May 2005 - sem-grd - lists.ogf.org

agentlink newsletter article on agents and the grid
by David De Roure 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

For info, the article I wrote on agents and the grid has just appeared in AgentLink news issue 17 (page 18-19) - see http://www.agentlink.org/newsletter/ -- Dave

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***SPAM*** Urgent Message
by Dr Marshall Gregoré 17 May '05

17 May '05

FROM: Dr.Marshall Gregoré(PHD), GRAND FINANCE AND TRUST BANK. RUE CLUB DE L' AMITIE, 0251 B.P. 1625 COTONOU, BéNIN REPUBLIQUE. My Dear Friend, In Oder to transfer to overseas $28.5 million(USD) from GRAND FINANCE AND TRUST BANK,Bénin Republique. I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quitely. I am Dr.Marshall Gregoré(PHD), the accountant/auditor of the above Finance Corporation in Cotonou,Bénin Republique and personal confidant to Mr.Alvaro Quesada of Dominican Republic in Caribbean Island who died in a Plane Crash accident(2002-04-19) on his way to attend a weddind ceremony together with his wife and only Child (Alvaro Jr). Mr.Alvaro Quesada, is From Dominican Republic in Caribbean Island, and a prosperous Tobacco merchant, he died in the year 2002 without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Bénin which he opened in the above stated bank in the year 2001 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company in Africa before his untimely death in 2002.Until his death,he was the president of the Dominican Tobacco Exporters Association. And from my Investigation,i found out that No other person knows about this account because he( Mr.Alvaro Quesada ) never knew that he is going to die so soon, and so his purpose was not achieved. If i don't remit this money immediately, it will get lost(may be it will go into the pockets of the corrupt government officials who will never use it for any reasonable thing at all). I dont want to miss this opportunity because it comes ones in a life time. The amount involved is $28.5 million(USD)Twenty eight million,five hundred United States Dollars and no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to first transfer $16,000.000.00(Sixteen million USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer the remaining (12.5M). I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, without a valid foreign international passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c, this is because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c, Alvaro Quesada is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c. However, I am revealing this to you with belief in God that you will never let me down in this business.I don't know you and have never seen you before,i only got your contacts from an international directory which my secretary provided for me. You are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take. Send also your private telephone and fax number. I need your full co-operation to make this work because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a keybank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I want to tell you that this transaction is 100% risk free and legal because all the documents that will back up this transaction will be available, so that no body will question the fund when it is finaly tranfered to your account. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount and 70% will be for me. I look forward to your earliest reply through this email. Thanks for your time. Your's faithfully, Dr.Marshall Gregoré (PHD,)

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Deadline extension: Special Issue of JWSR on Semantically Augmented Metadata
by Felix Heine 13 May '05

13 May '05

*** Deadline extended until May 31, 2005 *** CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Special Issue on "Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering" The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) --> **Extended** Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005 <-- http://www.upb.de/pc2/cfp-idea Guest Editors: Odej Kao, Felix Heine Introduction ------------ In large-scale distributed system, semantically rich metadata is a key issue, e.g. for machine-processible description of entities. Examples are the behavioral description of interfaces in service oriented architectures, as well as the description of resources in Grid environments. Semantically rich descriptions are necessary preconditions for automatic management, automatic configuration, and user-friendly discovery of entities. They are a vital part of future information repositories and brokering applications, in order to resolve interoperability problems in large heterogeneous environments. Researchers from different fields are working on these topics. The Grid community has started the Semantic Grid initiative, which exploits technologies from the Semantic Web community like Ontologies and Description Logics. Research targets the description of resources, services and workflows, but also the description of contents of databases and many more application specific issues. Researchers from the software engineering community are developing different technologies following a similar goal, e.g. graph-based approaches to describe the behavior of services to support the software engineering process, and for online composition of modules and services. The Semantic Web community has e.g. designed the OWL-S ontology for service description. Objective of the Special Issue ------------------------------ This special issue aims to bridge research communities which focus on the common goal of augmenting metadata to semantically-rich information. Papers of interest include surveys of the methods presently used in these fields, papers highlighting the relationship between different methods, and papers presenting new approaches, also from fields not mentioned here. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Semantically rich metadata - Ontologies for resource and service description - Graph-based service description - Metadata based on Description Logics - Standards for the description of services - New methods for service description - Architectures for white-, yellow and green pages - Algorithms for semantically rich matching of descriptions - Description and matching of workflows - Semantic metadata for databases SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2005, papers for this special theme issue on "Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering". All submissions must be original and not be under review by another publication. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15, 2005 about the acceptance status and sent paper organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a blind review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. The special issue of the journal is tentatively scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc. <www.idea-group.com>, publisher of the "Idea Group Publishing," "Information Science Publishing," "IRM Press," CyberTech Publishing" and "Idea Group Reference". Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically to: ------------------------------------------------------------- Felix Heine, fh(a)upb.de Program Committee (preliminary) ------------------------------- John Brooke, University of Manchester Gregor Engels, Paderborn University Carole Goble, University of Manchester Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Montreal Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola Ralf Moeller, TU Hamburg-Harburg Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Benno Stein, University Weimar -- Felix Heine Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing Paderborn University, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn, Germany phone: +49 (0) 5251 60-6322 fax: +49 (0) 5251 60-6297 mailto:fh@upb.de http://www.upb.de/pc2/

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Deadline Approaching: CFP: Special Issue of JWSR on Semantically Augmented Metadata
by Felix Heine 02 May '05

02 May '05

CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Special Issue on "Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering" The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) --> Submission Deadline: May 15, 2005 <-- http://www.upb.de/pc2/cfp-idea Guest Editors: Odej Kao, Felix Heine Introduction ------------ In large-scale distributed system, semantically rich metadata is a key issue, e.g. for machine-processible description of entities. Examples are the behavioral description of interfaces in service oriented architectures, as well as the description of resources in Grid environments. Semantically rich descriptions are necessary preconditions for automatic management, automatic configuration, and user-friendly discovery of entities. They are a vital part of future information repositories and brokering applications, in order to resolve interoperability problems in large heterogeneous environments. Researchers from different fields are working on these topics. The Grid community has started the Semantic Grid initiative, which exploits technologies from the Semantic Web community like Ontologies and Description Logics. Research targets the description of resources, services and workflows, but also the description of contents of databases and many more application specific issues. Researchers from the software engineering community are developing different technologies following a similar goal, e.g. graph-based approaches to describe the behavior of services to support the software engineering process, and for online composition of modules and services. The Semantic Web community has e.g. designed the OWL-S ontology for service description. Objective of the Special Issue ------------------------------ This special issue aims to bridge research communities which focus on the common goal of augmenting metadata to semantically-rich information. Papers of interest include surveys of the methods presently used in these fields, papers highlighting the relationship between different methods, and papers presenting new approaches, also from fields not mentioned here. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Semantically rich metadata - Ontologies for resource and service description - Graph-based service description - Metadata based on Description Logics - Standards for the description of services - New methods for service description - Architectures for white-, yellow and green pages - Algorithms for semantically rich matching of descriptions - Description and matching of workflows - Semantic metadata for databases SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 15, 2005, papers for this special theme issue on "Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering". All submissions must be original and not be under review by another publication. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15, 2005 about the acceptance status and sent paper organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a blind review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. The special issue of the journal is tentatively scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc. <www.idea-group.com>, publisher of the "Idea Group Publishing", "Information Science Publishing", "IRM Press", "CyberTech Publishing" and "Idea Group Reference". Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically to: ------------------------------------------------------------- Felix Heine, fh(a)upb.de Program Committee (preliminary) ------------------------------- John Brooke, University of Manchester Gregor Engels, Paderborn University Carole Goble, University of Manchester Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Montreal Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola Ralf Möller, TU Hamburg-Harburg Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Benno Stein, University Weimar -- Felix Heine Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing Paderborn University, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn, Germany phone: +49 (0) 5251 60-6322 fax: +49 (0) 5251 60-6297 mailto:fh@upb.de http://www.upb.de/pc2/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: semanticweb-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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Special attention.
by cynthia222＠delfi.lv 02 May '05

02 May '05

Greetings, I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through your profile. I will be glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now. I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am love Yormie 22 years old girl from Liberia,the only daughter of Late John Yormie the deputy minister of national security under the leadership of president Charles Taylor of liberia who is now in exile after many innocent soul were killed my father was killed by the government of Charles Taylor in June last year,he accuse my father of coup attempt and after a month my mother Cynthia was also killed. The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek you assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help, i want to hand over some huge amount of money to you in my possession .This money is Four Millon Nine Hundred Thousand u.s Dollars (4.9 million us dollars) which was deposited by my late father one bank in Abidjan Ivory coast. I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to make this claim for am too tender in age to handle this kind of transaction,i want you to stand as my late father's foregin partner oversea and also for investment of the money as well. As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this issue to be well know to you,if I am given the opportunity to do so. Pls attach your direct and full information as you reply to me am expecting to hear from you soon. BLOW IS THE WEB SITE CONCERING THE DEATH OF MY FATHER YOU CAN GO INTO THE SITE AND READ THE NEWS: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp? ReportID=35440&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=LIBERIA My regard's Cynthia Yormie. -- Bezmaksas e-pasta adreses piedāvā http://pasts.delfi.lv/

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Special attention.
by cynthia222＠delfi.lv 02 May '05

02 May '05

Greetings, I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through your profile. I will be glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now. I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am love Yormie 22 years old girl from Liberia,the only daughter of Late John Yormie the deputy minister of national security under the leadership of president Charles Taylor of liberia who is now in exile after many innocent soul were killed my father was killed by the government of Charles Taylor in June last year,he accuse my father of coup attempt and after a month my mother Cynthia was also killed. The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek you assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help, i want to hand over some huge amount of money to you in my possession .This money is Four Millon Nine Hundred Thousand u.s Dollars (4.9 million us dollars) which was deposited by my late father one bank in Abidjan Ivory coast. I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to make this claim for am too tender in age to handle this kind of transaction,i want you to stand as my late father's foregin partner oversea and also for investment of the money as well. As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this issue to be well know to you,if I am given the opportunity to do so. Pls attach your direct and full information as you reply to me am expecting to hear from you soon. BLOW IS THE WEB SITE CONCERING THE DEATH OF MY FATHER YOU CAN GO INTO THE SITE AND READ THE NEWS: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp? ReportID=35440&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=LIBERIA My regard's Cynthia Yormie. -- Bezmaksas e-pasta adreses piedāvā http://pasts.delfi.lv/

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