February 2006 - dais-wg - lists.ogf.org

DAIS Interoperability Testing
by Norman Paton 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

The GGF Recommendation Track includes a requirement for a document to be written that demonstrates the interoperability of implementations of specifications. As no such document has yet been produced, there is some uncertainty as to the process that should be applied to a specification to enable a suitable document to be written. As a result, it has been suggested by the Data Area Directors that the DAIS-WG should produce an Informational document that describes its plans, which can then be reviewed by the GFSG. If these plans are accepted and then followed, it is assumed that a (positive) report on their implementation will satisfy the relevant requirement. With this in mind, the following draft has been produced, which it is hoped to submit to the GGF document process during March (depending on the feedback received): https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dais-wg/document/Interoperability_Plan… We invite comment on this document, in particular from list members that have experience of interoperability testing. Please either post comments to the list or add them to GridForge by close of play on 6th March. Depending on the feedback received, we will either submit the document shortly after 6th March, or continue the discussion on the list and/or in conference calls. Regards, Norman

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DAIS-WG at GGF16
by Norman Paton 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

The following is the proposed programme of the DAIS session at GGF16. I note that Item 2 is intended to enable discussion of public comment feedback on the specifications, and will not be heavily structured. As such, if there are particular things that you would like to see addressed, please post a comment on one of the documents or send me an email, and we will try to prepare appropriately. Community update and discussion on future directions [1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Wednesday 15th] Agenda: 1. Update on Activities [Dave Pearson: 10 minutes] 2. Community feedback on submitted documents [Norman Paton: 30 minutes] 3. Progress reports on implementations [Steven Lynden: 30 minutes] 4. Discussion on future activities [Dave Pearson: 20 minutes] Please note that there is also a BOF to consider extending the scope of the DAIS-WG to include the development of an RDF Data Access Realisation on Thursday 16th, 10:30 to 12:00. If you believe that such an activity would be worthwhile, and in particular if you would be interested in participating, please be sure to attend the BOF, and/or to let the organiser (Isao Kojima, AIST) know of your interest. Regards, Norman

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DAIS Specifications in Public Comment
by Norman Paton 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

The DAIS Specifications have now completed their initial GFSG Review, and have just entered their public comment period. This message is to encourage comments on the specifications. In this context we would welcome (for example): 1. Technical comments on any aspects of the specifications, in terms of their scope, clarity and correctness. 2. Comments from application developers on the suitability of the specifications for their use cases. 3. Comments from organisations that may be interested in implementing the specifications, for evaluation, for use for a specific purpose, or as part of a wider platform. 4. Comments from organisations or communities that might be interested in developing designs, either internally or as part of a standards activity, that extend the WS-DAI specification. The specifications are available at the following URLs, where comments can be posted. WS-DAI: http://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=1711 WS-DAIR http://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=1712 WS-DAIX http://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=1713 Regards, Norman

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Joint CFP - BSN'06 - SOS4CO'06 (Final Circulation)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Joint CFP: BSN'06 & SoS4CO'06 Please accept our apologies for cross posting. ********************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ ********************************************************************* Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter- enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life- cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Please submit paper via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, please use the IEEE double-column paper format at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/FORMAT.DOC. Papers can be at most 8 pages. Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper Submission -- February 1, 2006 -- Extended >> February 12, 2006 Notification to Authors -- February 28, 2006 Response from Authors -- March 3, 2006 Organizers Confirm Program -- March 10, 2006 Author Kit Posted Online -- March 17, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due -- March 31, 2006 Organizers Finalize Proceedings -- April 5, 2006 Workshop Day -- June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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