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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