The Software Services and Systems (S-Cube) Network Of Excellence (IST FP7-ICT-2007-1 project, grant agreement 215483) will establish a unified, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community which will enable Europe to lead the software-services revolution, helping shape the software-service based Internet which is the backbone of our future interactive society.
S-Cube will integrate diverse research communities, thus achieving world-wide scientific excellence in a field that is critical for European competitiveness.
S-Cube will accomplish its aims by meeting the following objectives:

• Re-aligning, re-shaping and integrating research agendas of key European players from diverse research areas and by integrating diversified knowledge, thereby establishing a long-lasting foundation for steering research and for achieving innovation at the highest level.
• Inaugurating a Europe-wide common program of education and training for researchers and industry thereby creating a common culture that will have a profound impact on the future of the field.
• Establishing a pro-active mobility plan to enable cross-fertilization and thereby fostering the integration of research communities and the establishment of a common software services research culture.
• Establishing trust relationships with industry via European Technology Platforms (specifically NESSI, Networked European Software & Services) to achieve a catalytic effect in shaping European research, strengthening industrial competitiveness and addressing main societal challenges.
• Defining a broader research vision and perspective that will shape the software-service based Internet of the future and will accelerate economic growth and improve the living conditions of European citizens.

DEI-Politecnico di Milano will participate into the activities concerned with engineering of services and with monitoring and self-adaptation. In these activities it will exploit the knowledge acquired over the years in engineering complex service-oriented systems, verification and monitoring of software systems and service-oriented systems, definition of approaches for self-adaptable service compositions. All this knowledge will be aligned to the themes of S-Cube and in particular to the convergence knowledge model that will result from the integration of the principles and approaches identified in the various areas of the Network of Excellence. The projects is in its first year.