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GGF16 Semantic Grid Workshop presentations
by David De Roure 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Below you will find the titles of the presentations at our workshop at GGF16 in Athens on Wednesday Feb 15, 2006 1:30pm-7:00pm. This is a great set of papers and I'm looking forward to a very interesting workshop. It's really good to see how much work has been done since our previous workshops, and new things coming in too. Thanks to everyone who submitted. The papers will be available on the Web from February 1. Although the presentations are now fixed, we are still able to accept position papers to go on the Web (i.e. the online workshop proceedings). These will be available and will inform discussion. Please submit them to Nicky Harding (copied) as before - they will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We're working on the programme at the moment, trying to take account of scheduling contraints due to parallel events. Note that any GGF attendee can attend the workshop (but if we run out of space we'll give priority to people who have submitted papers). Ss usual there's a "day rate" so it is possible to attend just for the workshop (for one or two days) and pay less than the full registration. I look forward to seeing you in Athens. -- Dave Accepted papers (in alphabetical order of first author): * Web Service Information Systems and Applications Mehmet S. Aktas, Galip Aydin, Geoffrey C. Fox, Harshawardhan Gadgil, Marlon E. Pierce, Ahmet Sayar * S-OGSA as a Reference Architecture for OntoGrid and for the Semantic Grid Pinar Alper, Oscar Corcho, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, Paolo Missier, Sean Bechhofer, Dean Kuo, Carole Goble * Putting Semantics in Grid Workflow Management: the OWL-WS approach Stefano Beco, Barbara Cantalupo, Nikolaos Matskanis, Mike Surridge * Supporting the Music Information Retrieval Research Community - A Use Case for the Semantic Grid David De Roure, J. Stephen Downie * WS-DAIOnt: Ontology Access Provisioning in Grid Environments Miguel Esteban Guti�rrez, Asunci�n G�mez-P�rez, Oscar Muoz Garc�a, Boris Villaz�n Terrazas * A Semantic Search Engine for the Storage Resource Broker Stephen J. Jeffrey, Jane Hunter * Design and Implementation of OGSA-DAI-RDF Iao Kojima * Semantic Grid Resource Discovery using DHTs in Atlas Manolis Koubarakis, Zoi Kaoudi, Iris Miliaraki, Matoula Magiridou, Antonios Papadakis-Pesaresi * The Chemical SmartLab: Intelligent Information Publication for Chemists H. R. Mills, J. G. Frey, S. J. Coles, David De Roure * S-MDS: A Semantic Information Service for Advanced Resource Discovery and Monitoring in WS-Resource Framework Said Mirza Pahlevi, Isao Kojima * AgentWeb Gateway integration of FIPA Multi Agent System and W3C Web Service System M. Omair Shafiq, Arshad Ali, Hiroki Suguri, H. Farooq Ahmad * Using Triple Space Computing for Communication and Coordination of Services in Semantic Grid Omair Shafiq, Ioan Toma, Reto Krummenacher, Thomas Strang, Dieter Fensel * Improving a Satellite Mission System by means of a semantic grid architecture Manuel S�nchez-Gestido, Mar�a S. P�rez-Hern�ndez, Rafael Gonz�lez-Cabero, Asunci�n G�mez-Perez * The "5S" Grid in the Roadmap for Networked Organizations Ziga Turk, Peter Katranusckov

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final CFP: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'06)
by Luc Moreau 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'06) Chicago, Illinois, USA May 3-5, 2006 http://www.ipaw.info/ipaw06 *Introduction* This workshop is a follow-up to workshops in Chicago in October 2002 (http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/provenance/) and in Edinburgh in December 2003 (http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/304/) It will further investigate the issues of data provenance, process documentation, data derivation, and data annotation. In scientific, engineering and business workflows, typically data is repeatedly copied, corrected, and transformed as it passes through numerous databases or services. Understanding where data has come from and how it arrived in a database or filestore is of crucial importance to the trust a user will put in that data, yet this information is seldom captured properly. The importance of provenance goes well beyond verification; it is closely related to archiving and annotation, also important in the context of scientific, engineering and business data. Moreover, it may be used in data discovery. Knowing the provenance of a data item may help a user to make connections with other useful data. Alternatively, a user may want to understand a derivation in order to repeat it with modified parameters, and being able to describe a derivation may help a user to discover whether a particular kind of analysis has already been performed. Annotation is closely related to provenance. End users do more than produce and consume data: they comment on it and refer to it, and to the results of queries upon it. Annotation is therefore an important aspect of communication. One user may want to highlight a point in data space for another to investigate further. They may wish to annotate the result of a query such that similar queries show the annotation. *Topics of interest* Topics of interest to IPAW'06, include but are not limited to: * models of provenance and annotation * authenticity metadata (assertions made by the creator of a record) * integrity metadata (assertions managed by the preservation environment) * annotations (assertions made by users) * curation metadata * applications requiring provenance, uses cases, methodologies * provenance systems, functionality, protocols, implementation * relationship between provenance, annotation and metadata * provenance-based reasoning and Semantic Web techonologies * relationship between workflows, processes and provenance * security considerations for provenance * scalability issues * granularity of provenance * (design) intent capturing through provenance * legal issues relating to provenance * provenance, business processes and compliance *Information for Authors* IPAW'06 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological, and applications papers related to the issue of provenance and annotation. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages (lncs column format). Submissions will be peer reviewed and selected for presentation at the workshop; papers will be evaluated on the basis of the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality. Post-proceeedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag (www.springeronline.com/lncs/) LNCS is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form via the www.springerlink.com site. Authors will be requested to submit all electronic files, most importantly the source files, of all parts of their manuscript (including front matter pages) according to the Springer instructions. *Submission instructions* Papers have to be submitted electronically according to the instructions at the submission page <http://www.ipaw.info/ipaw06/submission/>. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: February 10, 2006 Acceptance Notification: March 6, 2006 IPAW'06 date: May 3-5, 2006 *Location* Gleacher Center, downtown Chicago, Illinois. *Programme Committee* * Dave Berry, National e-Science Centre, UK * Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh, UK * Ian Foster (co-chair), Argonne National Lab/University of Chicago, USA * James Frew, University of California, USA * Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA * Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK * Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Luc Moreau (co-chair), University of Southampton, UK * Jim Myers, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA * York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Ziga Turk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia * Mike Wilde, Argonne National Lab/University of Chicago, USA * Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China -- Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm

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Joint CFP: BSN'06 & SoS4CO'06
by gagnon＠soa7.com 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Please accept our apologies for cross posting. ********************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ ********************************************************************* Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter- enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life- cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Please submit papers via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper submission: February 1, 2006 Paper notification: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2006 Workshop: June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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CFP: Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06) "Integration For Everyone" Annual Meeting of the Integration Consortium Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, May 22-24, 2006 http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com http://www.integrationconsortium.org ********************************************************************** --- OVERVIEW --- The Global Integration Summit (GIS) is the annual meeting of the Integration Consortium (IC), the non-profit, user-driven association of IT professionals focused on application, information, process, service, and system integration technologies. The GIS differs from other industry events as it is truly user-driven and vendor-neutral. With an attendance hovering above 200 every year, and involving senior integration executives from leading Global 2000 corporations, the event offers a personal atmosphere for networking. --- THEME --- For our 3rd edition, the theme "Integration For Everyone" seeks to build a unified view of the Integration Discipline. One outcome of the Summit should be to develop a new Integration Body of Knowledge (I- BOK) As such, we welcome IT thought leaders from industry, vendors, analysts, and academia to expose the "State of the Art" in integration solutions. --- TOPICS --- Topics can range from business drivers for integration such as Governance and Regulatory Compliance, to integration approaches and platforms such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), to technical infrastructure issues such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Open Source Middleware. Papers can take the form of conceptual frameworks, research in progress, best practice reports, case studies, and executive viewpoints. We welcome papers that contribute to enriching the I-BOK. Please see below for an outline, with a detailed list of 50 topics available at: http://www.integrationconsortium.org/docs/ibok-v1.pdf Part A - Business Perspective 1. Business Trends and Integration Drivers 2. Industry-Specific Integration Drivers Part B - Application Requirements 3. Application-Specific Integration Solutions 4. User-Centric Integration Solutions Part C - Development Capabilities 5. Strategic Management of the Integration Function 6. Integration Development Methods and Standards 7. Integration Development Tools and Best Practices Part D - Technologies and Standards 8. Integration Platforms and System Architecture 9. Core Integration Technologies and Standards 10. Integration Runtime Infrastructure --- IMPORTANT DATES --- * Papers Submission Deadline >>> January 31, 2006 * Notification of Paper Selection >>> February 20, 2006 * Confirmation by Author to present at GIS 2006 >>> February 28, 2006 * Early Bird Registration Deadline >>> April 1, 2006 * Upload Final Paper and Presentation >>> May 1, 2006 * Global Integration Summit >>> May 22-24, 2006 --- SUBMISSION --- * Instructions: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/callforpapers.htm * Paper Template: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/docs/template.doc * Submission System: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/submit --- CO-CHAIRS --- John Schmidt President, Integration Consortium Senior Vice President, Integration, Bank of America Peter Anadranistakis Board of Directors Member, Integration Consortium Chief Partnership Officer, Online Business Systems Dr. Stephane Gagnon VP Research and Standards, Integration Consortium Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology --- CONTACT --- Please send all enquiries by email to: info(a)globalintegrationsummit.com

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GGF16 Semantic Grid workshop
by David De Roure 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Colleagues Just to let you know we are proposing to hold a Semantic Grid workshop at GGF16, which is in Athens, February 13-16, 2006. This will be the first GGF Semantic grid workshop in Europe, and I believe the timing is good as many e-Science projects and IST programme Grid projects now have some very interesting and useful Semantic grid experiences to share with the community. More information will be available in a few days, but I wanted to let you know now so that you can pencil this into your diaries. Thanks -- Dave

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