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Seven full papers, covering a broad and interesting range of topics, have been accepted for presentation at the workshop; see Agenda. Five position papers have also been submitted, and will be included in the proceedings.
We are extremely pleased to announce a truly outstanding
keynote speaker for our workshop:
Dr. Michael L. Brodie,
Chief Scientist
Verizon Communications,
Information Technology
Opportunities for Semantics in Service-Oriented Architectures
Abstract:
The 1999 inception of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) marked the beginning of a decade movement to the Next Generation of Computing that directly supports integration. In 2005, the halfway point, many vendors will release SOA infrastructure and development products, in turn launching one of the steepest migration and learning curves in the history of IT. Still in its infancy, Service-Oriented Computing has much evolution ahead with many challenges and opportunities demanding innovative solutions.
While the services concept is three-plus decades old, today's SOA technology is addressing many limitations of its predecessors including lightweight, loose coupling, internet-wide remote invocation, implementation-neutral interfaces, and the potential of composable services to achieve reuse and ease of integration. As with the predecessors, advances focus on plumbing - engineering integration - and not on semantic integration based on machine understanding of services that remains one of the largest challenges to achieving the level of automation required by the forthcoming explosion of services.
This talk presents an industry view of the potential role of Semantic Web Services (SWS) in future SOAs. We will review the current state of SOA technology products and practice, including a Very Large SOA in production for two years; and the current reality that differs significantly from the original vision (e.g., dynamic discovery, orchestration, and execution). Guided by previous attempts to address industry challenges with semantics, this talk proposes key aspects of SOA technology that SWS must address.
Bio:
Dr. Michael L. Brodie is Chief Scientist of Verizon IT. Verizon is one
of the world's leading providers of communications services. Verizon
companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless
communications in the United States. Verizon is also the world's largest
provider of print and on-line directory information. Dr. Brodie works on
large-scale strategic Information Technology (IT) challenges for Verizon
Communications Corporation’s senior executives. His primary interest is
in the optimal use of IT, with an emphasis on emerging and advanced
technologies and practices, to enable organizational and business
objectives, including organizational change. In addition to Computer
Science he investigates the relationships between economics, business,
and technology, and computing-communications convergence. His long-term
industrial research focus is on advanced computational models and
architectures and the large-scale information systems that they support.
He is concerned with the Big Picture, business and technical contexts,
core technologies, and integration within a large scale,
operational telecommunications environment. Dr. Brodie has authored over
150 books, chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. He has
presented keynote talks, invited lectures, and short courses on many
topics in over thirty countries. He is a member of the Board of six
research foundations including the VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment
(1992 - 2004); the Advisory Board of the School of Computer and
Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland (2001 - present); Advisory Board, Digital Enterprise
Research Institute, National University of Ireland (2003-present);
Expert Advisor to the Information Society Technologies priority of the
European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme (2003-present); and is
on the editorial board of several research journals.
Significant work has already been done in this decade on Semantic Web services (SWS), and a large body of relevant work exists from earlier decades, in fields such as knowledge representation, planning, agent-based systems, databases, programming languages, and software engineering. Nevertheless many difficult research challenges remain, and much work is needed to adapt relevant existing technologies to the context of Web services and the Semantic Web, and to prepare the more mature languages, capabilities and architectures for widespread deployment.
This workshop will provide a forum in which to focus on selected core technical challenges for deployment of SWS; provide guidance to early adopters of Semantic Web services technology, particularly in the business community; and facilitate the formation of new communities of SWS users.
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