Software Services Grid Workshop 
http://www.roguewave.com/groups/CTO/workshop/workshop.htm

July 10-11, 2001.  Organized by Members of OMG (Object Management
Group), World Wide Web Consortium, and the Global Grid Forum. Boston,
MA, USA.

The purpose of the Software Services Grid Workshop is to bring
together disparate groups that are working on many different levels of
the Grid Problem. ("flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing
among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources"
) These groups include representatives of the Object Management Group,
World Wide Web Consortium, and the Global Grid Forum. The focus of the
workshop will be on the modeling and metadata standards necessary to
build applications that can orchestrate the coordination of multiple
Web services and data sources. The object technology community has a
great deal of experience building distributed application based on
interface description and modeling (e.g. UML). The Web community is
developing standards for XML interfaces and metadata for accessing Web
Services and data sources. A blending of these technologies will be
necessary for the next generation of Internet computing. The Grid
community has been building research testbeds for the large scale
coordination of distributed resources. This Grid experience could
provide valuable guidelines for future metadata and modeling standards
that will benefit all of the participants.

The Workshop will be held on July 10 in conjunction with an OMG
meeting near Boston. The format will be a day of invited presentations
by representatives of multiple groups mixed with interactive
discussions. On Wednesday, July 11, there will be a follow-on internal
OMG meeting that will review the workshop and discuss its implications
for future OMG activities.

Contacts: Bob Marcus - Marcus@roguewave.com 303-545-3221

Erick Von Schweber - erick.vonschweber@cacheon.com

Shel Sutton - Shel@mitre.org

Craig Thompson - thompson@objs.com

Paul Kogut - paul.a.kogut@lmco.com


Proceedings for the Workshop
http://www.roguewave.com/groups/CTO/workshop/agenda.htm

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Review of the Workshop presented by Erick Von Schweber to the Global Grid Forum 
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Tuesday, July 10: Speakers Background 

8:30 Introduction: Bob Marcus - Federated Systems 
8:45 Introduction: Erick Von Schweber - Wide Angle Perspective 
9:00 Sridhar Iyengar - Earlier talk on XMI for Integrating E-Business Applications 
10:00 Reagan Moore - Data Grid Management Services Talk and Paper 
11:00 Hugo Haas - W3C and Web Services 
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH 
1:00 Eric Prud'hommeaux - W3C and the Semantic Web 
2:00 Ian Foster - Grid and Grid Technologies 
3:00 David Frankel Model Driven Architecture 
4:00 Mark Burstein/Paul Kogut DAML-S 

6:30 Dinner at hotel restaurant (optional) 

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Wednesday, July 11: Speakers Background 

10:00 Abdul Akram E-Commerce Challenges and Opportunities 
11:00 Cory Casaneve OMG-EDOC and ebXML 
12:00 -1:00 LUNCH 
1:00 Wolfgang Gentzch Sun Grid Engine 
2:00 Peter Herzum Federation of Business Systems 
3:00 Dan Chang Common Warehouse Metamodel MDA 
4:00 Dave Carlson Analysis and Design of XML Vocabularies with UML