2008 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2008) (Part I)

IEEE SCC 2008 and SERVICES 2008 Panel Program

Panel 1:

Web Services for Group Decision and Negotiation Support

Chair:

Tung Bui, University of Hawaii, USA

Panelists:

Freimut Bodendorf, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Rong Chang, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA

Theme:

The purpose of this panel is to present a number recent achievements in the use of Web services to support the many bargaining and negotiation activities in business. Discussion topics include, but are not limited to, the latest Web services technologies in distributed and mobile computing, design methodologies to embed Wed services to assist the business users in different phases of group decision and negotiation processes -- before, during and after, and directions for future research.

Biographies

Tung Bui is Matson Navigation Co. Professor at the Shidler College of Business, Department of Information Technology, University of Hawaii. He has done extensive research in the area of computer-supported group decision and negotiation, and how this technology can be applied to large organizations and to particular distributed applications such electronic commerce/supply chain management, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR). Before joining the University of Hawaii, Tung was on the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Universities of Fribourg and Lausanne, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Freimut Bodendorf, born 1953, graduated 1977 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (School of Engineering) with a degree in Computer Science. 1981 he obtained his doctor degree (Ph.D.) in Information Systems. Subsequently he was head of an IS department at the University of Freiburg/Germany (School of Medicine), full professor at the Postgraduate School of Engineering in Nuremberg/Germany, and full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. Since 1990 he is head of the Department of Information Systems II at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (School of Management). His research areas include information systems in the service industry, services computing, business virtualization, business process management, e-health networking, business intelligence, and knowledge management.

Rong Chang is Manager of Service Management Environments and Chair of Services Computing PIC (Professional Interest Community) at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science & engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1990. Before joining IBM in 1993, he was with Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) creating advanced personal ubiquitous application services for broadband networks. He received his ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Foundation Certificate in IT Services Management in 2005, and completed a Micro MBA Program in 2006. He has received one IEEE Best Paper Award and many IBM awards, including two corporate-level Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards. His current research interests include services computing, SOA & distributed computing, IT service lifecycle management, business-driven service management (BSM). business process management (BPM), and service level management (SLM).

Michael Goul's research interests are in the area of services-based data warehousing and business intelligence. He was a pioneer in bridging the concepts, methods and technologies of the artificial intelligence, knowledge management and decision support disciplines. Michael's recent publications have dealt with theory advancement and design sciences associated with agile architectures capable of enabling rapid configuration of collaborative inter- and intra-organizational decision support environments. This emphasis is represented in recent work including strategies for "Master Data Management," the promise of ontology and semantics within what is being referred to as the "Service-Oriented Enterprise," and autonomics as applied to inter-organizational workflows. He collaborates with faculty colleagues from business, computer science, industrial engineering and other disciplines in the emerging "services science" research area. His field work has involved firms including Teradata, American Express and Intel. Dr. Goul has authored or co-authored over fifty journal and refereed proceedings papers, he has supervised sixteen doctoral dissertations and over sixty master degree theses, and he served as a journal editor, special issue co-editor and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Associate Editor.

Panel 2:

Systems, Tools, and Environments in Services Computing

Chair:

Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK

Panelists:

Wu Chou, Avaya Labs, USA
Jeffrey Kreulen, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Theme:

Services computing started from the client-server programming paradigm, but have seen a continuous broadening of its definition and scope embracing other modern paradigms such as peer-to-peer and event processing. In this panel, we will cover some trends of services computing from the systems, tools, and environments perspective including service composition, system integration, interoperability, scalability, virtualization, and support for dynamic properties. The discussion will also address novel application development methodologies and some emerging areas of services computing in SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), CaaS (Communication-as-a-Service), and mobile services computing with corresponding tools and environments.

Biographies

Vladimir Getov has been leading the Distributed and Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Westminster in London since 1996. He was a founding member of the Java Grande Forum in 1998 and has led the Java Grande Message Passing Group which produced the Message Passing For Java (MPJ) specification. Vladimir Getov was also co-chair of the Service Management Frameworks Group of the Open Grid Forum. In 2004, Professor Getov was elected Governor of the International Council for Computer Communication. He is a member of the CoreGrid Executive Committee and Leader of the European Institute on "Grid Systems, Tools, and Environments" of the EU CoreGrid Network of Excellence (Sept. 2004 - Aug. 2008). Professor Getov is also a Steering Committee Member of the John Vincent Atanasoff Initiative, working actively towards worldwide recognition of the inventor of electronic digital computing.

Wu Chou is an IEEE Fellow. He received his M.S. degree in mathematics in 1986, M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1987, M.S. degree in statistics in 1988, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1990, all from Stanford University, California, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1990. Currently, he is Director, Avaya Labs Fellow at Avaya Labs Research, Avaya Inc. He and his group explore advanced technologies and applications in Web services, communication, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and services computing. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society, Signal Processing Society, and Communication Society. He served at various technical committees, industry standard bodies, and editorial boards. He contributed to many Industry standards on web services, speech and language processing, multimodal interaction, computer supported telecommunication applications, and unified communication services. He has been granted over 20 US and international patents, authored or co-authored more than 100 journal and conference paper publications, including three book chapters, and one edited book. He received Bell Laboratories President’s Gold Award in 1997 and Avaya Leadership Award in 2005.

Jeffrey Kreulen is Senior Manager of Services Oriented Technologies and Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, USA. He holds a B.S. degree in applied mathematics (computer science) from Carnegie-Mellon University, a M.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer engineering both from The Pennsylvania State University.

Calton Pu was born in Taiwan and grew up in Brazil. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 1986 and served on the faculty of Columbia University and Oregon Graduate Institute. Currently, he is holding the position of Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is leading the Infosphere project, building software tools to support information flow-driven applications such as digital libraries and electronic commerce. Infosphere builds on his previous and ongoing research interests. First, he has been working on next-generation operating system kernels to achieve high performance, adaptiveness, security, and modularity, using program specialization, software feedback, and domain-specific languages. This area has included projects such as Synthetix, Immunix, Microlanguages, and Microfeedback, applied to distributed multimedia and system survivability. Second, he has been working on new data and transaction management by extending database technology. This area has included projects such as Epsilon Serializability, Reflective Transaction Framework, and Continual Queries over the Internet. His collaborations include applications of these techniques in scientific research on macromolecular structure data, weather data, and environmental data, as well as in industrial settings. He has published more than 60 journal papers and book chapters, 150 conference and refereed workshop papers, and served on more than 90 program committees, including the co-PC chairs of SRDS'95, ICDE'99, CoopIS'02, SRDS'03, DOA'07, and co-general chair of ICDE'97, CIKM'01, ICDE'06, DEPSA'07, CEAS'07.

Andreas Wombacher is an Assistant Professor at University Twente and co-coordinator of the strategic research objective Applied Science of Services for Information Society Technologies (ASSIST). He did his master and Ph.D. degree at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He gathered professional experience at IBM (Germany), the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) of GMD (Germany), the University of Twente (Netherlands), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His research interests are in the area of service oriented architectures, distributed data management, and data processing with a focus on sensor networks. He has published around 60 papers and has been involved in several organization committees.