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Some OSAmI-related issues are beyond the business of the industrial partners involved. Services interact based on value proposition and the collaboration between services, which may depend on the context, bringing added value. For example, a car rental offering has a higher value once a flight has been booked. The potential of the 'web of objects' to build service chains involving millions of elemental services could result in very high global value.
"We are seeing open-source initiatives with the objective of commoditising parts of the service chain," says Bermejo. "A socially-responsible business approach requires preserving the value where it is, in society rather than in the software platform. Society should be able to drive the web and its ambient intelligence platform according to its needs."
OSAmI is not isolated in ITEA. Bermejo points to OSMOSE, which started in 2003. "Its major achievements were both in its enterprise middleware and in the foundations for the dynamic 'web of objects'," he says. Currently, thanks to the open-source implementations, the technology is used in many commercial products and is a key building block for the most relevant open-source communities.
OSIRIS followed in 2005. The concept of the service bus as an architectural pattern was anticipated and relevant achievements in the field of identity federation have been evolving further in the academic networks. COSI, running in parallel with OSIRIS, addressed related software-engineering issues. COSI and OSIRIS together established a collaboration cluster referred as COSIRIS.
"We are now building on these earlier foundations and other projects such as SIRENA," points out Bermejo.
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