Scalability in Semantic Computing: the European View

"Mike Lynch, CEO and Founder of Autonomy, recently stated that “meaning-based computing is the way of the future as 85 per cent of information within enterprises is unstructured and that understanding this 'hidden' intelligence is at the heart of improving the way we interact with information”. Some of the most advanced use cases for such semantic computing today require reasoning about 10 billion RDF triples in less than 100 ms. These numbers originate from the telecom sector aiming at generating revenue streams through new context-sensitive and personalized mobile services. This is just one example of a general demand. A second equally important example is the Internet of the Future, which envisions an environment with billions of users, many billions of resources, trillions of services, and even more meta-data used to describe them. All of that will be integrated through a network of services. In order to establish meaning-based computing as a means to enable interoperability, it is important that semantic technologies scale to the size of such environments. This special session will give an overview of some of the most important achievements of European research in its enterprize towards the realization of scalable and robust semantic technologies".