Workshop Topic Focus Proceedings Agenda Target Audience Organizing Committee Program Committee Administrative Contact Sponsored by the European Commission under the DIP project (FP6 - 507483).		ICSOC Conference Website: www.icsoc.org Proceedings: mediate2005.pdf, BibTeX: mediate2005.bib Workshop Topic The usage of computer systems is widely characterized by decentralized design and autonomous evolution, i.e. if we look at system components from a global perspective, they are often developed and modified without alignment in the design stage. Also, components follow individual paths of evolution during their life-cycle. It can be observed that this is a major cause for interoperability problems, contributing to the brittleness of systems integration efforts. If we want to increase the degree of automation in general, it seems important to provide software components that can help overcome occurring interoperability conflicts and this in an automated fashion. This functionality is known as mediation and the respective components are called mediators. Mediation can take place on a multiplicity of levels, e.g. on data, ontologies, processes, protocols, or goals. To a great extent, it will depend on the availability of sophisticated, industry-strength mediation support whether the promise of Semantic Web services can become reality. Mediators are a fundamental component of a comprehensive Semantic Web services framework, but are not yet fully developed as a SWS research topic. Many theoretical and practical issues of yielding sophisticated, scalable, and reliable mediators are not solved. The workshop aims at bringing together experts from various areas of research in order to advance the theoretical and practical knowledge about the design and implementation of mediators in Semantic Web services. In this workshop we want to advance the theoretical and practical knowledge about the design and implementation of mediators in the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services. Focus Topics include, but are not limited to: Conceptual Aspects of Mediation Data Mediation Ontology Mediation Process Mediation Protocol Mediation Goal Mediation Architecture and Implementation of Effective Mediation Services Evolution, Learning, and Adaptability of Mediators Versioning Issues Grounding of Semantic Web Services Proceedings The Workshop Proceedings have been published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings (www.ceur-ws.org): Martin Hepp, Axel Polleres, Frank van Harmelen, and Michael Genesereth (Eds.): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mediation in Semantic Web Services (MEDIATE 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 12, 2005. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Volume 168, available at /www.ceur-ws.org/Vol-168. Agenda Monday, December 12, 2005 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome   09:15 - 09:40 Liliana Cabral and John Domingue: Mediation of Semantic Web Services in IRS-III 09:40 - 10:05 Gösta Grahne and Victoria Kiricenko: Process Mediation in an Extended Roman Model (PPT, 249 kB) 10:05 - 10:30 Emanuele Della Valle and Dario Cerizza: The mediators centric approach to Automatic Web Service Discovery of COCOON Glue 10:30 - 10:55 Michael Stollberg, Emilia Cimpian, and Dieter Fensel: Mediating Capabilities with Delta-Relations (PPT, 188 kB)   10:55 - 11:15 Coffee Break   11:15 - 11:40 Colombe Hérault, Gaël Thomas, and Philippe Lalanda: Mediation and Enterprise Service Bus: A position paper (PPT, 844 kB) 11:40 - 12:05 Jérôme Euzenat: Alignment Infrastructure for Ontology Mediation and other Applications 12:05 - 12:30 Adrian Mocan and Emilia Cimpian: Mappings Creation Using a View Based Approach (PPT, 1.72 MB)   12:30 - 12:40 Coffee Break   12:40 - 13:05 Philipp Kunfermann and Christian Drumm: Lifting XML Schemas to Ontologies - The Concept Finder Algorithm (PDF, 622 kB) 13:05 - 13:30 Cláudia Maria Fernandes Araújo Ribeiro: On the Use of WSMO Mediators in Semantic QoS-aware Services   13:30 Closing - Joint Lunch Target Audience This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners in relevant fields for both research in progress and final results with regard to innovative approaches, models, concepts, and solutions that address the key role of mediation and mediators for the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services. We hope for contributions from the Ontology Mapping and Alignment communities, groups working on context interchange, and Semantic Web services researchers. We especially invite contributions that help integrate the multiple research communities. Organizing Committee Members of the organizing committee are Michael Genesereth, Stanford University Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Martin Hepp, DERI Axel Polleres, DERI Program Committee Members of the program committee are Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano) Emilia Cimpian (DERI) Jos De Bruijn, (DERI) John Domingue (Open University) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA) Dieter Fensel (DERI) Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento) Rick Hull (Bell Labs) Michael Kifer (University at Stony Brook) Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University) Enrico Motta (The Open University) Marco Pistore (University of Trento) Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento) Jianwen Su (UC Santa Barbara) York Sure (AIFB) Paolo Traverso (ITC/IRST) Michael F. Uschold (Boeing) Ludger van Elst (DFKI) Holger Wache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University) Administrative Contact Martin Hepp Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone: +43 512 507 6465, Fax: +43 512 507 9872 E-Mail: martin.hepp@deri.org