Future of the Internet of Services for Industry: the ServiceWeb 3.0 Roadmap

The Internet of Services foresees a future Internet in which the provisioning of, access to and use of services will be as widespread as data is today. A number of challenges must be still overcome if this is to become a reality, and it is our belief that semantic technologies can address many of these challenges. We foresee as a result of the combination of SOA and semantics the creation of a “Service Web” – a web in which billions of parties expose and consume billions of services seamlessly and transparently. This paper presents the work done in the European Support Action ServiceWeb 3.0 to produce a specialized roadmap on Services in Industry. Drawing on expert opinions about the uptake of services and current R&D advances and timelines for service technologies taken from EU projects in the Future Internet activity, we present a consensus view of the future development and uptake of the Internet of Services, including expert insight on the role of semantic technologies in resolving barriers to realization.