The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Information Systems / Information Science, Other, Software Engineering

Research Interests:

Topic: Industrial Strength Cloud Services Composition

Advances in Cloud Computing have enabled service providers to offer business services widely, and in a more economic way, and given businesses customers more incentives to access and outsource functions to cloud services. In most cases, a cloud service covers only part of functions needed by a business, and therefore, businesses need to use a number of services. One major challenge to ensure seamless function of the business is the integration, composition and orchestration of these services. There has been extensive prior work on automated approaches for service integration and composition in the context of Web services. However, no industrial strength approach addressing or facilitating this problem has emerged.

In the context of a research project in HP Labs, we aim at developing a service marketplace for service providers to offer cloud services, and for customers to find, compose and integrate services. We welcome a motivated, sharp and self-starter postdoctoral fellow with strong background in the theory and practice of software engineering, service oriented computing, service compositions, business processes to work on the problem of composition of business services offered in the cloud. The candidate should be capable of formulating the research problem, proposing novel ideas and implementing ideas into prototypes and should demonstrate a strong publication record. HP Labs is located in Palo Alto, CA (SF Bay area) which is a vibrating and active academic and industry environment.

Contact Information:

Please contact Sharad Singhal (email obfuscated - click to reveal) and/or Hamid Motahari (email obfuscated - click to reveal) for any questions about this topic.