Services Research Lab - Research Umbrellas

Our current and past research projects fall under three umbrellas.

Cloud Computing [projects : Cirrocumulus]

Cloud computing that provides cheap and pay-as-you-go computing resources is rapidly gaining momentum as an alternative to traditional IT Infrastructure. Our research is based on the observation that the ability to manage multiple clouds using a uniform interface is important in the wake of this boom of cloud service providers. Taking a service oriented perspective to Clouds, our research consists of investigating the role of SOA based middleware and domain specific languages to provide an independent programming structure. All research activities covered under the umbrella are primarily part of the Cirrocumulus project.

Light-weight Services [projects : APIhut, Mediatability, SA-REST, hRESTs]

Light-weight services include the consumer focused interfaces exposed by many organizations and commonly referred to as RESTful services. Light-weight services lack many formal aspects of standard Web services. The services research lab has been intrumental in leading the work on annotating, searching and composing lightweight services.

METEOR-S [ projects : SAWSDL]

METOER-S is a framework to define and support the complete lifecycle of Semantic Web processes. It started in the LSDIS lab in University of Georgia and continued in the Knoesis center. Many early research in semantic Web services was pioneered under this umbrella, WSDL-S that ultimately lead to the creation of SAWSDL is one of the most notable outcomes.