Services in open and dynamic environments have recently received significant interest. They can be used to support Business-to-Business (B2B), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and collaborations within or between Virtual Organizations. Successful example of such dynamic environments includes the WWW - a dynamic environment with a huge heterogeneous collection of services.

There are many different types of architectures that have been developed around the concept of a "service" - parties providing dynamic functionality to other parties. As the number of services increases so does the need for automatization in service discovery - discovery of new functionalities and behaviors.

This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enables discovery of services in the context of the WWW. Of particular interest are the methodologies that enable automatic or semi-automatic discovery of services, semantic web service, web services, and e-services.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry attendees addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater understanding of how the discovery of services can assist business to business and enterprise application integration.

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

• WWW Discovery and matchmaking of service, e-services, web services, semantic web services.
• Discovery and matchmaking in P2P and Grid environments.
• Software agents and Service discovery.
• Semantic based negotiation of services and resources.
• Selection of services and resources.
• Contracting in (Web) Service discovery.
• Languages for describing requests, services, resources on the Web.
• Workflows and Composition descriptions discovery.
• Mediation in (Web) service discovery.
• Architectural solutions and tool support for (Web) Service discovery.
• Interaction protocols and conversation models in (Web) Service discovery.
• Non functional properties and their relevance to (Web) Service discovery.
• (Web) Service discovery and composition.

Dr. Dr. Takahiro Kawamura - Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp

More information about the talk here.

Beijing, China

The workshop is to be held in conjunction with the The 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006)

Sung-Kook Han
Semantic Web Services Research Group
344-2, Shin Young Dong
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Won Kwang University
570-749 Ik San, Jeon Buk, Korea
E-Mail: skhan@wonkwang.ac.kr

Kumal Verna
Large Scale Distributed Information Systems
University of Georgia, Computer Science Department
415 GSRC
Athens, GA. 30602-7404
Phone: (706) 542-4772
Email: verma@cs.uga.edu

Ioan Toma
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
University of Innsbruck, Institute of Computer Science
Technikerstraße 13, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 6461
Fax: +43 512 507 9872
E-Mail: ioan.toma@deri.org

Dumitru Roman
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
University of Innsbruck, Institute of Computer Science
Technikerstraße 13, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 6463
Fax: +43 512 507 9872
E-Mail: dumitru.roman@deri.org

Rama Akkiraju, IBM, USA

Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria

Antoon Goderis, University of Manchester, UK

Karthik Gomadam, LSDIS, USA

Stephan Grimm, FZI, Germany

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Uwe Keller, DERI, Austria

Jie Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy

Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Laboratories, Germany

Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI, Ireland

Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Free University Berlin, Germany

Jari Veijalainen, University of Potsdam, Germany

• Submissions: DEADLINE EXTENSION - July 20, 2006
• Acceptance: August 5, 2006
• Final copy: August 15, 2006
• Workshops day: September 4, 2006

Two categories of submissions are solicitated:

• Full Papers (up to 8 pages).
• Position Papers (up to 2 pages).

All submissions should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of the ASWC 2006 main conference.

All the papers should be submitted in electronic format (pdf version) using the following link: http://www.easychair.org/SDISCO06/.

All accepted full papers and all position papers of attendees will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.

The final agenda of the workshop is available here.

The list of accepted papers is available here.

Those who are interested in attending the workshop should register through the main conference.