'''Speaker: Prof. Boualem Benatallah
Head of the Service Oriented Computing Research group at the School of Computer Science (CSE), University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
Time： 2012 年 11 月 13 日（周二）13:00
Venue： 张江校区软件楼 102 第二会议室
Contact： 唐恩美 cs_hr@fudan.edu.cn
Abstract:
The new millennium has introduced technologies that are transitioning computing from physical hardware- and locally installed software-enabled platforms to virtualised and cloud-hosted resources, platforms and tools. Cloud computing gives application developers the illusion of almost infinite resources and users the ability to pay per usage or as needed instead of requiring upfront investments in resources that may never be optimally used. In parallel with cloud computing, we are witnessing several other advances that are transforming the Internet into a global development, collaboration, and intelligence platform including: platforms as services, collaboration and process management technologies, big data services. Collectively, these technologies constitute a computing paradigm in which digital services representing human, computation and IT resources and devices will be used to access and share both functionality and resources as well as establish both ad-hoc and protocol compliant interactions to streamline, optimize, and extend the reach of both enterprise and consumer processes. Such large heterogeneous environments we term next generation digital service spaces. In this talk, we will discuss the main elements of such computing environment. We discuss critical challenges and synergies between service oriented architectures, meta-data management, big data analytics, reuse and end users programming as step forward in this direction. We will also briefly discuss how advances in ICT and digital services will enrich on campus education, contribute to improve quality of education and research in (developing) countries.
Biography：
Prof. Boualem Benatallah is professor and head of the Service Oriented Computing Research group at the School of Computer Science (CSE), University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney, Australia). He held the chaire d'excellence position of the Auvergne Region in France (LIMOS, France, 2008-2010). His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in service composition, cloud services services engineering, integration, and business processes management. He has published more than 180 refereed papers including more than 50 journal papers. Most of his papers appeared in very selective and reputable conferences and journals. Benatallah has over 10,103 citations (source: Google Scholar) and his Hindex is 46. In the last 10 years Benatallah attracted more than $3 million in ARC and DEST competitive grants (excluding ARC Research Network and CRC funding). He co-authored/co-edited 4 books and over 6 conference proceedings. He is frequently invited to give keynote talks, lectures and tutorials on service computing and business processes management in international conferences and summer schools including 6 tutorials and 15 keynote talks. He has a very strong international track record demonstrated by the high citations of his work, some of which are considered seminal in the field of services composition. He also has strong collaboration with Industry including projects, consultancy on enterprise computing, and patents. Boualem has been PC co-chair of number of international conferences including BPM'05, ICSOC'05, WISE'07, ICWE'2010, IEEE/ACM WI'11, IEEE SOCA'11. He was research track co-chair for the WWW'11 conference. He was the general chair of ICSOC'08 - Sydney. He has acted as a key official (tutorial chair, workshops chair, publication chair, area chair, PhD symposium chair) for several international conferences. He has been guest editor of five special issues for reputable international journals including ACM TOIT. He has been a PC member of all the reputable international conferences in his areas of research including VLDB, ICDE, WWW, EDBT, MDM, ICSOC, ICWS and ER. Benatallah sits on the steering committees of the high impact International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) and the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) – the two main conferences in his areas of research. He is member of the editorial board of numerous international journals and series including Springer Series on Services Science and ACM Transactions on Web. He was visiting Professor at INRIA-LORIA, CNRS, Claude Bernard University (France), University of Blaise Pascal (Clermont Ferrand, France), University of Trento (Italy). As chair of the CSE research committee, he was member of the founding team (comprising multiple university, government and industry partners) that constructed the successful bid for the new Smart Services CRC, which was awarded $30m in federal funding in 2007. He was a project leader at the CRC smart services. He is a leader of a recent UNSW strategic initiative on eResearch and services. Benatallah supervised 18 research students to completion (16 PhD, 2 masters by research) as principal supervisor. He also supervised more than 16 post-docs and research assistants. He is currently principal supervisor of 5 PhD students. Benatallah founded the Service Oriented Computing Research (SOCR) group at CSE.
The mission of SOCR is to pursue long-term research in Web service engineering, business processes, business intelligence, large-scale and real-time data analytics. Under Benatallah’s leadership SOCR has developed a reputation as one of the top groups in the international service oriented and business process management community. He is leading an initiative to build a research center on digital services science, engineering and innovation. He is also interested in digital services, technology, and education nexus. He is member of Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems.
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