SOAR

Service-Oriented Architecture Research (SOAR)
Consortium

Based at the The Stanford Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Scientific/practical collaboration between Stanford and Industry
• Develop working BSR at Stanford
• Go beyond UDDI directories to "make it so" BSR:
  using AI Planning-based service integration
  (see next talk)
• Move technology to DERI, CommerceNet and other partners
• Business model for sponsors is combination
  of Yellow Pages andUnderwriters Laboratory;
  i.e., subscription and trust