CHOReVOLUTION Studio

The Future Internet Opportunity

The Future Internet (FI) represents an age of unprecedented opportunities for social, economic, and business growth thanks to the global scale connectivity of the virtual as well as of the physical world. This indeed opens up a wealth of innovative and revolutionary real-life scenarios, as for instance illustrated by the smarter cities perspectives where envisioned scenarios significantly ease daily human activities and give support for the growth of new markets and employment opportunities.

The Future Internet Challenge

However, leveraging the FI for the development of innovative software applications remain a challenging task even though major enablers are readily available by ways of service-oriented and cloud computing. It is in particular our vision that enabling the choreography of FI services shall play a significant role in the provisioning of innovative applications. However, existing choreography-based service composition approaches are rather static and are poorly suited to the need of the FI that is a highly dynamic networking environment, further bringing together highly heterogeneous services ranging from Thing- to Business-based services that span different security domains. As a result, the technology is not mature enough for market take-up.

The CHOReVOLUTION Solution

CHOReVOLUTION adds the automated synthesis of dynamic and secured choreographies to existing choreography technologies. This makes these technologies able to support stringent application requirements in terms of dynamism and cross-organization security.

To meet its objectives, the CHOReVOLUTION project undertakes both research and innovation tasks:

  • Research concentrates on choreography modelling, synthesis, adaptation, service bus, security, and cloud
  • Innovation focus on industrial validation, development support and integration platform, and the establishment of a CHOReVOLUTION community and market take-up. CHOReVOLUTION outcomes are assessed by experimenting with new applications in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems

The CHOReVOLUTION software will be published under an open source licence and be publicly made available through the OW2 community.

CHOReVOLUTION Objectives

In order to make dynamic and secured choreographies in the Future Internet via dynamic distributed coordination of services a reality, the CHOReVOLUTION project set itself seven objectives:

  1. Choreography modelling notations to support adaptation, evolution, and security. CHOReVOLUTION goes one step further beyond CHOReOS to meet the requireent of industry-grade application. It specifically targets novel and more powerful modelling notations that, integrated with BPMN2 Choreography Diagrams, will be able to represent and assess the adaptation and evolution points of a choreography.
  2. Automated and dynamic choreography synthesis. CHOReVOLUTION develops the synthesis techniques that are needed in order to infer an enhanced collaboration logic that, in addition to pure coordination, enables run-time choreography evolution in response of possible adaptations, while managing the required level of security.
  3. Middleware for dynamic and secured choreographies. CHOReVOLUTION will develop a middleware infrastructure supporting end-to-end interoperable and adaptable choreography interactions among business services and Things.
  4. Secured choreographies. CHOReVOLUTION will support multiple services involved in a choreography that can belong to di fferent security domains governed by diff erent authorities and that use di fferent identity attributes in their access control polices.
  5. Validation through industrial use cases. Scientific development will validated through two industry-grade use cases, Urban Tra ffic Coordination and Smart Mobility and Tourism, both in the domain of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
  6. Development Support and Integration Platform. CHOReVOLUTION uses advanced software engineering technologies to support a collaborative development process. Code-level interoperability will be achieved by using the platform agnostic Java language as programming language for all the CHOReVOLUTION tools and middleware.
  7. CHOReVOLUTION community and market outreach*. The objective here is to establish CHOReVOLUTION as an ambitious open source project, with its own market visibility and stakeholders, supported by a well-established open source community such as OW2.