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[edit] COIN Vision
By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditionally supply chains to the most advanced and dynamic business ecosystems.
The mission of the Coin IP is to study, design, develop and prototype an open, self-adaptive, generic ICT integrated solution to support the above 2020 vision, starting from notable existing research results in the field of Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration.
COIN is an integrated project in the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme - EU FP7 Project 216256
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[edit] COIN IP main 5 Objectives
- To design and develop a pervasive, adaptive Service Platform to host Baseline and Innovative COIN services for EI and EC and make them available under innovative on-demand, utility-oriented business models (i.e. the SaaS-U model) to European enterprises (and SMEs in particular) for running their business in a secure, reliable and efficient way.
- To consolidate and stabilize the ICT results of both EC and EI FP6 research into some Baseline Services which constitute the service foundations for COIN.
- To further enlarge, extend and improve the baseline services, by developing other more Innovative Services in the EC and EI fields, which could take into account the most recent and promising technology challenges (in the field of Web 2.0, semantic web, space computing) and put them at service of EC and EI purposes.
- To represent a pathway to convergence for these two fundamental research streams: EI and EC, by integrating in the same project the most prominent stakeholders of the two research fields coming both from industry and from universities and research centers.
- To demonstrate, experiment, trial and assess the project results into realistic Industrial Scenarios offered by our 6 test cases in Aeronautics, Automotive, Aerospace, Pulp & Paper, Healthcare and ICT.
[edit] COIN Results
[edit] Enterprise Collaboration
The COIN EC services aim at supporting industrial enterprises (and SMEs in particular) in the collaborative processes regarding the creation and management of long-lasting clusters and networks (e.g. supply chains, collaborative networks, business ecosystems), as well as the creation, management and dissolution of short-term enterprises aggregations, called Virtual Enterprises or Virtual Organizations. The EC services are divided into 5 distinct classes, each of them addressing the challenge of competencies and business opportunities dynamic management for different collaboration forms (hierarchical, semi-hierarchical and not-hierarchical)
[edit] Enterprise Interoperability
The COIN EI services aim at supporting the elimination or reduction of the incompatibilities among enterprise systems involved in a collaboration scenario (being it long- or short-term). Such interoperability gaps to be removed are in general at the level of organizational structures, business processes, enterprise applications/services and data formats/content, while EI services use model transformations and semantic reconciliation techniques to solve them according to the integrated, unified and federated interoperability form. The EI services are divided into 4 distinct classes, each of them addressing one aspect of the interoperability challenges.
[edit] Service Platform
The COIN generic service platform (GSP) is the backbone of the COIN project integrating services for enterprise collaboration and enterprise interoperability. It fulfils the COIN objective to design and develop a pervasive, adaptive service platform to host Baseline and Innovative COIN services for EI and EC and make them available under innovative on-demand, utility-oriented business models to European enterprise for running their business in a secure, reliable and efficient way.
[edit] The COIN Community
The COIN project aims at disseminating the project's outcomes and results not only through conventional means (i.e. events, specific dissemination material etc. etc.) but also through the development and management of a COIN Community of members, interested in being directly informed about the project progress and to take active parts in COIN dissemination activities.
The COIN Community is composed by individuals and organisations willing to cooperate to perform specific tasks and activities, suitable for supporting the project dissemination and for addressing specific issues and topics. The members of the COIN community are grouped into 3 different organisations' typologies (Scientific, IT and Industry/End users) and will be activated by key actors of the Community (called: Angels, Testimonials and Moderators) primarily on the specific focus areas, which are decided in accordance with the COIN Impact Creation team.
Specific focus areas can be also proposed by the COIN Community members.
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The COIN Community is also active on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2016747&trk=hb_side_g
[edit] COIN for Enlarged European Union
The COIN EEU subproject has been launched in July 2010 to reinforce the cooperation between research teams across the 27 Member States, strengthening the integration of the European Research Area in ICT and supporting the EEU organizations for successfully participating in EC funded projects.
The overall objective of COIN SP7 is to facilitate the access to the European research and relevant instruments and tools in the ICT for the research community in the Enlarged European Union, starting from the available COIN service platform.
The idea is therefore to observe what happens at pilot level (6 EEU based pilots have been identified to run COIN services) and to derive common lessons learnt to facilitate the access of EEU research organisation in COIN related research domains.
Objectives and measureble achievements from the project are:
- The set-up of six EEU different pilots in Enlarged Europe in the field of Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration as a composition of COIN and COIN EEU EI/EC services;
- The deliver one Virtual Professional Community (advanced on-line community), selfsustaining after project completion, aimed at providing support to EEU organisations for successfully participating to EC funded projects in the domain of Enterprise Collaboration and Enterprise Interoperability and in adjacent ones;
- To take part in at least 20 international conference and workshops in the EEU;
- To publish at least 12 papers in major IT scientific journals - Organise 1 project dedicated conference characterised by the participation of at least 100 delegates, relevant to the COIN-EEU focus;
- To organise 4 project workshops, with the objectives of increasing the awareness of the EEU research community in issues related to Enterprise Collaboration and Enterprise Interoperability;
- To issue a Joint Action Plan, to be uptaken by EEU member state policy makers, validated by within the EEU community to facilitate the participation of EEU organisations in the overall European research arena in ICT domains.
The COIN for the EEU Community is also active on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3734488
