The FI-WARE project has reserved a portion of the project budget to fund specific tasks to be carried out by a new beneficiary or beneficiaries which will join the consortium after start of the project. These later-joining beneficiaries are selected by means of a series of competitive Open Calls.Each FI-WARE Open Call will be focused on a number of topics. Proposers will be selected for each topic, with one or more successful proposer in each. Each topic refers to a set of functionalities to be supported by GEs to be integrated in the FI-WARE Platform. Proposals should address the definition of open and royalty-free specifications, as well as the development of a reference implementation, of new GEs in the FI-WARE Platform that will cover these functionalities.
The FI-WARE project follows an Agile process to implement its work plan. Aligned with this, the set of functionalities to be covered by proposers to each topic are described in the form of Epics. Regarding the FI-WARE First Open Call, the topics to be covered are:
- Middleware for efficient and QoS/Security-aware invocation of services and exchange of messages.
This topic will be focused on a middleware GE that can overcome limitations of existing middleware technologies while still supporting backward compatibility to most widely used ones. Goal is to achieve the highest levels of performance, to keep specified QoS requirements, in the various networking environments making up the Future Internet, as well as to incorporate a number of relevant features such as management of credentials when handling messages or accountability and traceability functions. Last but not least, this component should enable a middleware-neutral definition of interfaces exported by FI-WARE components.
(Click here to find the Epics linked to this topic. A final version of Epics to be considered will be available by February 21st)
- Business Models and Business Elements (BM & BE) Definition and Simulation.
This topic will be focused on a GE that support application providers in the design of innovative Business Models based on the combination of the applications/services they offer and services provided by either FI-WARE GEs or complementary applications/services provided by third parties. Definition of such Business Models would comprise the definition of the different offerings, policy rules to manage prices including promotions, bundling, etc as well as how SLAs violations will be managed/compensated. Last but not least, this GE should provide the ability to simulate Business Models so that application providers can anticipate how they could work.
(Click here to find the Epics linked to this topic. A final version of Epics to be considered will be available by February 21st)
More information on FI-WARE and the call procedure can be found at the respective FI-WARE website: http://www.fi-ware.eu/open-call/
