The Internet of Services is a prerequisite that makes services available on the Internet and tradable like products. Therefore, composability of services into value-added services which are available on the Internet is crucial for the success of service economies. To realize this vision, an open platform for tradable, composable, value-added services on the internet is required. Such a platform will need to built upon and extend Web 2.0 concepts to allow for community-driven service innovation and engineering on a large scale, SOA for value-added services on the internet and, Semantic Web technologies to enhance service descriptions that enable automatic composition of value-added services, to enhance reusability of services, and to allow for reasoning to derive further knowledge. Legal, security, logistics, business and technical aspects must be simultaneously addressed for an integrated approach to the Internet of Services, where the service consumer will get customized services within Business Webs.

The seminar will cover technical as well as business topics. The following non-exclusive list should give an impression of the topics covered by the workshop:

• Community-driven service innovation
• Semantic service engineering and discovery
• New business models for value-added services

The participants have the possibility to participate at the "Theseus Talente Wettbewerb 2008". The Theseus Talente Wettbewerb is sponsored by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, the first prize consists of 10.000 EURO and the opportunity to work together closely with leading research institutions and industrial partners.

Further information about the Theseus Talente Wettbewerb 2008 can be found here: Link to the Flyer (PDF)

Interested students at Master and PhD level are requested to register to the mailing list. Information about date and location of the seminar as well as links to additional information concerning the topic will be posted on the list soon. In case you have questions visit the forum or send an email to one of the organizers.

First Meeting: Friday February 29th 9:00 - 12:00 in A5 room C112

Dr. York Sure (SAP Research Karlsruhe) - Email
Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Uni Mannheim) - Email

• Participation at the scheduled meetings and active contribution to the discussion
• An oral presentation of a topic related to the seminar
• A paper on a topic of the seminar, covering the following aspects:
  • The research problem and argument why it is relevant for the seminar
  • The state of the art, emphasizing the need for improvement and the feasibility of the approach.
  • The expected contributions and outline the real-world use cases (applications, target audience) which will mainly benefit from your work.
  • The research methodology adopted (or you are planning to adopt), in particular an approach to evaluating/validating the results.
  • The proposed approach, clearly differentiating between the results achieved so far, the remaining work and the (planned) evaluation.
  • A comparison of the approach with other existing approaches, in particular highlighting the shortcomings of other approaches

The Paper will be reviewed by the orgenizers according to international scientific standards.