[Colloquium] TODAY! Seminar Announcement: Leveraging Service Oriented Computing to Facilitate the Sharing of Services-Based Scientific Capabilities

[Ninfa Mayorga]

Computation Institute- Data Lunch Seminar (DLS)

Speaker: Jia Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Computer  
Science, Northern Illinois University
Date: May 27, 2011
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: The University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue

Leveraging Service Oriented Computing to Facilitate the Sharing of  
Services-Based Scientific Capabilities

Abstract
It has become increasingly common that scientists in various  
laboratories are developing highly specialized techniques to gather  
and analyze experimental data. The recently emerged Service Oriented  
Computing technology allows independent capabilities to be codified  
into modular software applications, accessible over the network: what  
are often called services. To integrate their findings, like-minded  
communities of scientists naturally begin to combine their services  
into higher-level workflows. However, although tools continue to  
improve, the sharing of service-based capabilities remains a  
significant challenge. This talk discusses our efforts of developing  
methods and tools in three aspects: semantic-aware services discovery,  
historical usage data-based services discovery & semi-automatic  
workflow composition, and data management supporting collaborative  
workflow composition.

Bio:
Dr. Jia Zhang is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of  
Computer Science at Northern Illinois University. Her research  
interest centers on service oriented computing, with a focus on  
collaborative scientific workflows, service-oriented architecture,  
semantic services, and cloud computing. Dr. Zhang has published over  
100 refereed journal papers, book chapters, and conference papers. She  
also co-authored the textbook “Services Computing.” Dr. Zhang is now  
an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)  
and of International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and  
serves as Program Vice Chair of the IEEE International Conference on  
Web Services (ICWS) and Program Chair of 2011 IEEE Asia-Pacific  
Services Computing Conference (APSCC).


Information: Lunch will be provided