IEEE ICWS/SCC/Services 2007 Panel Program

Services Computing has emerged as a primary platform for packaging and delivering computing and information technology to various enterprises ranging from business to governments and organizations. In recent years we have witnessed many emerging standards and industrial developments in service computing area. At the same the IEEE International conference on Web Services and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing have become the primer conferences in the Services Computing landscape since their inception in 2003, attracting participants from more than 20 countries from America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
To celebrate the success of IEEE ICWS/SCC from 2003 to 2007, this year we present two plenary panels dedicated to Services Computing area. The first panel is focused on Service Computing in daily work with the focus on service engineering v.s. software engineering, exploiting the intrinsic relationship, the commonality, and the differences between service engineering and software engineering. The second panel is dedicated to Services Computing in action with focus on services architectures, discussing how business architectures, application architectures, and infrastructure architectures should interact to deliver the most efficient services businesses or solutions. 

Panel Program Chairs
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank Ferrante, EIC Emeritus, IEEE IT Professional Magazine

IEEE ICWS/SCC/SERVICES 2007 Plenary Panel 1

Services Computing in Daily Work:
Service Engineering vs. Software Engineering

Panel Moderators and Panelists:

Hemant Jain, Wisconsin Distinguished & Tata Consultancy Services Professor of Management Information System in Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
Calton Pu - Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at College of Computing, Georgia Tech., USA
Sridhar Iyengar - IBM Distinguished Engineer, Strategist of Services Software Research at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Brian Blake – Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University.
Carl K. Chang - Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer and Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University.
Panel Theme:
Today, more and more software are augmented with service-oriented packaging. At the same time, more and more business and government services are provided and offered in the form of software. However, there are debates on whether and how much service engineering has in common with software engineering. Can we design service engineering models and frameworks in a similar spirit as the way software has been engineered in the past two decades? Or should software be designed, engineered and offered in a way similar to services that existed even before computer age?
This panel aims to explore the intrinsic and multi-facet relationships between engineering software and engineering services in terms of user requirement, engineering design, life cycle, maintenance, quality and performance monitoring and tuning. We encourage panelists to use their first hand research and development experiences to exploit commonality and fundamental differences, if any, between service engineering and software engineering, and discuss the effects of such relationships on the coupling and the transformation of both computing and business into a more service oriented paradigm. The key questions to be addressed and debated by this panel include:

• Service Engineering vs. Software Engineering: what do they have in common? And when and how they differ from one another?
• Can service engineering benefit from the well-known software engineering principles, architectures, and frameworks?
• Can a better understanding of service engineering help improve the theory and engineering practice of software engineering?
• How can we leverage the intrinsic relationship between service engineering and software engineering to better meet quality of service demand of Web services, business, and consumers?

Biographies:

Hemant Jain - Dr. Hemant Jain is Wisconsin Distinguished & Tata Consultancy Services Professor of Management Information System in Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Dr. Jain received his Ph. D. in Information System from Lehigh University. Dr. Jain's interests are in the area of Electronic Commerce, System Development using Reusable Components, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Architecture Design, and Health Informatics.  Dr. Jain is an associate editor of Information Systems Research a flagship journal of INFORMS. He also serves on the editorial Board of the Information Technology & Management, International Journal of Web Services Research, Information Management, and International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. He was the program committee co-chair of 2004 IEEE Conference on Web Services and is general chair of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing 2006. 

Calton Pu - Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at College of Computing, Georgia Tech. Professor Pu received his phD in Computer Science from University of Washington in 1986. Calton's research interests are in the areas of distributed computing, database systems, and operating systems. In distributed systems and databases research, his focus is on extended transaction processing and Internet applications. In operating systems, he is applying the idea of specialization. Comparing with usual centralized systems, distributed and parallel systems softwares display unique characteristics in distance, complexity, extensibility, concurrency and availability. Making software handle these problems in a reliable and efficient way is the emphasis of Calton Pu's work. The sponsors for Calton Pu's research include both government funding agencies such as DARPA, NSF, and companies from industry such as IBM, Intel, and HP.

Sridhar Iyengar - Sridhar Iyengar, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, leads Services Software Research at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Sridhar is also a member of the Rational CTO Council and IBM Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee helping drive software tools & methods direction across IBM. Sridhar works with development teams and architects inside IBM and in the industry to accelerate the use of industry standard models,
patterns and metadata for developing, integrating and managing applications.  His work focuses on the use of models, metadata and transformation frameworks that can be used create an integrated software tools platform that makes it easy for systems integrators (specifically IBM's GBS) and customers to govern the business process of software and systems development and delivery. Sridhar also serves on the OMG Architecture Board and Board of Directors.

Brian Blake – Dr. Blake currently is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His research interest lies in Service-oriented computing, Enterprise integration and eCommerce, Component based Software engineering, and software engineering education. He obtained his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 and PhD in Information and Software Engineering from George Mason University in 2000. Working full-time through his graduate degrees, he was a Software Integration Consultant and later a Software Architect for Lockheed Martin from 1994 to 1998. In April 1998, he became a Sr. Computer Scientist with General Dynamics designing component-based systems in the intelligence domain. After joining Georgetown University in the Fall 2000, he has consulted for several industry and government organizations engineering service-based systems.
Carl K. Chang - Dr. Chang was 2004 IEEE Computer Society President. Upon completing his presidency for the Computer Society, he was appointed to be the 2005 Chair of the IEEE Meetings and Services Committee reporting to the IEEE Board of Directors. Previously he served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Software (1991-94). He is the current Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer. Chang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He received a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University.

IEEE ICWS/SCC/SERVICES 2007 Plenary Panel 2
Services Computing in Action: Services Architectures

Panel Moderators:

Ephraim Feig - Senior director of services architecture at Motorola
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang - Research Staff Member of SOA Services at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ali Arsanjani – Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Business Services

Panel Theme:

This panel is devoted to the topic of Services Architectures, which play a significant role in the effective operations and delivery of services businesses today.  We will discuss our views and findings that describe information technology and systems concepts in the topic areas of:

• Business Architectures, including enterprise architectures, service-oriented enterprises, business process modeling frameworks, enterprise project management;

• Solution/Application Architectures, including Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), information architectures, composite business services architectures, services discovery and invocation architectures, service-to-service collaboration frameworks, solution-level quality-of-service (QoS) and application management architectures, integration architectures, SOA solution reference architectures, and services “mashup” frameworks that leverage Web 2.0 and SOA for data aggregation and message exchanges; and

• Infrastructure Architectures, including operational models, deployment, and system management.

The linkages among these architectures in services business is a key topic for this panel. The other major space we are going to contribute to is the effective enablement and deployment of Services Architectures using software engineering technology and platforms. The linkages with “Services Engineering vs. Software Engineering” will be naturally addressed in this panel.

Biographies:

Ephraim Feig - Dr. Feig is senior director of services architecture at Motorola. Prior to joining Motorola, Dr. Feig was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Kintera, Inc. Before joining Kintera, Dr. Feig was employed at IBM from 1980 until 2000, where he most recently held the positions of Program Director of Emerging Technologies in the Research Division and Program Director of Media Platforms in the Internet Division. Dr. Feig was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his technical contributions in the field of signal processing and has been issued 22 patents and has more than 20 patent applications pending. Dr. Feig has published more than 100 technical articles in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Feig has served as an adjunct professor at several universities, including Columbia University, The City College of New York and New York Polytechnic Institute. He is an executive committee member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing.

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang - Dr. Zhang is a Research Staff Member (RSM) in Services Technologies Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has been leading SOA and Web Services for Business Consulting Services and Industry Solutions research since 2001. He is the founding chair of the Services Computing PIC (Professional Interest Community) at IBM Research. In 2004 and 2005, Dr. Zhang was appointed as the Chief Architect of Industrial Standards at IBM Software Group, where he played leadership role in helping define IBM’s strategy for industrial standards and open architecture for service-oriented business solutions. Currently he is leading an IBM SOA solution design and modeling platform for IBM practitioners.

Ali Arsanjani – Dr. Arsanjani is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Business Services, specializing in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design and implementation of SOA and Web Services. He leads the internal IBM worldwide SOA & Web Services Community of Practice (5000+ members) and is the principal author of the (Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture) SOMA method for SOA.