Introduction to Web Services with Privacy Access Control Issues

Speaker:          Prof. Patrick C.K. Hung   
                  HKUST, Hong Kong   

Title:            Introduction to Web Services with Privacy Access Control Issues

Date:             Monday, 17 May 2004 

Time:             4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Venure:           Lecture Theatre H  
                  (near lift nos. 27/28)   


ABSTRACT: 

Web services have become more and more popular in the research community as
well as industry. Web services are based on a set of XML standards such as
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Universal Description, Discovery and
Integration (UDDI) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The benefits
of adopting Web services over traditional business-to-business applications
include faster time to production, convergence of disparate business
functionalities, a significant reduction in total cost of development, and 
easy to deploy business applications for trading partners. It is believed 
that early adopters of Web services may include several industries that 
involve a set of diverse trading partners working closely together in a 
highly competitive market such as insurance, financial services and high 
technology industries. This talk discusses Web Services Architecture (WSA) 
with the XML standards on introductory level. To enable privacy protection 
for Web service consumers across multiple domains and services, the World 
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a document called ^OWeb Services 
Architecture (WSA) Requirements^O that defines some specific privacy 
requirements for Web services as a future research topic. In addition, this 
talk also gives an overview of privacy access control issues in this context.


BIOGRAPHY: 

Patrick is currently working as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the
Department of Computer Science in the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology (HKUST), and Patrick will be joining the School of Business and
Information Technology as a faculty member at a newly established
university in Canada called the University of Ontario Institute of
Technology (UOIT) in July 2004. Before that, he was working as a Research
Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization (CSIRO) in Australia.

Patrick has prior industrial experience in e-business projects in North
America and Hong Kong. From 2000 to present, Patrick has been serving as a
panellist of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) in the USA. He is also an Assistant Editor-in-Chief and
editorial board member in several international journals.