- From: Prashant Doshi <pdoshi@cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:19:47 -0500
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
The AAAI-06 Workshop on AI-Driven Technologies for Services-Oriented Computing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Day Workshop (Workshop Website: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/ai-soc) Call For Papers: ---------------- Services-oriented computing (SoC) is an emerging computing paradigm for distributed systems that advocates Web-based interfaces for the distributed business processes of any enterprise. The interfaces, called Web services (WS), hold the promise for diluting the traditional challenges of interoperability, inflexibility, and performance that have long plagued the traditional distributed systems. Historically, research in distributed systems has shied away from adopting relevant AI methodologies; they have been generally perceived as esoteric and computationally-intensive. However, SoC research represents a significant departure from this line of thought, and presents a singular opportunity for AI techniques to enter and pervade this emerging area. From the AI researcher's perspective, SoC represents an emerging application testbed with its own distinct challenges and the potential to significantly impact both the industry and academia. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the applicability of AI methodologies such as logic, theorem proving, search, planning, and probabilistic models to problems in SoC. In particular, AI techniques seem especially suited to address the problems of WS description, discovery, binding, WS process composition and execution, semantics for WS, and related issues. They complement and supplement the existing approaches by bringing the much required mathematical rigor and formal analysis to the area. We invite academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in length including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be submitted using the submission system on the workshop website. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. The topics of interest to this workshop include but are not limited to: * WS representation and modeling using logics/calculi (zero-order, first-order, higher-order) * WS description validation and consistency checking using inference rules and theorem-provers * Representation of and reasoning on WS negotiations, agreements, contracts, and quality of service guarantees * WS composition, orchestration, and choreography through planning and scheduling * Self-aware, self-optimizing, and self-healing Web processes * Probabilistic reasoning for fault-tolerant and robust Web processes * Support for dynamic and adaptive Web processes using machine learning * Web process flow enactment using multiagent systems * Conceptual inferencing for semantic WS using inference rules * Ontology reconciliation (mapping, merging, and integration) for semantic WS using logical and probabilistic models * Service knowledge propagation mechanisms * Frameworks, community, and deployment architectures for services-based agents * Verification and analysis of services-based agent communities * Intelligent methods for management and performance analysis of services on the Grid * New AI application areas in SoC * Deployed/industrial applications in SoC utilizing AI techniques Paper Submission: March 31, 2006 Midnight PST Decision Notification: April 24, 2006 Camera Ready Papers: May 15, 2006 Midnight PST Organizing Committee: --------------------- Prashant Doshi LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia Richard Goodwin IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Amit Sheth LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia Program Committee: ------------------ Rama Akkiraju Nirmit Desai John Domingue Michael Huhns Vipul Kashyap Joseph Kopena Juhnyoung Lee David Martin E. Michael Maximilien Sheila McIlraith Muninder Singh Rainer Unland Kunal Verma Mathias Weske --
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