Laying the Foundation of Web Service Management Systems
Athman Bouguettaya (CSIRO ICT Centre)
CSIRO ICTDATE: 2007-05-09
TIME: 15:00:00 - 16:00:00
LOCATION: CSIRO Seminar Room, DCS Building, S206
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ABSTRACT:
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, and optimizing access to Web services. The proposed Web service foundation will enable the development of a uniform framework called Web Service Management System that would be to Web services what DBMSs have been to data. In this framework, Web services would be treated as first-class objects that can be manipulated as if they were pieces of data. In our work, we largely draw on the experience and trajectory designing the database foundation. The transition from the early file systems to databases is of particular interest. If one looks carefully at the history of relational databases, one can clearly observe a striking parallel with the evolution of Web services. Therefore, understanding the related transition processes and resulting foundational models, will provide researchers with valuable insight to design a sound foundational framework for Web services. In this vision talk, we will first motivate the need for WSMSs. We will then overview our own research work developing the foundation of the core components of WSMSs which include: Web service query optimization, Web service composition, Web service change management, and Web service trust management. Finally, we will overview an E-government WSMS prototype that has been used as a deployment testbed. We will also very briefly mention other targeted and potential applications, namely, B2B E-commerce and Bioinformatics.
BIO:
Previously, Athman was 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 in 1992. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including, the VLDB Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He guest co-edited a special issue of the IEEE Internet Computing on Database Technology on the Web. He also guest co-edited a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Internet on Semantic Web Services. He served as the Program co-chair of the IEEE RIDE Workshop on Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government (RIDE-WS-ECEG'04). He served on numerous conference program committees. His current research interests are in Web services and Service-Oriented Applications focusing on E-government applications. He is a Senior member of the IEEE. More information can be found at http://www.cs.vt.edu/~athman
