Web Service Semantics:
Towards Dynamic Business Integration

a workshop at

The Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005)

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Home Agenda Call for Papers Dates Organization

Workshop Agenda

9:00 - 9:05 Welcome: Laurentiu Vasiliu

9:05 - 10:05 Invited Talk

Dr. Michael Brodie, Chief Scientist, Verizon Communications, Information Technology
Opportunities for Semantics in Service-Oriented Architectures

10:05 - 10:30 Paper Presentation

Michal Zaremba, Christoph Bussler
Towards Dynamic Execution Semantics in Semantic Web Services

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Paper Presentations

Armin Haller, Juan Miguel Gomez, Christoph Bussler
Exposing Semantic Web Service Principles in SOA to Solve EAI Scenarios

Juan Miguel Gomez, Armin Haller, Christoph Bussler
A Conversation-oriented language for B2B integration based on Semantic Web Services

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion: Issues in business integration

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:05 - Welcome Back: Richard Goodwin

2:05 - 3:30 Paper Presentations

Franz Baader, Carsten Lutz, Maja Milicic, Ulrike Sattler, Frank Wolter
A Description Logic Based Approach to Reasoning about Web Services

Joachim Peer
Semantic Service Markup with SESMA

Cecile Aberg, Patrick Lambrix, Juha Takkinen, Nahid Shahmehri
sButler: A Mediator between Organizations' Workflows and the Semantic Web

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 4:30 Paper Presentation

Jeffrey Hau, William Lee, John Darlington
A Semantic Similarity Measure for Semantic Web Services

4:30 - 5:30 Panel: Challenges to SWS adoption


Position Papers

Although there is no time for their presentation, the workshop proceedings also include the following position papers:

Daniela Berardi, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Massimo Mecella, Diego Calvanese
Automatic Composition of Process-based Web Services: a Challenge

Ramesh Bharadwaj, Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Formal Methods for Developing Adaptable, Secure, Situation-aware Service-oriented (AS3) Architectures

Yuh-Jong Hu
Combining Ontology and Rules as Service Constraint Policy for P2P Systems

Rod Moten
The Need for Type Theory in Semantic Web Services

Vlado Stankovski, Matevz Dolenc, Ziga Turk
Ontology Services for the Virtual Enterprise


Please send questions and comments to sws2004_a_t_ai.sri.com.