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WASP - Web Architectures for Services Platforms

Project Manager: Dr. ir. Marten van Sinderen
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science
Tel: +31 53 4893677
E-mail: sinderen@cs.utwente.nl

WASP project website: http://wasp.freeband.nl

Project summary

This project proposes a web services based application environment to facilitate and speed-up the development and deployment of context-aware integrated mobile speech and data applications. The application environment should allow (i) distributed applications to access and control the underlying 3G network that extends over multiple operator domains, and (ii) designers to develop and deploy application components for distributed mobile multimedia applications that extend over multiple provider domains. The claim that this project wants to validate is that cross-platform application development, in particular regarding flexible mobile multimedia applications, is easier and faster when web services technologies (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, XML) are used. The application environment to be developed by this project consists of a web services based platform and a web services application skeleton, especially targeted towards context-aware mobile applications with integrated speech and data. In addition, the project will study in a more general sense the role, potentials and deficiencies of web services technology as the enabling technology for developing and deploying distributed mobile multimedia applications.

Project duration: 3 years; start 1-8-2002

Project budget: 1.5 M-Euro (750 k-Euro funding)

Number of person/years: 11.1 fte

Project Coordinator: Telematica Instituut, Johan Koolwaaij

Other participants: Telematica Instituut, Ericsson

Project budget CTIT: 524 K-euro, 250 K-Euro funding

Number of person/years CTIT: 1.1 fte

Involved groups: Architecture of Telematics Systems

CTIT Strategic Research Orientation: A-services Internet