What's in a service?
Prof. Mike P. Papazoglou, (Tilburg University)
CSIRO ICTDATE: 2008-05-15
TIME: 14:00:00 - 15:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101
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ABSTRACT:
Mike will discuss the composition of a software service, describe the `service oriented architecture' for developing services for business processes and outline open research problems.
BIO:
Michael P. Papazoglou holds the chair of Computer Science
and is director of the INFOLAB at the Univ. of Tilburg in
the Netherlands. He is also an honorary professor at the
University of Trento in Italy. Prior to this he was full
Professor and head of School of Information Systems at the
Queensland Univ. of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane Australia
(1991-1996). He also held senior academic positions at the
Australian National University, University of Koblenz,
Germany, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany, and was
principal research scientist at the National German
Research Centre for Computer Science (GMD) in St. Augustin
from (1983-1989).
Papazoglou serves on several international committees and on the editorial board of nine international scientific journals and is co-editor in charge of the MIT book series on Information Systems. He has chaired numerous well-known international scientific conferences in Computer Science. These include the Int.l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), Int.l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Int.l Conf. on Digital Libraries (ICDL), Int.l Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Int.l Conf. on Entity/Relationship Modelling and others. He is the founder of the Int.l Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) and more recently of the Int.l Conf. on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC).
Papazoglou has authored/edited fifteen books and approximately hundred and fifty scientific journal articles and refereed conference papers. His most two recent books are "e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations" published by J. Wiley 2006, and "Principles and Foundations of Web Services: An Holistic View" to be published by Addison-Wesley in mid 2006.
His research was/is funded by the European Commission, the Australian Research Council, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and Departments of Science and Technology in Europe and Australia. He is a golden core member and a distinguished visitor of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Science section.
