The S-Cube research vision

Abstract

This chapter sets the scene and gives the background for S-Cube's research vision and activities described in the remainder of the book. It does this by describing, in Section 1.1, how the anticipated growth in services and service-based systems that together form the Internet of Services will have a profound effect on business and society. Section 1.2 discusses in more detail some selected, fundamental cross-cutting research challenges and how the cooperation ofdifferent research disciplines plays an important role. In Section 1.3 we describe the research framework S-Cube has adopted to assist in unifying research communities and agendas across Europe to meet the challenges faced in realizing the Future Internet. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.