Keynote speakers

Speaker:		Prof. Serge Abiteboul Senior Research, INRIA and Professor in Ecole Polytechnique, France
Title:		Web Services and Web Integration
Abstract:		The development of XML and Web Services are changing radically the art of data integration. We briefly describe web services and consider some their impact on data integration. We describe some work going on at INRAI on Active XML, that is, XML extended by allowing the embedding of calls to web services. We argue that Web services provide an infrastructure for data integration at the web scale.
Speaker:		Dr. Meichun Hsu Vice President of Commerce One Labs at Commerce One Inc.
Title:		From Marketplaces to Web Services
Abstract:		To enable intra- and inter-enterprise application integration, enterprises have invested heavily in EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B (Business to Business) technologies. However the first generation B2B technologies, represented by the Marketplace platform and its associated tools and applications offered in mid to late 1990's, have left much to be desired. Recent momentum in Web Services based on the SOAP, WSDL and UDDI specifications promises a standardized connectivity at a lower cost that would transform the business connectivity paradigm. In this talk, we will provide an anatomy and diagnosis of the B2B technologies. We will also analyze the current web service specifications and technologies from the perspectives of protocol layers, service descriptions, and business service registries. We will describe the problems that must be solved in order for web services to evolve from its simplistic form today to enable the vision of dynamic business process integration within and across enterprise boundaries.