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Tut3: Service-oriented Computing
Room: Argos
Presenter:
Christian Zirpins, University of Hamburg, Germany
Abstract
Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a major trend in current information and communication technology. The wide scope of SOC includes practical, applied and theoretical facets of computer science and has the potential to set off a severe shift in computing paradigms. Thereby, SOC goes far beyond Webservices: it comprises a wide range of application-level concepts, most important in the e-business domain. This tutorial gives a comprehensive overview of concepts, technologies and ongoing research that is motivated from the application-level domain of electronic business. It will enable a broad audience from industry and science to navigate through the diversified SOC landscape, classify and rate individual developments and identify fields of individual interest.
The tutorial equally targets managers that want to get an overview of this trend, scientists that want to update to the state of research and practitioners that want to be informed about the latest technology. Generally, no specific knowledge from within the field is required to follow the talk. It will be held on a half day basis with two sessions and an intermediary coffee break. Handouts of the tutorial-slides will be provided.
The tutorial starts with an introduction of service-oriented concepts as solutions for application-level problems of electronic business. After being equipped with a solid conceptual background, the audience will be confronted with and guided through the overwhelming variety of service-oriented technology. From the state of technology, the talk shifts to the technological front-line and identifies current shortcomings.
The first of the two sessions introduces the conceptual foundation, standards and technology as well as major trends of SOC. After placing SOC in the E-Business Landscape, its conceptual basis is detailed using an extended multi layered service-model that combines basic-, composite as well as managed services. In this context, an overview of standards from "acronym hell" is given that locates major trends and limitations. The second session focuses on research issues in SOC. It gives an overview of the most important areas of research and presents their state of the art. Among others, this will include service-formalisation, -composition, -semantics and -grids.
Presenter
Christian Zirpins is a senior researcher and technical project manager at the "Distributed Systems and Information Systems" unit in the Computer Science Dept. of Hamburg University and also acts as a professional IT consultant.
He played a major role in several research and development projects explicitly devoted to the area of system support for service-oriented computing. Currently, he is scientific coordinator of the industrial research project FRESCO, addressing the area of GRID-based service-oriented computing. In addition, he is actively involved in the formation of a European Network of Excellence in Service-oriented Computing.
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