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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Semantic Web Services - 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:58:15 +0100 From: "Terry R. Payne" trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk To: "Terry R. Payne" trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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--- Semantic Web Services ---

2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

Stanford University, CA

http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/SSS-SWS04.html

Services, i.e. network pervasive programs or devices, facilitate interoperation by exposing their interfaces to each other. Such service-oriented research includes:

* Web Services - standardized enterprise components offered across the Web; * Grid Services - scientific/computing resources that facilitate large-scale e-science research; * Multi-Agent Systems - heterogeneous agents that cooperate or compete to solve distributed AI problems.

Whilst services deliver dynamic, personalised, and relevant applications though discovery, invocation and composition, a key remaining challenge is to support automated interoperability without necessitating human intervention. The inclusion and use of Semantic Web annotations promise to make Web-based information and services both accessible and understandable to agents and other applications. Emerging ontologies (e.g. DAML-S) are being used to construct semantically rich service descriptions. Techniques for planning, composing, editing, reasoning and analysing about these descriptions are being investigated, and deployed to resolve semantic interoperability between services within scalable, open environments.

Key research challenges in the area of Web services, Grid services and Multi-Agent computing include the construction of ontologies for service description, ontologies of service types (i.e. describing classes of services), etc, as well as techniques that support the manipulation of service descriptions to automate service discovery, translation, composition, etc.

This proposed symposium aims to bring together researchers addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater understanding of how the Semantic Web can assist Grid, Web Services and Multi Agent System research.

Topics of Interest include: ===========================

Ontologies that support service descriptions Ontologies for service classification Semantic interoperability and integration Quality of service and service level agreement management Semantic Web security policies, management and frameworks Semantic description, discovery, and selection of services Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments Knowledge Representation for Semantic Web Services DAML-S services Semantics in Agent Communication Languages Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation Architectures for supporting Semantic Web Services Service enactment/invocation frameworks Service Negotiation Rules within Semantic Web Services

Submission Information ====================== Those interested in participating should send either 1-3 page extended abstract, or an 8-page paper to Terry Payne (trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk) by the submission deadline. Electronic submissions (Postscript or PDF) in AAAI format preferred

Dates ===== Abstracts Due: October 3, 2003 Acceptance Notices: November 7, 2003 Camera Ready: January 20, 2004 Registration: February 27, 2004 Symposium: March 22-24, 2004

Committee ========= Terry Payne (Chair) Keith Decker Ora Lassila Sheila McIlraith Katia Sycara

_______________________________________________________________________ Terry R. Payne, PhD. | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~trp/index.html University of Southampton | Voice: +44(0)23 8059 8343 [Fax: 8059 2865] Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK | Email: terry@acm.org / trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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