The aim of the research project VRESCo is to provide a runtime for Service-oriented Computing (SOC) that addresses some of the current problems in SOC (e.g., dynamic binding and invocation, service versioning, service metadata, service notifications, QoS-aware service composition, etc.). Instead of using existing registry standards such as UDDI or ebXML, the VRESCo runtime uses its own service metadata model.

The goal of this thesis is to (re-)design and implement a graphical user interface (GUI) for the VRESCo runtime environment. The GUI should be implemented as web application and provide support for visualizing all kind of service information and service metadata. Furthermore, one focus of the thesis is how publishing new services and service mappings can be done in an intuitive manner. Since the scope of VRESCo has been growing in the last years, we prefer students with good knowledge of Web service technology and experience in developing complex GUIs.

We offer you the opportunity to work on your master thesis as part of an (internal) research project and expect that you like to work in teams. If are interested in this thesis, please do not hesitate do contact us:
Philipp Leitner (leitner@infosys.tuwien.ac.at)
Anton Michlmayr (anton@infosys.tuwien.ac.at).

More information on VRESCo (including some papers) can be found at: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/prototype/VRESCo.