3rd International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management – GSEM 2006

In the interconnected world of the Web, users are able to take advantage of services on a broad range of functionality such as searching, ordering, making reservations or retrieving any kind of information. In the future services will provide far more functionality to users in using a wide range of different service components and by applying complex processes in the form of service-oriented applications. Important features to run such applications are mechanisms for the enactment, monitoring and management of service and process execution in order to ensure collective Quality of Service and stateful coordination of services.

After the great success in the last two years (Springer’s LNCS vol. 3270 in 2004; publication in GI volume P-69 in 2005), the International Conference on Grid Service Engineering and Management (GSEM) continues the world-wide dissemination and presents the latest research results on these fields. It is the intention of the organizers to publish the best of papers with Springer’s LNCS.

Some of the in-depth analysis and fundamental principles come from the actual ongoing European research project Adaptive Services Grid (ASG), where the programme co-chairs of GSEM lead own work components and where the most of the GSEM-organizers are involved in. Because of these interdependencies between “source of knowledge” (ASG) and the GSEM conference as a platform for bringing together researches and practitioners, the ASG work component dissemination partly supports the event too. ASG faces research challenges along a service delivery lifecycle that enables provision and consumption of complex, add-value composite services, e.g. research on adaptive service enactment including monitoring of SLA fulfillment, replanning and renegotiation as well as service profiling and identification of prospective service providers for the services.

"The adaptive capabilities of ASG enable the simple and low-cost creation and provision of new types of value-added services and service-oriented applications that are not possible in the current generation of service platforms.”
Prof. Dr. Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (Work Component Leader "Adaptive Process Management" and Member of the ASG Scientific Board)

Conference Chairs

Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
(ASG-work component leader C4 Adaptive Process Management)
contact: rkowalczyk(at)it.swin.edu.au

Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institut at University of Potsdam, Germany
(ASG-work component C5 Grid Service Infrastructure)
contact: andreas.polze(at)hpi.uni-potsdam.de

Organising Committee

Peter Braun, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
(ASG-work component leader C4 Adaptive Process Management)
contact:pbarun(at)it.swin.edu.au

Peter Tröger, Hasso-Plattner-Institut at University of Potsdam, Germany
(ASG-work component C5 Grid Service Infrastructure)
contact: peter.troeger(at)hpi.uni-potsdam.de

Holger Krause, tranSIT GmbH, Ilmenau, Germany
(ASG-work component CD Dissemination / C0 Management)
contact:krause(at)transit-online.de

Program Committee

GSEM