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CALL FOR PAPTICIPATION
WWW
2003 Workshop on E-Services and the Semantic Web
Budapest, Hungary
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Workshop Co-Chairs
Fabio
Casati, Hewlett-Packard
Labs, Palo Alto, USA,
E-mail: fabio_casati@hp.com
Dimitris
Plexousakis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science
Univeristy of Crete
E-mail: dp@csd.uch.gr
and
Institute of Computer Science,
Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
Science and Technology Park of Crete
Vassilika Vouton, P.O.Box 1385
GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
tel.: +30 (2810) 39 16 37, fax: +30 (2810) 39 16 01
E-mail: dp@csi.forth.gr
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Invated
talks
Rick Hull, Bell Labs
(http://www-db.research.bell-labs.com/user/hull/)
E-Services Composition:
In Search of Fundamentals
Amit Sheth,
University of Georgia
(http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~amit/)
Semantic
Web Process Lifecycle:
Role of Semantics in Annotation, Discovery, Composition and
Orchestration
Francisco Curbera,
IBM
Web Services: Application Integration or a New Computing
Paradigm?" |
Theme of the Workshop
Two important trends are emerging in the
World Wide Web. The first is the proliferation of electronic services
(e-services) and in particular of Web services. The second is the
emergence of the so-called "Semantic Web". The confluence
of these trends forms the basis for this workshop. The application
of Semantic Web technologies to e-services requires the specification
of service capabilities and behaviors. Such descriptions will enable
the automation of a variety of tasks, including e-service discovery,
invocation, composition and interoperation.
The upcoming technology of electronic services
enables the development and deployment of loosely coupled, interoperable,
distributed, heterogeneous systems. These will help establish relationships
amongst service providers, customers and intermediaries more rapidly
and with reduced setup time and cost. The industry has provided
the initial building blocks for programmatic access to e-services,
through standards such as UDDI, WSDL, ebXML, BPEL and SOAP, and
through e-service platforms such as WebLogic, .Net and WebSphere.
Nevertheless, many issues remain largely unresolved. In particular,
many of the initial goals of the early e-service and Semantic Web
visionaries, such as dynamic discovery, binding, and composition
of e-services as well as their secure and reliable execution, are
yet to be reached. The resolution of these issues, possibly through
the provision of machine-interpretable e-service descriptions through
the emergence of the Semantic Web, could enable fundamentally new
approaches to finding, assembling, executing, and monitoring e-services.
Workshop Topics and Objectives
The "E-Services and the Semantic Web"
workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of
theoretical foundations, computational techniques, and emerging
systems technologies for e-service description, discovery, and composition.
This will include investigation of e-services issues in:
- the application of the Semantic
Web paradigm to e-services
- workflow and distributed systems (e.g.,
process models for e-services, transactional properties, security,
optimization)
- AI (e.g., knowledge representation and
reasoning, ontologies, planning, and verification)
- databases (e.g., metadata, data management)
The workshop will also address principled
applications of these technologies in areas such as e-commerce,
e-business, health care, scientific computing, education, and e-
government.
The following is a non-exhaustive
list of topics of interest to the workshop:
- Formal Models and Languages for Service
Description
- Process Models for Composite Services
- Service Descriptions and Ontologies
- Service Registration, Discovery, and
Selection
- Service Assembly, Interoperation, and
Re-use
- Execution and Monitoring of Composite
Services
- Reasoning about Services and Composite
Services
- Verification, Proof and Trust Agents
- Personalization and Preference Languages
- Security
- Cross-enterprise service interoperation
- Transactional Aspects
- Performance Aspects
- Distributed and Ambient Computing
- Database Services for the Semantic Web
- Business and Payment Models
- Standards
- Applications in Business, Education,
Healthcare, Science, Government
Paper Submission and Review
Papers should be submitted via email
to the workshop co-chairs
(fabio_casati@hp.com,
dp@ics.forth.gr).
Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a
peer-review process overseen by the program committee co-chairs.
Each paper will be reviewed by three program commitee members.
Accepted papers will appear in informal electronic and/or printed
proceedings that will be made available prior to the workshop.
Selected workshop papers will possibly be invited for inclusion
in a special issue of an international journal.
Papers should not exceed 5000 words (approximately
12 pages) in length and
must be submitted in Postscript or PDF. Short papers (up to 6 pages)
describing early research results are also welcome.
Important Dates
Deadline of electronic submission: March
10 , 2003
Author notification: April 14, 2003
Workshop: May 20, 2003
Workshop Program Committee:
Gustavo
Alonso (ETH Zurich)
Boualem
Benatallah (Univ. of South Wales)
Bernard
Burg (Hewlett-Packard Corp.)
Chris
Bussler (Oracle Corp., USA)
Vassilis
Christophides (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Sara
Comai (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Jonathan
Dale (Fujitsu Labs of America, USA)
Asuman
Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Alon
Halevy (Univ. of Washington, USA)
Sheila
McIlraith (Stanford University, USA)
Peter Patel-Schneider (Bell Labs, USA)
Barbara
Pernici (Politechnico Di Milano, Italy)
Jerome
Simeon (Bell
Labs, USA)
Mike Wilde (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Steven Willmott (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Spain)
Workshop Steering Committee:
Fabio Casati (Hewlett-Packard)
Vassilis Christophides (FORTH-ICS Crete, Greece)
Rick Hull (Lucent)
Sheila McIlraith (Stanford University)
Dimitris Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece) |