Industry Affiliations

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)

FIPA is the IEEE Computer Society standards organization promoting software agent-based technology and the interoperability of its standards with other technologies.

Whitestein Technologies holds a co-chair position in the Agent and Web Service Interoperability (AWSI) working group created to explore the interaction of FIPA compliant agent systems and Web services.

Autonomic Communication Forum (ACF)

The ACF's goal is to lead the creation of a unified set of standards for autonomic computing, communications, and systems management. Other major industry champions in the ACF include Motorola, IBM, Intel, HP, Hitachi, Telefonica and France Telecom, as well as leading research bodies such as the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute and various universities worldwide.

Whitestein Technologies is represented on the Board of Directors of the ACF and will also be acting as SDO Liaison committee industrial co-chair. In this capacity Whitestein Technologies coordinates the Forum's activities with other Standards Development Organizations and governmental agencies, such as the European Union or the United States NSF.

ProSTEP iViP Association

ProSTEP iViP provides its approximately 200 members with a platform upon which they can work together to shape communication in product development with the ultimate aim of facilitating successful collaboration in the manufacturing industry.

In addition to the development of open standards in product data exchange, ProSTEP increasingly puts its emphasis on the creation of processes as well as the controlling of projects cutting across departments, companies or countries, not least due to the growing digitalization and globalization of product development, production and distribution processes. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Collaborative Project Management (CPM), Requirements Management and Secure Product Creation Processes are just some of the keywords that are discussed and worked on in the round about 15 project groups of the association.

Whitestein Technologies is a member of the ProSTEP iViP association.

IARIA Autonomic and Autonomous Systems working group (IAAS)

The IAAS is a nascent working group mandated with producing a manifesto exploring the developing relationship between autonomic and autonomous systems.

Whitestein Technologies currently holds the chair.