Team of the University of Groningen wins the 2008 Web Service
Challenge in Washington, D.C.
The 2008 Web Services Challenge was held in Washington, D.C., USA on
July 23rd during the 2008 Joint IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC'08)
and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'08). The
challenge, in its fourth edition, evaluates systems composing higher-
level functionality from large repositories of web-based applications
(Web Services) according to user requests and semantic service
information. All systems were tested against several sets of services
with a size of up to tens of thousands services.
The University of Groningen participated this year with a team of four
people: master student Nico van Benthem, bachelor student Jaap
Bresser, PhD student Elie el Khoury, under the supervision of Marco
Aiello from the Computer Science department. The team won first place
for their system architecture and first runner up for the performance
of their system.
The competition was strong with eight university teams participating
from the USA, China, Canada and Germany. Although the University of
Groningen was one of the two teams that never participated before, it
was the only team awarded in both the Architecture and in the
Performances categories.
The University of Groningen plans to participate again in the 2009
edition, which will be held in Vienna, Austria. Interested students
should contact Marco Aiello at m.aiello@rug.nl. For more details about
the 2008 edition, please contact Marco Aielo or Nico van Benthem,
N.van.Benthem@student.rug.nl
Links:
The Web Service Challenge
http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/wsc08/
The main conference
http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/
The group and head of the Groningen team
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~aiellom/SOS/
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~aiellom/
