Semantic Web Services:
Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications

Workshop Agenda

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Introductions

9:15 - 10:15 Invited Talk

10:15 - 10:45 Service Composition

Evren Sirin and Bijan Parsia
Planning for Semantic Web Services
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10:45 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 Service Discovery

Stephan Grimm, Boris Motik, and Chris Preist
Variance in e-Business Service Discovery
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Michael Kifer, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, Chang Zhao, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, and Dieter Fensel
A Logical Framework for Web Service Discovery
slides

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 Position Papers

Bruce Spencer and Sandy Liu
What does Software Engineering Practice offer to Semantic Web Service Composition?

Michael Stollberg, Dumitru Roman, Juan Miguel Gomez
A Mediated Approach Towards Web Service Choreography
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2:00 - 3:30 Service Invocation and Interoperation

Steffen Balzer and Thorsten Liebig
Bridging the Gap between Abstract and Concrete Services -- A Semantic Approach for Grounding OWL-S
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Yasmine Charif and Nicolas Sabouret
A Model of Interactions about Actions for Active and Semantic Web Services
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Anupriya Ankolekar, Massimo Paolucci, and Katia Sycara
Spinning the OWL-S Process Model -- Toward the Verification of the OWL-S Process Models
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3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:00 Usage

O. Dameron, N.F. Noy, H. Knublauch and M.A. Musen
Accessing and Manipulating Ontologies Using Web Services
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Marwan Sabbouh and Joseph K. DeRosa
Using Semantic Web Technologies to Integrate Software Components

5:00 - 6:00 The Bigger Picture

D. Fensel
Triple-based Computing
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Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan and Katia Sycara
Expressing WSMO Mediators in OWL-S
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