XML (eXtensible Markup Language) will be the prevailing model for
representing and exchanging electronic information. With its
wide-spread acceptance it provides the technical basis for new
forms of Electronic Commerce, such as open market places
providing for matchmaking between offers and demands and
partially automated negotiation services. We will briefly
introduce the core XML-Architecture with an emphasis on the
major recent initiatives on XML-Schema, XML-Signatures, and
XML-based message services(SOAP).
Furthermore, we will give an overview on some major initiatives
promoting the use of XML for modelling product catalogues,
contracts, and business transactions.
The Speaker
Erich J. Neuhold received his M.S. in Electronics and his Ph.D.
degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical
University of Vienna, Austria, in 1963 and 1967, respectively.
From 1963 to 1972 he was a research scientist at the IBM
Corporation in Vienna and the USA. There he was working
on program languages, translators, formal description techniques
and operating systems. From 1972 to 1983 he was Professor of
Computer Science, Chair of Application Software, at the
University of Stuttgart, Germany. His research field included
distributed database and information systems, formal description
systems for presentation of complex software products as well
as software engineering. In the years 1983 and 1984 he was Director
of the Information Management Laboratory and later of the Systems
Software Laboratory at Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, USA. There he
also worked in the areas of distributed operation systems and
communication systems. From 1984 to 1986 he was Professor
of Computer Science, Technical University of Vienna, Institute
for Applied Informatics and Systems Analysis. His work included
distributed databases, knowledge-based systems and object-
oriented approaches in these fields. In 1986 he was appointed
Director of the newly founded Institute for Integrated
Publication and Information Systems of the German National
Research Centre for Information Technology in Darmstadt,
Germany. His primary research and development interests are
in heterogeneous interoperable database systems,
object-oriented multimedia knowledge bases and intelligent
information retrieval. He also guides research and development
in user interfaces including virtual reality concepts for
information visualization, computer supported cooperative work,
virtual meetings and conferences as well as
integrated publication and information systems with special
emphasis on multimedia hyperdocuments and on information mining
in the Internet/ WEB environment. National and international
cooperation with research and industrial partners ensur
prototypes and products. Since 1989 he is Professor of Computer
Science, Integrated Publication and Information Systems, at
the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Publications:
190 papers, 4 books, 9 edited books. |