Services Computing Blog

Panel 3:

How Can Web Services Help Civil Aviation?

Chair:

Casey Fung, Boeing Phantom Works, USA

Theme:

The civil aviation system is a global enterprise that includes airframe, engine and component manufacturers, airlines, maintenance organizations, regulatory agencies, airports, air traffic control authorities and millions of service providers that must work together effectively to ensure cargo and passengers get to their destinations as scheduled, while traveling safely and efficiently. The system includes a bewildering array of commercial and custom developed systems for monitoring and controlling the operations of the participant.

The news has recently been filled with examples of operations not working as smoothly as we all hope: Passengers have been stranded on taxi-ways, flights cancelled for weather and maintenance inspections and crowds of passengers complaining of lost baggage have become common as civil aviation grows. The growth has been rapid and shows no signs of abating. The available seat-kilometers in China are predicted to grow at over 8% per year for the next decade. The rest of the world will grow between 4 and 6%. We need to find ways to:

- Improve communications between manufacturers, airlines and regulatory agencies to defend our unmatched safety record in the face of increasing traffic.
- Orchestrate and streamline workflow among the hundreds of collaborating organizations that keep civil aviation functioning.
- Improve the services we provide a diverse flying public to increase their enjoyment of the travel experience

Web services, network technologies and service oriented architectures provide a means of improving communications between heterogeneous systems that make up our civil aviation transportation system. A web service is a software component that supports interoperable component- to-component interaction over a network. Each service makes its functionality available through well-defined or standardized XML interfaces. Web services do not work together by coincidence. Smoothly interacting systems in a network of the scale described here will require initial investment in building an enabling platform. Crafting a service-oriented architecture is the first step towards this infrastructure. Openness and standardization are key ways to accumulate resources and spread the risk of capitalization. This panel will focus on finding a vision and roadmap for initiating an open civil aviation web service platform that is sustainable and self actuating in the long run.

Panel 2:

Smarter SOA

Chair:

Tony Shan, Executive Technology Strategist, IBM, USA

Panelists:

Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA

Theme:

The purpose of this panel is to present a broad range of best practices of SOA strategization and operationalization in the use of web services in real-world SOA implementations. The focus will be on the common challenges and issues encountered in SOA projects. Topics include, but are not limited to, tenets, methodology, architecture, service management, standards, tools, process, organization, governance, security, and quality of services. Practitioner’s guides and anti-patterns as well as trends will be discussed in the context. Real-life pragmatic solutions to business problems will be exemplified and illustrated in case studies.

Panel 1:
Cloud Computing and IT as a Service: Opportunities and Challenges

Chair:

Geng Lin, CTO, Cisco, USA

Theme:

The panel will bring together technology experts and business leaders and provide first-hand insight to the evolution of cloud computing and IT as a Service, from both technology and business model development perspectives. The panel will discuss the disruptive nature of Cloud computing and its business model, including the impact to the current enterprise IT industry, impact to the service provider industry, impact to the enterprise software industry, impact to the networking industry, and impact to the service industry. The panel will also discuss the confluence of SOA paradigm and SaaS paradigm and examine its implication to the enterprise IT architecture. The panel will also help audience understand the limitations and challenges of cloud computing and ITaaS. The audience of this panel is targeted at the technology leaders and business decision makers in enterprise IT, software industry, and network industry.

Tutorial 3: Build web consumable services via REST

Joe Lopatka (IBM)
Ning Yan (Technical Lead, IBM.COM Webmaster Team, USA)

Abstract:

To make your enterprise data and traditional web services consumable through web is becoming increasingly important for your organization. REST is playing the key role for making your services being used and integrated by others via web. This tutorial will teach you the basic of REST and the related web architecture; the best practices in constructing the REST services from the traditional web services, and you will learn how to consume and integrate other REST services with your existing web services. Also, you will learn how to effectively use IBM products to integrate your REST services.

About Speaker:

Ning Yan is a technical lead in IBM.COM webmaster team. He has been actively involved with latest web technologies and helped to build IBM.COM public web site and services architecture. He has several technical articles published in IBM System Journal and IBM developerWorks.

ICWS/SERVICES 2008
Tutorial 1 & 2:
Common Business Components and Services toward More Agile and Flexible Industry Solutions and Assets

Min Luo, Ge Jin, Jia Tan, Lei Zhang
Global Business Solution Center
IBM Global Business Services

Abstract:
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In many decades, many organizations, especially large consulting companies, have been designing, implementing and managing business solutions for every industry around the globe.. But due to numerous limitations in process, tooling and skills, most of those solutions were made very specific to individual industry and client needs at its early design stage. Therefore, reuse and more importantly, managing the ever changing business requirements, become almost impossible.

Service-orientation and architecture, model-driven business development provides us a new and powerful approach to facilitate asset based industry solution design and development. To further accelerate this, this tutorial will discuss an innovative approach that take advantage of many proven best software engineering practices, from object/component based technology, meta-data driven architecture types (archetypes) that are used to model the common structural and in some cases non-structural business entities such as Customer, Product, Payment, etc. In order to address the consequences introduced by abstracting those common elements out of the specific industry model and be able to enable easy and meta-data based transformation, we properly decompose business components/services into a multi-layered business architecture.

Therefore, process/components/services can be decomposed accordingly to facilitate the decomposition and abstraction, while maintaining certain level of necessary traceability across various artifacts. In the realization phase, existing assets/operational systems will be mapped and transformed to the required business components and services to best leverage those existing valuable industry/client investments.

To support such a SOA based, model and business driven development process, existing tooling, especially the necessary transformation and integration capability, needs to be significantly enhanced. This tutorial will also present some recommendation based on some recent design and implementation，and they could be used to guide future tooling alignment and integration effort across software modeling, implementation and solution products.

In addition, we will present how to leverage existing internal or external assets or product offerings and the open industry reference models and standards (such as ACCORD, ebXML, ARTS/IxRetail…) .

This work is based on authors’ collective experience in leading the large end-to-end client engagements across many industries, while promoting various industry leading software engineering best practices.

Speaker Short Bio:
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Dr. Min Luo is currently an Executive Certified Architect for IBM SWG’s
Strategy and Technology。He has over 18 years of IT industry experience
with more than 10 years of managing large-scale, whole life cycle of
software application design and development. He fully understands the
impact of various technologies on business, and knows how to effectively
and efficiently apply them to solve large scale and complex real world
problems. He is an early adopter, advocator and educator of object-oriented
analysis and design, component-based, and service-oriented computing and
incremental development methodology. He has successfully designed and
implemented solutions for transportation, financial, manufacturing
industries and large-scale government social services projects. He also has
expertise in designing and developing integrated data warehouses with
on-line analytical processing and data mining, application of various
operations research and management science techniques.

He served as the Chief Architect for IBM’s Global Business Solution Center
– Greater China Area and also worked in IBM Global Services’ Center of
Excellence for Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services as a founding
member. He also worked as an Executive Architect for IBM SWG’s Application
Integration and Middleware, responsible for establishing industry solutions
and frameworks for the distribution industry. He also served in the GBS’s
Enterprise Architecture and Technology as Sr. Certified Architect for over
5 years. Before joining IBM, he served two Fortune 500 transportation
companies as Manager, Sr. Manager, and Director, responsible for
transportation network planning and technology.

As a full time or part time faculty member at several universities, he also
has taught undergraduate and graduate Computer Science courses for over 8
years.

ICWS/SERVICES 2008 Advance Registration is extended to 7/20. Please use confhub.com to register as soon as possible.

Optimizing Change Request Scheduling in IT Service Management
Leila Zia (Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA)
Yixin Diao, Daniela Rosu, Chris Ward, and Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, USA)

Predictive Admission Control Algorithm for Advanced Reservation in Equipment Grid
Jie Yin, Yuexuan Wang, Meizhi Hu, and Cheng Wu
(National CIMS Engineering and Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
(Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)