*ANNOUNCEMENT* (01)
Please note below, an abstract on our next Ontolog Technical
Discussion session: (02)
Title: *Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service
Sciences: Ontological Implications of SOA* (03)
Moderator: Professor William E. McCarthy - Michigan State Univ. (04)
Date: Thursday June 30, 2005
Time: 10:30am~12:30pm PDT / 1:30~3:30pm PDT (05)
Format: Panel & Open Discussion over an augmented conference call (06)
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From: McCarthy, William
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:25 PM
To: '[ontolog-forum] '
Subject: panel on Ontological implications of SOA (08)
Hi Peter et al. (09)
Here is my proposed summary of next week’s panel on
interoperability concerns in the growth of service sciences. (010)
Topic: Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service
Sciences -- Ontological Implications of SOA (011)
Traditionally, trading partners -- both within and between firms
– trafficked in bundled tangible products like consumer goods or
partially assembled finished goods. Many early e-commerce
standards assumed implicitly product-based exchanges. (012)
Increasingly however, the growth in exchange and bundling of
*Services* in the US and in other economies has supplanted
tangible goods as the raison d’etre of international and domestic
commerce. Estimates of the percentage of the gross domestic
product of the US due to services (as opposed to goods) range as
high as 80%. This trend has led to increased interest in
services and the establishment of new research centers like the
proposed "Center for Services Sciences" at U.C. Berkeley. A
good of overview of such trends is the brief article by Henry
Chesbrough: (013)
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9b743b2a-0e0b-11d9-97d3-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=6f0b3526-07e3-11d9-9673-00000e2511c8.html (014)
In e-commerce, this growth in service provision has been mirrored
by the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures which support
integration and creation of composite solutions (bundles of
services) from loosely-coupled components assembled both within
an enterprise (outputs from legacy applications) and outside of
the enterprise (typically XML-based Web services). (015)
Whether or not the integrated services originate from
incompatible operations inside the firm or from incompatible
vendor interfaces from outside the firms, semantic
inconsistencies, redundancies, and discrepancies make the vision
of integrated services an ontological problem. The purpose of
this panel is to explore the ontological implications of service
Sciences in general and of Service-Oriented Architectures in
particular. We will start our Ontolog session with some general
comments from notable practitioners in the SOA and ontology
areas. We will then open up the discussion to more general
comments and critiques. (016)
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Please mark your calendars now. I'll have the wiki session page
up shortly with more details. =ppy (018)
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