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Re: [ontolog-forum] Panel Discussion on Ontological implications of SOA

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From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:33:52 -0700
Message-id: <42BE0600.8090801@xxxxxxxx>
Doug,    (01)

So glad you can join us!    (02)

Say hello to Jim Spohrer for me ... we should have you guys come 
and do a session one of these days!    (03)

Regards.  =ppy
--    (04)


Douglas McDavid wrote Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:43:41 -0700:
> Hi Peter --
> 
> I'm afraid I've been remiss in participating in your forum, after signing
> up for it many moons ago.  I do hope to sit in on this call, since the
> topic caught my eye.  So count me in for planning purposes.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Doug McDavid
> 
> Business Transformation Architect
> IBM Academy of Technology - http://www-306.ibm.com/ibm/academy/index.html
> mcdavid@xxxxxxx
> 408-927-1565 (IBM tie-line: 457)    (05)


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> 
> I have started the 2005.06.30 Discussion Session page on the wiki
> along with details we have so far. Please take a look at:
> 
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_06_30
> 
> To help us reserve adequate resources (like #lines on the
> conference bridge) for the session, please RSVP offline to me if
> you are planning to attend. Feel free to invite your friends, if
> you think they can contribute to or benefit from the discussion.
> 
> This is going to be a very interesting and relevant session.
> Don't miss it!
> 
> Best regards.  =ppy
> --
> 
> 
> Peter Yim wrote Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:00:15 -0700:
> 
>>*ANNOUNCEMENT*
>>
>>Please note below, an abstract on our next Ontolog Technical Discussion
>>session:
>>
>>Title: *Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service Sciences:
>>Ontological Implications of SOA*
>>
>>Moderator: Professor William E. McCarthy - Michigan State Univ.
>>
>>Date: Thursday June 30, 2005
>>Time: 10:30am~12:30pm PDT / 1:30~3:30pm PDT
>>
>>Format: Panel & Open Discussion over an augmented conference call
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>From: McCarthy, William
>>Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:25 PM
>>To: '[ontolog-forum] '
>>Subject: panel on Ontological implications of SOA
>>
>>
>>Hi Peter et al.
>>
>>
>>Here is my proposed summary of next week’s panel on interoperability
>>concerns in the growth of service sciences.
>>
>>Topic: Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service
>>       Sciences -- Ontological Implications of SOA
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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:
>>
>>
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> 
>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9b743b2a-0e0b-11d9-97d3-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=6f0b3526-07e3-11d9-9673-00000e2511c8.html
> 
> 
>>
>>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).
>>
>>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.
>>
>>------------------------------------------
>>
>>Please mark your calendars now. I'll have the wiki session page up
>>shortly with more details.  =ppy
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