SOSoRNet%20History

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SOSoRNet History

• Pennine Group
• Pennine Forum Series
• Identified need for convergence and sharing of
  problems, ideas, and solutions
• Applied for EPSRC funding 2005
• Network launched June 2006

2
SOSoRNet Leadership

• Network Director/PI
• Nicolas Gold, Kings College London
• Network CIs
• Pearl Brereton, Keele University
• Keith Bennett, Durham University
• Christos Tjortjis, Manchester University
• Jie Xu, Leeds University
• Network Administrator
• Kiarash Mahdavi, Kings College London
• Other Pennine colleagues involved
• Nikolay Mehandjiev, David Budgen, Paul Layzell

3
SOSoRNet Membership

• Currently around 100 people
• Attending a meeting makes you a member!
• Added to the announcement mail list
• Early registration for future workshops
• http//sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk
• Can also join by contacting Kiarash or myself

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Workshops

• Previously
• Launch meeting, June 2006, Manchester
• Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities
  (SOCH), December 2006, London
• Services Science Management and Engineering
  Network Meeting, February 2007, London
• Forthcoming
• Young Researchers Service-Oriented Computing
  Conference (YR-SOC) 2007, June 2007, Leicester
• 2nd SOCH Workshop, December 2007, London
• In the pipeline
• Semantic Web Workshop, Nottingham, September 2007
  (tbc)
• General SOSoRNet Workshop, Leeds, November 2007
  (tbc)
• Service Oriented Software in Engineering, Durham,
  (tbc)