achieved a number
of important developments
extending its current products
and proving the applicability of
some innovative technologies.
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