Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni is a Principal Researcher at Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs) in Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India. He heads the Web Services and SOA center of excellence in SETLabs at Infosys.

Dr. Srinivas specializes in Web services, Service Oriented Architecture, Service oriented software engineering and Grid  technologies alongside pursuing interests in semantic web, autonomic computing, recovery oriented computing, intelligent agents, and enterprise architecture. He has been selected for Who's Who in Asia first edition. He serves on editorial board of several journals and on  program committees for international conferences in area of web services and SOA. He has also authored book chapters and  written articles in leading conferences and professional journals.

Dr. Srinivas holds a doctorate degree in computing science from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Prior to Ph.D he secured his B.Tech and M.Tech in computer science from Indian Institutes of Technology at Kanpur and Mumbai respectively.

Presentation
Approaches to Semantic Interoperability in Service Oriented Architecture
Semantic interoperability is of vital importance in the context of SOA. Service providers and Consumers need to communicate seamlessly with a clear understanding of the message payloads being carried out in any service invocation. We cover the prominent  ways of achieving semantic interoperability in SOA: including approaches involving enforcement of a universal information model, to involving  highly proprietary semantic adapters. This talk explores four practical ways of optimally enforcing semantic interoperability in the context of SOA: Vertical XML based domain-specific vocabularies, Canonical XML frameworks like Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF), Semantic Web based dynamic ontological frameworks, and Semantic mediators. In particular, UDEF is a focused initiative from the Open Group to address semantic interoperability in SOA.

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