Abstract
The service-oriented architectural paradigm can considerably improve the scalability and flexibility of software systems, and it can facilitate the integration of disparate and possibly heterogeneous systems to a great extent. We are working on the provisioning of services in the financial domain, on the design of systems that consume and expose business services, and on the actual implementation of enterprise-wide SOAs.

Publications

• Rubén Lara, Miguel Angel Corella, Pablo Castells: A flexible model for Web service discovery, 1st International Workshop on Semantic Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval: Issues and Perspectives, Seoul, South Korea, September 11, 2006. (PDF)

• Rubén Lara: Two-phased Web Service Discovery, AI-Driven Technologies for Services-Oriented Computing workshop at the Twenty First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, USA, July 16th, 2006. (PDF)

• Rubén Lara: Ingeniería orientada a servicios: un reto metodológico. Servicio de Asesoramiento de las Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (SATELSI), May, 2006. (HTML, in Spanish)

• Uwe Keller, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen, Dieter Fensel: Semantic Web Service Discovery in the WSMO Framework. To appear in Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications. (Free PDF version)

• Rubén Lara: Gestión de procesos e integración de sistemas: EAI, BPM, SOA y ESBs. Servicio de Asesoramiento de las Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (SATELSI), March, 2006. (PDF, in Spanish)

• Axel Polleres, Holger Lausen, Rubén Lara: Semantische Beschreibung von Web Services. In Semantic Web - Wege zur vernetzten Wissensgesellschaft. Springer, June 2006. (Free PDF version, in German)

• Rubén Lara, Daniel Olmedilla: Discovery and Contracting of Semantic Web Services. W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services, Innsbruck, Austria, 9-10 June, 2005. (HTML)

• Jos de Bruijn, Dieter Fensel, Uwe keller, Rubén Lara: Using the Web Service Modeling Ontology to enable Semantic eBusiness, E-Business Vision Special Section, Communications of the ACM (CACM), December 2005, Volume 48, Number 12. (PDF)

• Uwe Keller, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Dieter Fensel: Automatic Location of Services, 2nd European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, 29 May-01 June, 2005. (PDF)

Resources
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Partners

Funding
This project is partially funded by CDTI

Abstract
Enterprise Service Buses can greatly accelerate the actual creation of service-oriented architectures. We are surveying the market in order to choose the best ESB for our future products.

Resources
Contact us if you want to have some preliminary information about our findings.

Abstract
Economic and financial information has critical value for all kinds of institutions. An effective generation, gathering, integration and analysis of such information is a key success factor for any business and, therefore, requires techniques that reduce the current burden of dealing with big volumes of rich information. While the information integration problem is common to all business areas, it becomes apparent in the financial area, where information coming from multiple sources has to be homogenized in order to facilitate analysis and to provide a uniform view of the business e.g. via a balance scorecard. In addition, financial information is subject to official supervision e.g. by central banks. As a consequence, the required information has to be obtained, homogenized following the supervisor rules, and validated, guaranteeing its quality. For these reasons, we are working on the definition of XBRL taxonomies and OWL ontologies for investment funds. It is also our aim to evaluate the use of XBRL vs. the use of OWL in the financial domain, in order to cross-fertilize both research areas and to assess the applicability of both languages to the financial market.

Publications

• Rubén Lara, Iván Cantador, Pablo Castells: XBRL taxonomies and OWL ontologies for investment funds, First International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards at the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006), Tucson, Arizona, USA, November 6-9, 2006. (PDF)

• Rubén Lara: Reporting para Basilea II basado en XBRL. Servicio de Asesoramiento de las Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (SATELSI), January, 2006. (HTML, in Spanish)

• Rubén Lara: XBRL y el mercado de fondos de inversión. Servicio de Asesoramiento de las Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (SATELSI), December, 2005. (HTML, in Spanish)

• Rubén Lara: XBRL: Un valor en alza. Servicio de Asesoramiento de las Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (SATELSI), November, 2005. (HTML, in Spanish)

• Rubén Lara, Borja Foncillas: Economic and Financial Information Management and the Semantic Web. Industry Forum at European Semantic Web Conference 2005 (ESWC 2005), Crete, Greece, 30 May, 2005. (PDF)

Resources

• XBRL taxonomies (ZIP)

• OWL ontologies (ZIP)

Partners

Funding
This project is partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Grant FIT-340000-2005-256