About Convergence 2009

Convergence is an annual workshop organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). This workshop is aimed at bringing together experts from the industry and academia working in Service Oriented Computing to provide an integrated view of their research and experiences, for an audience from the industry, academia and the student community. Over the years, Convergence has attracted enthusiastic participation from faculty members, professionals from industry and students of the top research institutes around the country. The event also receives significant support from the industry every year. It is our sincere endeavor to build a platform for researchers to share their work with the rest of the community. From 2001 onwards, the workshop has seen different themes such as Wireless Communications, Data Mining, Computing Infrastructure in Enterprise Networks, Databases and Virtualization. This year, we focus on the research in Service Oriented Computing.

The workshop will also feature the Poster Presentation showcasing on-going research in CSE department. Masters and Doctoral students and the project engineers of the department will present their research efforts in different fields ranging from Databases, Data Mining, Mobile Computing, Distributed Computing, Forecasting, Embedded Systems and related areas.

Posted by: Anup Patel on 01.01.09

About Service Oriented Computing

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications even in heterogeneous environments. The visionary promise of Service-Oriented Computing is a world of cooperating services where application components are assembled with little effort into a network of services that can be loosely coupled to create flexible dynamic business processes and agile applications that may span organisations and computing platforms. SOC is being shaped by, and increasingly will help shape, modern society as a whole, especially in the areas of dynamic and on-demand business, health and government services.

The main idea of Service-Oriented Computing is to explicitly separate software engineering from programming, to emphasize on software engineering, and to deemphasize on programming. SOC separates software development into three independent parties: Application builders (by software engineers), service providers (by programmers), and service brokers (joint effort from standard organizations, computer industry, and government).

All major computer corporations, including BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, SAP, Intel, Cisco, Juniper, SAP, and Sun Microsystems, have moved towards the SOC paradigm. Languages, protocols, and standards have been developed to support and to regulate SOC applications. Numerous frameworks, specification languages, and tools have been created.

Posted by: Rakesh Pimplikar on 19.02.09