Topics that are addressed by this conference include but are not limited to: |
Service description, advertisement, discovery, and selection |
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Service modeling and representation languages |
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Request languages for service discovery & invocation (how customers and applications can discover and select the service that best fulfil their requirements) |
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Business semantics, meta data, and ontologies (how service providers can publish service descriptions so that they can be best discovered and accessed by customers and applications) |
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Billing, pricing, and payment models |
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Modeling tools & infrastructure |
| Service delivery, monitoring, quality, and management |
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QoS models |
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QoS tools |
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Monitoring service executions |
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Service reliability and availability |
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Service auditing techniques |
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Performance analysis |
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Return on investment (ROI) & services |
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Validation of service claims & evaluation of service quality |
| Software engineering techniques for service-based development |
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Service lifecycle |
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Service analysis techniques |
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Service design principles |
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Service design patterns |
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Separation of concerns |
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Design by contract for business collaborations |
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Requirements for service-oriented processes |
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Testing & verification |
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Consistency management |
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Provisioning |
| Service composition |
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Composition models and languages |
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Composition modeling and planning tools |
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Service reuse, versioning, and specialization |
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Theoretical frameworks for service representation & composition |
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Architectures, models, and languages to support service composition |
| Services and business processes & transactions |
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Business process modeling and specification |
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Business collaboration models |
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Business communication and coordination |
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Workflow technologies & services |
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Business protocols & services |
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Business transaction protocols |
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Atomicity and correctness criteria |
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Collaborative agreements |
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Business conversation sequences |
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Negotiation & contract models and languages |
| Service technologies and platforms |
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Infrastructure for service delivery |
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Services-driven architectures & development environments |
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Service-based Marketplaces |
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Connecting legacy applications to services |
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Connecting ERP applications to services |
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Service-based EAI platforms |
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Standards |
| Service security issues & concerns |
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Service authentication |
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Service authorization |
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Role based access control |
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Privacy |
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Services & XML based security standards |
| Service & AI Computing |
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Intelligent services |
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Multi-agent based service models |
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Expressive description languages for services |
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Knowledge-management & services |
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Service brokering & composition-panning |
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Non-conventional planning techniques for services (non-deterministic, interleaved, reactive planning) |
| Service & P2P/Grid Computing |
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Open/dynamic grid service architectures |
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Grid service deployment & service registries |
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Grid computing & services on-demand |
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Communication protocols & policy based management mechanisms |
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Service resource provisioning |
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Data-intensive systems on P2P/Grid Systems |
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Naming and indexing Facilities |
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Publish-Subscribe Schemes |
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Real-time supply chain integration |
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Performance analysis & evaluation |
| Service & Mobile Computing |
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Location-based services |
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Proximity-based notification |
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Mobile e-business |
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Multimedia-messaging Systems |
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Services for 3G+ Networks |
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Disaster Recovery and Continuous Operation |
| Service Computing & Applications |
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e-Business |
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e-Culture |
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e-Learning |
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e-Tourism |
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e-Government |
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Telecommunication service provisioning |
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Procurement & order fulfilment management |
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Logistics |
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Banking and insurance service based applications |
