Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been one of the major buzz words of the networking industry for the past couple of years. And yet, no clear definition of what SDN actually covers has been broadly admitted so far. This document aims to clarify the SDN landscape by providing a perspective on requirements, issues, and other considerations about SDN, as seen from within a service provider env...

It is now time to begin the study of personal genome services based on the interdisciplinary theories and technologies of genomics and artificial intelligence (AI). Although recently much attention has been given to personal genome services for realizing personal medicine, little systematic research has been done on their communication and computational aspects for intelligent wellness service ...

RoboCup was started in 1997 by a group of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics researchers with the following grand challenge, to be achieved by 2050 [9]: “to build a team of robot soccer players, which can beat a human World Cup champion team.” Since then, RoboCup Federation1 established itself as a structured organization and as one of the major events in the research field of Artificial Inte...

Servitization is a grand challenge for all manufacturing companies to extend their business. As main result this paper presents an approach and corresponding research questions on how to integrate servitization in manufacturing businesses by making use of an innovation ecosystem. Companies might benefit from this approach, as it indicates how relevant characteristics to evolve in order to take ...

In March 2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10102 explored the grand challenges confronting research and practice in the domain of discrete event logistics systems. This Executive Summary describes the process of the seminar and discusses the key conclusions regarding grand challenges for research and practice. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar are put together in the online proce...