Technical Programs

Tentative Schedule

January 12, 2006

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM: Welcoming Remarks
SOFTPLATFORM Chairs:
Carig Fellenstein , IBM Senior Certified IT Architect, IBM Global Services IBM Global Services Board Member for IBM Press, IBM USA
Book Author: Grid Computing, On Demand Strategies and Technologies, Inventor's Guide Book, Exploring e-Commerce
Joshy Joseph , Architect, Connected Services Framework, Communications Sector, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
Book Author: Grid Computing

9:00 AM - 9:35 AM: Invited Talk
Swami Krishnan
Chief Marketing Officer
Sasken Communication Technologies Limited

9:30 AM - 10:00 PM: Facilitating Telecom Service Composition and Selection - Invited Talk
Dr. Sougata Mukherjea
Manager, Telecom Research Innovation Center, IBM Research India Lab

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Tea Break

10:15 AM - 10:40 AM: Semantics Based Event-driven Publish/Subscribe Service-Oriented Architecture
Zakir Laliwala, Vikram Sorathia, Sanjay Chaudhary
Dirubhai Ambani-Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM: Invited Talk
Kevin Twardus
Manager of Architecture and Standards - Communications Sector,
IBM Software Group, USA

11:10 AM - 11:35 AM: Present Scenarios and Future Challenges in Pervasive Middleware
Amitava Mukherjee , IBM Global Services India, Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of management, Calcutta Chinmohan Biswas, IBM Global Services, India

11:35 AM - 12:05 AM: Service Delivery Platform - Handling service Layer complexities - Invited Talk
Vinay Dhar
Microsoft, India

12:05 PM - 12:30 PM: MobiPETS-GRID: Context-aware Mobile Service Provisioning Framework Deploying Enhanced Personalization and Privacy and Security Technologies
Atta Badii , Intelligent Media Systems & Services Research Laboratory, Informatics Research Centre (IRC); Mario Hoffmann, Jens Heider, Department of Secure Mobile Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Break

1:30 PM - 2:10 PM: Invited Talk
Guruprasad Krishnamurthy and Sudarsan Parida , July System, Santa Clara, CA, USA

2:10 PM - 2:35 PM: A Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Web Services sharing
Aizhong Lin, Piyush Maheshwari, The school of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of South Wales. Sydney, Australia

2:35 PM - 3:00 PM: Platform for delivering IT Management Services
Sven Graupner, Nigel Cook, Derek Coleman, Tilo Nitzsche, HP Laboratories, Palo Alto , CA, USA.

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Tea Break

3:15 PM - 3:50 PM: Invited Talk
Dr. Krishna Paul, Intel, Bangalore

3:50 PM - 4:15 PM: Invited paper

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Pannel Discussion