- From: David Martin <martin@AI.SRI.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:43:30 -0800
- To: public-sws-ig@w3c.org, www-ws@w3.org, www-rdf-logic@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, public-owl-dev@w3.org, www-webont-wg@w3.org
[This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.] *** Please note: the submission deadline is extended to Monday, Feb. 28. (However, earlier submissions are appreciated.) C a l l f o r P a p e r s WEB SERVICE SEMANTICS: TOWARDS DYNAMIC BUSINESS INTEGRATION http://www.ai.sri.com/WSS2005 a workshop to be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005) http://www2005.org/ Chiba, Japan Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 DESCRIPTION The description of Web services in a machine-understandable fashion is expected to have a great impact in the areas of e-Commerce and Enterprise Application Integration, as it can enable dynamic and scalable cooperation between independently developed systems and organisations. These potential benefits have led to the establishment of an important class of research activities, both in industry and academia, aimed at the practical deployment of declarative, semantically rich service and process descriptions and their use across the Web service lifecycle. This research, which draws on a variety of fields such as knowledge representation, automated software engineering, process modeling, workflow, and software agents, is happening under several headings, including Semantic Web services (SWS), Grid services and Semantic Grid services, and (some aspects of) Service-Oriented Computing. For ease of reference, in this call we refer to this general area of work as Semantic Web services (SWS). We note that here, "Semantic Web" does not denote any particular set of standards, although much work in this area does build on products of the Semantic Web activity at W3C. In addition, many SWS efforts are aligned with rapidly developing commercial Web service standards such as WSDL and UDDI. Many major challenges need to be addressed in this field. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS, and reach a better understanding of the relationships between commercial Web service standards, current SWS research efforts, and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. Another major focus will be on the relationship of work on SWS to the needs of business systems, and in particular the needs having to do with publishing policies associated with Web services, such as those discussed at the recent W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services (see http://www.w3.org/2004/06/ws-cc-cfp.html). Submissions related to semantics for Grid services are welcome. We particularly seek submissions that demonstrate innovative applications of SWS technologies to the challenges involved in automating online business transactions. TOPICS Relevant topics include: o Supporting SWS Deployment o Architectures for SWS Deployment o Semantics in Grid Services o Tools and Infrastructure o Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government o Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS o Policies for Semantic Web Services o Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking o SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography o Ontologies and Languages for Service Description o Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling o Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes o Contracts and Commitments o Composition of Semantic Web Services o Execution and Lifecycle Management of Semantic Web Services o Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Semantic Web Services o Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies o Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services o Relationships between SWS, Grid Service, and Commercial WS Technologies INTENDED AUDIENCE The intended audience includes researchers working on Semantic Web services, Grid services, and related technologies; students interested in these topics; developers of commercial Web services standards (such as those engaged in these activities at W3C and OASIS); and commercial software developers who are investigating how to achieve greater flexibility and automation in the delivery of Web services. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy one full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see "Submissions" below). In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. There will be one invited speaker. Subject to time constraints, there may also be a panel of experts on a selected topic. Registration will be open to all registrants of the WWW conference. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS Two categories of submissions are solicited: (1) Full papers (up to 12 pages). (2) Position papers (1-2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in the style required for the Refereed Paper Tracks of WWW 2005, which is specified here: http://www2005.org/papers/submission.html. Submissions should be sent by email to wss-submissions@ai.sri.com. Full papers will be peer-reviewed; position papers will receive no review. Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the workshop. Shorter full papers may be given appropriately shortened time slots. In some cases, papers may be presented as part of themed discussion panels. All accepted full papers, and all position papers of attendees, will be published online, on a publicly available Web site. We emphasize that a larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood of acceptance. In some cases -- such as papers describing early work on a project -- it is appropriate for papers to be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Naturally, however, figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence of complex material are strongly encouraged. Position statements are limited to 2 pages and should include some or all of the following: * introduction of the author(s) * brief description of your work (and possibly other work at your institution) related to Semantic Web services * tools or testbeds you have to offer to the community * discussion of what you view as the most challenging issues in Semantic Web services and prospects for solving them * challenges, questions or issues that you'd like to see addressed at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 28, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2005 Camera ready format due: April 6, 2005 ORGANIZATION Organizing Committee Christoph Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Richard Goodwin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rubén Lara Tecnología, Información y Finanzas (TIF), Spain David Martin SRI International, USA Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan Steering Committee (partial) Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Canada Mathias Weske Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany Program Committee (partial) Sudhir Agarwal University of Karlsruhe, Germany Steve Battle Hewlett Packard, UK Richard Benjamins iSOCO, Spain Mark Burstein BBN Technologies, USA Marin Dimitrov Ontotext, Bulgaria John Domingue Open University, UK Dieter Fensel Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria / Ireland Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University, Japan Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA Jae Kyu Lee KAIST, Korea Alain Lèger France Telecom, France Pramila Mullan France Telecom R & D, USA Massimo Paolucci Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Bijan Parsia University of Maryland, College Park, USA Chris Preist HP Labs, UK Ulrich Reimer Business Operation Systems, Switzerland Marta Sabou Vrije Universiteit, NL Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park, USA Monika Solanki De Montfort University, UK Naveen Srinivasan Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Rudi Studer University of Karlsruhe, Germany Said Tabet Macgregor Group, USA Naohiko Uramoto IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Laurentiu Vasiliu DERI, Ireland Tomas Vitvar DERI, Ireland Michal Zaremba DERI, Ireland
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