RE: WSRF and OWL-S ?

This is a late reply to the original Nov 19 posting beow, as there is
new information available regarding the original question of "WSRF and
OWL-S", since the original posting. See [1], an excerpt from "OWL-S'
Relationship to Selected Other Technologies".

[1] http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.1/related.html#grid

Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-sws-ig-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-sws-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David De Roure
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 7:08 PM
> To: Paul Libbrecht
> Cc: public-sws-ig
> Subject: Re: WSRF and OWL-S ?
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> This is a really interesting question!  
> 
> I'm not going to try to answer it, just expand on I think why 
> it's interesting and important... )
> 
> WSRF is based on the concepts of the Open Grid Services 
> Infrastructure, designed to address the requirements of Grid 
> middleware.  It is anticipated to represent the convergence 
> of the Web service and Grid computing communities.
> 
> There is (some of us believe) a very strong case for the 
> application of Semantic Web Services in Grid middleware.  In 
> fact this was a subject of a discussion at the IST2004 
> conference this week in the Hague.  This is part of the 
> Semantic Grid vision (www.semanticgrid.org)
> 
> Which therefore begs a question along the lines you ask; i.e. 
> how well suited are SWS technologies (OWL-S, WSMO...) to the 
> description of Grid services (as in WSRF) - what we might 
> call "Semantic Grid Services".
> 
> Some of the deployments of SWS in grid computing have 
> consisted of subsets of OWL-S applied in Web-services based 
> solutions.  I was conjecturing earlier this week that there 
> are aspects of WSMO which, on the surface at least, suggest 
> it may be well suited to some Grid computing scenarios (for 
> example, separation of business logic).
> 
> So, as you say, it would be really interesting to know if 
> anyone is applying semantic web services to grid services 
> along the lines of WSRF. 
> In fact it would be interesting to know what people think the 
> issues are.
> 
> It should be possible to find some use cases.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- Dave
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 	
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I recently discovered WSRF, the Web-Service Resource Framework
> > 	http://www.globus.org/wsrf/
> > and I have to say that it looks nice.
> > I was wonder wether anyone of you has been working making semantic 
> > web-services stateful like this specification makes general 
> > web-services stateful.
> > 
> > Actually, it may be that these recommendations are 
> orthogonal, but I 
> > couldn't be sure of this, yet.
> > 
> > paul
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>

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