Agora: A Unified Asset Ecosystem Going Beyond Marketplaces and Cloud Services
Jonas Traub, Jorge-Arnulfo Quian\'e-Ruiz, Zoi Kaoudi, Volker Markl, (Technische Universit\"at Berlin, German Research Center for Artificial, Intelligence (DFKI))

TL;DR
Agora introduces a decentralized, open ecosystem that enables flexible exchange and combination of data, algorithms, and infrastructure assets, reducing lock-in effects and entry barriers in AI and data science.
Contribution
The paper presents Agora, a novel unified asset ecosystem that integrates data, algorithms, and infrastructure in a decentralized environment, facilitating flexible asset exchange and new application development.
Findings
Supports dynamic creation and modification of assets
Enables combining assets for novel applications
Reduces lock-in effects and entry barriers
Abstract
Data, algorithms, and compute/storage infrastructure are key assets that drive data science and artificial intelligence applications. As providing all these assets requires a huge investment, data science and artificial intelligence technologies are currently dominated by a small number of providers who can afford these investments. This leads to lock-in effects and hinders features that require a flexible exchange of assets among users. In this vision paper, we present Agora, a unified asset ecosystem. The Agora system provides the technical infrastructure that allows for offering and using data and algorithms, as well as physical infrastructure components. Agora is designed as an open ecosystem of asset marketplaces and provides to a broad audience not only data but the entire data value chain (including computational resources and human expertise). Agora (i) leverages a fine-grained…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCloud Computing and Resource Management · Advanced Data Storage Technologies · Scientific Computing and Data Management
