Abstract: In this talk, we will review state of the art in services composition and reuse.  We discuss main issues related to simplifying composition and increasing reuse. Current APIs and composition techniques including mashups, however, aim toward developers with programming expertise; they are not directly usable by wider class of users who do not have programming background, but would nevertheless like to build their own mashups. We will discuss the synergies between composition, end users programming, and knowledge support for reuse as step forward in this direction.

Speaker's Bio: Boualem Benatallah is professor and research group leader at the School of Computer Science (CSE), University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney, Australia). He is also visiting professor at the University of Blaise Pascal and chaire excellence of the Auvergne Region in France (LIMOS, France , 2008-2010). His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in service composition, integration, and business processes management. He has published more than 150 refereed papers including 35 journal papers. Most of his papers appeared in very selective and reputable conferences and journals. He is frequently invited to give keynote talks and tutorials on service computing in international conferences. Boualem has been PC co-chair of four main international conferences (BPM'05, ICSOC'05, WISE'07, ICWE'2010). He acted as the general chair of ICSOC'08 - Sydney. He has acted as a key official (tutorial chair, workshops chair, publication chair, area chair, PhD symposium chair) for several international conferences. He has been guest editor of five special issues for reputable international journals including ACM TOIT. He has been a PC member of all the reputable international conferences in his areas of research including VLDB, ICDE, WWW, EDBT, MDM, ICSOC, ICWS and ER. He is member of the steering committee of BPM and ICSOC. He is on the editorial board of numerous international journals. He was visiting Professor at INRIA-LORIA, Claude Bernard University (France), University of Blaise Pascal (Clermont Ferrand, France), University of Trento (Italy). As chair of the CSE research committee, he was member of the team (comprising multiple university, government and industry partners) that constructed the successful bid for the new Smart Services CRC, which was awarded $30m in federal funding in 2007. He was a project leader at the CRC smart services. He is a leader of a recent UNSW strategic initiative on eResearch and services.