Boris Otto is the Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund as well as Chair for Industrial Information Management at TU Dortmund. His career path includes the University of St. Gallen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Gaia-X, European Association for Data and Cloud, AISBL and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA). His research focuses on the fields of industrial information management, business and logistics networks, and methods for the design of digital business solutions.

Michael ten Hompel holds the Chair of Materials Handling and Warehousing at TU Dortmund and is Managing Director at Fraunhofer-Institute of Material Flow and Logistics IML. Besides his work as scientist, he also worked as entrepreneur and eg founded GamBit GmbH in Dortmund in 1988 and is still on the supervisory board of several logistics companies. He was also awarded the Innovationspreis NRW (Innovation Award North Rhine-Westphalia) in 2020.

Stefan Wrobel is Professor of Computer Science at U Bonn and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS. His work is focused on questions of the digital revolution, in particular intelligent algorithms and systems for the large-scale analysis of data and the influence of Big Data/Smart Data on the use of information in companies and society. He was honored by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society) as one of the formative minds in German AI history.

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Provides an encompassing overview of the technological and economic aspects of data spaces

Presents implementations and business cases and gives an outlook to future developments

Offers an overview of solutions and applications from companies like Google, SAP, Huawei, T-Systems and many more

Part I: Foundations and Context.- 1. The Evolution of Data Spaces.- 2. How to Build, Run, and Govern Data Spaces.- 3. International Data Spaces in a Nutshell.- 4. Role of Gaia-X in the European Data Space Ecosystem.- 5. Legal Aspects of IDS: Data Sovereignty-What Does It Imply?.- 6. Tokenomics: Decentralized Incentivization in the Context of Data Spaces.- Part II: Data Space Technologies.- 7. The IDS Information Model: A Semantic Vocabulary for Sovereign Data Exchange.- 8. Data Usage Control.- 9. Building Trust in Data Spaces.- 10. Blockchain Technology and International Data Spaces.- 11. Federated Data Integration in Data Spaces.- 12. Semantic Integration and Interoperability.- 13. Data Ecosystems: A New Dimension of Value Creation Using AI and Machine Learning.- 14. IDS as a Foundation for Open Data Ecosystems.- 15. Defining Platform Research Infrastructure as a Service (PRIaaS) for Future Scientific Data Infrastructure.- Part III: Use Cases and Data Ecosystems.- 16. Silicon Economy:Logistics as the Natural Data Ecosystem.- 17. Agricultural Data Space.- 18. Medical Data Spaces in Healthcare Data Ecosystems.- 19. Industrial Data Spaces.- 20. Energy Data Space.- 21. Mobility Data Space.- Part IV: Solutions and Applications.- 22. Data Sharing Spaces: The BDVA Perspective.- 23. Data Platform Solutions.- 24. FIWARE for Data Spaces.- 25. Sovereign Cloud Technologies for Scalable Data Spaces.- 26. Data Space Based on Mass Customization Model.- 27. Huawei and International Data Spaces.- International Collaboration Between Data Spaces and Carrier

Networks.- 29. From Linear Supply Chains to Open Supply Ecosystems.- 30. Data Spaces: First Applications in Mobility and Industry.- 31. Competition, Security, and Transparency: Data in Connected Vehicles.- Data Space Functionality.- The Energy Data Space: The Path to a European Approach for Energy.