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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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WSDL-S Release (fwd)
by David De Roure 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

I know this will be of interest to some of you -- Dave ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:10:24 -0400 (EDT) From: KUNAL VERMA <verma(a)cs.uga.edu> To: public-sws-ig(a)w3.org Subject: WSDL-S Release Hi, I would like to bring your attention to the recently released joint UGA-IBM technical note on WSDL-S. The technical specification: R. Akkiraju, J. Farrell, J.Miller, M. Nagarajan, M. Schmidt, A. Sheth, K. Verma (in alphabetical order), "Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S, " A joint UGA-IBM Technical Note, version 1.0, April 18, 2005 is available at IBM and UGA sites: 1) http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/meteor-s/wsdl-s/ 2) http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/g/g.nsf/img/semanticsdocs/$file/wssemantic_an… WSDL-S was also presented at the W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services. The presentation made at the workshop, which also identified its driving principles consistent with evolutionary approach that preserves current investments in SOA, is available at http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/meteor-s/wsdl-s/WSDL-S.pdf. WSDL-S supports adding semantics to WSDL by using its extensibility capabilities. The key annotations supported are: *Annotating message types (XSD complex types and elements) -extension attribute : modelReference (semantic association) -extension attribute : schemaMapping (schema/data mapping) * Annotating operations -extension elements : precondition and effect -extension attribute : category (on the interface element) -extension element : action (on operation element)(under consideration) We invite comments, suggestions and questions from interested parties at the public forum: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/forum/viewforum.php?f=13 Tool support for WSDL-S is avaiable at: METEOR-S Downloads: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/meteor-s/downloads/ alphaWorks ETTK: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wssem Thanks, Kunal Verma (for the METEOR-S team) http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~kunal

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Last CFP: WISE'05 Industrial Track in NYC
by Gagnon, Stephane 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== WISE 2005 Industry Track http://elab.njit.edu/wise 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering November 20-22 2005, New York City, New York http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 ===================================================================== Sponsored by: - Telcordia - IBM - NJIT Supported by: - Object Management Group (OMG) - Integration Consotrium (IC) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The goals of the WISE 2005 Industry Program are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's business challenges, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work. We invite submissions on all topics related to web engineering including technologies, methodologies, and applications. Papers can take the form of detailed case studies, technical white papers, new methodologies, new standard specifications, benchmarking models, or any other contributions demonstrating innovative web engineering technologies, methods, and applications. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the conference CFP, as well as those listed below: 1. Technologies: a. Development of new web services standards b. Use of business process automation technologies c. Use of semantic web and grid computing d. Innovative solutions for performance optimization e. Benchmarking of leading runtime environments 2. Methodologies: a. Web engineering with a Model Driven Architecture b. Requirements engineering for web applications c. Software design reusing legacy systems and data d. Quality focus and use of Test Driven Development e. Benchmarking of leading web engineering tools 3. Applications: a. Case studies of major web engineering projects b. Implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture c. Outsourcing and use of Business Services Networks d. Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges e. Benchmarking models in selecting web IT vendors ---------- Deadlines: ---------- Abstracts due June 10, 2005 Papers due June 17, 2005 Decision notification Aug. 12, 2005 Camera-ready copies due Sept. 16, 2005 ------------------------- Guidelines and Submission: -------------------------- All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the regular conference proceedings. For easy identification, industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title". Please follow the guidelines of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) published by Springer: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/ 0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html. Please submit your paper online in PDF format: http://elab.njit.edu/wisesubmit For more information, please contact the Industrial Program Chair. ------------------------- Industrial Program Chair: ------------------------- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research (jychung(a)us.ibm.com) ------------------------------- Industrial Program Vice Chairs: ------------------------------- Stephane Gagnon, NJIT (gagnon(a)njit.edu) Shu-Ping Chang, IBM Research (spchang(a)us.ibm.com) ------------------ Program Committee: ------------------ TBA

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CFP: Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Semantic Grid
by David De Roure 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Elsevier's JOURNAL OF WEB SEMANTICS Special Issue on SEMANTIC GRID http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/semanticgrid/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Description --------------- One of the key challenges in today's Grids is the need to deal with knowledge and data sources that are distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic, and where effective elicitation of implicit knowledge is a necessary component of the overall system. In such systems, a complete global viewpoint or understanding is impossible to achieve. We therefore need to go beyond centralised knowledge service provision, and develop effective open, distributed, knowledge-based solutions. The Semantic Grid aims to overcome this problem by adding meaning (ontologies, annotations and negotiation processes as studied in the Semantic Web and Software Agent paradigms) to the Grid. In this way, the Semantic Grid not only provides a general semantic-based computational network infrastructure, but a rich, seamless collection of intelligent, knowledge-based services for enabling the management and sharing of complex resources and reasoning mechanisms. In the Semantic Grid knowledge and semantics are deployed explicitly for Grid applications and for the development of innovative Grid infrastructures. This knowledge-oriented semantics-based approach to the Grid goes hand-in-hand with the exploitation of techniques and methodologies from intelligent software agents and web services representing various components of the virtual organizations and interacting in a P2P way. This special issue of the journal (http://www.websemanticsjournal.org) is soliciting highest-quality submissions on all topics related to Semantic Grid. Guest Editors ------------------- York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Englerstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel.: +49 721 608 6592 URL: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu/ David De Roure School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Tel.: +44 23 8059 2418 URL: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/ Submission Instructions -------------------------------- Submissions should be sent by email to both guest editors in the form of a *single PDF file*. Submissions should not exceed 30 (single column) pages. Please refer to the journal's instructions for authors and artwork instructions: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=671322&dc=GFA http://authors.elsevier.com/ArtworkInstructions.html?dc=AI1 Important Dates ----------------------------------- September 15th, 2005 -- Submissions due November 1st, 2005 -- Selection decisions with recommendations for revision December 1st, 2005 -- Submission of revised papers January 15th, 2005 -- Final acceptance decisions February 15th, 2006 -- Final versions of accepted papers -- Dr. York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH) phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592 web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu 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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