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New England Database Society

Friday, May 9, 2003

sponsored by Sun Microsystems

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NEDS

Dynamic e-Business: Trends in Web Services

C. Mohan  
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road, K01/B1
San Jose, CA 95120, USA
mohan@almaden.ibm.com
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/mohan/

Friday, May 9, 2003, 4:00 PM
Volen 101, Brandeis University

(preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 3:00 pm)

Abstract:

In the last couple of years, the concept of a web service (WS) has emerged as an important paradigm for general application integration in the internet environment. More particularly, WS is viewed as an important vehicle for the creation of dynamic e-business applications and as a means for the J2EE and .NET worlds to come together. Several companies, including Microsoft, have been collaborating in proposing new WS standards. The World Wide Web Consortium has been the forum for many WS-related standardization activities. Many traditional concepts like business process management, security, directory services, routing and transactions are being extended for WS. This talk traces some of the trends in the WS arena. The paper on which this talk is based was published in the 3rd VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES'02).

Speaker Bio:

Dr. C. Mohan joined IBM Almaden Research Center in 1981. He is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods, and the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. He was named an IBM Fellow in 1997 for being recognized worldwide as a leading innovator in transaction management. He received the 1996 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. In late 2002, he was named an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. At the 1999 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, he was honored with the 10 Year Best Paper Award for the widespread commercial and research impact of his ARIES work. From IBM, he has received 1 Corporate and 8 Outstanding Innovation/Technical Achievement Awards. He is an inventor on 33 patents. Mohan works very closely with numerous IBM product groups and his research results are implemented in numerous IBM and non-IBM prototypes and products like DB2, MQSeries, Lotus Domino/Notes, Microsoft SQLServer and S/390 Parallel Sysplex. He has been an editor of VLDB Journal, and Distributed and Parallel Databases. Currently, he is a member of IBM's WebSphere Platform Architecture Board, and is working on database caching and next generation messaging in the context of DB2 and WebSphere. Mohan graduated from University of Texas at Austin and IIT Madras.


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