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Contact person: Jonathan Sage



Skill: IBM has the world's largest IT research organization, with more than 3,000 scientists and engineers working at eight labs in six countries. IBM invests more than $5 billion a year in R&D. IBM's 3,411 new patents surpassed the combined total awarded to 12 of the largest IT companies. In aggregate, the company holds nearly 37,000 patents worldwide. IBM Research is pursuing the development of "autonomic computing," which patterns information systems after the human body's autonomic nervous system. Just as the body unconsciously governs things like heart rate, digestion and breathing, autonomic IT systems will become increasingly self-managing and self-healing. IBM has been a leader in the definition of and preliminary development work on this scientific challenge. In 1999, IBM Research announced a $100 million, multi-year initiative to build the "Blue Gene" supercomputer, which will be 100 times more powerful than today's fastest computers. Capable of more than a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, Blue Gene's computing power will address challenges in computer science and computational biology. IBM strives to lead in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics; and IBM's worldwide network of solutions and services professionals translates these advanced technologies into business value for customers. IBM participates in and contributes heavily to the work of standards consortia, alliances, and formal national and international standards organisations. Where appropriate, IBM adopts consensus technologies in order to maintain openness, interoperability, and application portability. IBM Research is a leading research institution in the world, and contributed significantly to the research community, advanced innovations and to corporate research.

Role: IBM will participate in PLASTIC through IBM Belgium. IBM will specifically contribute to the elicitation of the PLASTIC development methods and tools for mobile adaptable services, in particular bringing the latest technology developments in the area of autonomic and service-oriented computing. IBM will further lead the development of services related to mobile CRM applications.

CVs of key persons:

Jonathan Sage’s experience and expertise is in Knowledge Management and Marketing /Communications. He has particular expertise in language technologies, content management and enterprise taxonomy development. He also has experience in building knowledge networks, from a technical and social perspective and working with Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Knowledge Management and Learning. His industry expertise is in public sector and the European Union Information Society. He is the global lead for IBM on European Commission FP6 projects and the co-coordinator and Project Director for two current FP5 projects (eContent EEEL project and GoDigital eLIVE project). He is also involved in the European eBusiness Showcases publication which is focussed on how SMEs have benefited from FP5 projects and is leading a study on Knowledge Management Made in Europe, which is examining SME future expectations from a Knowledge Management perspective. Jonathan was a member of the global content management group in PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining IBM, which defined the internal content model and developed a corporate taxonomy. Alongside these activities, Jonathan is frequently involved in internal and external projects relating to Knowledge Management, knowledge visualisation and taxonomies.

Dr. Jakka Sairamesh (Ramesh) has been actively pursuing research in the areas of eBusiness, mobile commerce, Business solutions, economics and dynamics of electronic commerce systems, information and computational economies, electronic marketplaces, information cities and middleware for electronic commerce, and network resource allocation and management. He has many years of experience in modelling and analysing large-scale systems using economic models. Dr. Jakka Sairamesh has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York. He was one of the organizers of the First Conference on Information and Computation Economies, which was held in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, in October 1998, and a co-chair of the 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce, which was held in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Digital Libraries in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 1998. His current area of interest is in Business Solutions, Real-time systems, Sensor networks, Electronic Marketplaces, Early Warning Systems and others. He has published many papers (conferences, workshops and Journals) in the area of electronic commerce and information economies. He has two distinguished outstanding innovation awards for his contributions to eBusiness and next generation IBM products and solutions.