Development of Open Service Collaborative Platform for Coming ECs by International Joint Efforts

EC will not stay at only e-commerce but be evolved into other ECs such as electronic services for communities, and further, into electronic services for cultures. Present providers deliver mutually independent services, but within very short time, these services will be combined and collaborated over the network into single services just like an idea of global computing. In future, the services will be self-organized for pursuing human needs in communities and cultures. According to this bold vision, Japanese and European leading industries have initiated technological development based on an idea of chaining non-deterministic provisioning of services and standardization efforts on this innovative open service platform.