Keynote Speakers
Dr Alistair Barros
SAP, Australia
Dr Alistair Barros is research leader at SAP Research with interests in business process management, service sciences and software architectures. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland and 21 years experience, working at CITEC and the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, before joining SAP in 2004.
Alistair's research has contributed to a number of international standards (including BPMN and WS-BPEL), references (patterns in the BPM field), product transfers, patents and commercial consultancies including Boeing, Queensland Government and Australian Defence. He has also contributed to the acquisition of Australian Research Council projects, the Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Smart Services and European Union projects including SUPER.
At SAP Research, he leads the Internet of Services research field.
Prof. Dr Hans Ulrich Buhl
Universität Augsburg, Germany
Prof. Dr Hans Ulrich Buhl is a full professor and Academic Director of the
Department of Information Systems & Financial Engineering and the Competence
Center IT & Financial Services at the University of Augsburg. His main
fields of activity and research include finance and information management,
Customer Relationship Management, and Service Science. In 2006 his
department was awarded with the renowned IBM Service Science Faculty Award.
Prof. Buhl received a masters degree in Industrial Engineering at the
University of Karlsruhe, Germany as well as a M.Sc. in Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California,
Berkeley, USA. He received his Ph.D. and his post doctoral lecture
qualification (habilitation) from the University of Karlsruhe in 1992 and
1995. From 1983 to 1990 Prof. Buhl worked for IBM Germany Headquarters in
Stuttgart, where he acquired practical experiences in the areas of finance,
financial marketing, logistics, and information systems and headed the
Projects and Methods Department. From 1990 to 1994 he held the Chair of
Business Administration and Information Systems at the
Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen before going to Augsburg in 1994.
Prof. Buhl is Editor-in-Chief of the acknowledged German journal
"WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK", and editor of the journals "Electronic Markets" and
"Electronic Commerce Research and Applications". Furthermore he is a member
of the Commission "WKWI" (Information Systems) and "Banking and Finance"
within the "Association of University Professors of Management" and member
of the German Informatics society (GI) where he was speaker of the
department "Information Systems" from 1998-2000, founder member and speaker
of the section "Information Systems in Finance".
Link to Web page: www.wi-if.de
Title of presentation: Service Science [abstract]
Dr Fabio Ciravegna
University of Sheffield, UK
Fabio Ciravegna, Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies at the University of Sheffield.
Fabio's research focuses mainly on Knowledge Management and the Semantic
Web, with a particular focus on the use of Language Technologies. He
currently coordinate the Web Intelligence Technology Lab, a group of
academics, researchers and students.
After research work at Centro Ricerche Fiat and ITC/Irst (one of the
principal research institutions in Italy on Artificial Intelligence) -
Fabio moved to the University of Sheffield where he is now full professor.
His most recent career highlights include:
- Director of the Integrated Project X-Media
(www.x-media-project.org) funded
by the European Union on Large Scale Knowledge Management across
Media. 15 partners are involved. Budget is €13.6M (2006-2010);
- Principal investigator in IPAS, a project on advanced Knowledge
Management jointly funded by Rolls-Royce plc and the UK Department
of Trade and Industry (2005-2008);
- Director of the European Project Dot.Kom on the use of Information
Extraction from Knowledge management (2002-2005);
- Principal Investigator in WeKnowIt, an Integrated Project funded
by the European Union on modelling Collective Intelligence and
with applications to Emergency Services and Web 2.0 (2008-2011);
- Principal investigator in CILLA, a project funded by Kodak Eastman
on management of personal pictures (2007-2008);
- Principal Investigator in eArchaeology: a project funded by the UK
AHRC + EPSRC for mining a million archaeological documents.
(2007-2009);
- Co-investigator in Multimatch, a European project on multimedia
and multilanguage access to cultural heritages (2006-2009).
Fabio Holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK and a
Doctorship from the University of Torino, Italy.
Link to Web page: www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/
Title of presentation: Challenges and Methodologies for Acquiring and Sharing Knowledge in Large Distributed Environments [abstract]
Dr John Davies
BT, UK
Dr John Davies leads the next generation Web research group at BT. His current interests centre around the application of Semantic Web technology to knowledge management, information retrieval and Semantic Web services.
He is project director of the SEKT EU integrated project (www.sekt-project.com) and co-organiser of the European Semantic Web Conference. Dr Davies has written and edited many papers and books on Web-based information management, knowledge management and the Semantic Web. He has also served on the program committees of many conferences in related areas.
Whilst working at BT he developed a set of knowledge management tools that are now marketed through Exago Ltd (www.exago.com), of which Dr Davies is Chief Technology Officer. He is a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.
Prof. Dr Frank Leymann
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Frank Leymann is a full professor of computer science and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His research interests include service oriented computing and middleware, workflow- and business process management, programming in the large, transaction processing, integration technology, and architecture patterns.
Before accepting his professor position he worked for two decades for IBM Software Group building database and middleware products: He built tools supporting conceptual and physical database design for DB2; built performance prediction and monitoring tools for an object database system; was co-architect of a repository system; built both, a universal relation system as well as a complex object database system on top of DB2; and was co-architect of the MQSeries family. In parallel to that, Frank worked continuously since the late eighties on workflow technology and became the father of IBM's workflow product set.
Since joining University of Stuttgart, Frank works on several third-party funded research projects: As Scientific Director of the EU FP6 project Super, he set the direction for the whole project which is about combining semantics technology and business process technology. In the EU FP6 project TripCom, his group contributes to combine SOA technoloy and space-based computing. The focus of his work in the Nexus DFG Center of Excellence is in the area of context-aware business processes. In the BMBF project Tools4BPEL extensions of BPEL for specifying choreographies and their QoS are worked out. For the DFG Excellence Cluster SimTech his group contributes a service-oriented environment for modeling and executing multi-scale simulations. In the DFG Graduate School GSaME work is done on a service-based environment for adaptive business processes in manufacturing environments. Four EU FP7 projects that start early 2008 will focus on different aspects of engineering SOA applications like ensuring compliance, security, adaptability and advanced composition patterns.
Frank published many papers in journals and proceedings, co-authored three text books, and holds a multitude of patents especially in the area of workflow management and transaction processing. He served on program committees and organization committees of many international conferences, and he is editor-in-chief or associated editor of a couple of journals.
Abstracts
Hans Ulrich Buhl: Service Science
In this keynote I will briefly introduce Service Science, an emerging concept which aims at combining the research efforts of different academic disciplines to foster innovation in services. The term service has to be understood broadly in this context. Services are generally distinguished from physical goods by stating certain constituting characteristics (e.g., immateriality) and are not restricted to a technical meaning (for instance in terms of web services).
Service Science is especially promoted in the Anglo-American research community and therefore has to be considered against the background of the research and education landscape particularly in the US. Thus, I will compare the specific situation in the US with the situation in Europe and especially Germany, where interdisciplinary studies and applied research have a much longer tradition. This turns out to be advantageous in particular (but not only) for research in services.
Fabio Ciravegna: Challenges and Methodologies for Acquiring and Sharing Knowledge in Large Distributed Environments
In this talk I will present and discuss challenges and requirements for
Semantic Web technologies when confronted with the task of knowledge
acquisition and sharing in large complex distributed environments (e.g.
large companies).
Acquisition is defined here as the process of: (1) extracting facts
from and annotating existing multi- and cross-media resources,
both unstructured (e.g. texts, images, data, etc.) and
structured (e.g. existing databases); (2) information and knowledge
integration across resources and media.
Sharing is here the process of making the knowledge available
independently from source or media at the right time in a form suitable
to a specific user. The area remit involves mainly Human Computer
Interaction methodologies.
I will discuss how some of the current technologies cope with the
requirements, and show some successful applications applied in real
world environments. Finally I will try to draw a list of desiderata for
future technologies.
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