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>
> 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)
>
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>
> 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@xxxxxxx
> Dieter Fensel, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria,
> mailto:Dieter.Fensel@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Organizing Committee
> ====================
> Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA, France,
> mailto:Rose.Dieng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fabien Gandon, Carnegie Mellon University, USA,
> mailto:Fabien.Gandon@xxxxxxxxxx
> Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK,
> mailto:trp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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
> 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@xxxxxxx
>
> 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: May 31, 2003
> * Author Notification: July 15, 2003
> * Camera-Ready Papers due: August 1, 2003
> * Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the
> ICEC conference: Oct. 1-3.
>
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