Service-oriented computing aims at providing a foundational computing framework to support a service-centric approach to solve vexing problems of enterprise/Web integration and interoperability. The Web is and will undoubtedly be the preferred delivery platform of targeted service-based solutions. More specifically, Web services are poised to be the key component and enabler of the service-oriented approach for the efficient management of services on the Web. Fully delivering on the potential of next-generation Web services requires building a foundation that would provide a sound design for efficiently developing, deploying, publishing, discovering, composing, trusting, and optimizing access to Web services. The proposed Web service foundation will enable the development of a uniform framework called Web Service Management System (WSMS). In this framework, Web services are treated as first-class objects. In this talk, I will first motivate the need for WSMSs. I will then overview our own research work developing the foundation of the core components of WSMSs focusing in this talk on one Web service management component. I will also describe a WSMS implementation targeting a bioinformatics application. Short bio:
Athman Bouguettaya is a Science Leader in Service Computing at CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra. He is also the founding President of the Service Science Society, a non-profit organization that aims at forming a community of service scientists for the advancement of service science. He was previously a tenured faculty member in the Computer Science department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly known as Virginia Tech) (USA). He received his PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) in 1992. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including, the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, International Journal on Web Services Research, VLDB Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He is also on the editorial board of the Springer-Verlag book series on services science. He was invited to be a guest editor of a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Internet technology Semantic Web services, a special issue the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing on Service Query Models, and a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing on Database Technology on the Web. He served as a Program chair of the 2009 Australasian Database Conference, 2008 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) and the IEEE RIDE Workshop on Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government (RIDE-WS-ECEG'04). He served on numerous program committees of database and service-oriented computing conferences. His current research interests are in Service-Oriented Computing. He was the recipient of several prestigious grants, including the large ARC grant, NSF, and NIH. He is the author of more than 130 publications, many of which are in top database and service-oriented computing journals and conferences. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and ACM.
