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Re: [ontolog-forum] FYI... Semantic Web Services: Past, Present, and Fu

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From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:09:27 -0800
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Looks great, Max!    (01)

Thank you very much for the acknowledgment.    (02)

Let's post remote access information for the Ontolog community, 
when you have that information.    (03)

Have a wonderful session!    (04)

Regards.  =ppy
--    (05)


Michael Maximilien wrote Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:38:45 -0800:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> fyi...
> 
> Details here => 
> http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/meteor-s/dwp2005/index.php?page=7 <= 
> and pasted below for your convenience
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------    (06)

> *Semantic Web Services: Past, Present, and Future*    (07)

> Technical Panel, _Dynamic Web Processes (DWP) 2005_ 
> <http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/meteor-s/dwp2005/> Workshop    (08)

> In conjunction with
> 
> _International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2005_ 
> <http://www.icsoc.org/>
> 
> Amsterdam , the Netherlands , December 12^th , 2005    (09)

> *Abstract and Motivations*
> 
> Semantic Web Services (SWS) promise to facilitate all aspects of Web 
> services usages. The overarching goals of the various SWS efforts are to 
> provide some level of automation of Web services discovery, selection, 
> invocation, and composition. Indeed, early efforts, e.g., _OWL-S_ 
> <http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/>, have demonstrated results such as 
> dynamically matchmaking and composing Web services using a service 
> ontology that includes descriptions of the services capabilities and 
> needs of the service consumer. Other early efforts, e.g., _METEOR-S_ 
> <http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/meteor-s/>, developed a broad 
> framework of semantics that can be added to Web services to facilitate 
> their use.
> 
> Though decent progress has been achieved, we are far from completely 
> realizing all of the aforementioned goals and gained wide acceptance. 
> There remain various challenges and questions to be addressed. Recently, 
> newer efforts, i.e., _WSMO_ <http://www.wsmo.org/>, _SWSF/FLOWS_ 
> <http://www.daml.org/services/swsf/>, and _WSDL-S_ 
> <http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSDL-S/>, have emerged taking at times a 
> different approach to adding semantics to Web services. Since none of 
> the efforts have been widely adopted (so far) and Web services 
> themselves are facing some challenges from simpler alternatives such as 
> REST and some of the Web 2.0 initiatives; we maybe at a juncture where 
> some discussions and sharing of lessons learned may be needed to 
> galvanize the SWS efforts and community, as well as to give some 
> directions for future research and approaches.    (010)

> Building on a successful _ONTOLOG-forum_ 
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/> SWS panel on October 
> 10^th, 2005 , this panel brings together various leaders from the major 
> SWS initiatives and community, from both academia and industry. After a 
> short introduction and presentation from each initiative, we intend to 
> *_engage in a debate_* and discussion that will include the following 
> (but not limited to) topics and questions:    (011)

> 1.  How can the complexity of the current SWS approaches be reduced to 
> help gain some wider adoption?  After all, the primary goal of the SWS 
> efforts is to facilitate the usage of Web services.    (012)

> 2.  Is a /folksonomy/-type approach a better, more realistic, 
> alternative to adding semantics to Web services? (similar to efforts 
> like http://del.icio.us and Yahoo! Flickr)    (013)

> 3.  Should the SWS community take a pragmatic approach to adding 
> semantics to Web services by heavily leveraging and extending the 
> existing Web services stack as was done with WSDL-S? Or, is that a 
> flawed approach since it inherits any limitations of the stack?    (014)

> 4.  Should the SWS community agree on some basic standards and help 
> extend and improve the current Web services stack?  And what are 
> advantages and disadvantages?    (015)

> 5.  What are some of the low-hanging fruits that the SWS community 
> should strive for first and progressively address the vision questions? 
> What are some basic use-cases (e.g., semi-automated Web services usages 
> with human in the loop and automated Web services usages via software 
> agents)?    (016)

> 6.  Should SWS ontology annotation be limited to OWL-type, FOL DL-type 
> languages? Or, should we look into adopting other languages for 
> ontology/taxonomy constructions, e.g., UML?    (017)

> 7.  Can formal approaches like FLOWS, which provides complete semantics 
> of processes, help the implementation of use cases and achieve results 
> that demonstrate clear advantages for businesses over well accepted 
> languages like BPEL? What are some example use cases that show these 
> advantages?  Or should such formal approaches instead leverage and 
> extend languages like BPEL?    (018)

> 8.  What have we learned from current efforts that should drive the SWS 
> roadmap?    (019)

> *Date, Time, and Location*
> 
> Monday December 12^th , 2005
> 
> 3:20PM to 4:20PM
> 
> The Mercure Hotel, Amsterdam , the Netherlands    (020)

> *Panelists*
> 
> _John Domingue
> Deputy Director, _ 
> <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/index.html>_Knowledge Media 
> Institute_ <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/>, _Open University_ 
> <http://www.open.ac.uk/>, Milton Keynes , UK    (021)

> Massimo Paolucci
> Senior Researcher, _NTT DoCoMo Euro Labs_ 
> <http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/>, Munich , Germany    (022)

> _Amit Sheth_ <http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/%7Eamit/>
> Professor and CTO, _University of Georgia_ <http://www.uga.edu/> and 
> _Semagix, Inc._ <http://www.semagix.com/>, Athens, USA    (023)

> _Sheila McIlraith_ <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Esheila/>
> Associate Professor, _Department of Computer Science_ 
> <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/index.html>, _University of Toronto_ 
> <http://www.utoronto.ca/>, Canada    (024)

> Francisco ( Paco) Curbera (/tentative/)
> Research Staff Member and Manager, Web Services and Component-Oriented 
> Software, _IBM T.J. Watson Research Center_ 
> <http://www.watson.ibm.com/index.shtml>, Hawthorne , NY , USA    (025)

> *Organizers and Acknowledgements*
> 
> _E. Michael (Max) Maximilien_ <http://maximilien.org/> (moderator)
> Research Staff Member, _Almaden Services Research_ 
> <http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/>, _IBM >Almaden Research Center_ 
> <http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/>, San Jose , CA , USA
> 
> _Kunal Verma_ <http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/%7Ekunal/>
> Ph.D. candidate, _University of Georgia_ <http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/>, 
> _LSDIS Lab_ <http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/>, Athens, USA
> 
> Amit Sheth
> 
> _David Martin
> Senior Computer Scientist, _ 
> <http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Emartin/>_Artificial Intelligence Center_ 
> <http://www.ai.sri.com/>, _SRI International_ <http://www.sri.com/>, 
> Menlo Park , CA , USA .
> 
> We also want to thank the _ONTOLOG-Forum_ 
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage>, its members, and 
> the _ONTOLOG-forum SWS Panel_ 
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_10_20> 
> organizers and in particular _Peter Yim_ 
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PeterYim> (_CIM Engineering_ 
> <http://www.cim3.com/>, San Mateo, CA, USA) and _Nicolas Rouquette_ 
> <http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/%7Erouquett/> (_NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory_ 
> <http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasa_gen/index.html>, _CalTech_ 
> <http://www.caltech.edu/>, Pasedena, CA, USA).
> 
> ------------------------------------------------    (026)

> E. M. (Max) Maximilien, Ph.D.
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> San Jose, CA USA
> maxim@xxxxxxxxxx
> Homepage: http://maximilien.org
> 
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