Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/sd/
More than ever, computing devices are becoming more powerful and
networked, organizational boundaries are dissolving, and underlying
information systems become more complex, thus requiring higher degrees
of autonomic behavior of the business processes and software services
they support. In this talk the main challenges towards building the
required novel conceptual abstractions as well as needed technological
implementations are presented and discussed.
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Steven Pemberton
CWI
, INS
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/
XForms is a recent technology from W3C. It arises from a redesign of HTML Forms, but despite that history, and its name, it can in fact do much more than just forms. Since it has a memory model, input, output and a calculation engine it is a declarative calculation engine, with direct access to documents and services over the network, making it ideally suited for service-oriented processing.
This talk will introduce XForms and its architecture, show its applicability to services, demonstrate XForms in action, and discuss the effect on productivity that declarative approaches have compared with procedural approaches.
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Service-oriented computing has been identified as one of the four key focal points of activity in the CWI strategic plan. The seminar series are essential activities that are bi-monthly events. The goal is to create a forum for presenting SoC related work that is going on both within as well as outside of CWI. Therefore, we will have two speakers in each meeting of this seminar: one from outside of CWI and one from within CWI. These events are open to the public and CWI hopes that this format will make it attractive for colleagues from the industry, as well as other institutes, to participate.