My ex-boss is now my hero, or Paolo Traverso and his article in the COMPUTER magazine
Paolo Traverso was the person who has "opened" for me the door to Europe. It's almost 6 years ago as I had a phone interview with Mr. Traverso for the Sr. Systems Analyst position at IRST/ITC, the Italian Articifial Intelligence main Research Lab located in Trento/ Italy.
I remember quite well that interview- I was just after my PhD and with already few years of experience in IT/Software Development, so I was quite confident about my chances to pass it, but... the information I could have found on the Web about my interviewer was too impressive to take it easy :) Plus it was expected to be my first experience in the role of Researcher on IA projects, so I did not know what kind of skills/ attitude should have been demonstrated from my side...
well, I've passed it and came to Italy :), met at IRST Paolo and was assigned on the two projects- TROPOS and EDAMOK. The first one was about Requirements driven (Process) Modelling and UML library extensions for Agents systems plus in general about Service Oriented Architectures (the very first ideas), and the second was about Distributed Knowledge Management and all that stuff (contenx, ontology, viepoints,- knowledge representation and sharing).
OK, so what's the story of today about?
The story is about the recent issue of the COMPUTER magazine (of November 2007), that I could read only during this week-end since the month of December was a bit messi... This whole number is dedicated to "Service Orientation", "new" web and software architectures, distributed systems and distributed logic etc.
And one of the most interesting articles was-
Service-Oriented Computing: State of the Art and Research Challenges - Service-oriented computing promotes the idea of assembling application components into a network of services that can be loosely coupled to create business processes and agile applications that span organizations and computing platforms.
Among the authors there is my ex-boss and now my biggest hero of research- Paolo Traverso!
You may want to consult the abstract of that article, and then if you like it, to pay-per-read it if you are not IEEE Member.
Keywords: Andrey Golub, Artificial Intelligence, Computer magazine, EDAMOK, IEEE, IRST, ITC, Knowledge Management, Paolo Traverso, Service Orientation, Service-Oriented Computing, TROPOS, computer.org, AI
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