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General OverviewWeb 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. Invited SpeakerSpeaker: Prof.
Dr. Weske Mathias Title: Business Processes with Semantic Services Abstract: The talk looks at the relationship between business process management and service oriented architectures in general and semantic services in particular. The design, configuration, and enactment phases of the business process lifecycle need to be re-investigated in the light of services oriented architectures, in particular dynamic binding of service implementations to service specifications facilitated by semantic services. Paths to create service compositions based on mappings of service parameters to a domain ontology are investigated. The considerations are illustrated by a usage scenario and a service-based process platform developed in the context of Adaptive Services Grid, a European research project in FP6. Workshop VenueVienna, Austria The workshop is to be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2006) . Jump to top of this page. Topics
These topics indicate the general focus of the workshop, however, related contributions are welcome also. Jump to top of this page. Important Dates Submissions: May 15, 2006 Jump to top of this page. Organization of the WorkshopOrganizing CommiteeSteven Battle John Domingue David Martin Dumitru Roman Amit Sheth Program Committee- Rama Akkiraju, IBM, USA Jump to top of this page. Paper SubmissionsThe workshop invites different types of contributions:
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 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. Jump to top of this page. Agenda Location: Vienna
University of Technology in the Electronic Engineering Building,
Gußhausstrasse 25
The workshop is open allowing anybody interested in semantics for Web services to participate fully in the workshop. Jump to top of this page. RegistrationThose who are interested in attending the workshop should register through the main conference. Jump to top of this page. |
