New subject: [choose] Reminder: Service-oriented Computing

28 Nov 2005

The CHOOSE executive board and the Institut für Informatik der
Universität Zürich are pleased to invite you to a presentation.

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Service-oriented Computing - Fundamentals of Modern Internet Technologies.
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When: Thursday January 12, 2006, @17h15

Where:	Institut für Informatik (IfI), Universität Zürich,
	IfI H-25

Travel instructions: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ifiadmin/wayToInst.html

Speaker
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Schahram Dustdar, Prof. Dr, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/sd/

Agenda
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17h15 - 18h00 Talk

Abstract
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Today we are experiencing a major paradigm shift in the way that
software applications are designed, architected, delivered, and
consumed. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) is a new emerging paradigm
for distributed computing that has evolved from object-oriented and
component computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating
applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries.
Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements
that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and
programmed using XML artifacts for the purpose of developing massively
distributed interoperable applications. In this talk we will discuss the
current state of Service-oriented Computing and outline future research
challenges.

Bio:
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Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor for Internet Technologies at the
Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna
University of Technology (TU Wien) where he is director of the Vita Lab
and Honorary Professor of Information Systems at the University of
Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands.

He received his M.Sc. (1990) and PhD. degrees (1992) in Business
Informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) from the University of Linz,
Austria. In April 2003 he received his Habilitation degree (Venia
Docendi in Angewandte Informatik) for his work on Process-aware
Collaboration Systems - Architectures and Coordination Models for
Virtual Teams. His work experience includes several years as the
founding head of the Center for Informatics (ZID) at the University of
Art and Industrial Design in Linz (1991-1999), Austrian project manager
of the MICE EU-project (1993 - 97), and director of Coordination
Technologies at the Design Transfer Center in Linz (1999 - 2000). While
on sabbatical leave he was a post-doctoral research scholar
(Erwin-Schrödinger scholarship) at the London School of Economics
(Information Systems Department) (1993 and 1994), and a visiting
research scientist at NTT Multimedia Communications Labs in Palo Alto,
USA during 1998.

Since 1999 he works as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba
Labs Software AG (CarambaLabs.com) in Vienna, a venture capital
co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative
processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several
(international and national) awards: World Technology Award in the
category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap
Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovationspreis der
Wirtschaftskammer (2002).

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by CHOOSE. The participation is free for all interested parties. No
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