Web Services

Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang is a Research Staff Member (RSM) in Services Technologies at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research focus is SOA and Web Services for Industry Solutions. He is also co-leading an IBM-wide SOA Solution Stack project by working with his colleagues from IBM Global Services Team, Software Group, Sales & Distribution, and Research Division. Currently, he is the founding chair of the Services Computing PIC (Professional Interest Community) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center to lead professional activities for Services Computing discipline. In 2004 and 2005, Dr. Zhang was appointed as the Chief Architect of Industrial Standards at IBM Software Group. In this position, he was playing leadership role in helping define IBM s strategy for industrial standards and open architecture for service-oriented business solutions. He was also invited by the Chief Technology Officer and VP of IBM Global Industrial Sector to define the technical strategy for the Global Industrial Sector at IBM Sales and Distribution (S&D). Dr. Zhang is one of the leading pioneers in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services. Dr. Zhang was the lead inventor and architect of Business Explorer for Web Services, WSIL Explorer (part of IBM Emerging Technologies Toolkit), and Web Services Outsourcing Manager (WSOM), all released by IBM alphaWorks. He led a team from IBM Research and Software Group to create the first comprehensive Web services-based Managed E-Hub to enable services provisioning and business on-boarding for supporting business process on demand.

Web Services Modeling and Process Management.- An Analysis of Web Services Workflow Patterns in Collaxa.- Aspect-Oriented Programming for Dynamic Web Service Monitoring and Selection.- Semantically Extensible Schemas for Web Service Evolution.- Web Services Security and Knowledge Management.- A Profile Based Security Model for the Semantic Web.- A Framework for Authenticated Web Services.- Development of Semantic Web Services at the Knowledge Level.- Web Services Discovery.- A Directory for Web Service Integration Supporting Custom Query Pruning and Ranking.- Specification and Execution of Declarative Policies for Grid Service Selection.- Decentralized Web Service Organization Combining Semantic Web and Peer to Peer Computing.- Web Services Infrastructure.- Modeling the Variability of Web Services from a Pattern Point of View.- Managers Don't Code: Making Web Services Middleware Applicable for End-Users.- SOAP Processing: A Non-extractive Approach.- Web Services Composition and Negotiation.- Aspect-Oriented Web Service Composition with AO4BPEL.- Coupled Signature and Specification Matching for Automatic Service Binding.- Negotiation Among Web Services Using LOTOS/CADP.- Web Services Solutions.- An Investigation on Using Web Services for Micro-Payment.- Implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture at Deutsche Post MAIL.- Web Services for Integrated Management: A Case Study.- Semantics in Web Services.- A Conceptual Comparison of WSMO and OWL-S.- A Conceptual Framework for Semantic Web Services Development and Deployment.- A Proposal for a Semantic Web Service Description Format.