Abstract:
Service-oriented computing aims at providing a foundational computing framework to support a service-centric approach to solve vexing problems of agile Web-based deplpoyment, integration and interoperability.  The Web is undoubtedly the preferred delivery platform of targeted service-based solutions. 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. In this talk, I will first motivate the need to move to the next level of the computing food chain, ie, service computing. I will then describe the need for a general framework for managing the lifecycle of Web services, ie, the development of a Web Service Management System (WSMS) where services are treated as first-class objects. I will then overview our own research work developing the foundation of the core components of WSMSs. I will also describe a WSMS implementation targeting two different applications.

Speaker's 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 and 2010 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 140 publications, many of which are in top database and service-oriented computing journals and conferences.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Senior Member op the ACM.