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Service Platform and Network Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Services
Service Oriented Applications: Realities, Potentials and Barriers
Future of Internet Applications
Panel Title :
Service Platform and Network Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Services
Panel Chair :
Dr. Tatsuya Suda
Professor
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Panelists :
Josef Noll, Telenor R&D
Stephan Steglich, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Masayoshi Ohashi, KDDI R&D Labs.
Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs.
Description :
'Ubiquitous services' are expected to emerge as a new class of service framework that integrates real-world activities and relevant cyber-world services. There are, however, a lot of difficulties in various technical areas, from physical layer of radio communication relevant for sensors, to application level enablers for context-aware services.
In this panel session, we will focus on service platform technologies and network infrastructure that enable ubiquitous services. This panel will be hold in conjunction with a workshop entitled "Next Generation IP-based Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems". Visions, roadmaps, challenges and other big pictures related to the applicability of next generation IP-based service platforms to the realization of ubiquitous services will be presented and discussed in this panel. Topics include
- What functionalities are required for ubiquitous service platforms?
- What are the main technical challenges and obstacles of the platform?
- What are the requirements for underlying network infrastructure?
- Will personalization play a major role for end user acceptance?
- What is the role of the mobile (=cellular) network operator in ubiquitous services?
Activities in Mobile IT Forum (mITF), Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and other research projects will be also introduced in this panel.
Panel Title :
Service Oriented Applications: Realities, Potentials and Barriers
Panel Chair :
Dr. Paolo Traverso
Professor
ITC-IRST
Italy
Panelists :
Bernd J. Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia Technologies
Ioannis Fikouras, BIBA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology
Description :
Services and their related infrastructure for service-oriented applications provide a universal basis for the integration of business processes that are distributed among the most disparate entities, both within an organization (e.g., different departments) and across organizational borders (e.g. consumers interacting with different businesses or government departments providing complementary services). Infrastructure, technology and solutions for service-oriented applications promise to reshape the way the Internet is used and to change completely the way how all of IT will be used and provided. There are however a lot of issues and critical factors (both technical and economical) to be addressed to make the promise come true, ranging from the agreement on standards, to the provision of tools that support the development of service-oriented applications, to new business models for these kinds of applications. In this panel, we will discuss the crucial issues, the potentials, and the barriers to the massive taking up of service-oriented applications. Topics include:
- Which are the key and critical factors, the realities, the potentials and the barriers for the industrial taking off of service oriented applications?
- Which support is required for a cost effective development and maintenance of service oriented applications?
- Which are the strength and weaknesses of current standards for the modeling and execution of distributed business processes, for describing their capabilities, the choreography, and orchestration of services?
- "Complex" Grids and Service Oriented Applications. Which are the relations, the similarities and the differences?
Panel Title :
Future of Internet Applications
Panel Chair :
Dr. Benjamin W. Wah
Professor
Univ. of Illinois
USA
Panelists :
Tiziana Catarci, University di Roma "La Sapienza"
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria
Marco Mesiti, University of Milano
Katsuyuki Yamazaki, KDDI R&D Labs.
Description :
The Internet provides a flexible, scalable, and inter-operable platform that can support many diverse applications. Its popularity has led to a wealth of applications, such as smart phones, PDAs, sensor networks, smart homes, emergency and lifeline support, distributed multimedia, and telemedicine. However, unrealistic expectations on some of these applications led to the Internet boom in the late 1990s and the burst of the Internet bubble a few years ago. Recently, we have witnessed continued and strong interest on Internet applications. A number of the companies focusing on these applications are beginning to turn profitable.
In this closing panel, we plan to address the future of Internet applications.
The issues we will discuss include the following:
- Are there any killer applications?
- Is the current Internet ready to support these applications?
- What are open research issues on these applications?
- What are the economic and business factors for supporting these applications?