CFP: semantics4ws'07 | Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop, Brisbane, Australia

First Call for Papers

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Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop
semantics4ws'07   http://events.deri.at/semantics4ws2007/

at the Fifth International Conference on Business Process Management
BPM 2007          http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/

Brisbane, Australia, 25-27 September 2007
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IMPORTANT DATES 

Submissions: May 15, 2007
Acceptance: June 1, 2007
Final copy: June 7, 2007
Workshops day: September 24, 2007


GENERAL OVERVIEW

Web services have added a new level of functionality to the current 
Web by taking a first step towards seamless integration of distributed 
software components using Web standards. Nevertheless, current 
Web service technologies around SOAP, WSDL and UDDI operate 
at a syntactic level and, therefore, although they support interoperability 
(i.e. interoperability between the many diverse application development 
platforms that exist today) through common standards, they still require 
human interaction to a large extent. For example, the human programmer 
has to manually search for appropriate Web services in order to combine 
them in a useful manner, which limits scalability and greatly curtails the 
added economic value of envisioned with the advent of Web services.

Recent research (to which we refer to as Semantic Web Services - SWS), 
which draws on a variety of fields such as Semantic Web, knowledge 
representation, formal methods, software engineering, process modeling, 
workflow, and software agents, is gaining momentum, in particular in the 
context of Web services usage. Research in the mentioned fields can be 
exploited to automate Web services-related tasks, like discovery, selection, 
composition, mediation, monitoring, and invocation, thus enabling seamless 
interoperation between them while keeping human intervention to a minimum. 
Although several initiatives, like OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S, or IRS, have 
emerged in this area aiming at addressing the problem of semantics in Web 
services, many major challenges still need to be addressed and solved in this 
field.

In this context, this workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on 
selected core technical challenges for deployment of Semantic Web Services, 
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. More specifically, this workshop 
aims to tackle the research problems (as well as recent practical experiences) 
around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable 
semantics in the context of Web services, as well as discussing recent advances 
in semantics for Web services. Of particular interest are the architectural, technical, 
and developmental foundations of SWS, and showing how they combine 
synergistically to enable service automation on the scale required by today˙s 
Internet-connected enterprises.

This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry 
practitioners (e.g. leading modelers, architects, system vendors, open-source 
projects, developers, and end-users) addressing many of these issues (including 
recent developments in tools and techniques, and real-world implementations of 
SWS applications), and promote and foster a greater understanding of how semantics 
can assist automation in Web services, thus helping people develop and manage 
services more efficiently and effectively.


TOPICS

The following indicates the general focus of the workshop. However, related 
contributions are welcome as well. 

    * case studies for (semantic) Web services
    * OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S, IRS, SWSF-based systems and applications
    * static and dynamic logics for Web services and related aspects
    * ontologies for modeling (semantic) Web services
    * formal languages for describing (semantic) Web services
    * ontologies and languages for process modeling for (semantic) Web services
    * ontological representation of quality of services (QoS), services level agreements (SLAs), 
      and non-functional properties (NFPs) of Web services
    * formal languages  for QoS, SLAs, and NFPs
    * reasoning tasks and their complexity in SWS
    * formal methods and their applications in Web services
    * validation and verification for Web services
    * advertising, discovery, matchmaking, selection, and brokering of (semantic) Web services
    * data/process/protocol mediation in (semantic) Web services
    * composition, planning, and re-planning with (semantic) Web services
    * execution and lifecycle management of (semantic) Web services
    * monitoring, adaptability, and recovery strategies for (semantic) Web services
    * policies for (semantic) Web services
    * semantics in Web services contracts
    * security and privacy for (semantic) Web services
    * semantics for Grid services and e-Services
    * architectures for (semantic) Web services deployment
    * tools, middleware, and infrastructure for (semantic) Web services


WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE

The program will occupy a full day, and will include presentations of 
papers selected from the full papers category (see 'submissions' below). 

Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must 
attend the workshop. The BPM 2007 conference formalities are applied 
for fees and respective organizational aspects. 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

The workshop invites different types of contributions:

    * Papers
    * Demos
    * Posters / Position papers

Papers: The papers should not exceed 12 pages and should 
have the Springer Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) 
layout.

Demos: Detailed description plus sufficient number of screenshots 
or a video of the demo are required. For paper-based submissions, 
please follow the Springer LNCS layout. Please note that at the 
workshop itself no technical support is provided except possibly 
Internet connection and power (to be confirmed).

Posters/Position papers: The posters/position papers should not 
exceed 5 pages and should have the Springer LNCS layout.

All contributions will be peer reviewed by a program committee 
that will incorporate well recognized experts in the area of semantic 
technologies and Web services.

All submissions should be formatted in Springer's LNCS style, 
should be submitted in electronic format using the link: 
http://www.easychair.org/Semantics4WS/.

All accepted full papers and all position papers of attendees will 
be published in the proceedings of the workshop. Workshop 
proceedings will be published with Springer LNCS and will be 
available at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES 

Submissions: May 15, 2007
Acceptance: June 1, 2007
Final copy: June 7, 2007
Workshops day: September 24, 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Steven Battle (Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK), 
John Domingue (The Open University, UK),
David Martin (SRI International, USA)
Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed; to be extended)

- Rama Akkiraju, IBM, USA
- Carine Bournez, W3C, France
- Jorge Cardoso, University Mediera, Portugal
- Sanjay Chaudhary, DA-IICT, India
- Emilia Cimpian, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext, Bulgaria
- Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
- Karthik Gomadam, University of Georgia, USA
- Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
- Sung-Kook Han, Won Kwang University, South Korea
- Rick Hull, Lucent, USA
- Jacek Kopecky, DERI Innsbruck, Austria 
- Deepali Khushraj, Nokia, Finland
- Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
- Michael Maximilien, IBM, USA
- Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA
- Adrian Mocan, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
- Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI Galway, Ireland
- Tony Shan, Bank of America, USA
- Monika Solanki, De Montfort University, UK
- Ioan Toma, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- Stuart Williams, HP Bristol, UK
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