Dynamic open semantic service networks - Speaker: Prof. Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Abstract:

To address the emerging importance of services and the relevance of relationships, we have developed and introduced the concept of Open Semantic Service Network (OSSN). OSSN are networks which relate services with the assumption that firms make the information of their services openly available using suitable models. Services, relationships and networks are said to be open (similar to LOD), when their models are transparently available and accessible by external entities and follow an open world assumption. Networks are said to be semantic when they explicitly describe their capabilities and usage, typically using a conceptual or domain model, and ideally using Semantic Web standards and techniques. One limitation of OSSNs is that they were conceived without accounting for the dynamic behavior of service networks. In other words, they can only capture static snapshots of service-based economies but do not include any mechanism to model reactions and effects that services have on other services and the notion of time.

Bio:

Prof. Jorge Cardoso is Associate Professor and joined the Information System Group at the University of Coimbra in 2009. Previously he worked for SAP Research in Germany and for The Boeing Company in the US. Dr. Cardoso has a PhD from the University of Georgia (US). He has authored/co-authored more than 125 scientific publications and has been part of more than 120 program committees and organization bodies. He holds a US patent titled “System and method of measuring process compliance”. He has participated in European, German and National research projects. He is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 12.7 on Social Semantics and led until 2009 the development of the W3C Unified Service Description Language (USDL). His research interests are in the areas of service systems, open semantic service networks, semantic Web, and business process management.