- From: David Martin <martin@AI.SRI.COM>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 22:12:30 -0700
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
[This CFP is being posted to multiple lists; we apologise if you see it multiple times.] C a l l f o r P a p e r s SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES: PREPARING TO MEET THE WORLD OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS http://www.ai.sri.com/SWS2004/ a workshop to be held at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/ Hiroshima, Japan Monday, November 8th, 2004 DESCRIPTION Recognition of the potential value and technical challenges of Semantic Web services (SWS) has grown rapidly over the last couple years in the Semantic Web research community. Awareness of the need for richer semantics for service description is also growing in the worlds of commercial Web services (particularly with respect to Enterprise Application Integration and eCommerce) and Grid computing, as well as in selected groups of early adopters of Semantic Web technologies. Significant work has already been done in this decade on SWS, and a large body of relevant work exists from earlier decades, in fields such as knowledge representation, planning, agent-based systems, databases, programming languages, and software engineering. Nevertheless many difficult research challenges remain, and much work is needed to adapt relevant existing technologies to the context of Web services and the Semantic Web, and to prepare the more mature languages, capabilities and architectures for widespread deployment. This workshop aims to provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS; provide guidance to early adopters of Semantic Web services technology, particularly in the business community; and facilitate the formation of new communities of SWS users. There will be a particular focus on the relationship of work on SWS to the needs of business systems. To this end, submissions are sought that demonstrate innovative application of SWS technologies to the challenges involved in automating online business transactions. Another focus will be on the relationship between current research efforts and the ultimate requirements for full-scale deployment of these technologies. One desired outcome of the workshop is to get clearer about questions such as * How far have we come towards scalable industrial-strength technology? * Is there enough infrastructure (e.g., tools, architectural and language specifications, meta-services) to begin to support widespread adoption? * If not, what significant gaps most urgently need to be filled?" TOPICS Relevant topics include: Ontology Design and Use with Semantic Web Services Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS Relationship with Commercial Web Services technologies Relationship with Grid computing technologies Architectures for SWS Deployment Tools and Infrastructure Supporting SWS Deployment Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking, and Brokering of SWS Conversational Protocols for SWS Models and Languages for Process Modeling for SWS Composition and Planning with Semantic Web Services Execution and Lifecycle Management of Semantic Web Services Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Semantic Web Services Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services 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. Panels will be conducted in such a way as to encourage discussion with the audience. This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community. Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. All workshop participants must pay the ISWC2004 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. 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 15 pages). (2) Position papers (1-2 pages). All submissions should be formatted in Springer's LNCS style (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and sent by e-mail to sws2004-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: July 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: September 8, 2004 Camera ready format due: October 1, 2004 ORGANIZATION Organizing Committee David Martin SRI International, USA Takahira Yamaguchi Keio University, Japan Rubén Lara Hernández Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria Steering Committee Chris Bussler Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland Andreas Eberhart University of Karlsruhe, Germany Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Canada Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Committee (partial) Sudhir Agarwal University o0f 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, Austria/Ireland Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Stefan Fischer Technical University Braunschweig, Germany Naoki Fukuta Shizuoka University, Japan Richard Goodwin IBM, USA Benjamin Grosof MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Noriaki Izumi Cyber Assist Research Center, AIST, Japan Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA Jae Kyu Lee KAIST, Korea Alain Lčger France Telecom, France Ryusuke Masuoka Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Japan/USA Frank McCabe Fujitsu Labs, USA Pramila Mullan France Telecom, France Massimo Paolucci Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Bijan Parsia University of Maryland, College Park, USA Chris Priest 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 o0f Karlsruhe, Germany Said Tabet Macgregor Group, USA Hideaki Takeda National Institute of informatics, Japan Naohiko Uramoto IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
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