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- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:14:23 -0400
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- We apologize if you receive this message more than once. - ------------------------------------------------------------ EXTENDED DEADLINE : June 30 ---------------------------- * ----------------------------- Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration and e-Commerce (SWSEE03) Workshop held in conjunction with ICEC 2003 Pittsburgh, PA, September 30, 2003 ( http http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm ) ---------------------------- * ----------------------------- Scope ===== The workshop "Semantic Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration and E-Commerce" focuses on the proposed intersection of three domains that very recently started drawing enormous attention throughout academia and industry and is of utmost importance as well as relevance for computer science and the business world: * Web Service Technology (manifested through SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) * Semantic Web Technology (manifested through ontology-based modelling framework such as RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL and OWL) * Enterprise Integration (manifested through Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and E-Commerce in form of Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration as well as Business-to-Consumer (B2C)). The currently brought forward 'promise' is that Semantic Web Services, i.e., Web Service technology in conjunction with Semantic Web technology, will make dynamic Enterprise Integration and Virtual Enterprises possible for all types and sizes of enterprises compared to 'traditional' technology like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Value Added Networks (VANs). These strong promises raise a series of questions: to what extend are these different technologies already integrated today? How does the combination of those technologies look like? How does this combination make the Enterprise Integration problem easier to solve and the solution more reliable? 'Traditional' technologies exist (in some cases for over 30 years) and a lot of progress has been made over time due to the lessons learned in real world and sometimes large scale deployments. Today, the major problems of Enterprise Integration in form of EAI and E-Commerce are: * Endpoint Discovery * Semantic and Syntactic Unification * Interaction Protocols * Message Security and Trust Relationships * Process Management * Integration Standards * Legacy Application Connectivity Traditional technologies are able to address individually all these major problems today; they can implement predictable and reliable Enterprise Integration. However, Semantic Web Technologies may have the potential to lay the foundations for frameworks seamlessly addressing these requirements as a whole, at the semantic level and relying on unified standards. The workshop seeks contributions that address the Enterprise Integration problems with the new technologies. Submissions are sought that address specifically the intersection of Web Service Technology, Semantic Web Technology and Enterprise Integration. It is the goal to show the relevance and applicability of the new integration technologies in that they provide a 'better' solution to well-understood problems in the EAI and E-Commerce space. Contributions are encouraged to make a very good and well-founded case for the new technologies based on rigorous and solid arguments. However, contributions that are critical in nature based on a solid argumentation and also state the deficiencies that have to be overcome are equally welcome. Case studies that are very detailed are encouraged, too, in order to show the applicability of the new technologies. Further details can be found at http://www.icec03.org/ws2.htm Topics of Interest ================== * Case study for complex inter-enterprise processes * Formal process languages for distributed process management * Integration process management * Integration standard comparisons and proposals * Legacy system integration * Semantic interoperability and integration * Mapping and management of heterogeneous ontologies in cooperating enterprises * Scaleable ontology-based frameworks and business languages * Public and private process management * Trading partner discovery and management * Trust relationship formation and evolution * Non-repudiation management for complex processes * Quality of service and service level agreement management * Security policies, management and frameworks * Comprehensive web service infrastructures * Semantic description, discovery, and selection of web services * Scaleable, semantic web service composition for heterogeneous environments Workshop Chairs =============== Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation, USA, mailto:ChBussler@aol.com Dieter Fensel, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria, mailto:Dieter.Fensel@uibk.ac.at Organizing Committee ==================== Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA, France, mailto:Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr Fabien Gandon, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, mailto:Fabien.Gandon@cs.cmu.edu Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK, mailto:trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk Program Committee ================= Prof. Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Prof. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA Prof. Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dr. Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA Dr. Umeshwar Dayal, HP Labs, USA Mr. Ludger van Elst, DFKI GmbH, Germany Prof. Mark S. Fox, University of Toronto, Canada Prof. Benjamin Grosof, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Prof. Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Dr. Frank Leymann, IBM, Germany Dr. Mark Little, Arjuna Labs, United Kingdom Dr. Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Corp., Germany Prof. Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR Prof. Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia Prof. Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Prof. Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prof. Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Dr. Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Prof. Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, IBM, USA Dr. Jian Yang, Tilburg University, Netherlands Dr. Gang Zhao, STAR Lab, Belgium Publication =========== Papers should be: - a maximum of 10 pages in the style posted at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html - submitted in electronic form (Postscript, PDF, or RTF) via email to Christoph Bussler at chbussler@aol.com CMU will publish the workshop proceedings. We will use the publishing guidelines posted at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: June 30, 2003 * Author Notification: August 15, 2003 * Camera-Ready Papers due: September 1, 2003 * Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the ICEC conference: Oct. 1-3. -- ____________ |__ _ |_ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/fgandon/ | (_||_) Carnegie Mellon Univ. - ph# (1) 412-268-1357
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