Distinguished researchers presented their work in various related projects with a particular focus on their vision about the future challenges that lie ahead. The main topics discussed were:
- Supporting Ubiquity in SFEs
- SFE Mashup framewoks
- SFE IDEs for Portable gadgets/widgets
- User-generated service orchestrations and SFEs
- Service annotations for SFE composition
- SFEs for Service Prosumers
The session culminated in a lively panel discussion with active participation from the audience. Some of the main topics discussed were: how to achieve integration of results and a real impact on standardization bodies, what the business ecosystem that will support the future service front-ends will be like, what is the trade-off between the complexity inherent in orchestration of processes and the simplicity that is required at the front-end level for end user to be able to perform it, how to capture long tail needs by empowering the end users and how to deal with mission critical data and processes in the context of a fully personalized, do-it-yourself front-end layer.
