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by Andreas Metzger last modified Sep 07, 2009 17:13

The Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE) Summer School in Heraklion, Greece

 

Continuing the successful series of summer schools on Service Science and Service Engineering, the third summer school was held in Heraklion, Greece from the 16th June to 19th June, 2009. The Summer School was organized by the Training and Summer School Collaboration Working Group CWG), that brings together projects of the IST SSAIE unit [i], by the S-Cube[ii] Network of Excellence, and locally by TSL [iii], and ICS-FORTH[iv]. The topics presented covered various areas such as Service Oriented Architectures and Infrastructures, Service Engineering and Business Process Management, Services & Business Processes, Semantic Engineering, and Software Engineering.

The main purpose of this series of summer schools is to provide high quality training to new researchers and students, to help forge a new international research and scientific community on Service Science and Engineering and foster the exchange of ideas while helping the participants to network and start new cooperative research projects.

The SSAIE summer school brought together distinguished experts on software and services, graduate students, young researchers and professionals from leading academic, research and industrial organizations. There were 110 participants,  from 16 countries such as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and USA. Approximately, 28 speakers presented their work in the aforementioned areas of interest.

Many IST FP7 projects participated to this summer school, with tutorials and presentations: S-Cube (The European Network of Excellence in Software Services and Systems), Compas[v] (Compliance-driven Models, Language, and Architectures for Services), Persist [vi] (Personalised Self-improving Smart Spaces), SOA4ALL[vii] (Service Oriented Architectures for All ), IRMOS[viii] (Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures), NEXOF-RA [ix] (NEXOF Reference Architecture), DIVA [x] (Dynamic Variability in Complex, Adaptive Systems), BREIN[xi] (Business objective driven REliable & Intelligent for real busiNess ), Gredia [xii] (GRid Enabled access to rich meDIA content), SLA@SOI[xiii] (Empowering  the service industry with SLA-aware infrastructures) and plugIT(Business and IT Alignment using a Model-Based Plug-in Framework [xiv]).

At the end of the summer school, participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire regarding the quality and the relevance of the presentations to each session topic and the people that presented them as well as the organization of the summer school. The results show that most of the participants were satisfied with the presentations as well as the speakers and they suggested additional speakers to attend the next summer school and future topics to be covered. They rated the organization as well prepared and useful and they suggested more social activities and events in the context of the summer school. Overall, the comments were very positive and most of the participants expressed their interest in joining next summer schools on Service Science and Engineering. We are therefore looking forward to the support of the international research community for many more successful future Summer Schools on SSAIE.

The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the University of Crete, ICS-FORTH, Servtech[xv], and the Prefecture of Heraklion, as well as the encouragement and support of the ISTFP7 SSAIE unit.

For more information about the session topics, the program and the participants list or to download presentations, please visit  http://www.ssme2009.tsl.gr.

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