E-Speak: The Technology for Ubiquitous E-Services

Abstract

Today, setting up a service to be used over the Internet is difficult, special-case work. Part of the difficulty is that each provider of such a service addresses a common set of problems in a proprietary way. E-speak solves the problems of naming, describing, managing, and controlling access in a manner that makes it easier and safer to allow remote access. With e-speak, we can think of all applications as e-services that we can enlist to solve our problems.E-speak is the open-source software platform for creating, composing, mediating, managing, and accessing Internet-based e-services. With e-speak we can more easily build a world of universal e-services that can be accessed intuitively using a wide array of devices and platforms, from personal digital assistants, to PCs, information appliances, and supercomputers. With e-speak these e-services can interact with each other in order to advertise capabilities, discover other e-services, and ally with each other to offer new functionality, even negotiate to broker, bill, manage, and monitor each other — all in a dynamic, ad hoc, yet secure manner.This talk will describe the requirements that led to the various features of the e-speak architecture as well as its key abstractions and innovations.KeywordsData StructureInformation ProcessingInformation TheoryFormal MethodPersonal Digital AssistantThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.