Converging Components, Services, SLA+QoS for Effective Utilities over Network Infrastructure

While the meeting does not belong to the series of EC-organised concertation meetings, it is expected to attract participation from EC-funded projects from Unit INFSO/D3 (Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures) and Unit INFSO/F3 (GÉANT & e-Infrastructure). The key objective of the EU project technical concertation meeting is to stimulate cooperation and knowledge exchange between all members of EU projects related to Components, Services, and Utilities for Grid and large scale IT systems. This meeting shall give strong visibility to participating projects, and also help to achieve dissemination and concertation objectives.
Components are the building blocks for composable and reusable software, allowing  building flexible services in a cost-effective manner. Moreover, applications are turned into services with the capacity to scale-up to match Service Level Agreement. In this way, Quality of Services can be enforced, opening the way to real utilities where resources are added or relinquished upon application demand.
We are aiming at gathering the key projects identified as capable of bringing a key contribution to the services and IT utility challenge. We are focusing on recent projects and especially the new wave of projects accepted from the FP 7 Call 1. The early stage of those projects hold the potential of strong synergies if we identify early the complementarities and possible interactions.
As an outcome of the workshop, we would like to produce a report identifying for each project the potential key contributions in term of software, and symmetrically the potential expertise/software that could be used from other projects. 

• 9:00 Welcome Address from the European Commission

• 9:45 Services
  The following projects are welcome to present their work during this session:
  • SO44ALL: A Web for billions of Services
    Speaker: Santi Ristol, ATOS
  • SLA@SOI
    Tentative speaker: Wolfgang Theilmann, SAP
  • IRMOS: Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures
    Speaker: Theodora Varvarigou, Dimos Kyriazis, ICCS/NTUA
  • OPEN: Open Pervasive Environments for migratory iNteractive Services
    Tentative speaker: Fabio Paternò, ISTI/CNR
  • ServFace
    Tentative speaker: Steffen Göbel, SAP and Nicolas Bodin, Lyria

• 11:45 Virtualization of Resources/Infrastructure
  The following projects are welcome to present their work during this session:
  • Reservoir: Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers
    Tentative speaker: Eliot Salant, IBM Haifa Research Lab
  • S-Cube: The Software Services and Systems Network
    Tentative speaker: Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen and Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University
  • DEPLOY: Industrial deployment of system engineering methods providing high dependability and productivity
    Speaker: Alexandre Romanovsky, University of Newcastle 
  • ADMIRE: Advanced Data Mining for Heterogeneous Distributed resources.
    Speaker: Rob Baxter, The University of Edinburgh
  • STREAM
    Tentative speaker: Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  • GridCOMP: An Advanced Component Platform for an Effective Invisible Grid
    Speaker: Denis Caromel, INRIA
  • QosCosGrid
    Tentative speaker: Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster and Bernhard Schott, Platform
  • EGEE-II: Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
    Tentative speaker:
  • EDGeS: Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science
    Tentative speaker: Robert Lovas, Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, MTA SZTAKI

• 13:00 Lunch

• 14:00 Virtualization of Resources/Infrastructure (continuation)

• 16:00 Standards
  The following projects and standardization bodies are welcome to present their work during this session:
  • OGF EU
    Tentative speaker: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA
  • NESSI Grid & NEXof
    Tentative speaker: Juan J.Hierro, Telefonica
  • SmartLM: Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution
    Tentative speaker: Josep Martrat, ATOS
  • ETSI
    Tentative speaker: Mike Fisher, BT and Laurent Vreck, ETSI

• 17:30 Panel: Open discussion between presenters

• 18:00 End of meeting