SBC 2007: Space Based Computing as Semantic Middleware for Enterprise Application Integration
half-day workshop
Organizers
- Robert Tolksdorf FU Berlin, tolk@inf.fu-berlin.de
- Dieter Fensel, Univ. Innsbrück, dieter.fensel@deri.org
- Eva Kuehn, Vienna Univ. of Technology, eva.kuehn@tuwien.ac.at
- Frank Leymann, Univ. of Stuttgart, frank.leymann@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
Summary
Space based computing (SBC) is an innovative and powerful concept for the coordination of autonomous processes. It is based on the notion of a common, abstract space connecting distributed processing entities over a network. Instead of explicitly exchanging messages or performing remote procedure calls, processes communicate and coordinate themselves by simply reading and writing distributed data structures in a shared space. Synchronization is carried out through the access of data in space which might block, if the denoted data are not yet here. The wake up occurs on data driven basis supporting event-driven architecture conceptions. This leads to a decoupling of all participants concerning time, space and reference. The space inherently offers the advantages of state-full communication, transactional security, asynchrony, near-time event notification, scalability and software-fault tolerance through replication.
The workshop aims at studying the paradigm in the context of semantic middleware for enterprise application integration, exchanging about current developments and applications. It has the goal of raising awareness and visibility of the SBC paradigm in industry, to showcase solutions, to point out ways of how SBC can be exploited by industry and unfold its power in commercial applications and projects, and to build a community for researchers, developers and users. As a midterm goal, it wants to see a convergence of space based platforms in order to include SBC into current EAI standardization effort.