ebBP 12/30/2005: ICSOC Conference References

[Monica J Martin <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

I indicated I'd give a brief overview of ICSOC 2005 and a link.  The 
third International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing was held in 
Amsterdam earlier this month.

Brief overview: ICSOC (www.icsoc.org) is focused on improving 
understanding of state of the art technologies and theories in the realm 
of service-oriented computing where key topics included:

    * Design and composition of software services
    * Service monitoring and service level agreements
    * Security and exception handling
    * Service selection and discovery
    * Semantic web technologies

A book has been released on the proceedings, "Service-Oriented Computing 
- ICSOC 2005" by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberger, 2005.
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-0-22-107952204-0,00.html?referer=www.springer.com%2F3-540-30817-2

There were some briefs related to choreography and several touching on 
business services, including such as one on the composition and 
execution of web services from the University of Trento, Italy which 
developed a higher level monitoring language that executed in parallel 
to orchestrated processes. In addition, in the Industrial and 
Application area which I session led, the State University of Campinas 
and Ericsson have an ongoing project for intra- and inter-domain efforts 
- focusing on orchestration and choreography. The latter is just 
evolving. They are deploying and managing network services to enable 
orchestrated (intra-) and choreographed (inter-domain) services for 
controlling optical networks [1]. 

It is important that we are seeing domain use cases recognizing 
collaborative processes, monitoring and business aspects (however there 
is much more work to be done). Best regards and Happy New Year.

[1] For choreography of distributed networks they are planning to use 
WS-CDL in research.