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Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF BP 1.0 document
by Hiro Kishimoto 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

Hi all, Our experience document, Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF BP 1.0, completes public comments period with minor comment. > Modified on 02/04/2009 by Greg Newby > Status: - New: "Author Action Needed" Old: "Editor Review: Initial" > Assigned To: - New: "Hiro Kishimoto" Old: "Joel Replogle" > > Comment was added: > There was a fairly minor comment that you will probably want to > address. Then, please upload the new/final document, and email or > set the tracker back to me. We'll be able to go ahead with > publication. Vivian: Please review the comment and tell us your response proposal. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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JSDL Generation Tool Available
by Mark Morgan 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

I have just completed a project which Andrew and I thought might be of interest to some of you. We are now supporting an application we call JSDLTool which aids users in creating new JSDL documents for certain types of applications and which can be used to create a series of JSDL files for an application in a parameter sweep scenario. Those keeping up with the mailing list regarding the OGF work on parameter sweeps will notice that our method of dealing with Parameter Sweeps is quite different and this stems largely from the fact that we've been doing parameter sweeps in Genesis II since nearly the beginning of the project's lifetime. As the standards work with parameter sweeps moves forward this tool may be retrofitted to support the new standard as well. In the meantime, this tool produces a batch of jsdl files, one each for each instantiation of the application inside of the parameter space. Any one interested in the application can find information about it as well as links for source code, documentation, and the application itself at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~vcgr/wiki/index.php/JSDLTool -Mark

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[Fwd: IETF O&M Area MIB2RMDL proposal]
by Hiro Kishimoto 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

FYI Very interesting work on standardizing a methodology to convert SNMP MIBs to SOA/WS resource model artifacts (tagged as "MIB to Resource Model Description Language" (MIB2RMDL), using "Language" very loosely in this context). -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Final CFP: SOCASE @ AAMAS 2009
by Jinjun Chen 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/ to be held at the Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUSAGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 10 - 15, 2009 (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 25 January 2009 Acceptance notification 25 February 2009 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2009 Workshop held 10 or 11 May 2009 DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS'08 and AAMAS'07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'04 and AAMAS'03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ●Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems ●Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development ●Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration ●Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes ●Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering ●Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography ●Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery ●Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements ●Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems ●Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned ●Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution ●Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be provided at the SOCASE'09 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2009 proceedings will be published with Springer's LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University (point of contact: mohanbaruwal(a)gmail.com) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/ to be held at the Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUSAGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 10 - 15, 2009 (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 25 January 2009 Acceptance notification 25 February 2009 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2009 Workshop held 10 or 11 May 2009 DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS'08 and AAMAS'07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'04 and AAMAS'03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: •Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems •Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development •Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration •Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes •Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering •Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography •Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery •Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements •Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems •Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned •Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution •Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be provided at the SOCASE'09 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2009 proceedings will be published with Springer's LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University (point of contact: mohanbaruwal(a)gmail.com) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/ to be held at the Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUSAGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 10 - 15, 2009 (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 25 January 2009 Acceptance notification 25 February 2009 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2009 Workshop held 10 or 11 May 2009 DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMASג€™08 and AAMASג€™07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMASג€™06, AAMASג€™05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMASג€™04 and AAMASג€™03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ג— Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems ג— Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development ג— Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration ג— Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes ג— Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering ג— Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography ג— Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery ג— Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements ג— Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems ג— Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned ג— Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution ג— Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be provided at the SOCASE'09 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2009 proceedings will be published with Springerג€™s LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University (point of contact: mohanbaruwal(a)gmail.com)

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Re: [ogsa-wg] IEEE OGSA computer article in February
by Andrew Grimshaw 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

All, I can't type, it should be an "_" not a"-", i.e., www.ogf.org/OGSA_Primer" A _____ From: Steven Newhouse [mailto:Steven.Newhouse@cern.ch] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:10 PM To: Andrew Grimshaw Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] IEEE OGSA computer article in February Does that page work for you? I get a 404. Steven Dr Steven Newhouse EGEE Technical Director http://cern.ch/Steven.Newhouse From: ogsa-wg-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw Sent: 21 January 2009 17:02 To: ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org; OGSA-BES(a)ogf.org Subject: [ogsa-wg] IEEE OGSA computer article in February All, The long awaited IEEE Computer article is coming out in the next few days. The article points to a web page at OGF, www.ogf.org/OGSA-Primer that has more in depth information as well as pointers to specs, other documents, and if you want, pointers to your project pages if you have implemented one of JSDL, OGSA-BES, RNS, HPC-BP, WS-Naming, OGSA-ByteIO, WS-DAI, OGSA -WR-BP You might recall that there was a table (that we sent around many, many times), that included a list of groups that had implemented one or more of the above specifications and profiles. If you have done an implementation and would like a link to your project to be included, please send me the project name and URL and I will include it. A Crown Fujitsu USMT Genesis II Gfarm gLite[1] Globus GridSAM Microsoft CCS NAREGI OGSA-DAI Platform UNICORE 6 _____ _____ _____ _____ [1] The gLite entries refer to prototype implementations that are not a part of the current distribution.

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IEEE OGSA computer article in February
by Andrew Grimshaw 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

All, The long awaited IEEE Computer article is coming out in the next few days. The article points to a web page at OGF, www.ogf.org/OGSA-Primer that has more in depth information as well as pointers to specs, other documents, and if you want, pointers to your project pages if you have implemented one of JSDL, OGSA-BES, RNS, HPC-BP, WS-Naming, OGSA-ByteIO, WS-DAI, OGSA -WR-BP You might recall that there was a table (that we sent around many, many times), that included a list of groups that had implemented one or more of the above specifications and profiles. If you have done an implementation and would like a link to your project to be included, please send me the project name and URL and I will include it. A Crown Fujitsu USMT Genesis II Gfarm gLite[1] Globus GridSAM Microsoft CCS NAREGI OGSA-DAI Platform UNICORE 6 _____ _____ [1] The gLite entries refer to prototype implementations that are not a part of the current distribution.

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Call for Papers - ICWM2009
by Jinjun Chen 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Call for Papers: ICWM2009 - 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm, 4-8 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland. As requested, submission deadline is extended to: January 25 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Other selected papers will be invited to a book to be published by Nova Science Publishers in its book series on Process and Workflow Management and Applications. Details can be referred to the workshop website http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm. -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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Call for Papers - ICWM2009
by Jinjun Chen 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Call for Papers: ICWM2009 - 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm, 4-8 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland. Submission deadline: January 15 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Other selected papers will be invited to a book to be published by Nova Science Publishers in its book series on Process and Workflow Management and Applications. Details can be referred to the workshop website http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm. -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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FW: HPDC 2009 - Please help us distribute the CFP
by Andrew Grimshaw 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

All, Might be a good place to publish your results with interop, etc. A

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It's time to say good bye
by Michel Drescher 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Folks, as some of you may know already I am moving on in my career, and will leave Fujitsu in mid-December. As my new duties will most likely have me not do any Grid/Cloud Computing business anymore it is also time to step down from OGF activities. It has been a pleasure working with you, and I definitely enjoyed the time I spent on mailing lists, in meeting rooms, and conference venues all around the world. And yes, I think we achieved some good results, too. ;-) I will hang around for some more, and keep my account on Gridforge, but don't expect active contributions anymore as I will also cease subscriptions to mailing lists. You may drop me the occasional E-Mail (via Gridforge!) - and bet on the odds of a reply. :-) Cheers, Michel P.S.: Sorry for cross-posting. P.P.S.: *sniff* -- Michel Drescher Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44 20 8606 4834 Michel.Drescher(a)uk.fujitsu.com

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