In previous posts I talked about some of our work in the area of USDL initiated within the W3C Incubator Group. Together with SAP, mainly with Torsten Leidig, we have been trying to remodel USDL as a set of RDF(S) vocabularies that could better help sharing and exploiting USDL descriptions on the Web. An important [...]
I just came back from 2011 Microsoft Research eScience in Action Workshop, which was co-located with the IEEE International Conference on e-Science in Stockholm, Sweden. The goal of this eighth annual cross-disciplinary workshop was to bring together scientists from diverse disciplines to share their research and discuss how computing is transforming their work. I was there invited to talk [...]
It’s been a while since I posted any news but this does not mean I have not been active. Quite the contrary actually… it’s been pretty hard to keep up. Last September I gave a keynote during JISBD 2011 – Jornadas Sistedes 2011 back in A Coruña, Spain. It was particularly nice to do so [...]
Last week I gave a keynote at the 4th Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing collocated with the 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. In this talk, I revisited some of the existing issues limiting the uptake of services on the Web, and highlighted how the [...]