Cloud based platform for large scale social aware EDA – SocEDA

The goal of SocEDA is to develop and validate an elastic and reliable federated Service Oriented Architecture for dynamic and complex event-driven interaction in large highly distributed and heterogeneous service systems. Such architecture will enable exchange of contextual information between heterogeneous services, providing the possibilities to optimize/personalize the execution of them, according to social network information.
The main outcome will be a platform for event-driven interaction between services, that scales at the Internet level based on the proposed architecture and that addresses Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The platform consists of:
• Federated middleware layer: a peer-to-peer overlay network combined with a publish/subscribe mechanism, that has the task to collect events coming from the heterogeneous and distributed services,
• Distributed complex event processor: an elastic, distributed computing cloud based engine for complex processing of events coming from different services in order to detect interesting situations a service should react on
• Social aware event modeling and matching and an event based workflow engine for filtering events and proposing adaptation and changes in running business processes and services.
• A monitoring and governance framework as well as a mashup frontend to describe and manage services as well as business events.
The system will be tested in two use cases: crisis management and air traffic flow management, showing the advantages of such an architecture for the Future Internet.