A course to be offered Winter 2007–2008

Services Science
(CS 790-3, CRN 29301)

This course will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons 1:30 to 2:45.

Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME), often referred to as Services Science, is emerging as a distinct field of study. It encompasses numerous areas relating to the increasing role of services in the world economy. In this course we will focus primarily on services computing, or the technical aspects of services science, and secondarily on the allied economic, business, and organizational aspects.

The course will start with a rapid introduction to Web services and Web processes/workflows, including related technologies (WSDL, SOAP, UDDI) and then look at the emergence of semantic Web services (SWS) and processes (SWP), in which semantics is used to enhance design, annotation, publication, discovery, composition, and execution of services and processes. We will also cover the non-technical aspects that are key to the emerging service economy.

This course is meant for advanced students with good backgrounds in programming. The course consists of a mix of lectures, seminar style discussions, exercises, a mid-term, and a small project (instead of final written exam).

Interested students are welcome to contact Prof. Amit Sheth.

The primary reference for the course is: Semantic Web Services, Processes and Applications.

Prerequisites: Please contact Prof. Sheth.

Faculty: Prof. Amit Sheth, 367 Joshi Research Center

Resources for prospective students: For the types of technical material covered, see an earlier version of the course here; also see this IBM resource. Broader aspects of SSME are discussed in IBM's Academic Initiative as critical “skills for the 21st century,&rdquo and in a Cambridge University discussion paper, “Succeeding through Sevice Innovation.”