Service sector counts for more than 50% of economics in developed countries. Service science is an emerging discipline to study the phenomena of services. Although service science is still lack of its theoretical grounds, Web services have built the technique layer to connect and automate services. This seminar introduces our research on using Web services as middleware to solve interoperability problems, as well as using Web services as a process management and modeling tool. This seminar also introduces some real world projects and research topics in this domain.

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Dr. Yuhong Yan obtained her Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 1999 which is a joint program between Tsinghua and University of Leipzig in Germany. She worked in the University of Toronto and the University of Paris as Post-doc from 1999 to 2003. Between the two terms of Post-doc, she worked as a software engineer in Westgroup in Rochester, US in 2001. She joined Canada National Research Council in 2003 as a research officer. She was appointed as adjunct professor in Computer Science in University of New Brunswick in 2004. She is an active researcher in Web services, service computing and artificial intelligence. She has published about 40 journal papers and conference papers, including the International Journal on Computer Mathematics and the International Joint Conference on AI. She is one of the organizers of IEEE International Conference on Web Services and IEEE International Conference on Service Computing.