Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology

SOA 2.0 – Models, Methods, and Algorithms

Abstract:
The transformation of how people collaborate and interact on the Web has been poorly leveraged in existing service-oriented architectures (SOA). The paradigm of SOA and Web services is based on loose coupling and dynamic discovery of services. The user should be able to define interaction interfaces (services) following the same principles to avoid the need for parallel systems of software services and Human-Provided Services (HPS). The benefit of this approach is a seamless service-oriented infrastructure of human- and software services.

In this keynote talk I will focus on the discovery of user preferences and expertise based on ad-hoc interactions and thus will address two issues: which aspects of users’ activities are most relevant for provisioning expertise and how can personalized services effectively be provided by the end-user.

Biography:
Since July 2005, Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Internet Technologies heading the Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) where he is director of the Vita Lab. He is also Honorary Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands. He is Chair of the IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering and a founding member of the Scientific Academy of Service Technology.

He has published some 200 scientific papers as conference-, journal-, and book contributions. He has written 3 academic books as well as one professional book. He co-organized several scientific workshops and conferences (e.g., ICSOC 2007, BPM 2006, DiSD 2005 colocated with RE; Teamware colocated with SAINT; CSSE colocated with ASE; UMICS 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, colocated with CAiSE; DMC 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 colocated with IEEE WETICE) and has been serving on more than 200 international program committees as well as on editorial boards of 10 scientific journals. His research interests include collaborative computing, workflow systems, Internet technologies, software architecture, distributed systems, distributed multimedia systems, and mobile collaboration systems. He is charter member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS), member of the IEEE Computer society, ACM, GI, and Austrian Computer Society. He was an invited expert evaluator for the IST 6th Framework (FP6) of the European Commission as well as an invited expert for the 7th Framework roadmap definitions for some working groups. He has been a scientific reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC) as well as a number of National Science Foundations (e.g., DFG (Germany), NWO (Netherlands), SNF (Switzerland), EPSRC (UK), SFI (Ireland), NSERC (Canada)).