NEXOF-RA Invitation to Contribute Released

NEXOF-RA has launched its first invitation to contribute. The topics on User Interaction are of particular interest to this group.

This is the NEXOF-RA announcement:

NEXOF-RA, the NESSI flagship Strategic Project within the EU Seventh Framework Programme, is building an Open Reference Architecture for service frameworks through a collaborative process. We invite you to join with leading actors from both industry and academia, and contribute to this important community effort. In doing so, you will influence and build the service architecture of the future and give visibility to the results of your research and development.

We seek contribution at this time on the following topics:

Core Service Framework Area

- Service Description

- Design Time Service Composition

- Service Discovery

- Interoperability of Message-Based Service Interaction

User Interaction Area

- Declarative Authoring Language for User Interfaces

- Context Model and Universal APIs

Infrastructure Area

- Definition of Infrastructure Services

Security Area

- Dynamic identity management for SOA

- Privacy Management in SOA

Quality of Service Area

- Scalable Approaches to Service Oriented Infrastructures

- Highly Availability for Multi-Tier Architectures

For further information, please refer to the attached document or visit our website, http://www.nexof-ra.eu/open_construction_process. If you want to join us, you must register your interest by September 5th, 2008.