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SAP RESEARCH REPORT 2007/2008
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX

SAP RESEARCH IN A NUTSHELL
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SAP Research is the global technology research unit of SAP with a network of 13 research centers on five
continents (for an overview see back cover). Each center is located in close proximity to an SAP development
center or on a university campus. The group significantly contributes to SAP’s product portfolio and extends
its leading position in the market by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends and generating breakthrough
technologies through applied research. In contrast to SAP’s product groups and development labs that
work on new functions and releases, the researchers explore opportunities that haven’t yet been developed
into products.
The business model of SAP Research is based on co- innovation through collaborative research: In collabo -
ration with leading universities, partners, customers, and SAP product groups, SAP Research drives the
development of promising ideas and prototypes into market-ready software for maximum customer value.
To that end, customers are involved early on in the research process through special Lighthouse Projects.
Meanwhile, dedicated “Living Labs” demonstrate technological research in real-world settings, thus turning
prospective SAP solutions into tangible experiences.
Among the leading research topics in 2007 and 2008, which are also elaborately covered within this report,
were the “Internet of Services” and the “Internet of Things”.
The Internet of Services is about finding and combining services and information in order to fulfill unique
requirements as precisely as possible. SAP Research spearheads efforts in the THESEUS research program,
which was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi). The program aims to develop
a new infrastructure that will make finding and consuming services and information on the Internet more
effective. Within the program, the TEXO project, led by SAP Research, is helping to create an Internet-based
service economy.
The Internet of Things seamlessly integrates physical objects into the IT world and makes them an active part
of business processes: everyday objects, facilities, and machines, for example, communicate information about
themselves among one another via integrated sensors. In 2007, the results of the research into these “smart
items” were applied in practice in the Future Retail Center, the Future Factory, and the WaterSense project.
“Over the past several years SAP Research has gained increasing importance
for SAP, and now I am happy to see a mature department with outstanding
contributions to our company. The efforts of our research unit are very
much strengthening SAP’s Value Proposition and helping the company
position itself on the cutting-edge of technology. By pioneering innovative
approaches to technological research like the Living Labs and looking into
little explored fields like e-Energy, the Internet of Services, and the Internet
of Things, SAP Research is confirming its preeminent position as a trend
scout of SAP. I am confident that this department will also continue making
innovation happen in the future – for both our own benefit and the benefit
of our customers.”
Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann, CEO, SAP AG

SAP RESEARCH
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS 2007/2008
January 2007
SAP becomes member of the
prestigious Cylab Consortium at
Carnegie Mellon University, USA. 1
1
SAP Research & IT research group
Meraka Institute join fight against
poverty with research into the
use of information and communication
technology to alleviate underdevelopment.
1
Lutz Heuser, head of SAP Research
EMEA & Australia, gives the
German Minister for Education and
Research, Dr. Annette Schavan, and
her delegation an introduction into
corporate research and its role in
SAP R&D network during her visit
at SAP Labs, India. 2+3
1
2
3
February 2007
March 2007
SAP Campus opening in Walldorf,
Germany, features the Future
Factory. The event is attended by
leading German politicians. 3
April 2007
May 2007
SAP Research co-sponsors the
IST Africa Conference in
Mozambique and presents the
Living Labs concept. 1
German Chancellor Dr. Angela IT Trend symposium of the presti-
Merkel visits the Future Factory stand gious Feldafinger Circle with over
at CeBIT Hanover, Germany and is 50 participants hosted by SAP
taken with the new anti-counter- Research.
feiting prototype. 1+2
1
2
3
SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
highlights SAP Research’s
contribution in his keynote at
SAPPHIRE 2007 in Vienna and Tokyo
by showing live demos of “IRIS”
and “3D Visualization Engine”. 1
1
The International Research
Forum (IRF) takes place in Eltville,
Germany and attracts over
30 IT visionaries from business and
academia across the globe. 2+3
1
2
3
1 1
The First North American Academic
Symposium takes place attended
by senior academic faculty
members from universities and
business schools. 1+2
2
SAP Research signs a “Memorandum
of Understanding”
with Zhejiang University, China –
a major milestone for the new
research center in Shanghai. 3
June 2007
July 2007
Within the German research program
“THESEUS”, SAP Research kicks
off with “TEXO” – one of six use
cases, focusing on future business
value networks. 1
3 1
Official opening of the Future Retail
Center in Switzerland, a store
which brings to fruition the efforts
of SAP Research in streamlining
the retail process by using RFID
technology, with a virtual pendant in
Second Life. 1
August 2007

September 2007
SAP Research sponsors the
Business Process Management
Conference in Brisbane, Australia,
and presents several highlight
contributions. 1
The thirteenth SAP University
Alliance User Group Meeting
takes place at SAP Germany, with
participation of SAP Research.
Several research presentations and
demos are shown at the SAP Deve -
lopers Kick-Off Meeting (DKOM) in
Karlsruhe, Germany. 2
1
2
Launch of the Innovation & Research
pages on SAP Community Network
(SDN) enabling a vivid exchange
with SAP customers & developers
from around the globe. 1
1
2
3
SAP Research officially opens
two new research centers in
Switzerland – in St. Gallen and
Zurich – in cooperation with the
University of St. Gallen and the
ETH Zurich. 2+3
October 2007
November 2007
Ike Nassi, head of SAP Research
Americas & China, delivers a keynote
at SAP TechEd in Shanghai, China. 1
Joachim Schaper, Vice President
of SAP Research EMEA, introduces
“The Future Retail Center in
Switzerland and in Second Life”
at the RFID Conference Lisbon,
Portugal.
The SAP Research Center
Karlsruhe, Germany, celebrates its
20th anniversary. 2
The SAP Research Video “Vision
2012” wins the ITVA Award,
an important reward within the
corporate film sector.
1
2
SAP Research significantly
influences the objectives of the
second German IT Summit through
its leadership in well perceived
lighthouse projects including
Germany’s largest IT research
project “THESEUS”. 1
In his keynote at the “5th Annual
Influencer Summit” in Boston, SAP
CEO Henning Kagermann highlights
SAP Research’s efforts in the area
of retail in the virtual worlds.
1
Lutz Heuser becomes chairman of
the DG INFSO – the most highly
respected advisory council of the
IST Advisory Group.
December 2007
January 2008
SAP Research officially opens a new
research center in Shanghai, China,
focusing on platforms and emerging
applications research. 1
Breakthrough SAP sponsored
academic research, “ERP Produc -
tivity for Enterprises”, with the
MIT Sloan School, highlighted by
SAP CEO Henning Kagermann at the
SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting (FKOM)
in Las Vegas. 2
1
2
SAP Research acquires three new
EU projects in the Internet of Things
area within the 7th Framework
Program of the European Commission,
complementing the Smart
Items infrastructure.
As part of her travel to the Republic
of South Africa, the German Federal
Minister for Education & Research,
Dr. Annette Schavan, visits the
SAP Meraka Unit for Technology
Development, accompanied
by Lutz Heuser. 1
1
February 2008
March 2008
During her visit to the SAP booth
at CeBIT, German Chancellor
Dr. Angela Merkel watches demonstrations
of mobile payment and
Second Life scenarios within the
Future Retail Center. 1+2
Presentation of first THESEUS
service prototypes from the SAP-led
TEXO use case (eco-calculator,
implementation of EU service guideline)
at the CeBIT “Future Talk”. 3
SAP Research presents first showcase
of German SoKNOS project
at CeBIT, on the topic of combating
rising flood levels at a chemical
plant. 4
1
2
3
4
1
SAP Research is partner in two
of six award-winning projects
(eTelligence & MEREGIO) in the
contest initiated by the German
Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology “e-Energy: ICT-based
Energy Systems of the Future”. 1
At the trade fair in Hanover,
SAP Research demonstrates the
IRIS project at SAP’s Digital
Factory stand.
SAP Research sponsored con-
ference “Internet of Things 2008”
leads more than 300 researchers
and practitioners to Zurich.
April 2008

CONTENTS
SAP RESEARCH REPORT 2007/2008
Editorial 02
Connecting Innovative Minds – The SAP Research Network 04
Academic Liaisons 04
International Exchange and Trend Discussions 06
Building the Future with SAP’s Customers & Partners 08
Networking with Venture Capitalists and Fellow CTOs 11
Shaping the Research Agendas 12
Planting the Seeds – Talent Development 13
Attracting Top PhD Candidates with a Dedicated Program 14
Sabbaticals – The Best of both Worlds 14
Nurturing Visionary Entrepreneurs Within the Company 15
SAP INSPIRE – Incubating Employees’ Ideas 16
Thinking Out of the Box 17
Keeping an Eye on Trends 25
A Palette of Trends and Topics 25
Turning Trends into Research Fields 26
Living Labs – Living Research 28
Service Ecosystems – Toward the Internet of Services 33
Real-World Awareness – The Internet of Things 40
User Empowerment – Users Gain Control 46
Sustainability – Accountable to Society 54
Security – Exploring the Changing Nature of Security 57
Appendix 62
Projects 62
Publications 68
Event Participations 77
Research Memberships 87
SAP Research Centers 90
The SAP R&D Network 92
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EDITORIAL
TAMING THE TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTIONS
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Dear Reader,
It is for good reason that most of the information published
by SAP concerns our portfolio of products – both those
that are already available on the market today and those
that have a clear roadmap for delivery. This report, how -
ever, focuses on the creative work that occurs well before
a product is developed and brought to market. Now in its
third year of publication, the SAP Research Report is
designed to give you an overview of the diverse range of
SAP’s activities in the pre-product phase, as well as an
insight into the way SAP generates innovation.
The motto we chose for the report this year, “Thinking Out
of the Box”, is by no means a new concept. However, it
has not lost any of its power to describe the mindset that
is indispensable to create anything new. Leaving the box
has many advantages: one of them is the opportunity for
the creative individual to meet likeminded others outside
of the box and engage in a cross-pollination of ideas. This
is how we engender not just ideas but ideas that matter.
Such ideas can be generated best in a diverse environment.
Since its inception 20 years ago, the SAP Research
organization has therefore been international by design.
SAP researchers have built a network of researchers in
the business, academic, and public domains on all continents.
Most recently, we have significantly stepped up our
research networking activities in Silicon Valley and have
established a research center in China. Many of our
research centers are located in the immediate vicinity –

or even on the premises – of academic institutions. Others
are co-located with our development labs, where our
software solutions are put into code. Proximity to the latter
is as important for us as to the former: The more our
researchers leave existing products behind in their thinking
and the more they collaborate with business and academic
partners beyond the company’s planning horizons – in the
wild so to say, the more promising their endeavors will be.
While “Thinking Out of the Box” is certainly a true value
driver in research, to generate true innovation, we need
to extend the aforementioned principle – thinking out of
the box and back into the box. Creative ideas and novel
technologies can only become innovations once they are
turned into usable products or actionable processes. An
ivory tower outside the box would be just another closed
box. This is why SAP’s researchers are eager to bring
their research to ultimate fruition by collaborating with the
SAP development organization to turn ideas into innovation
– that is, by bringing them to market in existing or new
products. Jointly, Research and Development ensure that
our customers can benefit from technology revolutions
without having to suffer unwarranted disruption. In other
words, while we focus on breeding technological revolutions,
we are also experts in taming these revolutions so
that they can become valuable in our customers’ corporate
households. Many of the innovations contained in the
recently introduced SAP Business ByDesign solution, for
example, go back to the efforts of SAP Research.
The work described on the following pages will take you
way beyond the common notion of what business software
is and does today. The report will explain how and
why SAP is exploring topics such as avatars in the threedimensional
web, counterfeit commodities, energy consumption,
intelligent search engines, and merchandise
that “is aware of” how cold it is around it, to mention just
a few of our current interests. I hope that I have whetted
your appetite to learn about this aspect of SAP’s corporate
culture and approach to value-generation.
I would like to thank all the people, companies, institutions,
and organizations that we have met and worked with “outside
of the box” over the past year for their commitment
and continued willingness to engage with us in that form of
dialog that is perhaps the most fascinating and the most
constructive of all corporate and academic discourse –
research.
Enjoy your reading!
Regards,
Dr. Peter Zencke
Head of Executive Board Area
“Research & Breakthrough Innovation”
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Editorial
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CONNECTING INNOVATIVE MINDS
THE SAP RESEARCH NETWORK
The exploration of new trends, ideas, and breakthrough innovations is
the lifeblood of a technology company like SAP. SAP Research helps SAP
to maintain its technological edge by looking at new ways of applying
technology and by developing innovative processes and prototypes.
Key to this is to stay in touch with the world outside. The
global spread of SAP Research’s worldwide research
locations helps the company communicate with the most
advanced centers of innovation around the globe. This
wide-ranging ecosystem provides an optimal climate for
researchers to invest their best in collaborative research
projects. SAP Research encompasses a widespread
network of more than 520 organizations: universities,
industrial partners, research institutes, governments, and
current and future customers, as well as various development
units within SAP. It also taps innovative ideas from
SAP’s employee base.
Three New Research Centers
October 1, 2007 witnessed the official opening ceremony
of SAP Research Campus-Based Engineering Centers
(CECs) in St. Gallen and Zurich. More than 150 participants,
including SAP customers and industrial partners
as well as all key chairs of the University of St. Gallen
and ETH Zurich, celebrated the inauguration of the new
locations.
The Future Retail Center is the first highlight of the work
done in Switzerland. It pre sents a breakthrough vision of
the retail of tomorrow and has already generated attention
from SAP customers and executives. Both research
centers currently boast 42 employees including eight
senior researchers and 20 PhD candidates.
Another new research center started work in January
2008. It is co-located with SAP Labs, China in Shanghai
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong and will focus on
business information management, business operation
management, and business application development.
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SAP’s partnerships range from the very big (as is the case,
for example, with IBM) to very small (such as start-ups in
Germany or venture companies in Silicon Valley) and also
include government-sponsored project consortia. As a
result, a multi-tier approach is required to achieve optimum
research results. For example, one aspect of the group’s
work with strategic technological partners like HP, Intel,
and IBM involves defining a joint research agenda. In 2007,
SAP Research coordinated its research agendas even
closer with existing strategic partners and increased the
number of jointly performed research projects.
Publicly funded projects (such as the European Commission’s
Research Framework Program, the Australian
Research Council, and the funding programs of the German
government) usually involve 20 or more partners in
respective project consortia. The project work is defined
and facilitated by neutral funding organizations.

Academic Liaisons
SAP Research boasts dedicated research relationships
with more than 120 universities around the globe. This
enables SAP to look beyond conventional industry partnerships
and to tap into a vast treasure trove of talent and
ideas. The collaboration with the world of academia spans
a broad spectrum of strategic research areas and helps
the company improve its innovative solutions by facilitating
the adoption of new technologies through direct exchange
between SAP researchers and developers with leading
universities. The collaboration often starts with a joint
or sponsored research project and leverages an area of
mutual interests in which the particular academic institution
has strong expertise. Later, the partnership can grow
to embrace other projects. Eventually, long-term collaborations
might become cornerstones for the establishment
of Campus-Based Engineering Centers (CECs), located
on partner university premises, and a joint PhD-Program
(For a complete list of CECs see back inside cover).
20th Anniversary of first CEC and new Sponsored
Academic Research Program in North America and China
SAP Research CEC Karlsruhe, the very first SAP Research
location and pilot for the successful model of university
collaboration, celebrated its 20th anniversary on November
20, 2007. Today, the center is one of the most renowned
IT research institutions in Europe benefiting from the
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“SAP Research is currently entering into joint appointment agreements with academics at
several universities in South Africa to facilitate research collaboration. Such collaboration
arrangements currently include the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, the University
of Cape Town, and the University of Pretoria. This collaboration is a win-win situation
for both SAP Research and the different universities. SAP Research will benefit from the
research expertise which these academics possess, and the academics will benefit by
having an opportunity to use their skills to solve real-world problems. This research will be
done in the context of South Africa and the lessons learned could also be used to solve
similar problems in other developing countries.”
Prof. Dr. Janet Wesson
Head of Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
(NMMU)
proximity to the vast intellectual potential of the University
of Karlsruhe and the broader technology region with more
than 2000 companies in the IT sector. Furthermore, close
collaboration with the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
and the Fraunhofer IITB, as well as partnerships with
selected customers support an ideal research environment.
The new North American and China Sponsored Academic
Research Program provides funding, SAP executive
sponsorship, and program management/advisory services
for cutting edge joint-research between SAP and the top
First North American Academic Symposium
In recognition of the leading role played by US univer -
sities in research worldwide, SAP held its inaugural
North American Academic Symposium at the Computer
History Museum in Silicon Valley in June 2007. More
than 150 members of the research community attended
the symposium, including senior academic faculties from
leading universities and business schools. Focusing on
the expanding role of the academia in business innovation,
the symposium will henceforth take place annually
and provide a discussion forum for the latest trends
in enterprise software and services. The symposium is
a key initiative of SAP’s North American and China
Sponsored Academic Research Program.
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universities in America and China. Formally created in
2007, this program also takes advantage of unique local
ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley, to help bring together
industry and academia for co-innovation.
University Collaboration at SAP –
The Educational and the Research Approach
In addition to the scientific research collaboration between
SAP Research and individual universities described in
this report, the SAP University Alliances Program provides
university faculty members with the tools and
resources necessary to teach students how technology
can enable integrated business processes and strategic
thinking.
The program promotes science and technology education
by making SAP solutions available to teachers and
students. Hosting services and curriculum support
are integral parts of the program. There are more than
130,000 students at 700 institutions of higher education
participating in courses supported by SAP software
around the world.
• www.sap.com/about/citizenship/education/
universityalliances
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“Our research with SAP is a perfect example of the MIT philosophy of combining rigor
with relevance and provides us with insight into the real-world challenges faced by business
today. We have benefited from the opportunity to analyze SAP data to reveal the
causal relationship between investments in enterprise IT and improved productivity in a
large sample of large firms. This relationship provides a foundation for the award- winning
research at the MIT Center for Digital Business on the business practices that complement
IT investments. As a result, the findings will boost the business performance and
ultimately living standards on a global scale.”
Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT Center for Digital Business and George and Sandra Schussel Professor of Information Technology and
Strategy, MIT Sloan School
International Exchange and Trend Discussions
SAP Research facilitates the exchange of ideas by provi -
ding and initiating dedicated forums to discuss current and
future IT trends with universities and leading IT companies.
These platforms help SAP stay on the cusp of innovation.
The International Research Forum
The International Research Forum 2007 (IRF) dealing
with “Service-Oriented Business Transformation” took
place in Eltville, Germany in May 2007 and attracted
more than 30 top-level IT visionaries from business and
academia across the globe. Following an interactive format
which balanced discussion clusters and presentations
with blogs and face-to-face debates, the gathering allowed
participants to dive deeply into the discussion topics:
Enterprise 2.0, User-Driven Innovation, Service Grid,
and Business Model Transformation.

Participants included an excellent mixture of universities
and industrial partners. Attendees are already looking forward
to the IRF 2008 and its focus on the “Web-Based
Service Economy”.
Once again, the ideas from the IRF 2007 were published in
a book.
• www.international-research-forum.com
CEC Curatorship
As an advisory board for the CECs in Germany and
Switzerland, the CEC Curatorship further illustrates the
ongoing spirit of communication and exchange between
SAP and its partners. Consisting of representatives from
the worlds of academia, industry, and politics (including
Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom, HP, Siemens, and
Atos Origin), the board serves as an early alert mechanism
for trends in computer science and puts them into
context to better meet market needs.
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“In 2007, I was invited to participate in the International Research Forum organized
by SAP Research in Germany. This was a great opportunity to strengthen the research
connection between IBM and SAP. IBM views open innovation as a key factor for the
deve lopment of future technologies that are of real value for business and society. For
us, SAP Research is a very important partner and we would very much like to see this
productive relationship continue prospering.”
Matthias Kaiserswerth
Vice President Systems Management and Compliance, IBM Research, Director of the IBM Zurich Research Lab
Feldafinger Circle IT Trend Symposium
In July 2007, SAP Research hosted the high-profile
Feldafinger Circle Trend Symposium. Launched in 2001,
the Feldafinger Circle is a select group of technological
research heads from German blue-chip companies
(including Siemens, BMW, and SAP) and academia aiming
at giving new impulses for German Internet research.
Symposium participants (representing more than 50 topranking
companies including Alcatel-Lucent, DoCoMo,
Fujitsu, T-Systems, Humboldt University Berlin, and
Technical University Munich) gathered in dedicated workshops
to discuss a broad range of research topics
including Future Internet, Ambient Security, Web 2.0, and
Self-Managed Systems. Results and recommendations
arising from the discussions are the basis for the Feldafinger
Circle’s 2007 governmental advisory report in the area of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
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Building the Future with SAP’s Customers &
Partners
In its daily work, SAP Research consistently follows the
principle of co-innovation. Involving customers and partners
at an early stage is a key to obtain accurate feedback.
This allows SAP to synchronize research projects
with customers’ needs in a prompt fashion and then tailor
prototypes accordingly. It was in this context that SAP
Research became heavily involved with the SAP Global
Ecosystem and Partner Group – a group within SAP
dedicated to orchestrating a vibrant, open ecosystem to
foster co-innovation between SAP, customers, and partners
and drive enterprise service-oriented architecture
(enterprise SOA) adoption.
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“At Migros we are open to new technologies and look forward to the future of what
technology will bring us. This attitude made our joining forces with SAP Research in cofounding
the Future Retail Store in Switzerland possible. We highly value the cooperation
with SAP Research because we jointly want to shape the future of retail. I am confident
that our partnership will help us explore breakthrough solutions for our business and also
offer entirely new ways to improve the customer experience at our stores.”
Rudolf Schwarz
CIO Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund (MGB)
Living Labs
The Living Labs concept facilitates open innovation by
ensuring that end users participate in research efforts.
SAP Research implements Living Labs in different projects.
The group is also working on a related concept to make
SAP a tangible experience. This concept allows people to
“experience” SAP’s solutions in real-life settings. Two
examples are the Future Retail Store and the Future
Factory.
In early September 2007, SAP Research started to participate
in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab. The Lab leverages a
strong ecosystem engagement program, fostering a spirit
of innovation through collaborations with partners. The
Co-Innovation Lab was launched in June 2007 as a colla -
borative lab environment located at the SAP Labs Campus
in Palo Alto, where SAP, partners, and customers can
work together to develop innovative solutions. The facility
comprises project rooms, an open collaboration area, and
a simulated data center with equipment from founding
sponsors such as HP, Intel, Cisco, and NetApp.
SAP Research presents its Smart Device Applications
project in the Co-Innovation Lab.

Listening to the Customer: Business Grids
Business Grids are a good case in point to demonstrate
how the collaborative research approach enables the synchronization
of research work and the needs of current
and future SAP customers. With the launch of its Research
CEC in Belfast, SAP Research initiated an effort to tackle
and reshape this concept in order to meet customer
demands more effectively. Consultations with the European
Commission at the Next Generation Grid Expert Group
have already resulted in the reorientation of future research
activities toward grid technology. Most significantly, SAP
Research’s efforts have helped to change the Commission’s
understanding of Grid Technology, transforming it
from a pure eScience view to a view that envisions Grid
Technology as the backbone of future enterprises.
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“Intel’s strategy is to enable the predictive enterprise by making its IT infrastructure
completely service-oriented. Working together, Intel and SAP have the opportunity of
establishing standards across the IT industry that determine how IT will be able to
respond quickly to new business requirements. I am pleased that Intel and SAP Research
have started several joint innovative initiatives to work on the technical challenges to
achieve this vision. Through our collaboration, we are realizing the power and sophisti -
cation of both Intel hardware and SAP software that can help usher in a new era of
computing.”
Gregg Wyant
Chief Architect and General Manager of IT Strategy, Architecture, and Innovation, Intel Corporation
SensorNets Community
In summer 2006, as part of its work to shape the realworld
awareness revolution, SAP Research launched the
Enterprise Services Community (ES Community) for
SensorNets. The community is currently focusing on the
wireless version of these nets – wireless sensor networks.
This community allows SAP Research to bring together
industry leaders such as Intel, Sun, and Siemens with small
and midsized businesses and promising innovative startup
companies. This format provides the ideal conditions
for the ongoing debate and discussion about business
models, architectural concepts, and customer opportunities.
Currently boasting more than 20 members, the
success of the ES Community SensorNets program has
already exceeded expectations. Thanks to the involvement
of SAP customers, the ES Community is at the forefront
of development work on sensor nets and is shaping the
future of this technology.
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A Selection of Research Partners Around the Globe
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Networking with Venture Capitalists and
Fellow CTOs
In Silicon Valley, SAP Research has established significant
relationships with venture capitalists – individuals whose
job it is to fuel the high-growth start-up community.
Venture capitalists often approach the SAP Research team
in Palo Alto with invitations to take a look at a specific
start-up that may be of interest to SAP. After evaluating
whether there might be any potential for a successful collaboration,
SAP Research either teams up directly with the
young company for a proof-of-concept project or puts it in
contact with SAP Ventures, SAP’s own venture unit. Alternatively,
the SAP Research team might refer the start-up
directly to development units at SAP Labs. A few of those
start-ups might even become SAP partners down the
road.
Venture capitalists certainly want the best return regarding
their investment. A relationship with SAP is one of the
best ways to achieve their goal. SAP Research also benefits
by receiving valuable insight into new IT trends and
developments in Silicon Valley and thus stays current with
the latest in innovative thinking.
“SAP Research is a valuable partner for us in our efforts to identify and invest in companies
that offer exciting new technologies and applications. With its deep technical exper tise
across the broad IT landscape, SAP Research serves a key role as a trusted tech no logy
evaluator and trend scout. It also provides a strong partnering environment to build
innovative proof-of-concepts that push the technology envelope. One such partnership
was with Questra, an SAP NetWeaver fund investment and leader in the area of intelligent
device management. By combining the strengths of Questra’s and SAP’s solutions, we
were able to demonstrate the possibilities of new integrated device-to-business processes.”
Nino Marakovic
Senior Vice President and Head of SAP Ventures
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Besides venture capitalists, SAP Research Americas also
maintains active relationships with a variety of other communities
such as the Plug and Play Tech Center, a startup
incubator and the CTO Forum in Silicon Valley. The
head of SAP Research Americas and China, Ike Nassi,
participates in the latter, where 150 of the top senior technology
executives from all industries meet to discuss the
future of technology.
All these activities underpin the long-term commitment of
SAP Research to tap into the vibrant innovation networks
in Silicon Valley.
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Shaping the Research Agendas
Over the last couple of years, SAP Research has gained
a reputation as a thought leader and domain expert in
several IT-related fields. For instance, the organization is
driving the European Technology Platform NESSI (Networked
European Software and Services Initiative). It is
also actively involved in the Strategic Support Actions
(Networked Software and Services/Business Grids/
Security for Software, Web Services and Systems), an
EU instrument to determine mid- to long-term IT research
agendas.
In addition, SAP Research is a member of various
international advisory groups. Lutz Heuser, Head of SAP
Research, chairs the IST Advisory Group (ISTAG). The
group consults the European Commission on the overall
strategy for the carrying out of IST priorities under the
European Framework Program for research (DG INFSO –
Information Society and Media). Joachim Schaper, head
of SAP Research EMEA, has been a member of the
ISTAG since 2002. In addition, he serves on the Strategic
Advisory Board on the EU Competitiveness and Innovation
Framework Program (CIP). This board directs the CIP
program that supports directorates for Transport & Energy,
Environments, INFSO, and Economic & Financial Affairs.
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“SAP Research listened to our specific needs early in the process and collaborated
patiently with the Business ByDesign development team. We appreciated how they
maintained their commitment and advanced their concepts while remaining nonintrusive.
This positive attitude and their parallel research approach now bring us timely
innovations, which we can easily integrate into the product.”
Jürgen Sattler
Senior Vice President Business ByDesign Cross-Development, SAP AG
In the United States, senior SAP Research managers
participate in different bodies such as the CTO Forum in
Silicon Valley. In South Africa, the SAP Meraka Unit
illustrates the merits of international cooperation.
A complete list of SAP Research’s participation in international
organizations can be found in the appendix.
Further reading:
• IST Advisory Group (ISTAG)
www.cordis.europa.eu/ist/istag.htm
• Strategic Advisory Board on the EU Competitiveness
and Innovation Framework Program (CIP)
www.ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm
• CTO Forum Silicon Valley
www.thectoforum.net
• SAP Meraka Unit
www.meraka.org.za
• Nessi Initiative
www.nessi-europe.eu

PLANTING THE SEEDS
TALENT DEVELOPMENT
Creative talent is one of the most prized assets at SAP Research. The
organization constantly attracts top-flight specialists from different
IT-related areas, ranging from students to high potential young graduates
to experienced researchers.
In fact, SAP Research has set up a variety of programs to
help bring in fresh blood and develop lateral thinkers and
experimenters.
The group boasts a broad range of new social media platforms.
Internal wikis, blogs, and the SAP Research Net
are among the tools budding researchers use to exchange
ideas, find information, and undertake joint project work.
Additionally, the annual Research Summit stimulates crea -
tive exchange within the organization.
Talent development at SAP Research spans different
continents and a variety of research areas. Students can
undertake internships in Germany and in the United
States. At the German centers, mature associates can
pursue PhD degrees while immersed in real-world
research. Academics can take time away from their university
classrooms to undertake sabbaticals at SAP.
The organization also dedicates significant resources to
support existing talent within SAP. The Entrepreneurship
Program selects managers willing to step outside their
everyday work and dedicate themselves to spearheading
research initiatives.
SAP Research sends dedicated employees on information
exchange missions to SAP’s product technology groups
and also receives colleagues from development teams in
order to improve the synchronization of ongoing research
efforts and the product strategies of the company.
As a part of SAP Research, SAP INSPIRE directly targets
employees with bright ideas for new SAP products and
helps them bring those ideas to fruition.
“Thinking Out of the Box” is the guiding principle for all
those programs. They stimulate inventiveness and promote
unconventional ways of solving conventional problems.
The result of these efforts is a vibrant community of
researchers who are always on the lookout for the next
big thing.
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Attracting Top PhD Candidates with a Dedicated
Program
PhD candidates interested in writing dissertations in industrial,
“real-world” settings find SAP Research to be the
ideal research environment. The group’s wide breadth of
international projects and areas of discovery offer a broad
range of opportunities for doctoral theses. This is why
SAP Research established a dedicated PhD program in
close collaboration with several European universities.
The projected timeframe for the completion of dissertations
is three years. During this period, candidates are
assigned to a challenging project within one of the SAP
Research programs.
The PhD students benefit from the practical experience
they gain. The biggest challenge most students face is to
combine the writing of their dissertations with their re -
search work. SAP Research benefits greatly from the hard
work and enthusiasm of these highly motivated individuals
who undertake top-notch research projects connected
directly to specific applied fields.
Besides technical topics, SAP Research PhD students
undertake research projects in areas like innovation mana -
gement and research communication.
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“I use SAP software extensively in my teaching, so a sabbatical with SAP Research was
both a natural and exhilarating experience. I was instantly part of the team and was
given the opportunity to focus on core problems and see the rapid implementation of my
ideas. I enjoyed the feeling of trust and belonging, and how the researchers respected
the value of my contributions.”
Prof. Gilbert Babin
Associate Professor, HEC Montréal
Sabbaticals – The Best of Both Worlds
SAP Research offers opportunities for professors on sabbatical
to undertake research work on the organization’s
behalf. In 2007, SAP Research hosted two professors on
sabbatical, both at the SAP Research center in Montreal:
• Prof. Gilbert Babin from HEC Montréal, Canada’s oldest
management school, undertook a part-time sabbatical
from January to September 2007. He worked in tight
collaboration with the team on algorithmic and scientific
aspects of data compression, as well as on connection
management for efficient mobility. Back at HEC, he
leads the implementation of HEC’s ERP Simulation, an
award-winning role-playing game that teaches BA, BSc,
and MBA students the value of ERP systems.
• Prof. Serhan Dagtas, from the University of Arkansas
in Little Rock, is currently on a full-time sabbatical as a
member of the Montreal research team. He adds an
excellent combination of industrial and academic exper -
tise to the team. Prof. Dagtas has a particular interest in
sensor networks and multimedia which he can put into
good use within the team’s work on enterprise mobility.

Nurturing Visionary Entrepreneurs Within the
Company
SAP Research constantly tries to ensure that corporate
research focuses on the most promising topics for the
company. Identifying the “Next Big Things” for SAP
requires a 360-degree view including upcoming technologies
and the future business potential that these ideas
might imply.
This can most effectively be achieved by the so-called
internal entrepreneurs – people who have visionary ideas
and a clear view of how ongoing research can influence
SAP’s future product portfolio.
A dedicated Entrepreneurship Program launched by SAP
Research in spring 2007 supports and develops SAP’s
internal entrepreneurs. With this program SAP Research
enables employees with an entrepreneurial attitude to
realize their vision of a future product inside SAP. (The
only boundary for the entrepreneur is that the idea should
be connected to at least one of the Research Fields.)
This is due to the fact that the majority of contributions will
come from the research projects which are running in
the respective Research Field. These Research Fields are
derived from emerging trends and give a framework for
the researchers at SAP for the areas that should be
“By thinking ahead about emerging technologies and how they might best serve customers’
needs, SAP Research has become an important partner for the SAP Portfolio
Strategy Group in validating and extending our vision of SAP’s future product portfolio.
Being a member of the SAP Research Advisory & Investment Board allows me to
play an active role in influencing Research Fields and also gives me continuous insight
into potential ‘Next Big Things’ for SAP.”
Pascal Brosset
Senior Vice President Portfolio Strategy, SAP AG
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addressed in the research project. In addition to the
results from these existing activities, the SAP Research
entrepreneurs get a special budget to acquire internal and
external resources (e.g., university projects).
To evaluate the promising ideas and steer the resources
for the entrepreneurs, SAP Research launched the Advisory
& Investment Board. This exclusive group consists
of top senior executives from SAP strategy and product
groups. The Advisory & Investment Board meets on a
regular basis to discuss new ideas with the entrepreneurs
and to give them regular advice on their next activities.
The expected timeline for the entrepreneurs to work out
their business plan and show the feasibility of their vision
is between one and three years, depending on the complexity
and business potential of the idea.
SAP Research considers the Entrepreneurship Program as
the best way to give visionary employees the freedom and
resources to realize their ideas as part of the SAP team
while also preparing SAP’s future products & services.
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SAP INSPIRE – Incubating Employees’ Ideas
SAP INSPIRE ensures that company employees with great
ideas can make the best use of SAP’s resources while
living in a true start-up atmosphere. The group’s service
portfolio includes support for the development of business
plans and the creation of budgets. It also helps employees
find collaborators and access a broad network of experts –
without the risks associated with developing an external
start-up. Central to the implementation of the employees’
ideas is the SAP INSPIRE Incubator. Launched in 2006,
the Incubator is designed to accomplish numerous tasks
ranging from idea evaluation and resource management to
prototype building.
SAP INSPIRE has instituted a formal process to gather
and evaluate ideas. After submission, the team assesses
proposals to ascertain whether they are in sync with SAP’s
existing product portfolio, support work on future trends
important to SAP and are technically and financially feasible.
In 2007, SAP INSPIRE processed more than 500 new
THINKING BEYOND BORDERS
The SAP INSPIRE Process
Idea Gathering � Business Case � Execution � Transfer � Follow-Up �
Gathering of as many
ideas as possible
and subsequent
selection of the most
promising ideas
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Develop ideas into
promising business
cases to be presented
to the SAP
Executive Board
SAP INSPIRE
Proof-of-concept
within
9–12 months with
3–5 team members
sub missions. Once approved, project developers typically
have 6 to 18 months to develop a working prototype, star -
ting from scratch and then releasing it to Product Develop -
ment. Each team works with an experienced SAP INSPIRE
coach to guide team members in the right direction and to
connect them with future harvesting departments.
COIN
COIN (Collaboration Innovation) is a new platform for
the management of ideas developed at SAP INSPIRE.
Based on an Open Source Content Management
System, COIN encompasses the whole process: idea
submission, collaborative work on idea documents,
comments, ratings, forums for the discussion of ideas,
and even blogs. The platform can be used for the SAP
INSPIRE employee innovation process as well as for
any innovation process throughout the company.
All SAP employees may submit ideas, create teams,
and develop the ideas in collaboration with colleagues.
Through a system of idea ratings and recommendations,
SAP INSPIRE (as well as other departments)
can search for the best employee ideas for their area.
Interested parties might serve as idea sponsors to
enable further development.
The COIN platform makes optimal use of Web 2.0
technology. By leveraging functionalities such as tagging,
blogging, and social bookmarking, the platform
fosters the creation of employee communities.
Efficient
handover process
Completion of
project, estimation
of impact, and
identification of new
opportunities

AT SAP RESEARCH WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT
WHAT WE DO. WE EXCEL AT FINDING NEW WAYS TO
SOLVE COMPLEX TECHNOLOGICAL PUZZLES. WE
DO THIS BY CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
AND THINKING OUT OF THE BOX.

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
FREEDOM TO LOOK FOR NEW PERSPECTIVES

SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Thinking Out of the Box
We contribute to SAP’s products by looking beyond the horizon and
exploring new ways. Our endeavors lead to satisfied customers. We view
our customers as fellow travelers; we take them with us on our journey.
We embark upon a real-life exploration together, with all the ups and downs
associated with research in live environments. Trends are our signposts.
Sometimes we create the signposts ourselves.

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
FOCUS ON NEW IDEAS

SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Thinking Out of the Box
We are not alone. There are no ivory towers in which to hide. Rather, we
go out and team up. Universities, companies, governments – we look for
partnerships with the brightest heads across the globe, wherever they may
be. We grow from this collaborative journey. Then we bring the power of
the new ideas we found back to SAP.

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
LENDING AN EAR AND A HELPING HAND
We listen closely to what our customers have to say. We have set up a
network of research centers spanning the globe. Through these centers we
tap into the vibrant, innovative culture of SAP. The centers also help us
accumulate expertise from the outside world. We get involved in a broad
range of technological research projects. We also team up with other
organizations to set technological standards and pave the way for a seamless
integration of new technology into society.

SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Thinking Out of the Box

WE KNOW THAT IDEAS NEED NURTURING AND
SUPPORT. WE KNOW THAT HAVING AN IDEA IS GOOD,
BUT ACTING ON AN IDEA IS BETTER.
WE BELIEVE THAT RESULTS ARE WHAT COUNTS IN
THE END.

KEEPING AN EYE ON TRENDS
THE SAP RESEARCH PROCESS
Everybody is talking about trends, but what exactly does this term mean?
SAP Research sees a trend as a given market fact whose probable
realization lies beyond the influence of SAP.
A trend begins with a tendency that looks as if it might
develop from a statistically probable rate of reoccurrence.
Trends are long-term changes within an environment.
Certainly, SAP Research monitors many social, business,
and technological trends – some in more depth than others,
depending on the degree of the potential influence on
SAP and its customers. This Research Report presents a
selection of six trends and hot topics that are eventually
expected to have a major impact on SAP’s future solutions.
A Palette of Trends and Topics
These trends and hot topics include: service ecosystems,
real-world awareness, user empowerment, Living Labs,
sustainability, and security.
Service ecosystems concern the use of semantic techno -
logy to open up and automate the service-oriented architecture
model. For this trend, SAP Research has been
spearheading a new research field known as the Internet
of Services.
Another trend is real-world awareness. Also known as the
Internet of Things, this term denotes the idea of extending
the reach of software systems beyond the current network-connected
“cloud” to devices that can host business
logic and provide real-time information.
User empowerment is yet another trend of significant
importance to SAP Research. It concerns the notion of
giving end users increased control over their software
systems. User empowerment is also strongly driven by
Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0. By leveraging social network
capabilities, companies can tap into the wisdom of the
crowds.
Although not a trend per se, the Living Labs approach –
already well known in the consumer space – is an area of
increasing importance for the IT sector. It entails conduc -
ting research in real-life settings with the close involvement
of end users.
Sustainability is another trend under exploration at SAP.
Researchers are looking at ways of providing support for
corporations that wish to do business in a more sustai -
nable (eco-friendly and socially-responsible) way. The IT
industry itself is also striving to become more “green”.
Security – a hot topic that wraps up this report – is an
ever increasing concern for today’s society. As explored
by SAP Research, security is a wide-ranging area of
inquiry, ranging from security for IT to IT for security.
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Turning Trends into Research Fields
When analyzing trends, SAP Research uses a bottom-up
approach. To avoid a “tunnel vision”, the researchers
frequently discuss emerging trends with external partners
from the academia and industry, as well as with SAP’s
leading customers. They solicit their input to find the
hottest topics and the most qualified partners to work
with. The annual International Research Forum provides
another important platform for the discussion of trends
with senior research executives from around the globe.
Research Fields
Risk Mitigation:
Open Source & Security
Advanced Web Technologies
Manufacturing 2.0
Internet of Services
Internet of Things/
Real-World Awareness
Real-Time
Enterprise Transparency
Next Generation Enterprise SOA
Semantics & Ontologies
Sustainable Emissions Management &
Energy Distribution
Future Product Lifecycle Management
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Business Society
Technology
A dedicated research portfolio office collects and evaluates
all findings and compares them with external sources
such as research analysts. Based on these evaluations,
SAP Research decides which trends to address with a
specific research field. Research fields are prioritized
according to the market climate and the likelihood of their
turning into a product at some point in the future. They are
implemented via research projects and based on a solid
foundation of six technical research programs.
Mobility Platform
Composite Applications
Interoperability
Technologies for
Emerging Economies
End-to-End Simplicity
Virtualization/Parallelism
Industrialization of
Software Development
Continuous Information Sense Making
Web 2.0 Applications
Public/Homeland Security

SAP Research – A Multidimensional Business Model
Business Strategy
Technology Strategy
Collaboration Strategy
Business
Process
Management
& Semantic
Interoperability
Knowledge
People
Inter action
Research Programs
Security &
Trust
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Research Fields
Making Products Better Inventing Future Products
Smart Items
Research
Global Network
Software
Engineering &
Architecture
Co-Innovation Through Collaborative Research
Data
Management
& Analytics
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LIVING LABS
LIVING RESEARCH
Since 2001, the European Union has been supporting a new paradigm for
technological research – the Living Labs. This concept is designed to boost
open innovation by ensuring that all relevant stakeholders, including end
users, are closely involved throughout the research and development
process of new products and services.
End users are supposed to sit in the driver’s seat, colla -
borating with R&D staff very closely. More than 50 Public
Private Partnerships in Europe run Living Labs today.
SAP Research has been an enthusiastic participant in the
Living Labs. The group is also working on a different, but
closely related concept to make SAP a tangible experience.
This concept involves conducting research in a way that
allows people to “experience” SAP’s solutions in real-life
settings.
Pioneering the Living Labs concept
In practice, SAP Research is able to explore and understand
business- and technology-related pressure points
from end-to-end in potential and established markets.
This knowledge helps the organization to achieve greater
relevance for its research undertakings and explore new
market conditions at an early stage. The unit also benefits
from its proximity to real environments and its immersion
into the real world.
SAP Research centers in Germany, Switzerland, and
South Africa are pioneering the Living Labs concepts
within SAP. Their activities focus on such important areas
as manufacturing and retail. The centers are all motivated
to work as closely as possible to the real world, with real
customers in real settings. Thus, SAP Research shortens
the journey from the prototype to the final next-generation
software solution.
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Future Factory
Managed by the SAP Research center in Dresden, the
Future Factory Initiative advances SAP Research’s concept
of Living Labs. With the Future Factory Initiative, SAP
Research is exploring next-generation manufacturing
solutions covering the whole product value chain in a reallife
setting. The Initiative also offers a glimpse into the
future of IT in manufacturing. Current partners include
Hewlett Packard, Kaba Benzing, Fraunhofer IAO, DFKI
smartFactory, and RWTH Aachen WZL.
The Future Factory was prominently presented at the SAP
stand at CeBIT 2007. Guests included the EU commissioner
for information society and media, Viviane Reding,
Germany’s Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, Russia’s tele -
communications minister Leonid Reimann, and many more.

Besides the Living Labs, the Future Factory Initiative ma -
nages two additional key initiatives: the Real-World Test
Bed and the virtual Center of Excellence. The Real World
Test Bed combines cutting-edge SAP software, such as SAP
Business ByDesign and SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration
and Intelligence, with software services and hardware
provided by partners into a distributed manufacturing scenario.
The Future Factory Center of Excellence dedicates
itself to the exchange of information and ideas, as well as
to defining and working on joint manufacturing projects.
An official launch of a physical lab in Dresden is scheduled
for 2008.
Future Retail Center
On August 21, 2007, SAP Research, in cooperation with
SAP Switzerland and industry partners (e.g., Migros,
Siemens, and HP), officially launched the Future Retail
Center in Regensdorf, Switzerland. The center is the
result of SAP researchers’ efforts worldwide to streamline
the retail, warehousing, and supply chain processes by
using RFID and other technologies. The Swiss showcase
of these enhanced processes is the first living lab in a
retail environment.
For now, the Future Retail Center features three scenarios:
consumer shopping, logistics, and retail strategies. In the
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shopping scenario, customers in a hurry can obtain
directions to desired items on store shelves via their Bluetooth-enabled
cell phones, enabling them to shop more
efficiently. Each item has a small RFID label and each
shopping cart an RFID scanner connected to the central
store system. The RFID tunnel scanner performs checkout
functions by tallying up all the items in the cart at once,
without requiring direct sight lines to individual products.
The system invites the shoppers to pay either by credit
card or via their mobile phones. The customers place their
cards or NFC mobile phones on the scanner, enter their
PIN numbers, and the bill is paid.
The Future Retail center features a mobile retail scenario
known as “quick shopping”. With quick shopping, the
retailer reaches out to passersby in the street through
their cell phones to increase the efficiency of their shopping
experience. The consumer’s shopping list is stored on
his phone and automatically matched with the retail outlet’s
inventory. As the consumers approach, they receive an
alert on their cell phones as well as visual information
regarding the items on their shopping lists that match the
store’s inventory. The aim is to entice consumers into the
Future Retail Enters Second Life
In late summer, the Future Retail Center entered the
Second Life virtual world. By replicating the center in
this popular 3D environment, SAP Research aims to
test the availability of goods and out-of-stock situations.
Through Second Life, SAP Research is exploring the
ways in which SAP Retail applications can be used in
virtual stores. Researchers are specifically looking into
ways how to visualize retail data and processes in
Second Life and use the simulated environment for decision
support. The team is also exploring the possibility
of combining the benefits of the real world (intuitive
familiarity) with those of eCommerce (community ratings,
personalized shops) within Second Life. If the initial trials
prove successful, the team plans to create a real-time
inventory in Second Life, allowing users to buy items in
the virtual world and then have them delivered to their
physical locations via the postal service.
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store and help navigate them toward their desired items
via a visual map displayed on their cell phones. Additional
applications based on this simple scenario include search,
electronic coupons, shopping suggestions, etc.
The logistics scenario demonstrates the intelligent selection
of RFID-tagged cases of goods as well as goods
issued and received. SAP Research is already expanding
this scenario with demonstrations in RFID-enhanced warehousing
and palette movement applications.
German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and
SAP CEO Henning Kagermann see PROVE technology
in action at CeBIT 2007.
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“I am more than happy with the results of the joint work with SAP Research Montreal
on the Mobile Retail project. We have enjoyed an extremely fruitful collaboration from the
very start. Communications have always been very open. From my perspective, we
achieved better results than we had expected. These results are tangible and can be
directly used in external communications from a retail perspective. Visitors were amazed
by the Future Retail Center demonstrations in Regensdorf, Switzerland. I was also
extremely impressed by the cycle time of the project. From idea to results, we were able
to complete the project in around 12 months, which is fantastic.”
Dr. Dietmar Saddei,
Senior Vice President PTU Suite Verticals & Composites
Development Trading Industries, SAP AG
Several SAP INSPIRE projects also contribute to the
store. With its authentication and counterfeiting prototype,
PROVE (PROduct VErification) ensures that all the items
are genuine. Meanwhile, the 3D Visualization Framework
Project provides useful technology in the area of price
zone optimization.
The Future Retail Center was successfully presented at
the CeBIT 2008 at the SAP stand there.
Technologies for Emerging Economies
Emerging economies are an important topic not only for
international organizations like the United Nations and the
World Bank, but also for business enterprises. IT companies
in particular have taken an interest in these countries,
because they see a lot of growth potential in emerging
economies.
However, it is impossible for one organization to address
all the research challenges associated with the use of IT
in more than 60 emerging economies. For this reason,
SAP Research South Africa and the SAP Meraka Unit
for Technology Development focus their joint research
efforts primarily on the key drivers of socio-economic
development locally – i.e., within the small, medium, and
micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the so called BRICS
countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
The team’s research efforts address SAP product and
service improvement, as well as the initiation of new

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“In the Department of Science and Technology (DST), we are fully aware that partnerships
between the public and private sector are crucial for the development of advanced human
capital and the enhancement of our research capabilities. We also understand the role of
Science and Technology in addressing socio-economic challenges faced by our country
right now. The fact that SAP is investing with us in the area of ICT is an epitome of what
is possible between government and private sector. We find the motivation and
orientation behind SAP co-investment with us very refreshing.”
Mosibudi Mangena
Science and Technology Minister, South Africa
services and products that are likely to unlock the vast
market potential of the abovementioned economies.
Researchers pay special attention to technology infrastructure,
usage, application, and economics. These are all
issues of importance in emerging economies. The team
also explores how current SAP products should be
adapted to suit these markets.
Many of the current projects are undertaken in collaboration
with SAP Research teams from all over the world,
using the Living Labs methodology. SAP Research also
boasts tentative contacts with partners in India, Brazil,
Russia, and China.
The SAP Meraka Unit
In January 2007, the SAP Meraka Unit for Technology
Development began to research into the use of ICT to
alleviate under-development and poverty in South Africa.
The unit was developed in partnership between SAP
South Africa, SAP Research, and South Africa’s Meraka
Institute – supported by the Department of Science and
Technology (DST).
The SAP Meraka Unit will help SAP as a global organization
to understand the technology and application software
needs of emerging economies. Thus, SAP will be able to
make its products and services more relevant to those
markets.
2008 will see the unit engaging in several projects related
to emerging markets.
C@R – Catalyzing Rural Development
C@R stands for Collaboration in Rural Areas. Started in
September 2006, the project aims at boosting the introduction
of Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs)
as key enablers catalyzing rural development. Together
with SAP Research’s South African partner CSIR/Meraka,
the SAP Research team identified customer pain points
through close interactions with stakeholders throughout
the supply chain. SAP Research involved end users from
the very beginning to ensure a strong business case and
clear justification from a target audience point of view,
e.g., for the introduction of new technologies like geospatial
ERP. SAP Research activities focus on the set-up of a
Rural Living Lab in Sekhukhune, South Africa. The Lab
enables the incubation of small enterprises through ICT
support. Use cases comprise collaborative procurement,
logistics, stock management, and knowledge sharing.
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Collaborative Procurement Process
Spaza Shop Owner Infopreneur Supplier
Due to the remoteness of the Living Lab, small enterprises
face multiple problems. SAP Research helps the enterprises
to overcome long distances and high transaction
costs through the introduction of services and tools that
facilitate the building of “economies of scale” among
clustered organizations. The Living Lab addresses limited
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Current Projects in the Area of Technologies for
Emerging Economies
• Skua – explores issues of software workflows and
approvals within a South African context.
• SAUTA – evaluates current SAP Business ByDesign
prototypes in a developing world context in terms of
usability and user acceptance.
• NeST – involves the investigation of the business software
needs of Non-Governmental Organizations in
South Africa.
• C@R: Collaboration at Rural Areas – aims to drive the
introduction of Collaborative Working Environments
(CWEs) as key enablers, catalyzing rural development.
connecti vity and computer literacy levels via multimodal,
simplified, and localized human computer interactions that
are capable of working offline.
Future steps include taking end-user engagement to the
next level and implementating advanced Web services
based on an Open Service-Oriented Architecture (OSOA)
approach. The team is also exploring the promising synergies
of a pan-European and Asian network of Living Labs.
• www.c-rural.eu/

SERVICE ECOSYSTEMS
TOWARD THE INTERNET OF SERVICES
Over the last decade, the service sector has become the biggest and
fastest-growing business sector in the world. For the first time ever, it now
employs most people worldwide.
In order for this growth to continue, services should
become more widely and easily available and should also
yield higher productivity. The clever use of information
technology can significantly help to achieve these goals.
SAP has started to explore different aspects of the
service sector. The organization is specifically looking for
those services which can be managed through IT and,
being combined, lend themselves, into value-added ser -
vices. This new and elaborate vision for next-generation
services provided via the Internet is known as the Internet
of Services.
The Internet of Services
The New Dimension of the Service Economy Requires an “Internet of Services”
Infrastructure
Content
Content Description
Focus
Connections/Interfaces
In the Internet of Services, innovative technological deve -
lopments drive the creation of new delivery channels for
services and entirely new business models. The creation
of these services is facilitated by an open platform and
interface architecture, as provided by the Enterprise Ser -
vice-Oriented Architecture (enterprise SOA). The Internet
of Ser vices takes the enterprise SOA approach to the next
level by making services easy to implement, consume,
and trade. In combi nation with Web 2.0 technologies, the
Internet of Services is expected to improve service inno -
vation. Additionally, by bringing events from the real world
into the services realm (making the Internet of Services
“real-world aware”), the Internet of Services will become
a cornerstone for the Internet of the next generation –
Web 3.0.
Internet – Today Internet of Services – Tomorrow
Webserver, Browser Services Delivery Platform
Web pages
HTML
Consumers
Services and Multimedia Content
Semantic Descriptions
Enterprises and Consumers
Hyperlinks between Web pages Composition of Services and Information Mash-ups
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A New Approach to Services
“Services” is a broadly defined term. Services are gene -
rally considered to be business activities that often result
in intangible outcomes or benefits, delivered by service
providers to their environment. In the context of the Internet
of Services, the term covers both business services
(“Dienstleistung” in German) and technical services.
Business services describe business models, as well as
abstract functions and e-services referencing those business
services which are accessible electronically, most
notably over the Internet. Technical services, on the other
hand, are used for the implementation of services (for
example, Web services). Bringing the different aspects of
services together into a coherent framework is one of the
key challenges for the Internet of Services.
Reusing business services in different contexts for new
applications requires both the ability to technically implement
them and the possibility to trade them. The services
economy will be shaped in such a way that services will
be valuable to consumers (both businesses and private
individuals). Services will also boast new, value-adding
functionality, improving existing applications and creating
new and innovative applications. This takes the current
enterprise SOA approach of SAP a step further into the
realm of cross-organizational settings, where customers
can openly but securely offer and make use of provided
services.
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“The contemporary Internet can be reduced to a short formula: too much information,
too little knowledge. An important goal of the THESEUS program is the development of a
knowledge generation approach. For us, THESEUS is a lighthouse project preparing the
ground for the Next Generation Internet. In cooperation with other partners from the academia
and the industry, SAP Research will enable the development of high quality Web
services out of basis software services. Thereby, SAP Research and SAP – together with
its technological leadership – effectively contribute to the future Internet of Services.”
Dr. Andreas Goerdeler
Head of Development of Convergent ICT Division, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
The Internet of Services will shape the future of the global
service economy by creating value for services in new
markets and providing a next-generation service delivery
platform (SDP). Users of such an SDP include enterprise
systems, consumers, and citizens. Providing an inter -
operable and integrated platform that will bring these roles
together is a further key challenge for the Internet of
Services.
The beauty of this concept is a real opportunity for SAP
to make its applications even more attractive, enabling
customers to offer their services much more easily than it
is currently the case. Leveraging the SAP partner network
for additional services, as well as the customer community
for feedback on provided services and the innovation of
new services, will create a new ecosystem for the benefit
of customers, partners, and SAP.

2007 saw the start of the THESEUS program in Germany,
an ambitious initiative partly sponsored by the German
Government to spearhead the use of innovative technologies
for next-generation services. Since the program’s
inception, SAP has been closely involved, most notably
with the TEXO use case.
THESEUS – Toward the Next-Generation Internet
Run by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology (BMWi) in collaboration with the cooperation
of SAP, DFKI, and other partners, the THESEUS program
aims to develop a new Internet-based infrastructure to
better leverage knowledge available on the Internet.
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“The DFKI collaborates with SAP Research in various projects on a new generation of
collaborative business software which is based on the Internet of Services. Semantic
service annotations will allow an automatic service discovery and the task-based composition
of complex services. As a next step, we will combine the Internet of Services with
the Internet of Things, so that real-world awareness, event-based information processing,
and adaptive software can be realized.”
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster
CEO, German Research Center for AI, DFKI GmbH
To that end, application-oriented basic technologies and
technical standards are being developed and tested under
the THESEUS umbrella. Expected results include novel
products, tools, services, and business models for the
World Wide Web, as well as for the service and know -
ledge society of tomorrow.
The research program focuses on semantic technologies.
Using these technologies, computer programs can intelligently
comprehend the context in which data are stored.
Users will also be able to produce and edit content types,
rules, and structures themselves, as well as edit, collect,
and link multimedia content intelligently.
• www.theseus-programm.de
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TEXO – Business Webs in the Internet of Services
TEXO is a research project within the THESEUS research
program focusing on future business value networks in
the context of service economies.
TEXO is expected to provide a platform that makes services
tradable on the Internet. It will enhance the value of ser -
vices and integrate customized services into the consumer
environment. The project addresses the full lifecycle of
services from their innovation (using communities on the
net, design, engineering, provisioning, composition, and
delivery) to consumption by applications and users. In
addition to technical capabilities, TEXO is also developing
new business models for service delivery. It looks at
legal aspects of Internet trade and addresses the trust
and security requirements of service users. The use case
takes advantage of semantic technologies to describe
the content of services in order to enable the automatic
processing of service descriptions.
Semantics – Enabling Computers to Understand
the Meaning of Human Language
Semantics is the science of content and meaning. In
the world of IT, semantics entails enabling computers to
understand the meaning of human language. Software
systems and the Internet are still syntax-based. They
focus on linking characters into character strings. When
linking from one document to another, computers do not
take any account of meaning.
Semantic technologies make use of semantics by allo -
wing users to assign content to these links. However, in
doing so, it is essential to factor in the ambiguous nature
of human language.
Semantic technology interconnects terms like a kind of
giant encyclopaedia. This system of terms and relationships
creates a semantic network which the computer
can use to draw certain conclusions and fill in blanks.
Semantic descriptions enable software to pick out terms
with the same meaning.
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Potential scenarios for TEXO include the extension of
SAP applications with business services provided by SAP,
its partners, and – potentially – the community at large.
An example of TEXO’s application in the real world could
be a value-added service automating the export of goods.
The exporting of goods requires interaction between a
larger set of organizations including financial institutions,
insurance companies, logistics companies, customs, and
so on, each providing a kind of atomic service. A service
aggregator could combine these atomic services into
a value-added service which coordinates these separate
entities and, thus, serves as a single point of contact to
service users.
The TEXO platform will help all organizations – especially
small and midsized companies (SMEs) and users – to
become more agile in today’s economy by focusing on
their core competencies while using external providers for
non-core activities. Moreover, TEXO will allow SMEs to
offer and publish their services, to extend their product
offerings, and to present their business know-how to
a larger community of potential service users. In addition,
TEXO will allow service users to easily discover relevant
services based on personal preferences and make use of
them in their daily work environment.
Key to the success of TEXO is the combination of tech -
nology, business, and law. The use case brings together
technologies of service-oriented architectures (SOA),
semantic technologies, Web 2.0 concepts, Internet business
models, and legal aspects. TEXO covers the full life cycle
of services (innovation, creation, provisioning, aggregation,
discovery, execution, monitoring, and consumption).
In collaboration with eleven partners from the academia
and the industry, SAP Research is leading work on TEXO.
The SAP team consists of 25 researchers from SAP
Research centers in Karlsruhe, Dresden, Darmstadt in
Germany, and Brisbane in Australia.
• www.theseus-programm.de/scenarios/de/texo.

SUPER – Semantics Utilized for Process Management
Within and Between Enterprises
The SUPER project demonstrates how SAP Research is
working on basic technologies for the Internet of Services.
Partially sponsored by the European Union, SUPER
attempts to take business process management to the
next level by shifting it from the IT professional to the
business executive. The project will achieve this goal by
improving the modeling and managing of business
processes through the use of semantics. Specifically, it
will provide a semantic-based and context-aware framework
for business processes.
As the coordinator of SUPER, SAP Research takes the
leading role in managing the project and contributes significantly
to the research activities. SAP researchers are
engaged in leveraging semantic technologies to improve
business process management tasks. The most important
results achieved by SAP researchers in 2007 include the
automated composition of services, advanced service
discovery, data mapping techniques, and semantic extensions
of business process modeling tools.
Ontologies – Key Enablers for Semantic
Technologies
First introduced by Aristotle, ontologies have become
a topic of interest in computer science in recent years.
Ontologies provide a shared understanding of a
domain of interest to support communication among
human and computer agents, typically described in a
machine-processable representation language.
Thus, ontologies are seen as key enablers for the
Semantic Technologies and the Semantic Web. Standards
for ontology languages include the layered
W3C standards RDF/S and OWL. Numerous scientific
and commercial tools exist to create and maintain
ontologies. These have been used to build applications
based on ontologies including the areas of knowledge
management and engineering disciplines (e.g., auto -
motive, medicine, or bioinformatics).
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Owing to technologies being developed in SUPER, com -
panies will soon be able to face volatile business environments
being fully aware that their business process
management tools will work.
• www.ip-super.org
FUSION – Semantically-Enabled Service-Oriented
Business Applications
Funded by the European Union, the FUSION project aims
at facilitating efficient business collaboration between
small and midsized enterprises. FUSION does this by
developing a framework and innovative technologies for
the semantic fusion of service-oriented business applications
existing within collaborating companies. In addition,
the project takes into consideration the intercultural and
regulatory aspects of countries in an enlarged Europe.
Since the beginning of the project in 2006, SAP Research
has been active in devising the FUSION approach and in
delivering process designer specifications. 2007 already
saw the launch of the first project prototypes, most
notably a proof-of-concept prototype demonstrating the
application of semantic service discovery and selection
technologies in “Shipper-Carrier” solutions, which form an
essential part of Inbound Logistics. This first wave of
results from FUSION significantly contributed to “Next
Generation SOA-based B2B Integration”.
Focusing on cross-organizational business processes,
FUSION will simplify process integration, thus contributing
to the development of next-generation software solutions
for service economies.
• www.fusionweb.org
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SAP Research Net – A Social Networking Approach in
Action
In use since 2006, the SAP Research Net (SRN) is a platform
which integrates and communicates the activities of
SAP Research. The platform is the result of a collaboration
between SAP Research and the intelligent views GmbH, a
company specializing in semantic technology-related
applications.
SRN combines the power of semantic networks with
SAP´s expertise in knowledge management. The platform
is based on an ontology that relates defined concepts to
each other (e.g., people, projects, locations, documents,
etc.) and derives additional concepts from existing ones.
SRN utilizes the SAP Search and Classification Engine to
complement the semantic networks.
An important feature introduced in 2007 is the skill system.
The skill system is a social networking approach, enabling
all members of SAP Research to maintain and extend their
own skill profiles. Each profile is mapped to one or several
project(s), each of which also possesses a set of associa -
ted skills. The skill system gives researchers and ma -
nagers the opportunity to discover projects and expert
groups which best suit their interests.
The automatic linkage of SRN and the publication sharing
system, BibSonomy, is the first step envisaged for 2008.
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POEM – Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management
SAP Research Palo Alto and the computational logic
group of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab coinitiated
POEM in January 2007. Contrary to its rather
lyrical name, the Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management
(POEM) project focuses on applying computational logic
to software for managing companies. Most importantly,
the POEM approach helps to extend SAP’s enterprise
SOA to new horizons.
With the POEM technology, the creation of business
processes will no longer necessitate human involvement.
Instead, business processes will emerge on the basis of
given business goals. These business goals will utilize
available Web services and comply with policies set by
the com pany or its partners as well as with federal laws,
etc.
POEM will also impact the development of new user interfaces.
These interfaces will provide powerful data manipulation
capabilities resolving inconsistencies and supporting
user needs during interactions with highly complex business
applications.

2007 saw the creation of a new architecture for business
process realization based on computational logic. With
the help of numerous proof-of-concept prototypes, the
feasibility of this architecture could be verified for important
real-world applications.
In 2008, the project aims at making a significant impact on
tangible high-visibility application areas of SAP software.
The goal is to build up the new-generation architecture
gradually, while gathering practical experience for the further
development of the theoretical framework of POEM.
askSAP – a Natural Language Search with SAP Search
and Classification Engine
This project will enhance the search capabilities of SAP
products. It uses natural language processing to realize an
exact search of terms. The technology, which is currently
being tested, relies on an analysis of the number of hits
and takes the semantics of words into consideration. The
expected results will lead to more precise searches and
will eliminate unrelated search results owing to a more
accurate analysis of sentences, attributes, and database
content.
As an initial step, SAP introduced a “Google-like” search
for Business Objects. This search methodology executes
the search agnostic of the exact field location of a certain
lookup term. Now, with askSAP’s Natural Language Processing
(NLP), it is possible to analyze a query more
effectively by recognizing special words such as “of” and
“in”, etc. Knowledge regarding common combinations
and groups (e.g., First Name, Last Name) is also useful in
order to understand the intention of the user.
askSAP has already been successfully integrated into
SAP NetWeaver 2007.
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NESSI – The European Technology Platform
SAP Research was one of the founding members of the
European Technology Platform (ETP) NESSI (Networked
European Software and Services Initiative). NESSI was
launched in September 2005 by 13 partners and was
enlarged in June 2006 to 22 partners and more than 200
members. NESSI aims at providing a unified outlook for
Services Architectures and Software Infrastructures for
European research organizations. This overview helps
stakeholders to define technologies, strategies, and
deployment policies with the goal of fostering new, open
industrial solutions and societal applications that enhance
the safety, security, and well-being of citizens. The work
of NESSI is strongly influencing the European Union’s
Seventh Framework Program (FP 7) and will certainly lead
to the implementation of some major strategic EU projects
in software and services.
In 2007, four NESSI strategic integrated projects were
acquired within FP7 Call 1, with SAP being the only NESSI
partner involved in all four projects (MASTER, Reservoir,
SLA@SOI, and SOA4All). Work on these initiatives will
start early in 2008. Closely connected to the THESEUS
program, these four projects will provide a European perspective
on THESEUS.
• www.nessi-europe.eu
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REAL-WORLD AWARENESS
THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Over the past couple of years, SAP Research has been continually
developing its vision of how the Internet can reach out to the real world of
physical objects.
What exactly is the Internet of Things?
“The Internet of Things is a description of a time in the
not-too-distant future, when everyday objects, rooms, and
machines have sensors and can “communicate” with
each other. As futuristic as this vision may be, it is being
taken very seriously in academia and business.”
Prof. Elgar Fleisch, M-Lab
First “Internet of Things” Conference
On March 26–28, 2008, the first “Internet of Things”
conference led more than 300 researchers and practitioners
from around the world to Zurich. They spent
three days discussing technologies and applications of
the Internet of Things – a vision that foresees the Internet
to reach out into the real world of physical objects.
Hosted by ETH Zurich, the University of St. Gallen and
the MIT, and co-sponsored by SAP as platinum sponsor,
the conference featured keynotes from industrial and
academic visionaries, scientific presentations, and talks
by industrial practitioners.
SAP Executive Board member Peter Zencke kicked off
the conference with a keynote about the role of the
Internet of Things for SAP. In a live demo, he presented
SAP Research’s view on the future of retail.
SAP Research Switzerland presented its results through
several talks in the scientific session and at a dedicated
demo booth. Demonstrators of SAP’s Future Retail
Center and of the research projects BRIDGE, SToP,
and SOCRADES showed the innovativeness of SAP
Research in the domain and received great feedback
from the audience. The strong appearance of SAP at the
convention stressed its recognition of the Internet of
Things as a megatrend.
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The Internet of Things fuses the digital world and the
physical world. The next-generation Internet is not only
about smart devices communicating with each other over
the Internet. Moreover, augmented physical objects connected
to the Internet will rearrange the rule of occupancy
and patterns of mobility within the physical world – as well
as its impact on enterprise systems. SAP Research has
started to explore the implications of this rearrangement
for business software.
The Internet of Things brings different concepts and
technical components together: pervasive networks,
miniatu rization of devices, mobile communication, and new
models for business processes. Applications, services,
middleware components, networks, and endpoints will be
structurally connected in entirely new ways.
This will bring tangible business benefits, for example,
the high-resolution management of assets and products,
improved lifecycle management, and better collaboration
between enterprises. Improved sensor and device capa -
bilities will also allow business logic to be executed on
the “edges” of a network, enabling existing business
processes to be decentralized for the benefit of perfor -
mance, scalability, and local decision-making.
The market potential for the Internet of Things is enormous.
According to Forrester Research (Global Extended Internet
Forecast: 2006-2012, September 2006), the total market
for Internet of Things-related technologies and services is
predicted to reach well over US$11.5 billion by 2012, with
a growth rate of 48% in the seven years from 2005
through 2012.
Taking SAP’s focus on enterprise SOA into consideration,
SAP Research is taking it to a whole new level through
the Internet of Things concept.

Building on its extensive expertise in the field of Real-World
Awareness, an area in which it has been active since
1999, SAP Research started to streamline its focus on the
augmented next-generation Internet across all industry
Factory
Pack Center
Supply Wholesaler
Distribution Center
Retail Distribution Center
Retail Backstore
Retail Shop
Consumer
Recycling
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Intended Supply Chain Licit Gray and Illicit Market
Product Verification
Licit Trade
Theft
Illicit Gray Trade/Smuggle
Counterfeit/Piracy Trade
Return Flow
segments in 2007. Outcomes of this research field include
Future Manufacturing, Future Retail, and the SAP
INSPIRE project Product Verification (PROVE).
PROVE: Overview of Illicit Practices Influencing the Legal Supply Chain and Trading
Co-Packing
Co-Packing
Illicit Manufacturer
Packaging
Distribution
Illicit Retail:
Illicit Stores, Flea
Markets, Internet
Shops
Consumer
Recycling
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PROVE – Helping Combat Counterfeiting Goods
Product counterfeiting, smuggling, and other illegal trading
practices are evolving as fast as emerging trends and
technologies. Alongside the music, software, and luxury
goods industries, fake, tampered, and stolen products are
increasingly finding their way into other business sectors
from the pharmaceutical industry to aircraft and auto mobile
spare part manufacturing.
With the increasing demand for solutions to this problem
across multiple industries, the SAP Executive Board
initiated the development of PROVE in November 2005
as an Incubator project within SAP INSPIRE.
The resulting application enables legitimate parties along
the value chain, such as brand owners, distributors, retai -
lers, and consumers of products with services to:
• distinguish between genuine products and counterfeits
by using security techniques and product markings that
cannot be copied without being detected.
• detect anomalies indicating illegal parallel trading activities,
the injection of stolen or diverted products into
value chains, etc. by analyzing enterprise business data
managed by SAP applications, such as SAP ERP and
SAP SCM.
PROVE services can run on both mobile devices and
stand-alone computers while utilizing SAP NetWeaver,
SAP’s service-oriented application platform.
An example: Before buying a counterfeit-prone product,
customers can photograph a security label printed on the
product package with their camera-equipped cell phones.
When the customers send the image to the PROVE system,
it will immediately return a 100% safe authentication
result.
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PROVE now extends the SAP GRC Portfolio helping
SAP customers protect their revenues, intellectual
property rights, R&D investments, and brand value
against plagiarism and illicit trading practices.
SToP – Providing Solutions for Authentication of Products
Launched in November 2006 and initiated by the European
Union, the SToP project brings together several partners:
Hochschule St. Gallen, Oria Computers, Spacecode,
Richemont, Novartis, Airbus, Bundesdruckerei, and SAP
Research (project leader). The SToP project aims to provide
solutions for the authentication of products based on
RFID and related ambient intelligence technologies.
Besides conducting a thorough requirements analysis and
developing a product verification infrastructure and economic
models, SAP and its partners are performing extensive
trials to evaluate proposed solutions (a key component
of the project).
In 2007, SAP Research developed an initial prototype for
SToP in close partnership with PROVE. Researchers
explored the possibilities offered by SAP’s object event
repository (OER). Analyzing the event history of product
items will help to establish the authenticity of goods.
The first industrial trials will be undertaken in 2008, most
probably in the pharmaceutical, aviation, and luxury goods
industries. Results from the project are planned to be
turned into an SAP product soon.
With both the PROVE and SToP projects, SAP is paving
the way for the first universal anti-counterfeiting software
solutions ever to have been developed by a major IT
vendor.
• www.stop-project.eu

SOCRADES – Integration of Smart Items in Enterprise
Environments
The goal of the SOCRADES (Service-oriented Cross-layer
Infrastructure for Distributed Smart Embedded Systems)
project is to create new methodologies, technologies, and
tools for the modeling, design, implementation, and
operation of (wired/wireless) networked hardware and
software systems embedded in smart physical objects.
Beside SAP, this EU-supported project marks the first-ever
collaboration between com pe ting automation giants such
as Schneider Electric, Siemens, and ABB, major players in
the user domain such as Jaguar, ARM, Flexlink, etc., and
academic thought leaders.
SAP Research is investigating ways how to integrate lowlevel
device functionality with high-level business-related
processes in order to provide a direct end-to-end system
solution. With this project, SAP continues to find new
ways of merging the business and real worlds, taking a
step towards the realization of the Internet of Things vision.
In 2007, SAP Research devised design specifications and
delivered an initial prototype to demonstrate Web servicesbased
shop floor integration. This application connects
Web-service-enabled devices such as a robotic gripper
and wireless sensors with SAP MII. In fall 2007, SAP presented
the prototype to the European Commission and at
the ITEA Symposium 2007 in Berlin.
• www.socrades.eu
WaterSense – Monitoring Water Supply Systems
There is a huge potential for software vendors like SAP in
helping water utility companies monitor the water supply
system in big cities through the use of sensor technologies.
Although SAP does not offer hardware, the company
is interested in collaborating with partners to offer endto-end
solutions. The WaterSense project provides one
example of SAP Research’s work in the field. Drawing
from the results of a project undertaken by the Massa -
chusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entitled “Sensor
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Networks for Monitoring Water Supply Systems”,
WaterSense integrates smart sensor node devices with
analytical, decision support, and enterprise applications to
provide a complete end-to-end solution. The application
of the WaterSense framework enables the near real-time
monitoring of water transmission pipelines.
The most recent trial of the technology was in London,
where the project partners Imperial College in London,
MIT, and SAP Research in Palo Alto had been exploring
ways to detect and locate leaks and identify malfunctio -
ning equipment quickly in the British capital’s water supply
systems. High-frequency sensor measurements are routed
to streaming algorithms and the results are integrated
into SAP Utilities solutions. This allows water utility bodies
to dispatch repair crews promptly to problem areas.
IEEE Best Paper Awards
In 2007, two SAP Research papers received the
prestigious IEEE Best Paper Award. IEEE, a non-profit
organization, is the world’s leading professional
association for the advancement of technology. The
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Award honors authors of papers of exceptional merit
that deal with subjects related to the Society’s scope.
Florian Kerschbaum’s paper “Building a Privacy- Pre -
serving Benchmarking Enterprise System” won the
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Enterprise Com puting
Conference (EDOC), October 17–19, 2007, Annapolis,
MD. The paper “Integration of SOA-ready Networked
Embedded Devices in Enterprise Systems via a Cross-
Layered Web Service Infrastructure“ by Stamatis
Karnouskos, Oliver Baecker, Luciana Moreira Sá de
Souza, and Patrik Spiess, an SAP Research team wor -
king on the EU SOCRADES project, won the Best Paper
Award of Emerging Technologies at the IEEE ETFA 2007
conference, September 25–27, 2007 in Patras, Greece.
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WaterSense Prototype: Using complex event processing
and intelligent sensors
Enabling unprecedented insights into water transmission
grids, preliminary results from trials involving these highfrequency
measurements have surprised operators when
compared to yesterday’s 15-minute measurement intervals.
To make sense of these massive amounts of data,
the sensor boards used in WaterSense carry local intelligence
and can determine whether measurements constitute
an “event”. Not all measurements have to be sent to
a powerful machine for processing. Events are determined
using the WaveScope stream processor. Built at MIT, the
processor can process millions of samples per second.
The sensors and the stream processor are connected to
SAP systems.
WaterSense was presented at an SAP-sponsored utilities
conference in the United Kingdom. Currently, SAP
Research is conferring with several major water utility
companies in the UK interested in performing trials. In
2008, the project team is planning to implement the project
on top of the Smart Items infrastructure, which may transform
water utility plants into “production plants”. This
would help water plants run more efficiently by using less
energy to pump water while using resources to their full
potential.
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CarWeaver
Another example of Real-World Awareness research is
the CarWeaver project of SAP Research in Palo Alto.
The goal of the CarWeaver project is to demonstrate
SAP Solution support for vehicular ecosystems, including
remote sensor communications and in-vehicle information
delivery. In 2008, the project will continue to explore
telematics and logistics ecosystem solutions through
close partnerships with groups like SAP IBU Automotive.
IRIS – Linking SAP Business Solutions to the Real World
The IRIS- (Industrial Real-world Integration Services)
project will provide the means to link SAP business solutions
with the devices and objects of the real world such
as production machinery, RFID readers, and user interfaces
in the field. This will enable backend systems to
sense events and receive data from devices, as well as to
control manufacturing processes. In its first stage, IRIS
focuses on enabling manufacturing operations powered by
SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Manufacturing Integration
and Intelligence (SAP MII). In the future, IRIS may also

enable real-world integration scenarios in other domains
such as time recording in Human Capital Management
and device integration in Retail. Initiated in 2006, IRIS
exemplifies the highly collaborative relationship between
SAP Research and the product development organization
of SAP Business ByDesign Supply Chain Management.
Smart Device Applications Project
Coinciding with the announcement made in August 2006
concerning the SAP NetWeaver fund’s strategic investment
in Questra Corporation (a leading provider of Intelligent
Device Management solutions), joint discussions
between SAP Research and Questra kicked into high gear.
Discussions focused on the next generation of deviceto-business
processes and on ways of leveraging the
strengths of both companies’ solutions: Questra’s Intelligent
Device Management Application Suite and SAP’s
Business Suite.
After interviewing selected customers, SAP and Questra
soon decided upon the best scenario. Defined as an
integrated usage-based billing solution, the proposed
solution directly integrates devices with the SAP CRM
usage-based billing enterprise application. This formed the
basis for the “Smart Device Applications”-project that
was launched in October 2006. This project serves as a
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“Our collaboration with SAP Research helped us to understand the trends and hypes
in our industry and think outside the box to leverage new techniques and concepts.
SAP Research and SAP Industry Solution Management Automotive form a close global
network working together on joint projects at the forefront of innovative technologies
and providing thought leadership in our industry. We look at growth opportunities that are
beyond the existing portfolio but within SAP’s overall vision and strategy. That inspires
our way forward, and combining our strengths will help SAP to significantly grow the
business in the automotive market.”
Günter Lasser
Vice President Industry Business Unit Automotive, Discrete Industry Solutions, SAP AG
very good example of co-innovation with another independent
software vendor. It also illustrates the benefits of
the proximity between both companies in Silicon Valley.
Both SAP and Questra continue to demonstrate the integrated
usage-based billing showcase to a growing number
of companies. Most recently, the project results were
demonstrated to members of a German CEO roundtable
visiting the new Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto. Audiences
quickly grasped the possibilities of cost-effectively implementing
loosely coupled systems to enable new scalable
usage-based business models and reach new markets.
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USER EMPOWERMENT
USERS GAIN CONTROL
User Empowerment is about users gaining control over what they’re doing.
It also concerns group participation, where everyone benefits from the
collective wisdom of the group.
The 1960s were framed by “do your own thing” and
“power to the people”. The 1980s stood for employee
empowerment, both individually and collectively. The
2000s heralded an era of massive personalization through
consumer applications (e.g., widgets by Yahoo, Google,
Microsoft, Apple, WidgetBox, and Netvibes) and community
services such as wikis (e.g., Wikipedia). These applications
reflect the “wisdom of the crowd” – the collective
opinion of a community.
For business software, user empowerment means ope -
ning up user interfaces and services so that users can
personally access the data and services they need. Individuals
can create their own data and services as well as
customize the formatting and analyze the results as they
wish. This new flexibility also enables users to achieve better
results based on the experience and advice of others.
In short, the Web is no longer “read only” for users; it is a
read/write platform for next generation applications, where
users do much more than passively enter inputs. Business
software companies such as SAP must provide customers
with all the capabilities the customers expect from their
systems, from security and scalability to availability and
consistency.
Different Aspects of User Empowerment
SAP Research has been exploring user empowerment for
a significant period of time. The organization has studied
ways to help users leverage SAP systems to a full extent.
This was achieved by providing more intuitive ways of
accessing SAP systems as well as having embedded
access within typical end user environments such as a
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browser or a mind-mapping tool. As such, SAP is leading
the industry toward Enterprise 2.0, a term developed by
Professor Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business School.
Enterprise 2.0 denotes the use of Web 2.0 technologies
and concepts (wikis, widgets, wisdom of the crowds, etc.)
in business software.
SAP Research is undertaking a range of activities on user
empowerment with projects exploring mash-ups, semantic
analysis, social Webs, collective intelligence, and dynamic
programming languages. The group’s activities in this area
span the globe, involving teams in Australia, Germany, and
the United States.
Lightweight Composition is one of the pillars of the SAP
Research project portfolio in this space. The Rooftop
proto type allows end users to develop user-centric mashups
with a one-click operation. It was developed by SAP
Research in Brisbane and is currently being turned into a
product by SAP. Additionally, the team has developed a
range of widgets that are now productively being used at
SAP such as the SAPcon widget that informs IT managers
worldwide about the overall status of the IT landscape.
SAP INSPIRE’s icMAP demonstrates how user-centric
mash-ups can be created within a mind-map.
Another example is the Enterprise Web Widgets Framework
(EWWF) built by SAP Research in Palo Alto. EWWF
enables the rapid creation of ad-hoc mash-up applications
based on communicating widgets running in browsers or
on the desktop.

Lightweight Composition – Turning Users into Composers
Leveraging the power of enterprise SOA ByDesign, SAP
Research has been intensively investigating lightweight
composition over the past 18 months. The group has
explored technologies that enable information workers
to compose the information they need for their day-today
activities. Rooftop (SAP Research CEC Brisbane,
Australia) leverages an AJAX-based Web application with
which the user can create mash-ups on the fly from SAP’s
enterprise services and external Web services. Rooftop
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“I find widgets particularly useful to provide highly aggregated information or alerts. We
have been piloting the SAP Research SAPcon widget for some time now. It gives SAP IT
employees up-to-date information on the overall system status at SAP and improves our
responsiveness in critical situations. In addition to the current widgets, we plan to provide
widgets to our sales teams to accelerate the access to the CRM account and opportunity
information. I am convinced that widgets will complement the product offering of SAP in
a very compelling way.”
Uwe Herold
CIO, SAP AG
Rooftop – AJAX-based design time environment for end
user-created business mash-ups and widgets
can run within an SAP portal or as a stand-alone Web
application. icMAP (SAP INSPIRE) allows the end user
to compose information from SAP internal and external
sources within MindManager’s Mind Mapping tool. In addition,
icMAP provides sophisticated middleware allowing
a technical user to plug in any Web or enterprise service
without requiring the icMAP or Rooftop front ends to be
consumed with programming.
SAP Research and AP SRM collaborated on a project
aimed at leveraging Rooftop technology to build an SAP
Business ByDesign portal application to renegotiate purchasing
contracts.
In the context of Rooftop and icMAP, lightweight composition
represents a paradigm shift at SAP. In 2007, many
technology and software companies released alpha or
beta versions of tools enabling end users or consultants to
create mash-ups of information from various sources.
Examples include Microsoft Popfly, Yahoo Pipes, Serena
Business Mashups, Coghead, Intel Mashmaker, IBM
QEDWiki, and many more. Some of these tools target the
consumer market, but others are aimed at live customers
within the enterprise market. The work of SAP Research
yielded results by showing the application of the information
mash-up concept in the SAP space and the feasibility
of a product in this new market segment. With a sophisticated
product, SAP is able to react to this market trend
very quickly.
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The Rooftop platform is available to all SAP employees
without installation and has already attracted more than
500 distinct users and helped create around 700 widgets.
It is currently being consolidated and productized. Rooftop
widgets also run on Symbian mobile phones, such as the
Nokia N95.
3D Visualization Framework Project
The 3D Visualization Framework (an SAP INSPIRE project)
builds applications based on 2D/3D or geographical
3D Visualization Framework
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“We’ve undertaken an exciting project with SAP that allows customers to integrate Micro -
soft’s new Windows Vista product with the new SAP retail price zone application. With
our Web-based mapping software, Microsoft Virtual Earth, customers can pull all of these
data sources together to simulate and model the outcomes of various pricing scenarios
incredibly transparently and simply. I’m certain that this is an area where we’ll continue to
see great innovation over the next few years.”
Steve Ballmer
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation (at the National Retail Federation Annual Convention & EXPO,
January 15, 2007)
scenes. SAP Research undertook two case studies with
pilot customers in 2007. In one of the studies, the project
team worked with SAP Retail to release the “SAP Zone
Optimization” pilot application for a customer in the
United States. This multifunctional application stitches
together elements of the SAP application platform,
Microsoft Virtual Earth, and masses of backend and
publicly acces sible data to help decision makers keep
abreast of their business situations.
The project links to resources made readily available
by the United States Census Bureau, giving users quick
access to information – such as population density,
average income per capita, etc. By linking with Microsoft
Virtual Earth, the tool visualizes this information on a
geographical backdrop, displaying the demographics for
a particular region or near a particular branch store – all
within an interactive three-dimensional environment.
Now the project team is taking the development of these
applications to the next level, providing a complete tool
set with a design structure that allows customers to create
their own visual applications with ease. Featuring only a
few standard objects and minimal coding (an if/else clause
usually suffices), customers can literally map all of their
locations and display embedded analytical information
such as sales or production performance.
• www.sap.com/about/company/research/inspire/
projects/3d.epx

Prediction Markets
During its 30-year history, SAP has developed a rich
technical infrastructure for enterprises to track the status
of key factors in their businesses. Real-time data analysis
results are displayed on a dashboard for high-level cor -
porate decision-makers. Although the dashboard is driven
by mathematically sophisticated analytics, a key piece of
information is missing – the collective intelligence of relevant
stakeholders.
This project seeks to utilize this collective intelligence to
improve internal decision-making processes and predict
future developments. The project is based on the creation
of internal marketplaces that provide decision support for
decision makers. Such internal market mechanisms facilitate
the formation of communities for specific topics and
thus foster collaboration. The term “market” is used to
represent possible scenarios because people often
express their opinions about the future in terms of the
buying and selling of stocks.
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“One of our greatest strengths as a global company is the diversity of our organization.
We need to embrace this diversity to give us greater insight into future opportunities
and challenges by harnessing the collective intelligence of a group of individuals – ‘the
wisdom of the crowd’.”
Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann
Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, SAP AG
The internal market concept combines the opinions of
diverse stakeholder groups and predicts the value of
events or the probability of their occurrence. This is important,
since the “wisdom of the crowd” often generates
more accurate predictions than traditional decision committees.
Potential case studies include trend scouting, idea
evaluation, talent management, strategic management,
performance management, portfolio management, scenario
analysis, risk management, and resource allocation.
Thus, the establishment of internal markets will support
the decisions of business users.
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NEPOMUK – Building the Social Semantic Desktop
The central goal of NEPOMUK (Networked Environment
for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified
Knowledge) is to develop a comprehensive solution to
extend the personal desktop into a collaborative environment,
the Social Semantic Desktop. It supports both the
personal information management and the sharing and
exchange of information across social and organizational
boundaries.
The Social Semantic Desktop addresses the particular
needs of information workers collaborating in an organization.
So far, the support of information workers is mainly
restricted to email and office tools that provide basic support.
The connection of traditional business applications
and the user-centric Social Semantic Desktop promises a
variety of opportunities to significantly improve the productivity
of this group. For example, the Desktop makes the
activities more trans parent, better manageable for the
enterprise, and helps the individual to keep track of current
work activities.
In 2007, SAP Research developed the Semantic Task
Management Framework (STMF) – a desktop-wide integration
layer for tasks. STMF is one of the first application
components to enable users to benefit directly from the
NEPOMUK infrastructure. To demonstrate the capability
of the STMF, several application plug-ins have been deve -
loped. The plug-ins give users access to task management
functionalities directly from desktop applications such as
MS Outlook or a Web browser. In addition, SAP Research
has developed the Kasimir Task Center, providing users
with a central access point for the administration of their
tasks on the desktop.
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In 2008, STMF and desktop plug-ins will be extended so
that users may benefit further from the Social Semantic
Desktop. In particular, the project will focus on social
aspects. SAP Research will support the exchange of
metadata as well as the transfer of work experience
through task patterns. This will greatly increase the value
of Task Management for information workers.
• www.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
SAM – Status and Action Management
As part of the collaborative research and development
effort between SAP Research and Application Platform
(AP) Engineering, SAP Research is developing a modelling
tool (Maestro) to build status and action models as
well as a simulation environment to validate and test the
models.
The status and action models are an essential part of
Business Objects in SAP Business ByDesign and provide
a model-driven approach to capture and enforce business
object constraints. Using a visual modelling methodology,
the constraints for business object services/actions are
captured in models as part of the development and implementation
effort. A business object runtime environment
interprets these models to ensure that only valid actions
are allowed for a given state of the business object. When
these actions are performed, the internal state of the business
object is changed.
The outcomes of this research and development project
have already been transferred to SAP NetWeaver and
are now part of the Enterprise Services Repository. In
2007, SAP Research investigated advanced concepts
based on status and action management. These include
modifi cation-free extensibility of business objects, adaptable
process steps, constraints-based choreography mo -
delling, cross-business object constraints, and a collabo -
ration checker. Joint research and development initiatives
on these topics have resulted in a number of innovations
which will play a major role in SAP Business ByDesign in
the near future and will allow the platform to be extended
by ISVs and customers. SAP Research and AP Enginee -
ring will pursue some of these topics further in 2008.

MONET – Model-Driven Software Developement
MONET (MOdeling NEeds Tools), a research and internal
transfer project, pushes the adoption of model-driven
software development into the development organizations
of SAP. The scope of the transfer work covers both the
NetWeaver Modeling Infrastructure (MOIN) as a foundation
for future modelling tools, and the evolving process
modelling methodology and concepts from AP Engineering.
SAP has recognized SAP Research’s work on the inter -
ope rability of MOIN with other repository technologies as
a significant contribution towards the adoption of MOIN
as the preferred modelling technology of SAP.
Continuous Information Sensemaking
Continuous Information Sensemaking (CIS) envisions the
collection of a dynamic set of technologies and services
that will unite hundreds of SAP information sources and
millions of external information sources into one “Sensemaking”
user experience.
Sensemaking is a continuous effort to understand con -
nections (which can be among people, places, and events)
in order to anticipate – and act in accordance with – their
trajectories. Having the right information at the right time is
an essential precondition to manage any kind of enterprise
successfully. One research challenge is the parallel activity
of continuously running discovery and classification pro -
cesses in cooperation with core research on persistence
services like the Active Information Store Project.
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2007 witnessed the development of two prototypes
demonstrating sensemaking experiences. These prototypes
have been put into operation for internal testing in
two ways: “Res/Search” which targets the SAP general
community and supports the search of qualified interns;
and “Trendscout” which targets SAP managers wanting
to track emerging or future technologies.
Plans for 2008 include the expansion of the sensemaking
experiences prototypes into a software-as-a-service
delivery model, a significantly accessible service hosted
outside the enterprise. Created in close connection with
SAP’s enterprise SOA, the service is expected to tackle
several performance and security issues and will demonstrate
information sources beyond traditionally structured
text such as video, photos, audio, and 3D images.
Empowering the Mobile User – Making the Most
of Constrained Resources
Who is a mobile worker? Increasing numbers of people –
from the seriously mobile (road warriors, service engineers,
delivery drivers) to the casually mobile (anyone who
doesn’t want to have to return to his/her desktop computer
every time a piece of information is required) – are
looking for ways of staying connected on the go. Add to
this the people in developing countries who can access a
mobile network more easily than a fixed one and may
never actually own a desktop computer. Consider also
how consumers are increasingly becoming used to using
cell phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for
private needs and now expect the same level of service
for their professional needs.
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There is a growing demand for mobile enterprise appli -
cations, as well as an increasing need for companies
Embracing New Technologies in Real Time
As the iPhone was coming out in 2007, SAP Research
saw that its instant popularity as a personal device could
also carry it over into the workplace – a non-traditional
choice for enterprise mobility, but one that was worth
exploring. The researchers set to work in collaboration
with developers from SAP Customer Relationship Mana -
gement. Together, the teams demonstrated very rapidly
that CRM functions were achievable and, indeed, could
be efficiently integrated both into SAP’s back-end functions
and the iPhone user experience.
The project was also remarkable in terms of demon -
strating how real-time explorations of new technologies
benefit from grassroots energy and volunteer contributions
– how spontaneous communities of interested contributors
put forward the best of their varied expertise
and keep such projects well-grounded.
The iPhone integration was announced to the analysts
as part of the “5th Annual SAP Influencer Summit” on
December 4 and 5, 2007 in Boston and was picked up
intensively by the press.
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“It was so exciting a few months ago when SAP Research came to the SAP TechEd team
with a proposal and prototype for a mobile widget designed for SAP TechEd attendees.
SAP Research team members came up with the concept and designed and built the
widget on their own. It’s fantastic. With the mobile widget, TechEd attendees get a realtime
view of all session schedules including times, locations, abstracts, speakers, new
additions, and more – right on their cell phones, smart phones, and BlackBerrys. This
type of cutting-edge innovation really helps our customers and partners see SAP as
inventive, friendly, and effective. What a great job achieved by the SAP Research team!”
Chip Rogers
Chief Operating Officer, SAP Community Network, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG
to reach out directly to end users via their mobile devices.
Both have the need to accommodate complex transactions,
real-time information, and a satisfactory user expe -
rience on a device – despite constrained re sources. This
is not as far-fetched as it once was. The growth of reliable
networks, the development of increasingly sophisticated
phones, and improvements in ready-made software stacks
and new technologies are powerful facilitators.
This is why SAP Research is researching lightweight
mobility, making it possible to multiply mobile scenarios
that adapt well to mass-market devices. The Quick-
Shopping Scenario outlined in the Future Retail Center
is a case in point. (See chapter “Living Labs – Living
Research” in this report).
The industry will also be following exciting developments in
the coming months: The creation of fully browser-based,
rich Internet applications, promising no-install, no-management
mobile business applications. SAP is doing its share
as a member of the OpenAjax Alliance and is active in
defining Mobile Ajax.
• www.openajax.org

SECOMPO – Secure Composition Framework
Developing secure applications that are both user-friendly
and effective is a very challenging task. Today, application
developers need to deal with various complex and lowlevel
security configuration tools to configure the policies
to protect different parts (e.g., business process tasks,
Web services, etc.) of the same application. Most of the
security problems are caused by insufficient or inconsistent
configurations. The Secure Composition Framework
(SECOMPO), built at SAP Research in Palo Alto, enables
application developers to build a composite application
along with high-level security requirements that automatically
generates a configured security infrastructure.
SECOMPO empowers users by offering application deve -
lopers an easy-to-use secure service composition framework.
For example, a developer can achieve messages
confidentiality for B2B service calls by simply adding the
“B2BMessageConfidentiality” annotation. SECOMPO
also plays a security role for the Blue Ruby and BijouX
projects in Palo Alto.
Blue Ruby – Delivering the Best of Ruby and ABAP
A blue ruby is actually a sapphire – a gemstone well known
to SAP. But Blue Ruby is not about jewelry. It is about the
building of an enterprise-ready environment for dynamic
programming languages.
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“Today, information security infrastructure must be real-time, automated, and adaptive to
react to changes in an organization and its business environment. Model-Driven Security
(MDS) is a new approach that uses visual models and domain specific languages to
easily represent and assign security primitives to applications and business processes.
Designers can build a system model including security requirements and automatically
generate a configured security infrastructure. SAP Research’s innovative SECOMPO
solution provides a framework, architecture, and proof-of-concept demonstrating how
MDS can be used in a Service Composition scenario.”
Dr. Sachar Paulus
Head of Product Security, SAP AG
Ruby is one such dynamic language that is particularly
suited to rapid application development and agile programming.
The popularity of Ruby and its associated Web
development framework, Rails (particularly amongst gene -
ration-Y developers), is precisely due to their ability to both
empower the developer while at the same time removing
unnecessary complexity. Ruby enables even non-programmers
to build impressive applications in a very short time.
Drawing inspiration from these trends, SAP Research is
building an environment that will allow SAP customers and
partners to customize SAP applications easily and rapidly.
Blue Ruby combines the best of both worlds: the ease and
simplicity of programming in a language like Ruby together
with the enterprise capabilities of the SAP Web Application
server. Blue Ruby makes it possible to execute Ruby
directly in the ABAP stack.
Blue Ruby is part of a larger project named Gemstones.
As an umbrella, Gemstones focuses on technologies for a
new kind of extensibility layer for SAP’s Application Platform
(AP). Gemstones places an emphasis on technologies
for configurability, easy customization, easy provisio -
ning, higher performance, scalability, and reduced cost of
operation – all critical requirements for the On-Demand
market segment.
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SUSTAINABILITY
ACCOUNTABLE TO SOCIETY
In his thought-provoking book “The World Is Flat”, American journalist
Thomas L. Friedman argues that the explosion of new technologies leads to
a progressive “flattening” of the world – a leveling of the playing field which
makes everyone equal.
One of Friedman’s most interesting statements relates to
national governments having lost control over big companies.
At the same time, he sees the global public as
becoming more vocal and critical of business than ever
before.
Such theories and the current social and environmental
debate prompt multinational companies to become more
accountable for their actions, especially with regard to
those that impact nature and society. In other words, businesses
should take sustainability into account. If they fail
to do so, they run the risk of being judged and in the court
of the public opinion, whose power and reach has become
enormous thanks to new social media like blogs and wikis.
However, businesses are gradually becoming conscious of
these developments.
There is a clearly perceived need for enterprise software
that will help companies manage the sustainability challenge.
Being among the leading software vendors worldwide,
SAP is equipped to build solutions that address this need.
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SAP’s commitment to sustainability found expression in
early summer 2007, when the company joined 40 other
corporations worldwide in the 3C Initiative. 3C brings
together businesses focused on applying innovative technology
and business solutions to combat climate change.
SAP Research also supports many initiatives related to
sustainability. In the EMEA region, where sustainability is
an important topic for the European Union, SAP Research
aims at functioning as a spearhead, both within SAP and
among its wide-spread network of partners. In 2006, the
group pioneered a corporate sustainability prototype,
allowing organizations to improve the management of their
respective sustainability efforts. The prototype automates
previously manual processes around reporting and mana -
ging sustainability indicators.
“Global warming and rising energy prices have made environmental sustainability a major
area of concern for businesses. Since SAP manages the business processes of most
companies, it can provide software and other technologies that lead to environmentally
sustainable processes. If SAP Research does not point the way, who will?”
Dr. Kishore Swaminathan
Chief Scientist Accenture

One sector upon which sustainability is having a huge
impact is the energy sector. SAP Research is actively
involved in leading efforts in the field of future energy
systems.
• www.combatclimatechange.org
Future Energy Systems
E-Energy is one of the most promising areas of interest for
SAP Research, especially in Europe, where many countries
are focused on providing clean, secure, and affordable
energy. Deregulation of the energy market and increasingly
decentralized and diversified production and distribution
systems are seen as instrumental in achieving these goals.
However, a deregulated energy market is impossible to
achieve without adequate IT infrastructure. This infrastructure
must be robust and secure, self-managed, and selfsustained.
In a highly deregulated environment, the integration
of volatile and distributing renewable energy
sources must enable the dynamic organization and coordination
of services and markets. The system should provide
the critical link between energy grids, dynamic energy
markets, and the customers of utility providers.
The challenge for SAP is to support this emerging domain
efficiently and empower businesses to take full advantage
of the upcoming opportunities. SAP Research is already
actively involved in shaping the company’s energy vision
and tackling challenges on the technology side. Throughout
2007, SAP Research was leading national and international
energy efficiency efforts via such organizations as
the Federation of German Industries and within the Smart
Grids European Technology Platform. Furthermore, SAP
Research has delivered research strategies and concrete
research proposals in the domain via a number of targeted
presentations, scientific publications, and research project
submissions. The unit is also closely collaborating with
SAP Industry Business Unit Utilities with the objective of
influencing next-generation SAP solutions.
In 2008, SAP Research plans to continue and expand on
the activities kick-started in 2007. The group’s aims
include to fully assess the strategic impact of projects in
this domain and implementing the first prototypes.
• www.bdi-online.de
• www.smartgrids.eu
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SAP Research’s E-Energy Projects Speed Up
SAP is partner in two of the six winning projects in
the contest initiated by the German Federal Ministry of
Economics and Technology (BMWi) “e-Energy:
ICT-based Energy Systems of the Future”:
• MEREGIO is lead by EnBW. Additional partners are
IBM, ABB, the University of Karlsruhe, and the
Systemplan GmbH. The project aims at realizing a
minimal emission region, where efficient decentralized
energy systems are integrated via the usage of
advanced information and communication technologies.
• eTelligence is under the leadership of EWE. The
consortium of partners consists of SAP, BTC AG,
OFFIS e.V., Fraunhofer-Verbund Energie, and the
energy & meteo systems GmbH. The goal is to
increase the energy efficiency, the economic viability,
the security of supply, while simultaneously minimizing
the environmental pollution.
Apart from these projects, SAP Research is also partner
in SmartHouse/SmartGrid, a new project funded by
the European Commission that will tackle part of the
SmartGrids vision and energy efficiency as a whole.
These three projects will enable SAP Research to significantly
advance its ongoing activities towards Future
Energy Networks and to better meet the challenges in
developing future utilities solutions.
• www.e-energie.info
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Environmental Management Software Solutions
Enterprise
Site
Green 2.0
Launched in October 2007 at SAP Research Palo Alto, the
Green 2.0 research initiative complements and extends
the contribution of SAP in the area of solutions for environmental
problems. The undertaking looks into different
“green” issues such as environmental economics. SAP
Research’s environmental economics-related research
includes reviewing and refining economic models for CO2
footprint management with a focus on consumer accoun -
tability.
One SAP Research project known as the environmental
footprint looks for software solutions to track environmental
parameters over the entire lifespan of goods and ser -
vices. It aims at investigating how existing SAP technologies,
specifically Supply Chain Management and Product
Lifecycle Management, can be applied to these issues.
The project not only tracks the CO2 footprint, but looks at
all parameters impacting the environment. It encompasses
the entire lifecycle of goods and services from design and
production through the operational phase to recycling and
disposal.
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Business
Value
Direct Emissions Indirect Emissions
Data Aggregation
Sensor Networks
Sensors
Energy and Emission
Reduction
Operational Efficiency
Compliance Reporting
and Management
• Energy cost savings • Risk reduction
• Risk reduction
• Cost of compliance • Cost of operations
Fleet fuel consumption
Building electricity use
Travel
Employee commuting
Emission Trading
Another undertaking centers on environmental intelligence.
SAP Research specifically looks at software solutions for
the measurement and analysis of environmental parameters
as well as decision support. SAP Research aims at
unlocking the value of this data to improve the efficiency
of operations and minimize the environmental impact.
Future activities comprise joint projects with leading US
uni versities and innovative leading customers for each of
the three areas of interest described above.

SECURITY
EXPLORING THE CHANGING NATURE OF SECURITY
The topic of security has become increasingly important over the last
couple of years. With the rise of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and
cyber-crime, material threats are not only affecting government and public
bodies, but are also reaching deep into the economy and private life.
The growth in media coverage of such incidents indicates
that security concerns have moved to the center of
society’s attention.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and ICT
solutions form the baseline of security efforts. ICT is a significant
part of the critical infrastructure, both in its role as
an enabler of protective measures and incident response
(“ICT for security”), and as a potential target for attacks
Why is IT Relevant for Public/Homeland Security
Innovation
Transformation/Consolidation Organization Support
• Incorporation of new technological innovations
• Complex resources and processes from command management,
administration, personnel, logistics, and budget
Network Centric
• Flexibility
• Integration of sensors, agents, RFID, etc.
Integration
• Interoperability with coalition partners: Legacy IT stovepipe
systems, coalition, command and control, etc.
demanding adequate protection (“security for ICT”). As
such, software vendors like SAP become major stake -
holders in security management.
SAP Research is focused on exploring a wide range of
security solutions, applications, technology, and infrastructure.
The organization is engaged in a variety of securityrelated
research initiatives, including programs for Public
Safety, and Security and Trust.
Consolidation & Standardization
• Lack of a consolidated view to aid Decision Support
Usability
• Decisions handled in separate systems
Legacy Systems
• Applications unable to cope with limited bandwidth
• Legacy applications unable to leverage investments in 64 bit
architecture
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In the IT for (public) safety arena, SAP’s research efforts
include the use of technology to enable collaborations
between public agencies and private players concerned
with public safety (police, fire fighters, emergency medical
services, government). Activities in the field of security
for ICT emphasize the enforcement of business specific
protection needs within enterprise IT systems and facilitate
collaborations between trusted entities in dynamic
business ecosystems.
Public Security/Homeland Security
Public security/homeland security has been a hot topic in
many countries since recent political developments around
the world brought security issues to the forefront of public
attention. For a technological company like SAP, security
encompasses a wide range of challenges beyond the
household definition of the term. Floods, earthquakes,
and plane crashes are everyday occurrences around the
world. But potentially less dramatic incidents such as bus
accidents and food poisoning outbreaks can also be challenging
from a cross-organizational collaboration perspective.
Massive numbers of people might be affected and
respective IT support is needed.
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“SAP Research and Solution Management Public Security reflects the best practice for
our internal research transfer collaboration efforts. We got off to a flying start in 2005,
heavily impacting the first SAP Public Security solution map in early 2006. We are now
closely aligning Public Security white space analysis, solution roadmap definition, and
product development planning with the SAP Research activities, including prototyping,
project management, and proposals. Our latest success is the acceptance of the jointly
submitted SoKNOS project, a research proposal to the German BMBF (Ministry of
Education & Research). It is truly gratifying to see the work we accomplished together
pay off so well – and move us to even higher levels every year!”
Tom Shirk
President, SAP Global Public Services
The challenge is to ensure that the various public securityrelated
organizations have IT systems in place that both
serve their day-to-day needs and agency-specific activities,
as well as integrate with other systems in emergency situations.
Secondly, processes being deployed during crisis
situations should be secure, but also mobile and flexible.
Thirdly, organizations should be able to exchange data and
share views with other organizations, as well as integrate
aspects of other organizations’ processes into their own.
In short, the seamless collaboration between all involved
organizations should be efficiently supported. Currently,
only a small part of this challenge has been successfully
tackled. Media coverage provides only a tiny indication
of this reality.
To rectify this deficiency, SAP Research looks into public
security issues by engaging in several projects. Some of
the group’s work in this area is being undertaken under the
auspices of the German Federal Government’s programs
for the enhancement of public security through IT.
SAP Research has already gathered significant expertise
in this arena, especially at the SAP Research centers in
Sophia Antipolis and Palo Alto, CA, USA. The group has
tested prototype solutions with firefighters in Nice and with
the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Public security research has already yielded some tangible
results leading to the improvement of several SAP Public
Security offerings (see SAP Research Report 2006).

SoKNOS: Next-Generation Public Security Networks
The term public security implies protecting people from
substantial dangers arising from severe accidents, epidemics,
or natural disasters.
Led by SAP Research and run under the umbrella of the
German Federal Ministry of Research & Education,
the SoKNOS (Service-oriented architeKtures supporting
Networks Of public Security) research project aims at
developing concepts and prototypes to support crossorganizational
collaboration between governmental bodies,
private companies, and other organizations in the area of
public (homeland) security. SoKNOS aims at supporting
these organizations within their day-to-day operations and
also looks for new ways of providing immediate, secure,
and effective reaction to unforeseen catastrophes and
incidents.
New technologies will enable processes to go beyond
responsibility boundaries, ensuring proper rights- and
access management, secure data exchange between systems
and people, and new means of data collection (e.g.,
with sensors).
Through SoKNOS, SAP Research is working on a case
study in the area of severe weather conditions. The problems
arising from a major flood force a federal government
to ask for help from another organization beyond its jurisdiction.
With enterprise SOA realized, SAP is optimally positioned
to build infrastructures and platforms to support public
security organization networks.
• www.soknos.de
Trusted Collaboration
The crucial role of efficient, on-demand collaboration is
not only evident in Public Safety applications, but also
applies to most modern businesses. The move towards
adaptive value chains drives organizations and individuals
to engage in business value networks powered by the
Internet of Services. Advanced collaboration scenarios
require dealing with uncertainty and risk, caused by open
environments and unknown entities, including potentially
competing ones. Examples of such scenarios include collaborative
supply chain management situations that require
the sharing of highly sensitive data (like production and
transport costs, inventory information, sales data), and
Security & Trust
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Security
Since 2000, SAP Research has acknowledged the
crucial role of security in the provision and operation of
distributed business software by running a dedicated
research program on the topic of Security and Trust.
While initially focusing on security aspects of mobile
business scenarios, the program has extended its scope
to encompass the security challenges inherent in SAP’s
enterprise SOA and Business Process Platform (BPP).
The Security & Trust (S&T) research group investigates
solutions to the technical challenges posed by securing
open and adaptive business solutions.
The S&T approach emphasizes users’ and businesses’
individual protection needs. It thus provides a strong link
to the areas of risk analysis, management, and security
status.
Results from S&T research projects are leveraged in a
wide range of SAP products and solutions, including
the Business Process Platform, SAP NetWeaver, Mobile
Business Solutions, Public Sector, Banking, Product
Lifecycle Management, and Supplier Relationship
Ma nagement.
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complex service ecosystems that involve the balancing of
many different interests such as employability.
The key to providing adequate support for such scenarios
is to master the trust management relationship between
collaborating entities through technical means. In the case
of mutual distrust, mechanisms which allow organizations
to perform joint computations securely (that is, in a controlled,
restricted, and privacy-preserving way) still enable
collaboration. Where collaboration is unfeasible, trust
establishment mechanisms based on observation and
feedback allow organizations to mitigate the potential risks
inherent in open collaboration. The following sections
introduce two examples of SAP Research’s investigations
into these two complementary research areas.
Web Services Reputation Management
Similar to the traditional Web, the emerging Web services
ecosystem risks the danger of being exposed to low qua -
lity and deceptive Web services. This research project
aims at investigating and developing reputation management
technologies for online Web service markets. The
project’s scope includes methods to assess the quality of
online Web services and methods to restrict low quality
service providers within the context of a particular business
application. The purpose of such technologies is to
restrict low quality Web services proactively and to stimulate
the cultivation of a high quality Web services eco -
system.
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“We live in a Medieval period as far as the Internet is concerned, with servers and
networks protected by virtual fortresses. We are faced with the challenge of civilizing the
Internet through the collaborative policing of online markets and communities. Trust and
reputation management represents an important factor in realizing this vision. It has
the potential to radically improve research and the discovery of services. It provides a
solid basis for decision-making as well as an incentive for service quality and ethical
online activity. Research in this area will not only be beneficial, but will also stimulate the
global economy by making the Internet a safe environment in which to build efficient
markets and thriving communities.”
Dr. Audun Jøsang
Professor, UniK Graduate Center, University of Oslo, Norway,
Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
In this project, SAP Research acts as a full partner, leve -
raging enterprise SOA to provide insights into reputation
management from an applicant’s perspective. SAP
Research matches the technical expertise in reputation
management of its academic partner (Queensland University
of Technology, QUT). SAP has gained the requisite
expertise in this field in a variety of ways, as, for example,
from the development of the STORE reputation system.
STORE stands for Stochastic Reputation Service that
offers reputation management for so-called Virtual
Organizations (VOs). A Virtual Organization is a dynamic,
temporary alliance of companies that pool their resources
to address a common business objective. It is based on
random variable principles and provides decision support
to managers of VOs in selecting the most trustworthy
business partners.

Secure Benchmarking Platform/Secure Computation
Privacy concerns often create a barrier between companies
otherwise willing to exchange data. For some time
now, SAP Research has been tackling this problem by
exploring Secure Computation, a technology that allows
companies to communicate without revealing their data.
Using Secure Computation, companies can compute the
result of any function without revealing their inputs. They
can have all the benefits of the collaboration without ha -
ving to deal with the potential downsides of data sharing.
In 2007, SAP Research successfully brought the Secure
Computation technology to the SAP solution management
group in form of a benchmarking prototype.
The paper resulting from research in the field of secure
benchmarking – “Building a Privacy-Preserving Benchmarking
Enterprise System” – received the prestigious
Best Paper Award at IEEE EDOC 2007.
SAP Research’s work in the realm of Secure Computation
will be expanded in 2008 through the upcoming EU FP7
project SecureSCM – the project which will develop solutions
for privacy-preserving supply chain management
systems using Secure Computation techniques.
“Managing Corporate Performance is increasingly important for midsize companies, and
SAP Business ByDesign will provide the foundation for the monitoring and external
benchmarking of a company’s strategic Key Performance Indicators. Trust is a key issue
for any customer participating in benchmarking, so Solution Management was very
interested in exploring how Secure Computation can meet customers’ concerns when
sharing their strategic data with a benchmarking service provider. It was great to see how
quickly SAP Research could respond to business scenarios reflecting the current business
situation as well as come up with tangible solutions.”
Dr. Marita Möller
Solution Management, SAP Business ByDesign
Successful Conclusion of the Security Project
“Secologic”
The security project “Secologic” was finished with an
internal conference in Berlin. SAP and the project partners
(University of Hamburg, Commerzbank, Eurosec)
completed this very fruitful initiative about the develop -
ment of secure applications. During the project, sponsored
by the German Federal Ministry of Economics
and Technology, a couple of best practice documents,
training material, and scientific results were publicly
disclosed on the official Web page.
The project topics span areas from process descriptions
for secure software development, secure development
guides for common programming languages (like C, Java,
PHP) to test cases. A special focus was the topic of
attacks and countermeasures for typical vulnerabilities
of Web applications.
The project outcome highlights SAP’s efforts for application
security. Several SAP internal activities had profited
besides the public results. For example, SAP was able
to improve its security requirements and best practice
guides for secure programming.
• www.secologic.com
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APPENDIX
A SELECTION OF SAP RESEARCH PROJECTS 2007/2008
ADVANCED WEB TECHNOLOGIES
• FAST
Aims at creating an Enterprise Mashup environment which enables the visual
development of modular front-end “gadgets” on the basis of semantically organized
back-end enterprise class services. http://fast.morfeo-project.eu
• OKKAM
Aims at designing, engineering, and providing a large-scale entity repository and
collection of services which will enable and foster a systematic re-use of entities to
provide an innovative, entity-based approach to Information and Knowledge
Management. http://fp7.okkam.org
• PROMISE
Close the product lifecycle information gap through transforming real-time product
information to knowledge. http://www.promise.no
COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS
• SALSA
Automatically extract and synthesize business processes from event-logs and
system runtime artifacts for process documentation, analysis and optimization.
CONTINUOUS INFORMATION SENSE MAKING
• Active Information Store
Design and build a technology platform to support the parallel execution of large
amounts of sequential programs or program parts to exploit increasingly parallel
hardware, enabling efficient information management and helping make sense of
the vast amounts of available business data.
• Continuous Information Sensemaking
Deliver the technologies and methods necessary to bring together the multitude of
SAP information sources with the multitude of external information sources into one
useful sensemaking experience for a user.
END-TO-END SIMPLICITY
• APOSDLE
Develop a software platform to support the process of learning at work by providing
practical guidance, learning content and expert advice whenever and whereever it
might be needed. http://www.aposdle.org
• AUGUR
Research on the context-aware adaptability of user interfaces. The context not only
comprises of user context but also device context and user interaction history
information.
• CESORA
The project aims at researching integration of pro-activeness into business
processes and will focus on the applicability of context information within particular
business scenarios.
• Content Sharing
Enforce electronic marketplace and tool-support for the exchange of modular
e-learning content among content providers and content users.
http://www.contentsharing.com
• ECOSPACE
Empower every professional in Europe with an enabling integrated infrastructure
for seamless, dynamic, and creative collaboration across teams, organizations and
communities through a personalized collaborative working environment.
http://www.ip-ecospace.org
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• EUDISMES
Develop techniques enabling end user-driven software adaptability for small and
medium enterprises. http://www.eudismes.de
• FIT
Use semantic technologies and analyze user interactions in order to personalize and
improve the delivery of e-government services. http://www.fit_project.org
• ITAIDE
Solve the increasing data complexity in the area of cross-border and cross-country
trade by simultaneoulsy reducing the administrative overhead carried by commercial
and public administration organizations. http://www.itaide.org
• Lightweight Composition
Combines widgets that enable the creation of mashups from internal and external
Web Services with the icMap tool which allows end users to compose internal and
external information sources within the tool.
• MICA
The goal of the project is to support natural human-computer interaction in mobile
and pervasive computing contexts by using sensor data to support what is called
“implicit” interactions.
• NessiGRID
Provide a unified view for European research in Service-oriented Grid Infrastructures
that underpin future Services Architectures and Software Infrastructures
for fostering new industrial solutions and societal applications that enhance the
security and well-being of citizens.
• OPEN
Provide migratory services which are services that allow continuous task
performance across different devices and communication channels in such a way
as to be able to follow users and adapt to the changing context of use.
http://www.ict-open.eu
• Partsweaver
Explore applications in the discrete manufacturing domain that can leverage reading
or writing information from/to an RFID tag.
• SiWear
Aims at developing advanced wearable technology of the production and after sales
application domains.
• wearIT@work
Develop a set of new solutions that are based on wearable computing technology in
order to support the workers of the future. http://www.wearitatwork.com
• XTREEMOS
Investigate and propose new services that should be added to current operating
systems to build grid infrastructure in a simple way. https://www.xtreemos.org
INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
• AMPLE
Provide a Software Product Line (SPL) development methodology that offers
improved modularization of variations. http://www.ample-project.net
• AVANTSSAR
Propose a rigorous technology for the formal specification and Automated
VAlidatioN of Trust and Security of Service-oriented ARchitectures.
http://www.avantssar.eu

• Deploy
Make major advances in engineering methods for dependable systems through the
deployment of formal engineering methods. http://deploy-project.eu
• EMODE
Simplify the development of adaptive multimodal applications by providing an
integrated development and runtime environment. http://www.emode-projekt.de/
• feasiPLe
Develop model-driven approaches for software product lines to better cope with
variability in software. http://www.feasiple.de
• MODELPLEX
Define a coherent infrastructure for the application of Model-Driven Engineering
(MDE) for complex systems. http://www.modelplex.org
• MONET (MOdeling NEeds Tools)
Pushes the adoption of model-driven software development into the development
organizations of SAP.
• More
Develop and design run-time tools for modelling, analysis, and prediction of
performance and resource consumption of software components fitting into SAP’s
enterprise service architecture.
• PERSERVE
Aims at developing an evolving range of performance and resource models of
Enterprise Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs).
• Testbalance
Evaluate the existing models and approaches on the development processes and
business side and integrate them into an overall framework which supports quality
aspects of all development stages. http://www.testbalance.de
• VIDE
Develop behavioral models and tools to allow even non-programmers to specify or
modify the business logic of business applications. https://vide.tnmsoft.de
INTERNET OF SERVICES
• ARC Linkage “Service Ecosystems Management for Collaborative Process
Improvement”
This project uses requirements within Queensland Government for the design of a
service ecosystem and methodological and management concepts to derive a
general framework for intra-organizational ecosystems.
http://www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/projects/serveco/
• AVANTSSAR
Propose a rigorous technology for the formal specification and Automated
VAlidatioN of Trust and Security of Service-oriented ARchitectures.
http://www.avantssar.eu
• ESPLANADE
ESPLANADE is looking into the first applications for the “Internet of Services”
vision in Singapore.
• FAST
Aims at creating an Enterprise Mashup environment which enables the visual
development of modular front-end “gadgets” on the basis of semantically organized
back-end enterprise class services. http://fast.morfeo-project.eu
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• ServFace
Provide a methodology for service design, development of semantic annotations
for services to be used for user interface development of composite applications,
tool support for service annotations Methodology, and development for adaptable
services tool support for the development of composite applications.
• THESEUS/TEXO
Within the THESEUS program, TEXO contributes to service economy by creating
the infrastructure for Business Webs in the Internet of Services and provides a platform
which makes services tradable on the Internet, composable into value-added
services, and allows the integration of customized services into the environment
of service consumers. http://theseus-programm.de/scenarios/en/texo
• VIRTEX
The objective of VIRTEX is to assess how SAP can use virtualization technology to
enable deployment of their application suite on a grid infrastructure with minimal or
no modification.
INTERNET OF THINGS/REAL-WORLD AWARENESS
• BRIDGE
Create a standard interface for the lookup services that will provide secure access
to sets of links to information services across the entire supply chain or lifecycle for
each unique serial number.
• CarWeaver
Demonstrate SAP Solution support for vehicular telematics and logistics
businesses including from-vehicle sensor monitoring and analysis, WAN delivery
management services and in-vehicle audio delivery dervices.
• CoBIS
Develop a new approach to business processes involving physical entities, called
Collaborative Business Items (CoBIs). http://www.cobis-online.de
• CoBIs-Promise Middleware
Design of a service ecosystem meeting the requirements of the Queensland
Government in Australia. http://www.cobis-online.de
• Future Retail Center
Develops a general framework for intra-organizational ecosystems.
• IRIS (Industrial Real-world Integration Services)
The project focuses on the integration of the new logistics/manufacturing execution
functionality of the SAP Business Process Platform (BPP) with the automation layer
on the factory shop floor.
• NextGRID
Create an architecture for the next generation of grids by creating a dynamic
marketplace for new services and products. The project addresses security as well
as legal and privacy issues. http://www.nextgrid.org/
• SENSEI
Define a scalable system architecture for the Future Internet, integrating wireless
sensor and actuator networks efficiently as well as providing context-aware
services and service interfaces to these networks. http://www.sensei-project.eu
• Smart Device Applications
Combine strengths of intelligent device management solutions to demonstrate the
possibilities of integrated device-to-business processes in the area of ubiquitous
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• Socrades
Develop a design, execution, and management platform for next-generation industrial
automation systems, exploiting the SOA paradigm both at the device and at the
application level. http://www.socrades.eu
• WaterSense
Integrate smart sensor node devices with analytical, decision support, and enterprise
applications for providing complete end-to-end solutions in the water utility
industry.
INTEROPERABILITY
• ATHENA
Make a major contribution to interoperability by identifying and meeting a set of
inter-related business, scientific, technical, and strategic objectives.
http://www.athena-ip.org
• DIP
Develop and extend Semantic Web Services by creating a new collaborative technology
environment in which different Web services can discover and cooperate
with each other automatically. http://dip.semanticweb.org
• FUSION
Improve business collaboration between enterprises by developing innovative
technologies for the semantic fusion of service-oriented businesses applications.
http://www.fusionweb.org/fusion
• GENESIS
Develop needed methodologies, middleware software, and an exchange platform
that will allow small and medium enterprises to conduct business transactions over
the Internet. http://www.genesis-ist.eu
• HMT
Investigate the complexity underpinning the use of harmonized messaging tech -
nology (HMT) as a vehicle for facilitating interactions between heterogeneous and
autonomous applications within and across enterprise systems.
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dke-hmt/
• MODILA
Explore issues and solutions for large modelling projects.
• PICTURE
Enable high quality service delivery for the European citizens and businesses by
strengthening Information and Communication Technology (ICT) diffusion in European
Public Administrations. http://www.picture-eu.org
• RIJAN
Build a next generation incident response collaboration system in order to prove
hypothesis about public security in a realistic and challenging environment.
• SoKNOS
Create Service-Oriented Architectures which aim at supporting public security
networks. http://www.soknos.de
• SUPER
Make a quantum leap in business process management by improving modelling and
managing of business processes, integrating and utilizing semantics for business
process management. http://ip-super.org
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MANUFACTURING 2.0
• Future Factory Initiative
A joint effort of SAP Research and external partners in the areas of Living Labs,
Real-World Manufacturing Testbed, and Center of Excellence.
• Lean Scheduling
Aims at analyzing the market needs for production scheduling and developing a
concept and a prototype for a lean production scheduling system based on SAP’s
Business Process Platform.
• Manufacturing Data Acquisition and Execution Control
Focuses on conducting an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art in manufacturing
data acquisition and execution control. In order to obtain well-grounded results, the
analysis focuses on a study of actual implementations, products, and problems
found in the real world.
• PABADIS’PROMISE
Increase the flexibility of manufacturing systems, allowing them to better respond
to changes in load and late order changes, as well as to handle the manufacturing of
products with a large number of variants as needed for mass customization.
http://www.pabadis-promise.org
• PreCon
Develop a flexible framework for predictive maintenance and conflict handling in
manufacturing environments.
• UMOD
Define and validate a method that allows easy and reliable match of customer
requirements and system capabilities. For this purpose, customer requirements and
system capabilities are mapped onto an ontology.
MOBILITY PLATFORM
• MobileWeaver
Demonstrate the use of specific mobile phone capabilities in enterprise applications.
• MobileWeaver Ajax
Develop a lightweight framework leveraging Web 2.0 techniques to build browserbased
enterprise applications suitable for resource-constrained devices such as
mass-market phones.
NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISE SOA
• BijouX
Develop technologies that improve both user experience and performance of
SAP applications by reducing client/server roundtrips and incremental server load
per client and improve developer experience by reducing complexity of building and
customizing SAP applications.
• BlueRuby
Establish an enterprise-ready environment for dynamic languages, e.g., running
Ruby code directly in the ABAP stack.
• Emerald
Provide an object-oriented abstraction to access business data in the form of
customized views on AP Business Objects.
• Opal
Build a flexible and scalable platform based on event processing technology to
support the management and the renovation of business operations.

• POEM
Allow companies to declare their business policies explicitly, which facilitates highly
adaptive business software and assures enduring compliance with a company’s
own business policies.
• SOA4All
Create a comprehensive framework and infrastructure that integrates complimentary
and revolutionary technical advances into a coherent and domain-independent
service delivery platform. http://www.soa4all.org
REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE TRANSPARENCY
• InCoCo-S
Manage the interdependency between the manufacturing supply chain and service
providers by developing cost-minimizing coordination strategies based on advanced
planning systems (APS) of each collaborating partner.
http://www.fir.rwth-aachen.de/projektseiten/incoco
• Ko-RFID
Support the usage of RFID and related technologies in real-world scenarios, especially
in cross-company cooperation and logistic processes. http://www.korfid.de
• Laboranova
Enable the knowledge workers to share, improve, and evaluate ideas across teams,
companies, and networks, thereby increasing the innovative output of organizations.
http://laboranova.com
• LoCostix
Develop technology and applications for low-cost RFID tags on item level in a retail
store environment.
• MATURE
Enable a dynamic, collaborative, and timely learning process by utilizing grassroot
approaches to support, streamline, and partly automate the maturing process of
content, structure, processes, and competencies within and across networked
organizations. http://mature-ip.en/en/start
• NEPOMUK
Develop a comprehensive solution to extend the personal desktop into a collaboration
environment. http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
• PASS
Develop a service-oriented architecture: semi-automatic interface adaptation,
spreadsheets for rapid prototyping of service compositions and the use of rules
systems for enhancing the detection of duplicate invoices.
• SecureSCM
Applying secure computation to supply chain functions enables the partners to
get all the benefits from collaborative supply chains, but without having to disclose
their information and the associated negative impact. www.securescm.org
• SToP
Provide solutions for the authentication of products based on RFID and related
ambient intelligence technologies. http://www.ist-stop.eu
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RISK MITIGATION: OPEN SOURCE & SECURITY
• ESFORS
Bring together the European stakeholders for Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) and address the security and dependability requirements of
emerging software service platforms. http://www.esfors.org
• FRIDA
Aims at delivering transferable research results in the area of financial fraud
detection.
• HP Adaptive IT for SMEs
Demonstrate that the SAP application can be economically deployed as a SaaS
(Software as a Service) inside the enterprise as a subscription-based hosted application
for large and small enterprise markets, which targets outsourcing and SMB.
• Iolite
Provide innovative security solutions in support of lightweight development, extension,
deployment, execution, and delivery of enterprise applications.
• MASTER
Provide methodologies and infrastructures that facilitate the monitoring, enforcement,
and audit of quantifiable indicators on the security of a business process.
http://www.master-fp7.eu
• MASUBA
Develop an advanced attack surface measurement approach for service-oriented
business applications and demonstrate practical effectiveness.
• MOBIUS
Develop technologies to establish trust and security for the next generation of
global computers, using the ProofCarryingCode (PCC) paradigm.
http://mobius.inria.fr
• Open Collaboration
Intregrate Wiki and Open Source technologies and approaches with SAP products
and services.
• ORKA
Develop a role- and workflow-based organizational control architecture and system.
• POLITESS
Develop methodologies and tools that allow to formalize security policies, deploy
these policies on the different system elements, and verify them.
http://www.rnrt-politess.info
• PrimeLife
Provide scalable and configurable privacy and identity management to protect
privacy in emerging Internet applications such as collaborative scenarios and
virtual communities and to maintain life-long control over one’s private sphere.
http://www.primelife.eu
• R4eGov
Create a basis for a major evolution needed for eGovernment interoperability, while
preserving the autonomy of existing institutions and diversity of basic principles.
http://www.r4egov.info
• SECOMPO (Secure Composition Framework)
Developing secure applications that are both user-friendly and effective.
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• SERENITY
Design and develop specifications, methods and a suite of tools enhancing security
and dependability in emerging IT infrastructures and future ambient intelligence
systems. http://www.serenity-project.org
• TAS3
Provide a next generation trust & security architecture that is ready to meet the
requirements of complex and highly versatile business processes.
http://www.tas3.eu
• TrustCoM
Provide a management framework enabling the definition and secure enactment of
collaborative business processes within virtual organizations.
http://www.eu-trustcom.com
• WASP
Narrow the mismatch between research at the application level and the node and
network level by providing theory, methods, hardware and software to construct
highly optimised applications on a network of generic and flexible nodes.
http://www.wasp-project.org
• WSS Jungle Browser
Develop a tool to intercept and display SOAP messages travelling between different
clients and web service engines.
SEMANTICS & ONTOLOGY
• MOST
Aims at developing an ontology-driven software development approach by marrying
ontologies and software technologies within a hybrid conceptual framework under
the umbrella of Model-Driven Architecture (MDA).
SUSTAINABLE EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT & ENERGY DISTRIBUTION
• Future Energy Systems
Provide clean, secure, and affordable energy. Deregulation of the energy market
and increasingly decentralized and diversified production and distribution systems
are seen as instrumental in achieving this.
• GREEN 2.0
Review economic models for CO2 footprint management, tracking environmental
parameters over the entire life span of goods and services, measuring environmental
parameters, their analysis, and decision support.
TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMERGING ECONOMIES
• ADP
Develop, implement, and monitor new learning strategies and technologies (ICT) to
improve the knowledge, skills, and competencies of secondary school educators.
http://www.adp.org.za
• C@R (Collaboration at Rural Areas)
Boost the introduction of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) as key
enablers catalyzing rural development. http://c-rural.eu
• DERIVE
Provide appropriate and innovative virtual classroom technological infrastructure
to conduct education and training activities amongst remote Demographic
Surveillance Sites.
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• INNOVA
Determine the most suitable pedagogical, technological, and organizational
approaches for the successful development of large scale countrywide blendedlearning
projects in Paraguay.
• NeST
Provide an affordable, accessible, and user-friendly software solution to capacitate
Civil Society Organizations to manage their daily activities, while concentrating on
service delivery.
• PatHS
Develop a user-friendly patient health software solution to manage diseases and
improve the quality and efficacy of a primary healthcare system in rural communities.
• SAP Meraka UTD
Establishment of the SAP Meraka Unit for Technology in order to foster technology
innovation in South Africa by undertaking basic and applied Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) research.
• Skua
Explore issues of software workflows and approvals within the context of South
Africa in order to determine whether cultural aspects (of users) in South Africa
should influence the development of SAP software for emerging economies.
VIRTUALIZATION/PARALLELISM
• Parallelism/Concurrency
Leverage and develop virtualization, parallelism, and concurrency software technologies
that will help SAP to benefit from multi-core platforms.
• Reservoir
Increase the competitiveness of the European IT industry through the introduction
of a next-generation infrastructure for the deployment of complex services across
different administrative domains, while assuring QoS and security guarantees.
http://www.reservoirproject.org/moin
SAP INSPIRE
• 3D Visualization Engine
Create a framework for an interactive 3D visual environment, which allows decision
makers to view business situations and processes.
• AskSAP
Develop more precise searches that will eliminate un-related search results thanks
to a more precise analysis of sentences, attributes, and of data base content.
• Collaborative Innovationmanagement (CoIN)
Aims at developing an SAP solution for open Collaborative Innovation Management
processes (SAP Coln) to establish a company-wide community-hub, where several
sources are brought together in order to create and manage innovations.
• icMap
Explore ways for using mind-mapping methodology to visualize mental associations
between all kinds of objects from different backend systems.
• Post-It
Improve the workflow within SAP by getting rid of the ubiquitous yellow stickers on
any kind of paperwork and exchanging them for digital notes.

• Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are a form of collective intelligence where a group of people
predict the likelihood of future events through buying and selling mechanisms of an
artificial stock market.
• PROVE
Provide legitimate vendors, distributors and consumers with services to distinguish
between genuine goods and counterfeits, to identify tampered or stolen products as
well as to detect illicit trading activities at any of the products’ lifecycle stages.
OTHER
• LogNetAssist
Optimize and increase the flexibility of manufacturing processes through development
of an “assisting system” for intelligent logistics with pilots in consumer goods
and automotive industries. http://www.lognetassist.de
• NessiSOFT
Provide a unified view for European research in Services Architectures and
Software Infrastructures that will define technologies, strategies, and deployment
policies.
• SAP Research Net
A semantic tool that represents SAP Research in terms of projects, research,
(sites, fields, topics) and people working within the research organization. In conjunction
with the SAP full-text search engine.
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Projects
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APPENDIX
A SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS IN 2007/2008
• Abramowicz, W., Filipowska, A., Kaczmarek, T. & Kowalkiewicz, M.; IT Tools
Supporting Public Relations Campaigns; Managing Worldwide Operations and
Communications with Information Technology; IGI Publishing; 2007; Inproceedings
• Abramowicz, W., Kaczmarek, T. & Kowalkiewicz, M.; Case Study I: IT Platform
for Study and E-Collaboration; Knowledge-Based Enterprise: Theories and
Fundamentals; 2007; Book
• Adam, N., Janeja, V., Paliwa, A., Shafiq, B., Ulmer, C., Gersabeck, V.,
Hardy, A., Bornhövd, C. & Schaper, J.; Approach for Discovering and Handling
Crisis in a Service-oriented Environment; IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intelligence and
Security Informatics 2007 (ISI’07) Proceedings; New Brunswick; New Jersey;
2007; Inproceedings
• Adam, N., Paliwal, A., Atluri, V., Chun, S.A., Cooper, J., Paczkowski, J., Bornhövd,
C., Nassi, I., Schaper, J. & Ellenberger, J.; Government Agency Interoperation
in Security Applications; Handbook in Information Systems – NationalSecurity,
Edited by Hsinchun Chen, T.S. Raghu, Ram Ramesh, Ajay Vinze and Daniel Zang;
Elsevier; 2007; ISBN: 978-0-4445-1996-2; Inbook
• Aitenbichler, E., Lyardet, F., Austaller, G., Kangasharju, J., Mühlhäuser, M.;
Engineering Intuitive and Self-Explanatory Smart Products; Proceedings of the
22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1632–1637; ACM
Press; New York; NY; 2007; ISBN: 978-1-59593-480-4; Inproceedings
• Alonso, O., James, F. & Kaiser, M.; Exploratory Search for Business Users;
CHI Exploratory Search and HCI Workshop; San Jose; 2007; Article
• Anke, J. & Sell, C.; Seamless Integration of Distributed OSGi Bundles into Enterprise
Processes using BPEL; 15. ITG/GI-Fachtagung Kommunikation in Verteilten
Systemen (KiVS07); 2007; Article
• Anke, J., Wolf, B., Hackenbroich, G. & Kabitzsch, K.; A Planning Method for
Component Placement in Smart Item Environments using Heuristic Search; 7th IFIP
International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
(DAIS 2007); 2007; Article
• Anke, J., Wolf, B., Hackenbroich, G., Do, H., Neugebauer, M. & Klein A.;
PROMISE: Product Lifecycle Management and Information Tracking using Smart
Embedded Systems; Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises
by Max Mühlhäuser, Iryna Gurevych (Editors); Idea Group; Hershey; USA; 2007;
Chapter
• Anke, J., Wolf, B., Neugebauer, M., Eisenreich, K., Do, H. & Hackenbroich, G.;
A Middleware for Real-world Aware PLM Applications; 15. ITG/GI-Fachtagung
Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS07); 2007; Article
• Armando, A. & Compagna, L.; SAT-based Model-Checking for Security Protocols
Analysis; International Journal of Information Security; Springer Verlag; 2007;
Article
• Armando, A., Carbone, R. & Compagna, L.; LTL Model Checking for Security
Protocols; Proceeding of 20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
(CSF 2007); Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Ashiqur Rahaman, M. & Schaad A.; SOAP-based Secure Conversation and
Collaboration; Proceedings of IEEE 2007 International Conference on Web Services
(ICWS); IEEE Computer Society; 2007; Inproceedings
68
• Baacke, L., Fitterer, R. & Rohner, P.; Measuring Impacts of ICT on the Process
Landscape of Public Administrations; Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference
on e-Government; pp. 1–9; University of Quebec; 2007; Inproceedings
• Barczyński, W. M., Brauer, F. & Löser, A.; Algebraic Information Extraction of
Enterprise Data: Methodology, Operators and Storage model; 2007; Unpublished
• Behring, A., Heinrich, M., Winkler, M. & Dargie, W.; Werkzeugunterstützte
Modellierung multimodaler adaptiver Benutzerschnittstellen; i-com – Zeitschrift für
interaktive und kooperative Medien; Vol. 6, No. 3; pp. 31–36; 2007; Article
• Benameur, A., Kadir, F. A. & Fenet, S.; XML Rewriting Attacks: Existing Solutions
and their Limitations; IADIS Applied Computing 2008; IADIS Press; 2008;
Inproceedings
• Bergsträßer, S., Rensing, C., Zimmermann, B. & Steinmetz, R.; Building a
Representation of Learning Resources to Support Their Re-Purposing; Proceedings
of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia; 2007; Inproceedings
• Born, M., Hoffmann, J., Kaczmarek, T., Kowalkiewicz, M., Markovic, I.,
Scicluna, J., Weber, I. & Zhou, X.; Semantic Annotation and Composition of
Business Processes with Maestro; European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
Demo Track; 2008; Inproceedings
• Brucker, A. D. & Wolff, B.; An Extensible Encoding of Object-oriented Data
Models in HOL; European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ecoop08);
Springer-Verlag; 2008; Incollection
• Brucker, A. D. & Wolff, B.; HOL-OCL – A Formal Proof Environment for
UML/OCL; Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE08);
Springer-Verlag; 2008; Incollection
• Brucker, A. D., Brügger, L. & Wolff, B.; Model-based Firewall Conformance
Testing; Testcom/FATES 2008; Springer-Verlag; 2008; Incollection
• Brucker, A. D., Brügger, L. & Wolff, B.; Verifying Test-Hypotheses – An
Experiment in Test and Proof; Model-based Testing (MBT 2008); 2008; Incollection
• Carlsson, V. & Schiele, B.; Towards Systematic Research of Multimodal
Interfaces for Non-desktop Work Scenarios; CHI ’07: CHI ’07 Extended Abstracts
on Human Factors in Computing Systems; ACM Press; 2007;
ISBN: 978-1-59593-642-4; Inproceedings
• Carlsson, V., Klug, T., Zinnen, A., Ziegert, T., Levin-Sagi, M. & Pasher, E.;
A Comprehensive Human Factors Analysis of Wearable Computers Supporting a
Hospital Ward Round; IFAWC 2007 – 4th International Forum on Applied Wearable
Computing 2007; 2007; ISBN: 978-3-8007-3017-9; Inproceedings
• Catrina, O. & Kerschbaum, F.; Fostering the Uptake of Secure Multiparty
Computation in E-Commerce; Frontiers of Availability, Reliability and Security
Workshop; 2008; Inproceedings
• Charfi, A., Schmeling, B. & Mezini, M.; Transactional BPEL Processes with
AO4BPEL Aspects; Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Web Services
(ECOWS 07); pp. 149–158; IEEE Computer Society; 2007; Inproceedings
• Christ, O., Schroth, C. & Janner, T.; A Hybrid Framework for Automated and
Adapative e-Business Platforms; Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on
Information Systems (ECIS 2007); 2007; Inproceedings

• Compagna, L., El Khoury, P., Massacci, F., Thomas, R. & Zannone, N.; How to
Capture, Model and Verify the Knowledge of Legal, Security and Privacy Experts:
A Pattern-Based Approach; Proceeding of the 11th International Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW (ICAIL 2007); 2007; Inproceedings
• Corcelle, C., Främling, K., Rabe, L., Anke, J. & Petrow, J.; Assessment of
Item-specific Information Management Approaches in the Area of Heavy Load
Vehicles; 2007; Misc
• Crompton, S., Wilson, M., Arenas, A., Schubert, L., Cojocarasu, D. I., Hu, J. &
Robinson, P.; The TrustCoM General Virtual Organization Agreement Component;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Dada, A.; Implementation of the Arabic Numerals and their Syntax in GF; Proceedings
of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages:
Common Issues and Resources; ACL; 2007; Inproceedings
• Dada, A. & Michahelles, F.; Integrating Actuation on RFID Tags: an Energy Consideration;
Late Breaking Results Session, UbiComp 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Dada, A. & Ranta, A.; Implementing an Open Source Arabic Resource Grammar
in GF; Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Vol. XX; John Benjamins; 2007; Inbook
• Dada, A. & Thiesse, F.; Sensor Applications in the Supply Chain: The Example of
Quality-based Issuing of Perishables; Proceedings of The Internet of Things 2008;
2008; Inproceedings
• Dagtas, S., Natchetoi, Y., Wu, H. & Shapiro, A.; An Integrated Wireless
Sensing and Mobile Processing Architecture for Assisted Living and Healthcare
Applications; 2007; Proceedings
• Dargie, W., Strunk, A., Winkler, M., Mrohs, B., Thakar, S. & Enkelmann, W.;
A Model-Based Approach for Developing Adaptive Multimodal Interactive Systems;
Proceedings of ICSoft 2007, 2nd International Conference on Software and
Data Technologies; pp. 73–79; INSTICC Press; Barcelona, Spain; 2007;
ISBN 978-989-8111-09-8; Proceedings
• Decker, C., Berchtold, M., Weiss, L. & et al.; Cost-Benefit Model for Smart
Items in the Supply Chain; Internet of Things 2008; 2008; Article
• Decker, C., Riedel, T., Beigl, M., Moreira S. S., L., Spiess, P., Müller, J. &
Haller, S.; Collaborative Business Items; 3rd IET International Conference on
Intelligent Environments (IE’07); Ulm, Germany; 2007; Inproceedings
• de Louw, J. D. R.; Open SOA Value add for Collaborative Services Delivery to
Rural SMMEs; pp.12; 2008; Inproceedings
• Do, H. & Drumm, C.; Automatisches Schema-Matching zur Unterstützung der
Datenmigration; Computer Zeitung; No. 52; 2007; Article
• Do, H. & Rahm, E.; Matching Large Schemas: Approaches and Evaluation;
Vol. 32, Issue 6, September 2007, pp. 857–885; Elsevier; 2007; Article
• Drumm, C., Schmitt, M., Do, H. & Rahm E.; QuickMig – Automatic Schema
Matching for Data Migration Projects; Proc. ACM 16th Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Lisbon, Nov. 2007; ACM Press; 2007;
Inproceedings
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Eichler, S. & Schroth, C.; A Multi-Layer Approach for Improving the Scalability
of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks; Proceedings of the Conference on “Communication
in Distributed Systems” (KiVS 07); VDE-Verlag; Bern, Switzerland; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Eisert, U., Gassmann, O. & Herrmann, A.; Radical Product Innovations and the
Capacity for Transformation: An Empirical Study of the Determinants; Journal of
Engineering and Technology Management, Special Issue on Radical Innovation;
2007; Article
• Faatz, A., Goertz, M., Godehardt, E. & Lokaiczyk, R.; The MILL – method for
informal learning logistics; Proceedings of the International Conference on Conceptual
Structures 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Franke, C., Hohl, A., Robinson, P., Scheuermann, B., Yang, E. & Matthews, B.;
Virtual Organization Management in XtreemOS: an Overview; Proceedings of the
CoreGrid Symposium; Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Franke, C., Hohl, A., Robinson, P. & Scheuermann, B.; On Business Grid
Demands and Approaches; Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Grid
Economics and Business Models; Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Franke, C., Lepping, J. & Schwiegelshohn U.; Genetic Fuzzy Systems applied to
Online-Scheduling; Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems,
London; IEEE Press; 2007; Inproceedings
• Franke, C., Lepping, J. & Schwiegelshohn U.; Greedy Scheduling with Complex
Objectives; Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium in Computational Intelligence
in Scheduling; IEEE Press; 2007; Inproceedings
• Franke, C., Theilmann, W., Zhang, Y. & Sterrit, R.; Towards the Autonomic
Business Grid; in Proceedings of Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Engineering
of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe’07); IEEE Press; 2007;
ISBN: 978-0-7695-2809-0; Inproceedings
• Frankova, G., Massacci, F. & Seguran M.; From Early Requirements Analysis
Towards Secure Workflows; Proceeding of IFIPTM 2007 Joint iTrust and PST
Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security; Springer Verlag; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Frenzel, P., Schroth, C. & Samsonowa, T.; The Enterprise Interoperability Center
– An Institutional Framework Facilitating Enterprise Interoperability; Proceedings of
the 15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2007); Proceedings
of ECIS 2007, AIS; 2007; Inproceedings
• Friesen, A., Alazeib, A., Balogh, A., Bauer, M., Bouras, A., Gouvas, P.,
Mentzas, G. & Pace, A.; Towards Semantically-Assisted Design of Collaborative
Business Processes in EAI Scenarios; In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International
Conference on Industrial Informatics; Vienna, Austria; 2007; Inproceedings
• Giesecke, R. & Fünfrocken, S.; Einfach zu mehr Software-Sicherheit; Datenschutz
und Datensicherheit (DuD); No.12; Vieweg ; 2007; Article
• Giesecke, R., Schur, M., Steinemann, B. & Wahl, T.; WS-Security Policy
Specification; IT-Sicherheit (Vol. 6/07); DATAKONTEXT-FACHVERLAG GmbH;
2007; Article
• Giesecke, R., Steinemann, B. & Wahl, T.; Web Service Security – ein Überblick;
IT-Sicherheit (Vol. 4/07); DATAKONTEXT-FACHVERLAG GmbH; 2007; Article
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SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Giesecke, R., Steinemann, B. & Wahl, T.; WS-I: Interoperabilität für Web
Services; IT-Sicherheit (Vol. 5/07); DATAKONTEXT-FACHVERLAG GmbH; 2007;
Article
• Gionis, G., Charalabidis, Y., Janner, T., Schroth, C., Koussouris, S. &
Askounis, D.; Enabling Cross-Organizational Interoperability: A Hybrid e-Business
Architecture; Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for
Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007); Springer Verlag; 2007;
Inproceedings
Gionis, G., Mouzakitis, S., Janner, T., Schroth, C., Koussouris, S. & Askounis, D.;
Implementing Next Generation e-Business Platforms for Heterogeneous SME
Environments; Current Trends in Informatics; p. 10; New Technologies Publications;
Patras; Greece; 2007; ISBN 978-9-6089-7840-9; Proceedings
• Gitter, R., Lotz, V., Pinsdorf, U. & Roßnagel, A.; Sichereit und Rechtsverbind -
lichkeit mobiler Agenten; Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag; 2007; Book
• Godehardt, E., Doehring, M., Faatz, A. & Goertz, M.; Deploying YAWL for
Workflows in Workplace-embedded Learning; the 7th International Conference on
Knowledge Management; pp. 281–288; 2007; Inproceedings
• Gomez, L. & Thomas I.; Towards User Authentication Flexibility; Proceeding of
IEEE and ACM International Conference on Security and Cryptography 2008;
Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Grebner, O., Riss, U. V., Ong, E., Brunzel, M., Roth-Berghofer, T. & Bernardi, A.;
Task Management for the NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop (Poster); the 4th
Conference on Professional Knowledge Management – Experiences and Visions –,
March 28. – 30. 2007, Potsdam, Germany; GITO Verlag; Berlin, Germany; 2007;
Misc
• Greiner, U., Legner, C., Lippe, S. & Wende, K.; Business Interoperability
Profiles: Relating Business Interoperability Issues to Technical Interoperability
Solutions; Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for
Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007); Springer Verlag; Madeira
Island, Portugal; 2007; Inproceedings
• Greiner, U., Lippe, S., Kahl, T. & Ziemann, J.; Cross-Organizational Business
Processes – Interoperability Issues, Concepts and Tools; I-ESA 2007, Madeira
Island, Portugal; Springer Verlag; 2007; Proceedings
• Grummt, E. & Lorz, A.; Supporting Time-variant Artifacts in Groupware Applications;
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computer Supported
Activity Coordination (CSAC 2007), at the 9th International Conference on
Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007); Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Grummt, E., Werner, K. & Ackermann R.; Sicherheitsanalyse RFID-basierter
Wertschöpfungsketten; D.A.CH Security 2007 – Bestandsaufnahme, Konzepte,
Anwendungen, Perspektiven; Klagenfurt; Austria; 2007; ISBN: 978-3-00-021600-8;
Inproceedings
• Guerrero, P., Sachs, K., Bornhövd, C. & Buchmann, A.; Pushing Business Data
Processing Towards the Periphery; the 23rd International Conference on Data
Engineering; Istanbul; Turkey; 2007; Article
• Hagengruber, R. & Riss, U. V.; Knowledge in Action; Computation, Information,
Cognition – The Nexus and The Liminal.; pp. 134–146; Cambridge Scholars Publishing;
Cambridge; United Kingtom; 2007; ISBN 978-1-8471-8090-6; Inbook
70
• Haller, J.; A Bayesian Reputation System for Virtual Organizations; DROPS;
Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (IBFI); Schloss
Dagstuhl; 2007; ISSN: 1862-4405; Inproceedings
• Haller, S. & Karnouskos, S.; CoBIs: Collaborative Business Items; New
Technologies for the Intelligent Design and Operation of Manufacturing Networks –
Results and Prespectives from the European AITPL Project Cluster; pp. 201–202;
Fraunhofer IRB Verlag; Stuttgart; 2007; Book
• Härtig, H., Zschaler, S., Pohlack, M., Aigner, R., Göbel, S. & Pohl C.; Enforceable
Component-based Real-time Contracts; Real-time Systems, 35(1), pp. 1–31;
Kluwer Academic Publishers; Norwell MA; USA; 2007; ISSN: 0922-6443; Article
• Hartmann, F., Costa Pereira, A. & Kadner, K.; A Distributed Staged Architecture
for Multimodal Applications; First European Conference on Software Architecture
(ECSA 2007); Madrid; Spain; 2007; Inproceedings
• Heinrich, M., Winkler, M., Steidelmüller, H., Zabelt, M., Behring, A.,
Neumerkel, R. & Strunk, A.; MDA Applied: A Task-Model Driven Tool Chain for
Multimodal Applications; Proceedings of the 6th International workshop on TAsk
MOdels and DIAgrams (TAMODIA’2007); 2007; Inproceedings
• Hepp, M., De Leenheer, P., de Moor, A. & Sure, Y.; Ontology Management
Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and Business Applications;
Book Series: Semantic Web and Beyond; Vol. 7; Springer Verlag; 2007;
ISBN 978-0-387-69899-1; Inbook
• Hoyer, V., Bucherer, E. & Schnabel, F.; Collaborative e-Business Process
Modeling: Transforming Private EPC to Public BPMN Business Process Models;
International Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2007);
Springer Verlag; Brisbane, Australia; 2007; Proceedings
• Hoyer, V., Schroth, C., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K. & Janner, T.; Web 2.0-Entwicklung
– ewige Beta-Version; HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, dpunkt.verlag;
Vol. 255; p. 12; 2007; ISSN 1436-3011; Article
• Huebsch, G. & Kadner, K.; Multimodal Information Access Across Multiple
Devices; Mobility Conference 2007; Singapore; 2007; Inproceedings
• Janner, T., Vaz, M. A. C., Hierro, J. J., Lizcano, D., Reyes, M., Schroth, C.,
Soriano, J. & Hoyer, V.; Enterprise Mashup: Putting a Face on Next Generation
Global SOA; Presented at the 8th International Conference on Web Information
Systems Engineering (WISE 2007); Nancy, France; 2007; Misc
• Jarodzka, H., Grebner, O., Ong, E. & Riss, U.; Motivate Users to Construct
Collective Knowledge via IT; GITO Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Jarodzka, H. M., Grebner, O., Riss, U. V. & Ong, E.; Motivate Users to Construct
Collective Knowledge Via IT – A Psychological View on Pattern-Based Task
Management; 4th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management – Experiences
and Visions –, March 28. – 30. 2007, Potsdam, Germany; GITO Verlag;
Berlin; Germany; 2007; Proceedings
• Jøsang, A. & Haller, J.; Dirichlet Reputation Systems; Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES); 2007;
Inproceedings
• Kadner, K. & Müller, S.; Integration of Distributed User Input to Extend Interaction
Possibilities with Local Applications; Engineering Interactive Systems 2007;
Salamanca; Spain; 2007; Inproceedings

• Karnouskos, S.; Autonomic Sensor Networks for Future Enterprise Services;
KiVS 2007 Conference, 26 Feb – 2 Mar 2007; Bern, Switzerland; 2007;
ISBN 978-3-8007-2980-7; Inproceedings
• Karnouskos, S.; NFC-Capable Mobile Devices for Mobile Payment Services;
Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce; IDEA Group Inc; Hershey, USA;
2007; ISBN 978-1-5990-4002-8; Inbook
• Karnouskos, S.; Towards Autonomic Infrastructures via Mobile Agents and Active
Networks; Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications; IDEA Group Inc;
Hershey, USA; 2007; ISBN 978-1-5914-0993-9; Inbook
• Karnouskos, S. & Haller, S.; Management of Hazardous Goods with Wireless
Sensor Networks; mst news; Vol. 5; p. 23; 2007; Article
• Karnouskos, S. & Spiess, P.; Towards Enterprise Applications Using Wireless
Sensor Networks; ACM 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information
Systems, 12–16, June 2007; Madeira, Portugal; 2007; Inproceedings
• Karnouskos, S. & Terzidis, O.; Towards an Information Infrastructure for the
future Internet of Energy; KiVS 2007 Conference, 26 Feb – 2 Mar 2007; Bern,
Switzerland; 2007; ISBN 978-3-8007-2980-7; Inproceedings
• Karnouskos, S., Baecker, O., Moreira S. S., L. & Spiess, P.; Integration of SOA –
ready Networked Embedded Devices in Enterprise Systems via a Cross-Layered
Web Service Infrastructure; Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging
Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2007); 2007; Proceedings
• Karnouskos, S., Colombo, A., Jammes, F. & Strand, M.; Towards Serviceoriented
Smart Items in Industrial Environments; International Newsletter on micronano
integration, MSTnews; Vol. 2; p. 11; 2007; Article
• Karnouskos, S., Terzidis, O. & Karnouskos, P.; An Advanced Metering Infra -
structure for Future Energy Networks; IFIP/IEEE 1st International Conference on
New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2007), 2–4 May 2007; Paris,
France; 2007; Inproceedings
• Kerschbaum, F.; A New Way to Think About Secure Computation: Language-
Based Secure Computation; WOSIS 2007 – 5th International Workshop on
Security in Information Systems; Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Kerschbaum, F.; Building a Privacy-Preserving Benchmarking Enterprise System;
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference; 2007; Inproceedings
• Kerschbaum, F.; Distance-Preserving Pseudonymization for Timestamps and
Spatial Data; Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic
Society; 2007; Inproceedings
• Kerschbaum, F.; Simple Cross-Site Attack Prevention; the 3rd IEEE International
Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks3rd IEEE Inter -
national Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks; IEEE;
2007; Inproceedings
• Kerschbaum, F., Deitos, R. & Robinson P.; Securing VO Management; Lecture
Notes in Computer Science; Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Kienle, A., Wessner, M., Lokaiczyk, R., Faatz, A. & Goertz, M.; Kontextualisierte
Kooperationsinitiierung zur Unterstützung arbeitsplatzorientierten kollaborativen
Lernens; Proceedings of DelFI’07; 2007; Inproceedings
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Kilian-Kehr, R., Terzidis, O. & Voelz, D.; Industrialization of the Software Sector;
Wirtschaftsinformatik, Special Issue 3/2007; 2007; Article
• Klein, A., Do, H., Hackenbroich, G. & Lehner W.; Representing Data Quality for
Streaming and Static Data; Proceedings of International Workshop on Ambient
Intelligence, Media, and Sensing (AIMS07); 2007; Inproceedings
• Klein, M., Greiner, U., Genßler, T., Kuhn, J. & Born, M.; Enabling Interoperability
in the Area of Multi-brand Vehicle Configuration; I-ESA 2007: Proceedings of the
3rd International Conference Interoperability; 2007; Inproceedings
• Klug, T.; Computer Aided Observations of Complex Mobile Situations;
CHI ’07: CHI ’07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems;
pp. 2507–2512; ACM Press; 2007; Inproceedings
• Klug, T. & Mühlhäuser, M.; Modeling Human Interaction Resources to Support
the Design of Wearable Multimodal Systems; ICMI ’07: Proceedings of the
9th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces; pp. 299–306; ACM Press;
2007; Inproceedings
• Klug, T., Ziegert, T., Zinnen, A. & Carlsson, V.; UCD in Wearable Computing –
A Case Study; Nomadische und “Wearable”-Benutzungsschnittstellen: Entwurfsund
Evaluationsprinzipien für zukünftige Anwendungen; pp. 19–28; ACM Press;
2007; Inproceedings
• Kohler, M., Liesegang, C. & Schaad, A.; Classification Model for Access Control
Constraints; Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Performance, Computing,
and Communications Conference Conference (IPCCC 2007); IEEE Computer
Society; New Orleans, USA; 2007; ISBN: 978-1-4244-1338-6; Inproceedings
• Kohler, M. & Schaad, A.; Avoiding Policy-based Deadlocks in Business
Processes; 2008; Inproceedings
• Kowalkiewicz, M., Lu, R., Baeuerle, S., Kruempelmann, M. & Lippe, S.; Weak
Dependencies in Business Process Models; Proceedings of Business Information
Systems 2008 Conference, Innsbruck, Austria; 2008; Inproceedings
• Kürschner, C. & Thiesse, F.; Assessing Interoperability in the Retail Industry:
The Case of Metro Group; Enterprise Interoperability II: New Challenges and
Approaches; pp. 605–615; 2007; Inproceedings
• Kürschner, C., Thiesse, F. & Fleisch, E.; An Analysis of Data-on-Tag Concepts in
Manufacturing; Proceedings zur 3. Konferenz Mobile und Ubiquitäre Informations -
systeme (MMS 2008) Mobile und Ubiquitäre Informationssysteme – Technologien,
Prozesse, Marktfähigkeit; pp. 122–135; 2008; Proceedings
• Laube, A. & Gomez L.; Context-Aware Resource Filtering; Proceeding of IEEE
and ACM International Conference on Security and Cryptography 2007; Springer
Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Lehtonen, M., Oertel, N. & Vogt H.; Features, Identity, Tracing, and Crypto -
graphy for Product Authentication; the 13th International Conference on Concurrent
Enterprising (ICE 2007); 2007; Inproceedings
• Liesegang, C. & Schaad, A.; Modeling of Task-Based Authorization Constraints
in BPMN; Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process
Management; Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
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SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Liesegang, C., Plate, H. & Hebert, C.; Collaborative Workflow Management for
eGovernment; WEISE 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Lochmann, H.; Towards Connecting Application Parts for Reduced Effort in
Feature Implementations; the 2nd IFIP Central and East European Conference on
Software Engineering Techniques (CEE-SET 2007); 2007; Inproceedings
• Lochmann, H. & Grammel, B.; The Sales Scenario: A Model-Driven Software
Product Line; Software Engineering 2008 Workshopband; No. 122; 2008;
Inproceedings
• Lokaiczyk, R.; Unsupervised Acquisition of Desktop Application Taxonomies;
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning
Technologies, ICALT 2008, Santander, Spain; 2008; Inproceedings
• Lokaiczyk, R., Faatz, A., Beckhaus, A. & Goertz, M.; Enhancing Just-in-Time
E-Learning Through Machine Learning on Desktop Context Sensors; Proceedings
of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using
Context (Context’07); pp. 330–341; 2007; Inproceedings
• Lokaiczyk, R., Godehardt, E., Faatz, A., Goertz, M., Kienle, A., Wessner, M. &
Ulbrich, A.; Exploiting Context Information for Identification of Relevant Experts
in Collaborative Workplace-Embedded E-Learning Environments; Proceedings of
EC-TEL 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Lokaiczyk, R., Godehardt, E., Goertz, M. & Faatz, A.; Zur Unterstützung kontext -
adaptiven E-Learnings in Echtzeit am Arbeitsplatz durch maschinelles Lernen auf
Sensorendaten des Computerdesktops (Poster und Kurzbeitrag); Proceedings of
DelFI 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Lokaiczyk, R., Goertz, M. & Faatz, A.; Towards Improving Privacy and Security
in Context-Aware Workplace-Embedded E-Learning Environments Through Data
Obfuscation; Flexibel integrierbares e-Learning – Nahe Zukunft oder Utopie?
Proceedings of the Workshop on e-Learning 2007 ISSN 1613-0073; pp. 187–196;
Volker Dötsch, Klaus Hering, Florian Schaar; 2007; ISSN 1610-1014;
Inproceedings
• Löser, A., Barczyński, W. M. & Brauer, F.; Improving Query Accuracy in
Corporate Portals Using Modular Information Extraction; 2007; Techreport
• Löser, A., Raghavan, S., Vaithyanathan, S. & Zhu H.; Navigating the Intranet with
High Precision; Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW’07); ACM Press; 2007; Inproceedings
• Lotz, V.; SOA – Sicherheit für moderne Unternehmen, DuD Datenschutz und
Datensicherheit; 2007; Misc
• Lotz, V., Compagna, L. & Wrona, K.; Towards Adaptive Security for Ubiquitous
Computing Systems: MOSQUITO and Serenity; in: Mühlhäuser, M. & Gurevych, I.
“Handbook of Research: Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises”;
2007; Inbook
• Lu, R. & Sadiq, S.; A Survey of Comparative Business Process Modeling
Approaches; Business Information Systems, 9th International Conference on
Business Information Systems, BIS 2006, May 31 – June 2, 2006, Klagenfurt,
Austria; Vol. 4439; pp. 82–94; Springer-Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
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• Lu, R. & Sadiq, S.; On the Discovery of Preferred Work Practice through
Business Process Variants; Conceptual Modeling – ER 2007, 26th International
Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 5–9,
2007, Proceedings; Vol. 4801; pp. 165–180; Springer-Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Manske, K., Leidig, T. & Heuser, L.; The Workplace of the Future; Proceedings of
the 15th International Conference on Multimedia MULTIMEDIA ’07; p. 382; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Marin-Perianu, M., Riedel, T., Moreira S. S., L., Spiess, P., Meratnia, N.,
Decker, C., Havinga, P., Haller, S., Stromberg, G. & Müller, J.; Decentralized
Enterprise Systems: A Multi-platform Wireless Sensor Networks Approach;
IEEE Wireless Communications; 2007; Article
• Merz, C. & Smit, D.; Workshop on: Expansion of European Network of Living
Labs (ENoLL) to Africa – Opportunities, Synergies, Benefits, Limitations; IST-Africa
2007 Conference & Exhibition; Maputo, Mozambique; 2007; Proceedings
• Merz, C., de Louw, R. & Ullrich, N.; Collaborative Working Environments for
Enterprise Incubation – The Sekhukhune Rural Living Lab; IST Africa 2007 Conference
Proceedings; 2007; Inproceedings
• Metzger, M., Zimmermann, B., Bergsträßer, S., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz:, R.;
Automating Layout Adaptation of Textual-based E-Learning Content; Proceedings of
ED-MEDIA 2007; AACE; 2007; Inproceedings
• Meyer, M., Bergsträer, S., Zimmermann, B., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.;
Modeling Modifications of Multimedia Learning Resources Using Ontology-Based
Representations; Advances in Multimedia Modeling; Vol. 4351; pp. 34–43; Springer
Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Meyer, M., Hannappel, A., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Automatic Classification
of Didactic Functions of e-Learning Resources; MULTIMEDIA ’07: Proceedings of
the 15th International Conference on Multimedia; pp. 513–516; ACM Press; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Meyer, M., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Categorizing Learning Objects Based
On Wikipedia as Substitute Corpus; Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop
on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE’07); 2007; Inproceedings
• Meyer, M., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Improving Authoring-by-Aggregation and
Using Aggregation Context for Query Expansion; Creating New Learning Experiences
on a Global Scale, the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced
Learning, EC-TEL 2007; pp. 505–510; Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Meyer, M., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Using Community-Generated Contents
as a Substitute Corpus for Metadata Generation; International Journal of Advanced
Media and Communication (IJAMC); No. 1, Vol. 2; pp. 59–72; 2008; Article
• Meyer, M., Zimmermann, B., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; An Interactive Tool
for Supporting Modularization of SCORM-Based Learning Resources; Proceedings
of ED-MEDIA 2007; pp. 3164–3171; AACE; 2007; Inproceedings
• Miseldine, P.; Automated XACML Policy Reconfiguration for Evaluation
Optimisation; 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008),
The 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems
(SESS’08), Leipzig, Germany, 10–18, May 2008; 2008; Inproceedings

• Momotko, M., Gajewski, M., Ludwig, A., Kowalczyk, R., Kowalkiewicz, M. &
Zhang, J. Y.; Towards Adaptive Management of QoS-aware Service Compositions;
Multiagent and Grid Systems, Special Issue on “Advances in Grid services
Engineering and Management”; Vol.3, No. 3; pp. 299–312; 2007; Article
• Montagut, F. & Molva, R.; Enforcing Integrity of Execution in Distributed Workflow
Management Systems; Proceedings of SCC 2007, 4th IEEE International
Conference on Services Computing, July 9–13, 2007; IEEE Computer Society;
Salt Lake City, USA; 2007; Inproceedings
• Moreira S. S., L.; FT-CoWiseNets: A Fault Tolerance Framework for Wireless
Sensor Networks; In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sensor
Technologies and Applications, SECURWARE, 2007; Valencia, Spain; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Mouzakitis, S., Lampathaki, F., Schroth, C., Scheper, U. & Janner, T.; Towards
a Common Repository for Governmental Data: A Modelling Framework and
Real World Application; the 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for
Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA 2007); Springer Verlag; Madeira
Island, Portugal; 2007; Proceedings
• Mukai, W., Mahe, N., Hamedi, L., Natchetoi, Y., Wu, H. & Dagtas, S.; Towards
Mass Mobile Access for Enterprise Applications; 2007; Article
• Namiri, K. & Stojanovic, N.; A Semantic-based Approach for Compliance
Management of Internal Controls in Business Processes; CAiSE Forum; Vol. 247;
CEUR-WS.org; 2007; Inproceedings
• Namiri, K. & Stojanovic, N.; Pattern-Based Design and Validation of Business
Process Compliance; OTM Conferences (1); Vol. 4803; pp. 59–76; Springer; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Namiri, K. & Stojanovic, N.; Using Control Patterns in Business Processes Compliance;
WISE Workshops; Vol. 4832; pp. 178–190; Springer; 2007; Inproceedings
• Natchetoi, Y. & Wu, H.; Mobile Ad-hoc Business Presentation and Collaboration
Tools; 2007; Proceedings
• Natchetoi, Y. & Wu, H.; Mobile Business Applications on Mobile Lightweight
Architecture; 2007; Proceedings
• Natchetoi, Y. & Wu, H.; Mobile Shopping Assistant – Integration of Mobile
Applications and Web Services; 2007; Proceedings
• Natchetoi, Y., Kaufman, V. & Karabulut, Y.; Service-Oriented Architecture for
Mobile Collaboration; 2007; Inproceedings
• Natchetoi, Y., Kaufman, V., Hamdi, L. & Shapiro, A.; Mobile Web 2.0 Browser
for Collaborative Social Networking; 2007; Proceedings
• Natchetoi, Y., Wu, H. & Babin, G.; A Context-Dependent XML Compression
Approach to Enable Business Applications on Mobile Devices; 2007; Proceedings
• Oberle, D.; DOLCE ergo SUMO: On Foundational and Domain Models in the
SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (SWIntO); Journal of Web Semantics; Vol. 5;
pp. 156–174; 2007; Article
• Oberle, D. & Altenhofen, M.; Ontologies for Scalable Services-Based Ubiquitous
Computing; Handbook of Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real
Time Enterprises; Information Science Reference; 2007; Incollection
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Oberle, M. A. D.; Ontologies for Scalable Services-Based Ubiquitous Computing;
Handbook of Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time
Enterprises; Information Science Reference; 2007; Incollection
• Odenwald, T.; Putting M2M into Business Context; M2M Pioneer Magazine,
Vol. 5, Number 2, March/April; 2007; Article
• O’Hagen, T., Sadiq, S. & Sadiq, W.; Evie – An Event Brokering Language for the
Composition of Collaborative Business Processes; Proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2007); Funchal-
Madeira; Portugal; 2007; Inproceedings
• Ong, E., Grebner, O. & Riss, U. V.; Pattern-Based Task Management: Pattern
Lifecycle and Knowledge Management – Benefits and Open Issues; the 4th Con -
ference on Professional Knowledge Management – Experiences and Visions –,
March 28. – 30. 2007, Potsdam, Germany; GITO Verlag; Berlin; Germany; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Ong, E., Grebner, O. & Riss, U.; Pattern-based Task Management and
Knowledge Management; 2007; Inproceedings
• Padilha, R.S. & Moreira S. S., L.; Quantitative Evaluation of Location Systems
Techniques for Short-Range RF-Based Sensor Networks; the 3rd International
Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc
Networks at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor
Systems; Pisa; Italy; 2007; Inproceedings
• Paliwal, A., Adam, N. & Bornhövd, C.; Web Service Orchestration and
Verification Using MSC and CP Nets; 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied
Computing; Seoul, Korea; 2007; Article
• Paliwal, A., Adam, N., Shafiq, B. & Bornhövd, C.; Policy-Based Web Service
Orchestration and Goal Reachability Analysis Using HMSC and CP Nets; 9th IEEE
Conf. on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’07) Proceedings; Tokyo, Japan; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Pohl, C., Charfi, A., Gilani, W., Göbel, S., Grammel, B., Lochmann, H.,
Rummler, A. & Spriestersbach, A.; Aspect-Oriented Software Development in
Business Application Engineering; Proceedings of the 7th International Conference
on Aspect-Oriented; 2008; Inproceedings
• Puder, A. & Odenwald, T.; Augmenting Smart Items with Business Intelligence;
IEEE/ACM SensorWare/ComsWare 2007; 2007; Article
• Raiyani, S. & Winkler, M.; Multimodal Warehouse Project; IDEA Group Inc;
Hershey; USA; 2007; Inbook
• Riehle, D.; The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives;
IEEE Computer Society April 2007; 2007; ISSN: 0018-9162/07; Article
• Riehle, D.; The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder
Perspectives; IEEE Computer, Vol. 40, no. 4 (April 2007). pp. 25–32; 2007; Article
• Riss, U. V., Cress, U., Kimmerle, J. & Martin, S.; Knowledge Transfer by Sharing
Task Templates: Two Approaches and Their Psychological Requirements; Knowledge
Management Research & Practice; Vol. 5; pp. 287–296; 2007; Article
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SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Riss, U. V., Jarodzka, H. M. & Grebner, O.; Pattern-Based Task Management &
Implicit Knowledge – How to Mobilize Implicit Knowledge; the 4th Conference on
Professional Knowledge Management – Experiences and Visions –, March 28. – 30.
2007, Potsdam, Germany; GITO Verlag; Berlin, Germany; 2007; Article
• Riss, U., Weber, I. & Grebner, O.; Business Process Modeling, Task Management,
and the Semantic Link; Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium: AI Meets Business
Rules and ProcessManagement; 2008; Inproceedings
• Rits, M. & Ashiqur Rahaman, M.; A Secure Mobile Code System; IEEE ICICT07
International Conference on Information and Communication Technology; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Rode, J. & Wünsch, D.; A Research Agenda for Adaptive Manufacturing; the
12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, September
25–28, 2007, Patras, Greece; 2007; ISBN 978-1-4244-0826-1; Inproceedings
• Rummler, A., Grammel, B. & Pohl C.; Improving Traceability in Model-Driven
Development of Business Applications; LNCS; Springer Verlag; Haifa; Israel; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Sadiq, S. W., Governatori, G. & Namiri, K.; Modeling Control Objectives for
Business Process Compliance; BPM; Vol. 4714; pp. 149–164; Springer; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Sadiq, S., Orlowska, M. & Sadiq, W.; Induction of Data Quality Protocols into
Business Process Management; Proceedings of the 9th International Conference
on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2007); Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Samsonowa, T. & Schroth, C.; The EIC – A Consensus-Centric Approach for
Cross-Organizational e-Business Standards Diffusion; Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications
(I-ESA 2007); Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schaffers, H., Cordoba, M. G., Hongisto, P., Kallai, T., Merz, C. &
van Rensburg, J.; Exploring Business Models for Open Innovation in Rural Living
Labs; ICE 2007 Proceedings; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schaffers, H., van Bemmelen, J., Horak, P. & Merz, C.; Creating and Managing
Synergies in a Network of Rural Living Labs; eChallenges Proceedings; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Scheuermann, B., Janson, S. & Middendorf, M.; Hardware-oriented Ant Colony
Optimization; Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 53, number 7, pp. 386–402;
Elsevier; 2007; Article
• Schmid, B., Schroth, C. & Janner, T.; A Hybrid Architecture for Highly Adaptive
and Automated e-Business Platforms; Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International
Conference on Services Computing, July 9–13, 2007 (SCC 2007); IEEE Computer
Society; Salt Lake City, USA; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schmidt, K., Dörflinger, J., Rahmani, T., Sahbi, M., Stojanovic, L. & Thomas, S.;
An Ontology and Rule-based Architecture for the Adaptation of Rich Internet
Applications; 2008; Inproceedings
• Schmidt, K. & Stojanovic, L.; From Business Rules to Application Rules in
Rich Internet Applications; Springer-Verlag; 2008; Inproceedings
74
• Schmidt, K., Stojanovic, L., Stojanovic, N. & Thomas, S.; On Enriching Ajax with
Semantics: The Web Personalization Use Case; In Proceedings of the ESWC 2007
4th European Semantic Web Conference; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schnelle, D. & Lyardet F.; Consumer Voice Interface Patterns; Proceedings of
the 12th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPlop 2007);
2007; Inproceedings
• Schreiber, D., Hartmann, M., Flentge, F., Muehlhaeuser, M., Ziegert, T. &
Goertz, M.; Web Based Evaluation of Proactive Multimodal User Interfaces; Special
Issue of the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces; 2007; Article
• Schroth, C.; The Internet of Services: Global Industrialization of Information Intensive
Services; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on DIGITAL
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (ICDIM’07); p. 8; IEEE Engineering Management
Society; Lyon, France; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schroth, C.; The Service-Oriented Enterprise; Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop
on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR 2007), in conjunction with the
15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2007); Proceedings of
ECIS 2007, AIS; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schroth, C. & Christ, O.; Brave New Web: Emerging Design Principles and Technologies
as Enablers of a Global SOA; Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International
Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007); IEEE Computer Society; Salt
Lake City, USA; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schroth, C. & Janner, T.; Web 2.0 and SOA: Converging Concepts Enabling
the Internet of Services; IT Professional Magazine; IEEE computer Society; 2007;
ISSN: 1520-9202; Article
• Schroth, C., Janner, T. & Hoyer, V.; Service Composition Strategies for Loosely
Coupled Information Chains; Proceedings of the 2nd International SeMSoC Workshop
– Business Oriented Aspects Concerning Semantics and Methodologies in
Service-oriented Computing (SeMSoC 2007); Springer Verlag; Berlin, Germany;
2007; Proceedings
• Schroth, C., Janner, T. & Hoyer, V.; Strategies for Cross-Organizational Service
Composition; 2008; Proceedings
• Schroth, C. & Kirchhoff, L.; Web 2.0 und SOA – verwandte Konzepte?; HMD
Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik (255), dpunkt.verlag; p. 12; 2007; ISSN 1436-3011;
Article
• Schroth, C., Janner, T. & Stuhec G.; UN/CEFACT e-Business Framework:
Closing the Semantic Gap of Service-Oriented Architectures; I-ESA 2007, Madeira
Island, Portugal; 2007;
• Schroth, C., Janner, T. & Stuhec G.; UN/CEFACT Service-Oriented Architecture:
Enabling Both Semantic and Application Interoperability; Proceedings of the
Symposium “Communication in Distributed Systems” (KiVS); VDE-Verlag; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Schroth, C., Janner, T., Mayer, P. & Stage, A.; A Holistic Architecture for Collaborative
and Highly Automatized e-Business Platforms; Proceedings of the IEEE 23rd
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007); IEEE XPlore; 2007;
Inproceedings

• Schroth, C., Pemptroad, G., Janner, T.; CCTS-based Business Information
Modelling for Increasing Cross-Organizational Interoperability; Proceedings of the
3rd International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications
(I-ESA 2007); Springer Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Schulz-Hofen, J.; Web Services Middleware; IEEE International Conference on
Service-Oriented Computing and Applications 2007; 2007; Article
• Seghatoleslami, N., Wu, H. & Natchetoi, Y.; A new Approach to Process Card
Sorting Results Using the Vertical Fragmentation Method; 2007; Proceedings
• Smit, D.; Putting Africa on the Internet Map: An Industry perspective; Launch of
W3C office in South Africa, Meraka, Pretoria, 14 May 2007; 2007; Talks
• Spahn, M., Dörner, C. & Wulf, V.; End User Development of Information
Artefacts: A Design Challenge for Enterprise Systems; 16th European Conference
on Information Systems (ECIS 2008), Galway, Ireland, 9.–11. June 2008; 2008;
Inproceedings
• Spahn, M., Dörner, C. & Wulf, V.; End User Development: Approaches Towards
a Flexible Software Design; 16th European Conference on Information Systems
(ECIS 2008), Galway, Ireland, 9.–11. June 2008; 2008; Inproceedings
• Spahn, M., Scheidl, S. & Stoitsev, T.; End-User Development Techniques for
Enterprise Resource Planning Software Systems; Dagstuhl-Seminar 07081
“End-User Software Engineering”, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, 18.–23.
February 2007; 2007; ISSN 1862-4405; Inproceedings
• Spahn, M., Scheidl, S. & Stoitsev, T.; Improving the Evolution of Enterprise Software
Systems by Fostering End-User Development Techniques; SE2007 Online-
Proceedings; IT University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark; 2007; Misc
• Spiess, P. & Karnouskos, S.; Maximizing the Business Value of Networked
Embedded Systems Through Process-Level Integration into Enterprise Software;
The Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications
(ICPCA 2007), July 26–27, 2007; Birmingham, United Kingtom; 2007; Inproceedings
• Spiess, P. & Müller, J.; CoBIs: Collaborative Business Items; Handbook of
Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises; Information
Science Reference; 2007; ISBN 978-1-59904-832-1; Incollection
• Stefanescu, A. & Wieczorek, S.; Challenges for ERP Test Data Generation;
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop “System Testing and Validation”; Fraunhofer IRB
Verlag; 2007; Inproceedings
• Stoitsev, T., Scheidl, S., Flentge, F. & Mühlhäuser, M.; Architecture for End
User-driven Composition of Underspecified, Human-centric Business Processes;
10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’08);
Barcelona; Spain; 2008; Inproceedings
• Stoitsev, T., Scheidl, S., Flentge, F. & Mühlhäuser, M.; Enabling End Users
to Proactively Tailor Underspecified, Human-Centric Business Processes:
“Programming by Example” of Weakly-Structured Process Models; 10th International
Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’08); Barcelona; Spain;
2008; Inproceedings
• Stoitsev, T., Scheidl, S. & Spahn, M.; A Framework for Lightweight Composition
and Management of Ad-Hoc Business Processes; The 6th International Workshop
on Task Models and Diagrams (TAMODIA 2007), 7.–9. November 2007; Vol. 4849;
Springer Verlag; Toulouse, France; 2007; Inproceedings
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Stoitsev, T., Spahn, M. & Scheidl, S.; EUD for Enterprise Process and
Information Management; 30th International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2008), 4th Workshop on End-User Software Engineering (WEUSE IV),
Leipzig, Germany, 10.–18. May 2008; 2008; Inproceedings
• Thuraisingham, B. M. & Lotz, V.; Proceedings of SACMAT 2007, 12th ACM
Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Sophia Antipolis, France,
June 20–22; ACM Press; 2007; Book
• Trabelsi, S., Gomez, L. & Roudier, Y.; Context-Aware Security Policy for the
Service Discovery; in Proceeding of the 3th IEEE International Symposium on
Security in Network and Distributed Systems; 2007; Inproceedings
• Van Rensburg, R., Smit, D. & Veldsman, A.; “Marrying the ‘System of Innovation’
and Micro Enterprises in Real World Rural SADC”: An Overview of Collaborative
SMME Incubation in the Rural Living Lab of Sekhukhune; IST-Africa 2007
Conference & Exhibition; Maputo, Mozambique; 2007; Proceedings
• Walzer, K., Anke, J., Löser, A. & Wu, H.; A Concept for Flexible Event-Driven
Invocation of Distributed Service Compositions; Proceedings of the 27th International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 07); Toronto,
Canada; 2007; Inproceedings
• Walzer, K., Schill, A. & Loeser, A.; Temporal Constraints for Rule-based Event
Processing; PIKM ’07: Proceedings of the ACM first Ph.D. workshop in CIKM;
pp. 93–100; ACM; 2007; Inproceedings
• Weber, I.; Requirements for Implementing Business Process Models through
Composition of Semantic Web Services.; Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Weber, I., Markovic, I. & Drumm, C.; A Conceptual Framework for Composition
in Business Process Management; Proceedings of the 10th International Conference
on Business Information Systems; 2007; Inproceedings
• Werner, K. & Grummt, E.; RFID in Virtuellen Unternehmen: Potenziale von Dataon-Tag;
Workshop Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien (GeNeMe 2007); Dresden;
Germany; 2007; Inproceedings
• Werner, K., Grummt, E., Groß, S. & Ackermann R.; Data-on-Tag: An Approach
to Privacy Friendly Usage of RFID Technologies; Proceedings of the 3rd European
Workshop on RFID Systems and Technologies (RFID SysTech 2007); Duisburg;
Germany; 2007; Inproceedings
• Wieczorek, S., Stefanescu, A. & Schieferdecker, I.; Test Data Provision for
ERP Systems; 2008; Inproceedings
• Wiemann, M., Bornhövd, C. & Mo, B.; Service and Device Monitoring Service
for Smart Items Infrastructures; the 3rd International Conference on Wireless and
Mobile Communications; Guadeloupe, French Caribbean; 2007; Article
• Wimmer, M., Albutiu, M., Kemper, A., Rits, M. & Lotz, V.; Efficient Access
Control for Composite Applications; LNI 103, Springer Verlag; 2007; Proceedings
• Winkler, M., Heinrich, M., Behring, A., Steinmetz, J. & Dargie, W.; EMODE –
ein Ansatz zur werkzeugunterstützten Modellierung multimodaler, adaptiver
Benutzerschnittstellen; 37. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik – Modellbasierte
Entwicklung von Benutzungsschnittstellen; Vol. 1; 2007; Inproceedings
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SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Publications
• Winkler, T., Haller, J., Gimpel, H. & Weinhardt, C.; Trust Indicator Modeling for
a Reputation Service in Virtual Organisations; Proceedings of the 15th European
Conference on Information Systems (ECIS); 2007; Inproceedings
• Wolf, B., Mofor, G. & Rode, J.; Use Cases and Concepts for 3D Visualisation in
Manufacturing; INFORMATIK 2007, Informatik trifft Logistik, Beiträge der 37.
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), 24.–27. September 2007;
Bremen, Germany, Band 2; pp. 345–352; 2007; ISBN 978-3-88579-204-8;
Inproceedings
• Wünsch, D.; Change Flexibility in Manufacturing – An Integrated Concept to
Enable Reconfigurability; Interoperability for Enterprise Software & Applications,
March 26–30, 2007; Madeira, Portugal; 2007; Inproceedings
• Wünsch, D. & Bratukhin, A.; Multilevel Order Decomposition in Distributed
Production; the 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory
Automation, September 25–28, 2007; pp. 872–879; Patras, Greece; 2007; ISBN
978-1-4244-0826-1; Inproceedings
• Zhao, X., Liu, C., Yang, Y. & Sadiq, W.; Handling Instance Correspondence in
Inter-organisational Workflows; Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on
Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2007); Trondheim, Norway;
2007; Inproceedings
• Zielinski, M.; Balancing Privacy and Information Utility in Data Anonymisation;
Proceedings of the Digital Identity & Privacy Conference; 2007; Inproceedings
• Zielinski, M.; Overcoming the Limitations of K-anonymity Through Association
Rule Hiding; Proceedings of the Digital Identity & Privacy Conference; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Zielinski, M.; Privacy Protection in eParticipation: Guiding the Anonymisation of
Microdata; Understanding eParticipation: Contemporary PhD eParticipation
Research in Europe; 2007; Inbook
• Zimmermann, B., Meyer, M., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Improving Retrieval of
Reusable Learning Resources by Estimating Adaptation Effort.; Proceedings of
LODE Workshop, EC-TEL 2007; 2007; Inproceedings
• Zimmermann, B., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Ein Werkzeug zur Unterstützung
der Anpassung existierender E-Learning Materialien; DeLFI 2007: 5. e-Learning
Fachtagung Informatik; 2007; Inproceedings
• Zimmermann, B., Rensing, C. & Steinmetz, R.; Making Expert Knowledge of
Adaptations of E-Learning Material Available with Patterns; Proceedings of the
7th International Conference on Knowledge Management; pp. 79–86; 2007;
Inproceedings
• Zinnen, A., Faatz, A., Godehardt, E., Goertz, M. & Lokaiczyk, R.; Privacy Issues
when Rolling out an E-Learning Solution; Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2008,
Vienna, Austria; 2008; Inproceedings
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APPENDIX
A SELECTION OF EVENT PARTICIPATIONS IN 2007/2008
SAP COMMUNITY
• 20th Anniversary SAP Research CEC Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany, 20 November 2007
Ceremonial Act with Keynotes from Academia, Industry and SAP. Motto: 20 years
back and 20 years forward; Orestis Terzidis et al.
• 13th International SAP Customer Competence Center Info Forum
St. Leon-Rot, Germany, 12–13 June 2007
http://www.sap.com/about/events/
Presentation: Dancing SALSA: Asuman Suenbuel
• 7th SAP Public Services Ecosystem Summit
Mannheim, Germany, 14–15 February 2007
Demo: MOSQUITO – Disease Management and Remote Healthcare; Annett Laube
Demo: PSRM – Enabling Collaboration via cFolders Integration; Cedric Hebert,
Andreas Schaad
Presentation: ATLAS – in the Public Security Agenda; Cedric Ulmer
• R&BIKOM ‘08 (Research & Breakthrough Innovation Kick-off Meeting 2008)
Mannheim, Germany, 31 January 2008
Demo: Performance Testing; Stephen Dawson, Yi Zhang
• SAP Adaptive Manufacturing Summit
San Francisco, USA, 19–21 September 2007
http://www.sap.com/solutions/manufacturing/newsevents/
manufacturingsummit/index.epx
Demo/Talk: IRIS Event Management; Jochen Rode
• SAP Automotive Symposium
Leipzig, Germany, 27–28 November 2007
http://www.sap.com/germany/company/events/
Demo/Booth: PROVE; Zoltán Nochta
• SAP Development Kick-Off Meeting
Karlsruhe, Germany, 26–27 September 2007
http://paldkom.pal.sap.corp:1080/
Booth: Future Factory; Various other SAP Research and INSPIRE Demos
Researchers from CEC Dresden, CEC Karlsruhe, SRC Palo Alto, and SAP INSPIRE
• SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting
Las Vegas, USA, 15–17 January 2007
Demo: 3D Visualization Engine; Ralf Rath
• SAP Hosting Innovation Day
Heidelberg, Germany, 20 September 2007
http://www.sap.com/community/pub/events.epx
Demo: Internet of Things and Internet of Services; Ulf Brackmann
Keynote: Internet of Things and Internet of Services; Lutz Heuser
• SAP Influencer Summit
Boston, USA, 4–5 December 2007
http://www.sap.com/about/analystrelations/
Video Demo: Future Retail Center (Speech Henning Kagermann); Oliver Christ,
Erica Dubach
• SAP Public Services Summit
Mannheim, Germany, 12–14 February 2008
Presentation: Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process in
Public Sector: What it Means – And Why You Should Care; Ulrike Greiner.
Presentation: Breakthrough Innovation in Public Security, referring to the SoKNOS
project; Thomas Ziegert
Demo: project R4eGov, Cédric Hebert
Joint demo with IBU Defense: Rooftop handling a crisis scenario, David Lincourt,
Stefan Scheidl
• SAP Research Curatorship Meeting (Spring)
St. Gallen, Switzerland, 10–11 May 2007
IT Trend Discussion with External Research Advisory Board: Strategy Evaluation of
IKT 2020; Joachim Schaper
• SAP Research Curatorship Meeting (Fall)
Karlsruhe, Germany, 21 November 2007
IT Trend Discussion with External Research Advisory Board: Open Innovation –
Internet of Services; Joachim Schaper
• SAP Research Switzerland – Official Inauguration
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, 1 October 2007
Ceremonial Act with Keynotes from Academia, Industry and SAP. Sneak Preview of
Future Retail Center; Oliver Christ, Erica Dubach, Ulrich Eisert et al.
• SAP Salon Palo Alto
Palo Alto, USA, 20 March 2008
Event for SAP employees: Exploring the Technology Horizon with SAP Research
Americas and China; Ike Nassi and researchers from SRC Palo Alto
• SAPPHIRE Europe
Vienna, Austria, 14–16 May 2007
http://www.sapsapphire.com/emea2007/
Live-Demo: IRIS, SimCorp and PROVE; Zoltan Nochta, Ralf Rath, Jochen Rode
• SAPPHIRE Japan
Tokio, Japan, 28–29 October 2007
http://www.sap.com/about/events/sapphire/
Video-Demo: IRIS, SimCorp and PROVE; Zoltan Nochta, Ralf Rath, Jochen Rode
• SAP TechEd China
Shanghai, China, 6–7 November 2007
http://www.sapteched.com/china/TechEden/
Keynote: Unleash the Power of your Business Network with Enterprise SOA;
Ike Nassi, Ming-Chien Shan
Talk: The Promise of Dynamic Programming Languages at SAP; Rainer Brendle
• SAP TechEd Germany
Munich, Germany, 17–19 October 2007
http://www.sapteched.com/emea/
Demo: Mobile Widget Providing Real-Time Schedule; Louenas Hamdi
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• SAP TechEd India
Bangalore, India, 28–30 November 2007
http://www.sapteched.com/india/
Demo: Mobile Widget Providing Real-Time Schedule; Louenas Hamdi
• SAP TechEd United States
Las Vegas, USA, 1–5 October 2007
http://www.sapteched.com/usa/
Demo: Mobile Widgets; Louenas Hamdi, Nolwen Mahe
Demo: CarWeaver Integration; Thomas Odenwald
• SAP University Alliance User Group Meeting
St. Leon-Rot, Germany, 6 September 2007
http://www.sap.com/germany/company/events/
Booth: SAP Research Overview and PhD-Program; Elmar Dorner, Alexander Rausch
• SAP Utilities Information Exchange Forum
Ettington, UK, 28 June 2007
http://www.sap.com/uk/company/events/
Keynote/Talk: Advanced Utility Management with SAP NetWeaver;
Thomas Odenwald, Martin Stein
SCIENTIFIC
• 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Limerick, Ireland, 24–28 September 2007
http://www.ecscw07.org/
Paper: Mobile Web 2.0 Browser for Collaborative Social Networking; Louenas
Hamdi, Viktor Kaufman, Yuri Natchetoi, Albina Shapiro
• 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems
Poznan, Poland, 25–27 April 2007
http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/10th_bis/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• 12th SACMAT (Symposium on Access Control Methods and Technologies)
Sophia Antipolis, France, 20–22 June 2007
http://www.sacmat.org/2007/
General Chair; Volkmar Lotz
• 15th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Vilamoura, Portugal, 25–30 November 2007
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/
Program Committee Member; Rainer Ruggaber
• 16th International WWW Conference
Banff, Canada, 8–12 May 2007
http://www2007.org/program.php
Presentation: Building the Web, The Global Web, Mining the Web, Weaving the
Web, The WWW and You; Nolwen Mahe
• 20th International FLAIRS Conference
Florida, USA, 7–9 May 2007
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/flairs2007/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
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• 1st Interdisciplinary Doctoral Symposium Ping Karlsruhe
Germany, Karlsruhe, 16 March 2007
http://www.ping-symposium.org/
Organization Committee Member; Daniel Oberle, York Sure
• 1st International Workshop on First Industrial Results of Semantic Technology
Busan, Korea, 11–15 November 2007
http://www.disa.unitn.it/net-economy/
Program Committee Member; Elmar Dorner
• 1st International Workshop on Model-Based Trustworthy Health Information
Systems
Nashville, USA, 30 September – 5 October 2007
http://mothis.isis.vanderbilt.edu/
Program Committee Member; Volkmar Lotz
• 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation
Salt Lake City, USA, 9–13 July 2007
http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007/
Paper/Talk: Composing Web-Service – Like Abstract State Machines; Andreas
Friesen, Jens Lemcke
• 1st Workshop on Architecture, Design, and Implementation of the Semantic
Desktop
Innsbruck, Austria, 7 June 2007
http://semdeskdesign2007.semanticdesktop.org/
Program Committee Member; Daniel Oberle
• 1st Workshop on CyberInfrastructure: Information Management in eScience
Lisbon, Portugal, 6–8 November 2007
http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/Workshops.html
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• 14. ERP Days
Aachen, Germany, 9–10 May 2007
http://idw-online.de/
Keynote: Enterprise SOA – Platform for Flexible Business Processes; Lutz Heuser
• 2nd Development Informatics Workshop
Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 October 2007
http://sit.monash.ac.za/
Presentation: SAP Research and Technologies for Emerging Economies; Danie Smit
• 2nd International Research Forum
Eltville, Germany, 21–23 May 2007
http://www.sap.com/about/company/research/irf/
Executive Think Tank: Enterprise 2.0, User-Driven Innovation, Service Grid,
Business Model Transformation; Claudia Alsdorf, Lutz Heuser et al.
• 2nd International Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business
Process Management
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 12–16 June 2007
http://www.iceis.org/iceis2007/
Program Committee Member; Rainer Ruggaber

• 2nd Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies
Bremen, Germany, 25 September 2007
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2007
Organization Committee Member; Daniel Oberle, York Sure
• 2nd Workshop on Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web
Guimaraes, Portugal, 3–7 December 2007
http://epia2007.appia.pt/
Program Committee Member; Daniel Oberle, York Sure
• 37th Congress of the German Society for Information Sciences – The All-
Knowing Factory
Bremen, Germany, 27 September 2007
http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/infprod07/programm.html
Paper Presentation: Use Cases and Concepts for 3D Visualization in Manufacturing;
Bernhard Wolf
• 37th Conference of the German Society for Information Sciences – Model-
Based Development of User Interfaces
Bremen, Germany, 25 September 2007
http://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/MoBe/
Presentation: Emode Tool Chain and Demonstrators; Matthias Winkler
Workshop Chair; Thomas Ziegert
• 26th Meeting of the Group of the Faculty of Software Technology – Group Test,
Analyze and Verification of Software
Stuttgart, Germany, 6 December 2007
http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~winter/tav/html/tav26/text.htm
Talk: Model-Based Testing; Alin Stefanescu
• 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing
White Plains, USA, 12–15 November 2007
http://www.collaboratecom.org/
Talk: Secure Scripting Based Composite Application Development: Framework,
Architecture, and Implementation; Talk: Service-Oriented Architecture for Mobile
Collaboration; Panel Talk: SOA is not Enough; Yuecel Karabulut
• 3rd International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Software and
Applications
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, 28–30 March 2007
http://www.aidima.es/iesa2008/
Steering Committee Member; Ulrike Greiner, Rainer Ruggaber
• 3rd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
Guadeloupe, French Carribean, 4–9 March 2007
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICWMC07.html
Paper Presentation: A Service and Device Monitoring Service for Smart Items
Infrastructures; Christof Bornhoevd
• 3rd International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base
Systems
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 27–29 November 2007
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Events
• 3rd International Workshop on Security and Trust Management
Dresden, Germany, 27 September 2007
http://www.item.ntnu.no/infosik/stm07/
Program Co-Chair; Volkmar Lotz
• 3rd Workshop on Context and Ontology Representation and Reasoning
Roskilde, Denmark, 20–24 August 2007
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/cfp/msg00728.html
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• 3rd Workshop on Quality of Protection
Alexandria VA, USA, 29 October 2007
http://dit.unitn.it/~qop/
Program Committee Member; Volkmar Lotz
• 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the
Enterprise
Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 15–19 October 2007
http://edoc.mitre.org/workshops.html
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• 4th Congress on Semantics and Knowledge Technologies
Darmstadt, Germany, 18 October 2007
http://www.zgdv.de/
Talk: SAP Research Net, Semantics, Federation of Semantic Wikis and SRN,
Decentralised Knowledge Representation at SAP Research; Andreas Faatz
• 4th Conference Professional Knowledge Management
Potsdam, Germany, 27–29 March 2007
http://www.wm-tagung.de/
Presentation: Motivate Users to Construct Collective Knowledge via IT; Olaf
Grebner
Presentation: Pattern-Based Task Management and Implicit Knowledge; Uwe Riss
• 4th European Semantic Web Conference
Insbruck, Austria, 3–7 June 2007
http://www.eswc2007.org/
Presentation: On Enriching Ajax with Semantics – The Web Personalization Use
Case; Kay-Uwe Schmidt
Program Committee Member; Daniel Oberle, York Sure
• 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture
Whistler, BC, Canada, 28–31 October 2007
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/kcap07/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• 5th International Conference on Business Process Management
Brisbane, Australia, 24–28 September 2007
http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/
Program Committee Member; Wasim Sadiq
Panel Discussion: Smart Services CRC; Alistair Barros
Paper Presentation: Modeling Control Objectives for Business Process
Compliance; Kioumars Namiri
Paper Presentation: Modeling of Task-Based Authorization in BPMN; Christian
Wolter
Presentation: SAP/HP Joint Project; Alistair Barros
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• 5th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 12–16 June 2007
http://www.iceis.org/
Program Committee Member; Stamatis Karnouskos
• 5th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Vienna, Austria, 17–20 September 2007
http://www.icsoc.org
Program Committee Member; Rainer Ruggaber
• 5th International EON Workshop: Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web,
at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference
Busan, Korea, 11 November 2007
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2007
Organization Committee Member; York Sure
• 6th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of
Semantics
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 27–29 November 2007
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• 6th International Semantic Web Conference
Busan, Korea, 11–15 November 2007
http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/
Organization Committee Member; York Sure
• 6th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams
Toulouse, France, 7–9 November 2007
http://liihs.irit.fr/tamodia2007/
Paper Presentation: A Framework for Lightweight Composition and Management
of Ad-Hoc Business Processes; Todor Stoitsev
• 8th Concertation Meeting of IST-FP6 Communication Technologies Projects
and Associated Clusters
Brussels, Belgium, 20–21 March 2007
http://cordis.europa.eu/
Invited Expert Presentation: Integrating Web-Service Enabled Devices in Enterprise
Services; Stamatis Karnouskos
• 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Nancy, France, 3–7 December 2007
http://wise2007.loria.fr/
Keynote: Die allgegenwärtige Informations technologie – Chancen für Europa;
Lutz Heuser
Talk: A Framework for Business Operations Management Systems; Tao Lin
• 8th International Conference on Business Information Science
Karlsruhe, Germany, 28 February – 2 March 2007
http://www.wi2007.de/
Presentation: Flexible Prozessgestaltung als Basis innovativer Geschäftsmodelle;
Lutz Heuser
Program Committee Member; Christoph Pohl, York Sure
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• ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Lisboa, Portugal, 6–9 November 2007
http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/
Paper Presentation: QuickMig – Automatic Schema Matching for Data Migration
Projects; Hong-Hai Do, Christian Drumm, Erhard Rahm, Matthias Schmidt
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Seoul, Korea, 11–15 March 2007
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007/
Paper Presentation: Web Service Orchestration and Verification Using MSC and
CP Nets; Christof Bornhoevd
Program Committee Member; Volkmar Lotz
• ACM UIST Symposium
Newport, RI, USA, 7–10 October 2007
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2007/
Paper: Adaptive User Interface for Mobile Business Applications; Yuri Natchetoi,
Pen-Fan Sun, Huaigu Wu
• Ami 2007: Workshop on Smart Products – Building Blocks of Ambient
Intelligence
Darmstadt, Germany, 10 November 2007
http://www.ami-07.org/workshop/
Program Committee Member; Stephan Haller, Stamatis Karnouskos, Thomas
Odenwald, Harald Vogt
• Bertinoro Workshop on Information Integration
Bertinoro, Italy, 30 September – 4 October 2007
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lenzerin/INFINT2007/
Invited Expert Presentation: Challenges in Automatic Schema Matching for Data
Migration; Christian Drumm
• BPM SOA Symposium
Wolnzach, Germany, 15 June 2007
Keynote: Enterprise SOA – Platform for Flexible Business Processes; Lutz Heuser
• CollaborateCom 2007
White Plains, NY, USA, 12–15 November 2007
http://www.collaboratecom.org/
Paper: Service-Oriented Architecture for Mobile Collaboration; Yuecel Karabulut,
Viktor Kaufman, Yuri Natchetoi
• Communication in Distributed Systems 2007
Bern, Switzerland, 26 February – 2 March 2007
http://kivs07.unibe.ch/
Paper Presentation: A Heuristic Method for QoS-Aware Composition of Flexible
Business Processes from Web Services; Michael Spahn, Bernhard Wolf Pres en -
tation: Towards an Information Infrastructure for the Future Internet of Energy;
Automatic Sensor Networks for Future Enterprise Services; Stamatis Karnouskos
• Conference on E-Commerce Technology
Tokyo, Japan, 23–26 July 2007
http://ieejc.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/CEC2007/
Paper Presentation: Policy-Based Web Service Orchestration and Goal Reachability
Analysis Using HMSC and CP Nets; Christof Bornhoevd

• CREATIVITY & COGNITION
Washington DC, USA, 13–15 June 2007
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/
Panel Discussion: Bridging Art and Science with Creativity Support Tools;
Sessions: Education, Collaboration Models, Creating and Sharing, Tools, Media,
and Environments, Design Methods; Ellen Vaye
• CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference)
Montreal, Canada, 18–20 January 2007
http://2007.cusec.net/
Introduction to Mobile Web 2.0; Louenas Hamdi
• Dagstuhl-Seminar: End-User Software Engineering
Wadern, Germany, 18–23 February 2007
http://kathrin.dagstuhl.de/07081/
Presentation: End-User Development Techniques for Enterprise Resource Planning
Software Systems; Michael Spahn
• Distributed Event-Based Systems Conference
University of Toronto, Canada, 20–21 June 2007
http://www.debs.msrg.utoronto.ca/
Keynote: Peer-to-Peer and Mobility, Concepts and Models, Security and Software
Engineering, Business Applications, Routing and Matching; Nolwen Mahe
• EDOC – The Enterprise Computing Conference
Annapolis, USA, 15–17 October 2007
http://edoc.mitre.org/
Best Paper Award: Building a Privacy-Preserving Benchmarking Enterprise System
by Florian Kerschbaum; Frederic Montagut
• EU RFID Conference
Berlin, Germany, 25–26 June 2007
http://www.nextgenerationmedia.de/
Keynote: The Internet of Things in the Business World; Lutz Heuser
Demo/Booth: PROVE; Volker Vogelmann
• EU RFID Conference
Lissabon, Portugal, 15–16 November 2007
http://www.rfid-outlook.pt/
Keynote:The Next Step to the Internet of Things; Joachim Schaper
Demo/Booth: PROVE, SToP; Carsten Magerkurth, Zoltan Nochta, Harald Vogt
• EU RFID Forum
Brussels, Belgium, 13–14 November 2007
http://www.rfidconvocation.eu/
Invited Talk: Enabling the Real-World Aware Business; Gregor Hackenbroich
• EURO-PAR (European Conference on Parallel Computing)
Rennes, France, 27–31 August 2007
http://europar2007.irisa.fr/
Paper: A Context-Dependent XML Compression Approach to Enable Business
Applications on Mobile Devices; Gilbert Babin, Yuri Natchetoi, Huaigu Wu
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Events
• European Ambient Intelligence Conference
Darmstadt, Germany, 7–10 November 2007
http://www.ami-07.org/
Keynote: Ambient Intelligence in the Internet of Services; Lutz Heuser
Talk: Internet of Things and Internet of Services; Lutz Heuser, Knut Manske
Program Committee Member; Stephan Haller, Stamatis Karnouskos, Thomas
Odenwald, Harald Vogt
http://www.ami-07.org/workshop/
Workshop Chair: SW3 – Model Driven Software Engineering for Ambient
Intelligence Applications; Thomas Ziegert
• European Commission Consultation on Monitoring and Control: Boosting
Innovation and Growth in Lead Markets
Brussels, Belgium, 28 March 2007
Invited Expert Presentation: Lead Market Potential – The Promise of Networking
Embedded Devices; Stamatis Karnouskos
• European Conference on Web Services
Halle, Germany, 26–28 November 2007
http://www.ecows2007.uni-halle.de/
Paper Presentation: Transactional BPEL Processes with Aspects; Program
Committee; Anis Charfi
• First International Workshop on Security Technologies for Next Generation
Collaborative Business Applications
Istanbul, Turkey, 20 April 2007
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jinghai/SECOBAP
Panel Talk: Security & Trust for Composite Business Applications – Challenges &
Research Directions; Yuecel Karabulut
• Group2007
Sanibel Islands, Florida, USA, 4–7 November 2007
http://www.acm.org/
Booth: Social Network-Based Mobile Collaboration; Viktor Kaufman, Yuri Natchetoi,
Albina Shapiro
• Group on Knowledge Management
Hildesheim, Germany, 24–26 September 2007
http://lwa07.informatik.uni-halle.de/fgir07/fgir07_en.htm
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• Hasso Plattner Institut: Guest Lecture
Potsdam, Germany, 27 November 2007
http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/
Invited Talk: Unstructured Information Management at SAP Research; Alexander
Löser
• I-KNOW 2007
Graz, Austria, 7 September 2007
http://i-know.know-center.tugraz.at/kost
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• ICDCS
Toronto, Canada, 25–29 June 2007
http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/icdcs07/
Paper Presentation: A Concept for Flexible Event-Driven Invocation of Distributed
Service Compositions; Jürgen Anke, Alexander Löser, Karen Walzer, Huaigu Wu
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• ICDE
Istanbul, Turkey, 15–20 April 2007
http://www.icde2007.org/icde/
Paper Presentation: Pushing Business Data Processing Towards the Periphery;
Christof Bornhoevd
Presentation: Unnesting Scalar SQL Queries in the Presence of Disjunction;
Norman May
• ICDT 2007
Silicon Valley, USA, 1–6 July 2007
http://www.iaria.org/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• ICPCA07
Birmingham, UK, 26–27 July 2007
http://www.mainfo.cn/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• ICSoft 2007
Barcelona, Spain, 24 July 2007
http://www.icsoft.org/ICSOFT2007/
Presentation: Emode Methodology; Matthias Winkler
• ICTs for Civil Society Conference
Johannesburg, South Africa, 17–18 July 2007
http://www.sangonet.org.za
Presentation: Envisioning a Holistic ICT Solution for NGOs; Rubina Adam, Winnie
Kandie, Danie Smit
• ICWS 2007
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 9–13 July 2007
http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007/
Keynote: Web Services – Meeting the Software Challenge of Future HW and
Global Business Trends; Ike Nassi
• IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
London, UK, 13–14 November 2007
http://www.fuzzieee2007.org
Paper Presentation: Genetic Fuzzy Systems Applied to Online Job Scheduling;
Carsten Franke
• IEEE Conference on Robot-Human Interaction
Jeju Island, Korea, 26–29 August 2007
http://www.ro-man2007.org/
Talk: Real-Time Acoustic Source Localization in Noisy Environments for Human-
Robot Multimodal Interaction; Vlad Trifa
• IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering
Istanbul, Turkey, 15–20 April 2007
http://www.icde2007.org/icde/
Organizational Committee Member; Yuecel Karabulut
• IEEE 16th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures
for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2007)
Paris, France, 18 June 2007
http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/WETICE/
Invited Expert Presentation: Internet of Services – An SAP Research Vision;
Rainer Ruggaber
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• IEEE CCNC 2007 Wireless Networking Track
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 11–13 January 2007
http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• IEEE GlobeCom 2007
Washington, DC, USA, 26–30 November 2007
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• IEEE/IES Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
Cairns, Australia, 21–23 February 2007
http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/
Program Committee Member; Volkmar Lotz
• IEEE SenseApp 2007
Dublin, Ireland, 18 October 2007
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~senseapp/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• IEEE Workshop on Agile Cooperative Process-Aware Information Systems
at WetICE 2007
Paris, France, 18–20 June 2007
http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/heshuis/progility07/
Program Committee Member; Rainer Ruggaber
• I-ESA Conference
Funchal, Portugal, 1 April 2007
http://www.aidima.es/iesa2007/
Best Paper Award: CCTS-Based Business Information Modeling for Increased
Interoperability; Till Janner, Gregory Pemptroad, Christoph Schroth
• IFIP/IEEE 1st International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and
Security
Paris, France, 2–4 May 2007
http://www.ntms2007.org/
Paper Presentation: An Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Future Energy
Networks; Session Chair: Mobile Agents, Middleware and Pervasive Computing;
Session-Chair; Stamatis Karnouskos
• IFIP 8th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 2007)
Guimaraes, Portugal, 10 September 2007
http://www.pro-ve.org/
Invited Expert Presentation: ATHENA – Research on Enterprise Interoperability;
Program Committee Member; Rainer Ruggaber
• International Conference on Conceptual Structures
Sheffield, UK, 26 August 2007
http://www.iccs2007.info/
Paper Presentation: Family of Algorithms Mapping Workflows and Task-Competency
Structures; Application Domain – Informal Learning in the Enterprise; Andreas
Faatz
• International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications 2007
Lyon, France, 17–19 October 2007
http://gridnets.org/2007/
Program Committee Member; Wolfgang Gerteis

• International Conference on Web Intelligence
Silicon Valley, USA, 2–5 November 2007
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/
Program Committee Vice Chair; York Sure
• International Workshop on Construction of Structured Knowledge in a
Web 2.0 Environment
Banff, Alberta, Canada, 8 May 2007
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ckc2007
Organization Committee Member; York Sure
• International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution or
ESOE
Busan, Korea, 12 November 2007
https://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/esoe2007
Workshop Organizing Committee Member; Ernie Ong
• International Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge
Acquisition
Hyderbad, India, 6 January 2007
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/SWECKA2007
Organization Committee Member; York Sure
• Internet of Things Conference
Zurich, Switzerland, 27–28 March 2008
Booth: Demos from the CEC St. Gallen, CEC Zurich, CEC Darmstadt;
Evening event: Live Demo on stage visualizing processes in the real world and in
virtual worlds (Second Life); researchers from CEC Dresden, CEC St. Gallen
• ISI (International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 23–24 May 2007
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/ISI2007/
Paper Presentation: Approach for Discovering and Handling Crisis in a Service-
Oriented Environment; Christof Bornhoevd
• IST Africa 2007 Conference & Exhibition
Maputo, Mozambique, 7–11 May 2007
http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2007/
Presentation: The Research Strategy for the Joint SAP Meraka Unit for Technology
Development; Danie Smit
Presentation: A Research Agenda for the Application of ICT to Enhance the
Success of SMMEs in Emerging Economies; Segopotso Moshapo
Workshop: Concept of the Living Labs; Christian Merz
Booth: Research Activities and Projects from the SAP Research CEC Pretoria
• HICSS Mini-Track on SOA with Web Services
Big Island, Hawaii, 3–6 January 2007
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/apahome40-old
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• KAUST IT Summit
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 27–29 October 2007
http://itsummit.kaust.edu.sa/overview.aspx
Talk: Towards a Web-Based Service Economy; Lutz Heuser
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Events
• KnowTech 2007
Frankfurt, Germany, 29 November 2007
http://www.iw-live.de/wissen/
Talk/Live-Demo: SAP Research Net, Semantics, Federation of Semantic Wikis and
SRN, Decentralised Knowledge Representation at SAP Research; Andreas Faatz,
iViews GmbH
• MEMO 2007
Münster, Germany, 23–24 May 2007
http://www.picture-eu.org
Workshop: EU Project PICTURE; Florian Stroh
• MidSens 2007
Newport Beach, USA, 30 November 2007
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/conference/MidSens2007
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• MobiCom / MobiHoc
Montreal, Canada, 9–14 September 2007
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/
Demo: Mobile Business Applications on Mobile Lightweight Architecture;
Huaigu Wu
Demo: Mobile ad-hoc Business Presentation and Collaboration Tools; Yuri Natchetoi
• MOBIQUITOUS 2007
Philadelphia, PA, USA, 6–10 August 2007
http://www.mobiquitous.org/2007/
Paper Presentation: Distributed Service Deployment in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks;
Christof Bornhoevd
• MobiSys/HealthNet Workshop
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 11 June 2007
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/local.html
Booth: An Integrated Wireless Sensing and Mobile Processing Architecture for
Assisted Living and Healthcare Applications; Serhan Dagtas, Yuri Natchetoi, Albina
Shapiro, Huaigu Wu
• Model-Driven Development & Product Lines – Synergies and Experience
Leipzig, Germany, 25 September 2007
http://mdd.sabre-conference.com/
Invited Talk: Combining Aspect-Orientation and Model-Driven Techniques for
Product Line Development of Business Software; Christoph Pohl, Axel Uhl
• Mosharaka International Conference on Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing
Amman, Jordan, 6–8 September 2007
http://hoj-mcwc.org/M-WCMC2007/
Program Committee Member; Stamatis Karnouskos
• OpenAjax Members Meeting
Mountain View, USA, 27 September 2007
http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/
Face-to-Face Meeting: OpenAjax Hub 1.0
and the InteropFest, OpenAjax Hub 1.1, Production Ajax Management Task Force,
Ajax Searchability Task Force, W3C Liaison; Yuecel Karabulut
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• OpenAjax / W3C Mobile Ajax Workshop
Mountain View, USA, 28 September 2007
http://www.w3.org/2007/06/mobile-ajax/
Paper: Business Case for Mobile Ajax; Rama Gurram
• Pervasive 2007
Toronto, Ontaria, Canada, 13–16 May 2007
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/conferences/pervasive2007/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• RSA 2007
San Francisco, USA, 5–9 February 2007
http://www.rsaconference.com/2007/US/
Booth: NetWeaver Security; Yuecel Karabulut
• Roles 2007
Berlin, Germany, 30–31 July 2007
http://ecoop07.swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/workshops/
Program Committee Member; Daniel Oberle
• SAP Enterprise Services Community Workshop on SensorNets
Palo Alto, USA, 20 April 2007
http://www.cobis-online.de
Workshop Lead: Towards the Real-Time Enterprise; Stamatis Karnouskos, Wesley
Mukai, Joella Paquette, Aaron Williams
• SCC 2007
Salt Lake City, USA, 9–13 July 2007
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2007/
Paper Presentation: Web Service Discovery – Adding Semantics through Service
Request Expansion and Latent Semantic Indexing; Christof Bornhoevd
• Semantics Day
Darmstadt, Germany, 22 May 2007
Talk: SAP Research Net, Semantics, Federation of Semantic Wikis and SRN,
Decentralised Knowledge Representation at SAP Research; Andreas Faatz
• SensorWare IEEE Conference
Bangalore, India, 07 October 2007
http://www.sensorware.org/
Keynote: Physical, MAC and Energy-Awareness; Panel Talk: Clustering and
Network Organization Management and Network Coverage; Thomas Odenwald
• SmartGrids – European Commission Technology Platform
Bad Staffelstein, Germany, 8–9 November 2007
http://www.smartgrids.eu
Booth: Real-Time Utility Enterprise; Stamatis Karnouskos
• Software Engineering
Hamburg, Germany, 27–30 March 2007
http://www.se2007.de/
Workshop: Improving the Evolution of Enterprise Software Systems by Fostering
End-User Development Techniques; Michael Spahn
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• Strategies for Global Manufacturing – A European View of IMS
Zurich, Switzerland, 15–16 November 2007
http://cordis.europa.eu/ims/src/event-2007.htm
Invited Expert Presentation: Towards Real-Time Factories Based on Networked
Embedded Devices; Stamatis Karnouskos
Invited Expert Presentation: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Manufacturing –
The Manufacturing Software Perspective; Jochen Rode
• TAMODIA 2007
Toulouse, France, 9 November 2007
http://liihs.irit.fr/tamodia2007/
Presentation: EMODE Task Model and Tool Support; Matthias Heinrich
• Track on Semantic Web and Applications
Seoul, Korea, 11–15 March 2007
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• Ubiquitous IT Europe Forum at the University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany, 12 March 2008
Keynote: Stamatis Karnouskos
• W3C, Launch of Southern African Office
Pretoria, South Africa, 14 May 2007
http://www.w3c.org.za/
Presentation: Putting Africa on the Internet Map – An Industry Perspective;
Danie Smit
• Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Populations Workshop
Darmstadt, Germany, 27 September 2007
http://www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a1/wasp/
Invited Presentation: Towards a Service- Oriented Cross-Layer Infrastructure for
Distributed Smart Embedded Devices; Stamatis Karnouskos
• Workshop on Collaboration and Security
Orlando, USA, 21–25 May 2007
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Manifestations/COLSEC/
Program Committee Member; Volkmar Lotz
• Workshop on Prior Conceptual Knowledge in Machine Learning and
Knowledge Discovery
Warsaw, Poland, 21 September 2007
http://keg.vse.cz/prickl07/
Program Committee Member; York Sure
• Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management
Innsbruck, Austria, 7 June 2007
http://www.eswc2007.org/workshops.cfm
Program Committee Member; Daniel Oberle, York Sure
• WWW/Internet 2007
Vila Real, Portugal, 5–8 October 2007
http://www.internet-conf.org/
Program Committee Member; Ralf Ackermann
• XML Symposium
Vienna, Austria, 23–24 September 2007
Presentation: Efficient XQuery Evaluation of Grouping Conditions with Duplicate
Removals; Norman May, Guido Moerkotte

• XML Days
Berlin, Germany, 24–26 September 2007
http://www.xml-clearinghouse.de/ws/BXML/
Presentation: Querying Embedded RDF with XML Echnology – A Feasibility Study;
Norman May, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Program Committee Member; York Sure
OTHERS
• 10. Handelblatt – Congress – Future of IT
Berlin, Germany, 25–26 September 2007
Keynote: The Business Web; Lutz Heuser
• 2nd National IT Summit
Hannover, Germany, 10 December 2007
http://www.cebit.de/it_gipfel_d
Demo: THESEUS/TEXO; Rainer Ruggaber, York Sure
Panel Discussion and Chancellor Demo; Lutz Heuser
• 2. WinCor Nixdorf Wholesale VIP Event Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany, 15 November 2007
Presentation: Towards a Hundred Percent
Pick-Rate – Innovations from SAP Research; Manfred J. Pauli
• 35 Years Faculty of Information Sciences at the University Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany, 16 November 2007
http://www.ira.uka.de/
Keynote: Web-Based Service Economy
Vision and Roadmap; Lutz Heuser
• 3rd EuroAfrica-ICT Group Meeting
Brussels, Belgium, 27 September 2007
www.euroafrica-ict.org
Keynote: Success Factors in FP7: Industrial Partner View; Joachim Schaper
• AlwaysOn – GoingGreen
Davis, CA, USA, 10 September 2007
http://alwayson.goingon.com/
Presentation: SAP on Sustainability and Compliance; Thomas Odenwald,
Andreas Vogel
• Campus Opening Walldorf (Opening of the New Buildings)
Walldorf, Germany, 23 March 2007
Booth: Future Factory, Researchers from CEC Dresden and SAP INSPIRE;
Demo: PROVE, SAP INSPIRE
• CeBIT
Hanover, Germany, 15–21 March 2007
Booth: Future Factory; Researchers from CEC Dresden, CEC Karlsruhe,
SRC Palo Alto and SAP INSPIRE
http://www.cebit.de/
SAP Research Live-Demo for Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel; Researchers
from CEC Dresden and SAP INSPIRE
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Events
• CeBIT 2008
Hannover, Germany, 4–9 March 2008
Demo to the German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel during her visit at the SAP main
booth; Erica Dubach
Booth: Demos from the SAP Future Retail Center; Researchers from CEC
St. Gallen, CEC Zurich, CEC Montreál
THESEUS Future Talk: Lutz Heuser
Demo: TEXO use case (Anwendungsbeispiele); Rainer Ruggaber
Demo: SoKNOS; Thomas Ziegert, Petra Hochstein
Demo: Joint demo of PICTURE, SUPER and TEXO at the Public Sector booth;
several researchers.
Award: e-telligence and MEREGIO; Stamatis Karnouskos, Harald Vogt
• E-Business-Infoday – SOA und Web Services
Berlin, Germany, 3 July 2007
http://www.xml-clearinghouse.de/ws/EBIT2007/
Invited Talk: Enterprise SOA and Beyond; Kay-Uwe Schmidt
• empolis Developer Days
Kaiserslautern, Germany, 26 April 2007
Invited Expert Presentation: Internet of Services – An SAP Research Vision;
Rainer Ruggaber
• Empolis Exchange Forum
Berlin, Germany, 22–23 May 2007
http://www.empolis.com/de/anwenderkonferenz_2007
Keynote: The Internet of Services; Lutz Heuser
• ESoCE-Net Industrial Forum on Living Labs
Rome, Italy, 3 December 2007
http://www.esoce.net/
Presentation: SAP INSPIRE – Laboranova Living Lab; Philip Taylor
• European Network of Living Labs Event
Brussels, Belgium, 17 October 2007
www.openlivinglabs.eu
Keynote: Living Labs in the Context of International Cooperation; Joachim Schaper
• Feldafinger Circle Symposium
St. Leon-Rot, Germany, 12 July 2007
http://www.feldafinger-kreis.de/
Booth: Future Factory; Host of the Event; Lutz Heuser et al.
• International Automotive Council
Speyer, Germany, 7 October 2007
Presentation: CarWeaver; Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz
• ITEA Forum
Berlin, Germany, 18–19 October 2007
http://www.itea-office.org/
Booth: Project Results of EMODE, CoBIs and SOCRADES; Stephan Haller,
Stamatis Karnouskos, Domnic Savio, Vlad Trifa, Matthias Winkler
• Karlsruhe Workgroup IT Security
Karlsruhe, Germany, 5 June 2007
Presentation: Secure Development of Java Web Applications; Rosemaria Giesecke
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• National Retail Foundation Annual Meeting
New York, USA, 15–17 January 2007
http://nrf.a2zinc.net/annual07/
Demo: First Use Case of SimCorp; Ralf Rath
• NESSI General Assembly
Brussels, Belgium, 11–12 December 2007
http://www.nessi-europe.eu
Presentation: Future Retail Services; Joachim Schaper
• North American Academic Symposium
Silicon Valley, USA, 6–7 June 2007
Summit Organizer, Master of Ceremonies; Paul Hofmann, Wesley Mukai
Panel, Welcome Speech; Ike Nassi
• Norwegian Semantic Web Days
Stavanger, Norway, 23–25 April 2007
http://www.olf.no/
Invited Talk: Importance of Semantics in Future Enterprise SOA; Elmar Dorner
• Questra Developer Conference
Napa, CA, USA, 7 November 2007
http://www.questra.com/Conference2007/
Presentation: SAP on Enterprise Integration; Thomas Odenwald
• SAP Handels- und Konsumgütertag 2008 (SAP Conference for Retail and
Consumer Goods 2008)
Leipzig, Germany, 13–14 February 2008
Booth: Demos from the SAP Future Retail Center; Erica Dubach
• SCORUS Conference
Darmstadt, Germany, 17 October 2007
http://www.darmstadt.de/en/scorus/
Presentation: Statistics in the Internet of Services – Visualisation and Service
Composition; Knut Manske
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APPENDIX
A SELECTION OF SAP RESEARCH MEMBERSHIPS
IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• acatech
Lutz Heuser, Member
http://www.acatech.de/
• AIS Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems
(SIGSEMIS)
York Sure, Editorial Board
http://www.sigsemis.org
• AmbiSense Project (Cooperation of Autonomous Mobile Systems Involving
Ambient Sensors)
Stamatis Karnouskos, Advisory Committee
http://www.ambisense.org/
• Angewandte Informatik Karlsruhe e.V. (AIK)
York Sure, Board of Trustees
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/AIK
• B2M Software AG
Lutz Heuser, Technology Advisory Board
http://www.b2m-software.de/
• CERP (Cluster of European RFID Projects)
Stephan Haller, Carsten Magerkurth, Harald Vogt, Members
http://www.rfid-in-action.eu/cerp
• CIP (EU Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Program)
Joachim Schaper, Member
www.cordis.europa.eu/ist///istag.htm
• Cyberforum
Orestis Terzidis, Member
http://www.cyberforum.de/
• DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Orestis Terzidis, Board
www.dfki.de
• Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Journal (Elsevier)
Stamatis Karnouskos, Guest Editor
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecra
• Elsevier Computer Networks Journal
Ralf Ackermann, Journal Reviewer
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505606/
description#description
• Elsevier’s Journal of Web Semantics (JWS)
York Sure, Journal Reviewer
http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/
• SAP Enterprise Services Committee – Community Advisory Group
Methodology
Florian Schnabel, Member
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/construction/internal/cpdgnb/termsnb.htm
• SAP Enterprise Services Community – Community Advisory Group Sensor
Networks
Stamatis Karnouskos, Chair
http://esc.sap.com
• EPC Global
Tao Lin, Advisory Board
www.epcglobalinc.org/
• EU Expert Group on the Future Internet
Wolfgang Gerteis, Member
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/
• EU SWEB Project (Secure, interoperable, cross border m-services contributing
towards a trustful European cooperation with the non-EU member Western
Balkan countries)
Stamatis Karnouskos, Advisory Committee
http://www.sweb-project.org/
• EURECOM Administrative Council
Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia, Member
http://www.eurecom.fr
• European – South African Science and Technology Advancement Programme
Segopotso Moshapo, Assistant National Contact Point: FP7 ICT
http://www.esastap.org/esastap/ncp/ict.php
• European Semantic Web Conference Series (ESWC)
York Sure, Scientific Steering Committee
http://www.eswc2007.org/
• Examination Board “Industrial Engineering and Technical Economics”
University of Karlsruhe (TH), York Sure, Member
http://www.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de/
• Expert Panel for Portfolio Analysis of Proposals selected under EU FP7 ICT Call 1
Gregor Hackenbroich, Member
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/
• Faculty Council of the School of Economics and Business Engineering at the
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
York Sure, Representative of the mid-level faculty
http://www.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de/
• Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Working Group on “Information Technologies for the Energy Market of the Future”,
Orestis Terzidis, Stamatis Karnouskos, Harald Vogt, Members
http://www.bdi-initiativ.eu
• Feldafinger Circle
Lutz Heuser, Member
http://www.feldafinger-kreis.de/
• Fraunhofer Institute FIT St. Augustin
Lutz Heuser, Board of Trustees
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/
• Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS Berlin
Lutz Heuser, Board of Trustees
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/
• FZI – Research Center for Information Technologies
Orestis Terzidis, Board
www.fzi.de
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• IBM Systems Journal
Ralf Ackermann, Journal Reviewer
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/
• ICT Audit Panel
National Research Foundation, South Africa, Danie Smit, Member
http://www.nrf.org.za
• ICT Strategy 2020 of the German Ministry of Research (BMBF)
Lutz Heuser, Member
http://www.bildungsminister.de/en/7706.php
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
York Sure, Journal Reviewer
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/intelligent/
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
York Sure, Journal Reviewer
http://www.computer.org/
• IET Software Journal
Daniel Oberle, Journal Reviewer
http://www.theiet.org/publishing/
• Innovation Value Institute
Wolfgang Gerteis, Board of Directors
Ben Greene, Technical Committee
Stephen Dawson, Panel
http://ivi.nuim.ie/
• International Journal on Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
York Sure, Journal Reviewer
http://www.elsevier.com/
• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
York Sure, Editorial Board
http://www.ijswis.org/
• IST Advisory Group (IST AG)
Lutz Heuser, Chair
Joachim Schaper, Member
www.cordis.europa.eu/ist///istag.htm
• Journal for EM – Electronic Markets
Rainer Ruggaber, Ulrike Greiner, Associated Reviewers
http://www.electronicmarkets.org
• Journal of Applied Ontology IOS Press
Daniel Oberle, Journal Reviewer
http://www.iospress.nl/
• Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International (MESA)
Manfred J. Pauli, Member
www.mesa.org
• MERAKA UTD
Joachim Schaper, Steering Board
http://www.meraka.org.za/
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• Mesh and Sensor Networks Cluster (European Commission)
Stamatis Karnouskos, Member
http://www.ist-cruise.eu/
• Münchner Kreis
Lutz Heuser, Member
http://www.muenchner-kreis.de/
• NESSI
Wolfgang Gerteis, Steering Committee
http://www.nessi-europe.com/
• NESSI Security and Trust Working Group
Volkmar Lotz, Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia, Members
http://www.nessi-europe.com/
• OASIS Semantic Execution Environment TC
Elmar Dorner, Member
http://www.oasis-open.org/
• OSGI Alliance
Thomas Odenwald, SAP Representative
http://www.osgi.org/
• Particle Computer
Orestis Terzidis, Board
www.particle-comuter.de
• Scientific Steering Committee of the European Semantic Technologies
Conference Series (ESTC)
York Sure, Steering Committee
http://www.estc2007.com/
• Seeburger AG Bretten
Lutz Heuser, Advisory Board
http://www.seeburger.de/
• Smart Factory
Ralf Ackermann, Member
http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/smartfactory/
• SmartGrids European Technology Platform
Stamatis Karnouskos, Member
http://www.smartgrids.eu/
• Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management (FGWM) of the
German Association for Informatics (GI)
York Sure, Steering Committee
http://www.fgwm.de/
• Springer Handbook on Ontologies
2nd Edition, Daniel Oberle, Book Reviewer,
• Springer’s LNCS Journal on Data Semantics (JODS)
York Sure, Journal Reviewer
http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/
• Technology Pioneer Selection Committee
Lutz Heuser, Member
http://www.weforum.org/

Testing Technologies
Lutz Heuser, Technology Advisory Board
http://www.testingtech.de/
The Ambient Intelligence Technologies for the Product Lifecycle Cluster
(European Commission)
Stamatis Karnouskos, Member
http://www.ve-forum.org/
The Formal Techniques Industrial Association (ForTIA)
Volkmar Lotz, Chair
http://www.fortia.org
University of Stuttgart Special Research Area NEXUS
Joachim Schaper, Supervisory Board
http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/
University of Trento PhD Program
Volkmar Lotz, Advisory Board
http://ict.unitn.it/edu/ict/home.xml
Vienna Business School Advisory Council
Oliver Christ, Member
http://www.vienna-business-school.at/
Wiley
Ralf Ackermann, Book Reviewer
http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/
Wirless Silicon Valley Consortium
Keith Klemba, Task Force Lead
http://www.jointventure.org/
SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – Memberships
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SAP RESEARCH CENTERS
OUR BRIDGES TO LOCAL EXPERTISE
90
Belfast, United Kingdom 1
Research Director: Dr. Ben Greene
Major Research Fields: Industrialization of Software Development, Next Generation Enterprise SOA,
Virtualization/Parallelism, Semantics & Ontologies, Web 2.0 Applications
Environment: University of Ulster (UoU), Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
Address: SAP Research CEC Belfast, TEIC Building, University of Ulster, Shore Road, Newtownabbey,
BT37 0QB, United Kingdom
Phone/E-Mail: +44 28 90930084; research.belfast@sap.com
Brisbane, Australia 2
Research Director: A/Prof. Karsten A. Schulz
Major Research Fields: Internet of Services, Interoperability, Web 2.0 Applications, Semantics & Ontologies
Environment: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), University of Queensland (UQ), Monash University,
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Swinburne University
Address: SAP Research CEC Brisbane, Level 12, 133 Mary Street, Brisbane QLD 4000; Australia
Phone/E-Mail: +61 7 3259 9500; research.brisbane@sap.com
Darmstadt, Germany 3
Research Director: Dr. Knut Manske
Major Research Fields: Internet of Services, Industrialization of Software Development, Public/Homeland Security
Environment: Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD), Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhofer SIT,
Computer Graphic Center (ZGDV)
Address: SAP Research CEC Darmstadt, Bleichstrasse 8, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone/E-Mail: +49 6227 7-68840; research.darmstadt@sap.com
Dresden, Germany 4
Research Director: Dr. Uwe Kubach
Major Research Fields: Manufacturing 2.0, Future Product Lifecycle Management, Internet of Things/
Real-World Awareness, Semantics & Ontologies
Environment: Dresden University of Technology, Humboldt University Berlin,“Silicon Saxony”
Address: SAP Research CEC Dresden, Chemnitzer Strasse 48, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
Phone/E-Mail: +49 351 4811-6100; research.dresden@sap.com
Karlsruhe, Germany 5
Research Director: Dr. Orestis Terzidis
Major Research Fields: Interoperability, Technologies for Emerging Economies, End-to-End Simplicity, Industrialization of
Software- Development, Next Generation Enterprise SOA
Environment: University of Karlsruhe, FZI Karls ruhe, Telecooperation Office (TecO), Particle Computer
Address: SAP Research CEC Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Strasse 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone/E-Mail: +49 6227 7-52500; research.karlsruhe@sap.com
Montreal, Canada 6
Research Director: Nolwen Mahé
Major Research Fields: Mobility Platform, Advanced Web Technologies
Environment: CRIM, Concordia University, ETS, École Polytechnique, HEC Montréal, McGill University
Université du Québec à Montréal, Université de Montréal, University of Toronto
Address: SAP Research SRC Montréal, 111 Duke, Suite 2100, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 2M1, Canada
Phone/E-Mail: +1 514 879-7361; research.montreal@sap.com

SAP Research Report 2007/2008 – SAP Research Centers
Palo Alto, USA 7
Research Director: Dr. Ike Nassi
Major Research Fields: Next Generation Enterprise SOA, Internet of Things/Real-World Awareness, Advanced Web
Technologies, Sustainable Emissions Management & Energy Distribution, Virtualization/
Parallelism, Continuous Information Sensemaking
Cross Functions: Academic Research Program, Industrial Partner & Program Management
Environment: Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, CMU Silicon Valley, Venture Capital Community
Address: SAP Research SRC Palo Alto, 3475 Deer Creek Road, Building B, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
Phone/E-Mail: +1 650 849 4000; research.paloalto@sap.com
Pretoria, South Africa 8
Research Director: Danie Kok
Major Research Fields: Technologies for Emerging Economies, Interoperability, End-to-End Simplicity
Environment: University of Pretoria (UP), Meraka Institute, CSIR, NRF, University of Cape Town (UCT),
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)
Address: SAP Research CEC Pretoria, Perseguor TechnoPark, 3 Pro Park, 29 de Havilland Crescent,
Scientia Pretoria, South Africa
Phone/E-Mail: +27 12 349 3100; research.pretoria@sap.com
Shanghai, China 9
Research Director: Dr. Ming-Chien Shan
Major Research Fields: Next Generation Enterprise SOA, Internet of Services, Virtualization/Parallelism, Sustainable
Emissions Management & Energy Distribution
Environment: Peking University, Tsinhua University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University and Nanjiang University
Address: SAP Research SRC Shanghai, Shanghai Pudong Software Park, 1001 Chenhui Road, Shanghai,
201203, China
Phone/E-Mail: +86 21 61083888; research.shanghai@sap.com
Sophia Antipolis, France 10
Research Director: Gilles Logeais
Major Research Fields: Interoperability, Internet of Services, Risk Mitigation: Open Source & Security
Environment: Eurécom Institute, INRIA, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Address: SAP Research SRC Sophia Antipolis, 805 Avenue du Dr Maurice Donat, BP 1216,
06254 Mougins Cedex, France
Phone/E-Mail: +33 4 9228-6439; research.sophia.antipolis@sap.com
St. Gallen, Switzerland 11
Research Director: Dr. Oliver Christ
Major Research Fields: Real-Time Enterprise Transparency, Internet of Things/Real-World Awareness, Interoperability,
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Environment: University of St. Gallen
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Cross Functions: SAP Research Operations, Finance, Legal and Project Management, Business Development,
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Address: SAP Research Walldorf, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, D-69190 Walldorf, Germany
Phone/E-Mail: +49 6227 7-61662; research.walldorf@sap.com
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Research Director: Dr. Oliver Christ/Dr. Ulrich Eisert
Major Research Fields: Internet of Things/Real-World Awareness, Manufacturing 2.0, Next Generation Enterprise SOA
Environment: ETH Zurich
Address: Kreuzplatz 20, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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