From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Fri Jan 10 11:28:59 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13822 for ontolog_site22-list; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:28:59 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13818 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:28:56 -0800 Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0AJStV25002 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:28:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0AJSsi00544 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:28:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from mwestc012-mwmp1port107.mitre.org (128.29.250.107) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 715276; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:28:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3E1F1EEC.5CC6DBD6@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:28:44 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] CFP: Ontologies for Business Information Systems, OntoBIS 2003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net FYI. -------- Original Message -------- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:20 +0100 From: owner-seweb-list@cs.vu.nl >Colorado > (Deadline: January 15, 2003) >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 8204 > >Dear SeWeb Subscribers, > >most of you probably know about the event Ontologies for Business >Information Systems, OntoBIS 2003 organized in June 2003 in Colorado, >USA. This is a special session organized within International Conference >on Business Information Systems - BIS 2003. Please see the below call >for papers. For further details, please visit our website at >http://bis2003.info or contact me directly at K.Wecel@bis2003.info. > >You can also download a flyer in PDF from >http://bis2003.info/6th_bis/ss/OntoBIS2003-CfP.pdf > >This is a reminder only and I hope that some of you have already planned >to submit a paper. There is only one week left. > > >Best Regards, >Krzysztof Wecel >Special Session Co-Chair >---- > > Call for Papers > > O n t o B I S > Ontologies for Business Information Systems > > >Special Session in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on >Business > Information Systems BIS 2003 > > > Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA > June 4-6, 2003 > > > http://bis2003.info > > > > Submission deadline: January 15, 2003 > >Introduction >------------ >BIS is an international conference with a long history. Although it was >devoted >to many research topics related to business information systems, one >important >aspect has not been discussed yet - ontologies. According to the >commonly >accepted definition, ontology is a formal, explicit specification of >a shared >conceptualization. A special session organized within forthcoming BIS >2003 is to >fill this gap. >Ontologies are developed to provide a machine-processable >semantics of >information that is exchanged between different agents, both >humans and >software. They started in the Philosophy, evolved in Artificial >Intelligence but >nowadays other research communities adopt them very quickly. >Ontologies face >strong expectations, especially in the business area: Knowledge >Management and >Electronic Commerce. Ontologies are heavily exploited by Semantic Web - >a vision >to link data on the Web in a way that it can be used by machines not >just for >display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of >data across >various applications. >There are a lot of very interesting and promising projects that make >use of >ontologies. Many different standards emerge. Many groups develop own >tools to >facilitate use of languages. No one is able to track all activities. >Often we >are unsure, which proposal will become a standard, which solution is >most widely >used. It will be advantageous to compare different solutions, >proposals, tools, >services. >The goal of this special session is to share experiences about >aforementioned >systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing standards and >tools and >creation of new systems, principles and applications. Its expected >outcome is a >common vision about the future directions. >This special session is dedicated to groups who contribute to the >development of >ontologies that can be used in Business Information Systems. We are >especially >looking for innovative applications taking advantage of the ontologies. > >Topics of Interest >------------------ >OntoBIS 2003 invites submissions related to all aspects of the >ontologies. >Papers MUST clearly demonstrate relevance to the usage of ontologies in >Business >Information Systems. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: > >* Business Specific Ontologies >* Ontologies for Data Warehousing, Electronic Commerce, Workflow, ERP, >CRM, > etc. >* Ontologies Supporting E-Business >* Ontologies for Enterprise Integration >* Metadata and Ontologies >* Economic Models, Financial Justification of Ontologies >* Semantic Web for Decision Support >* Information Access, Searching the Semantic Web >* Semantic Web-enabled Web Services >* Agent Communication and Applications in the Semantic Web >* Visual modeling of Ontologies for BIS >* Electronic Trading Systems and Marketplaces >* Ontology Languages: e.g. Ontolingua, RDF, XOL, OIL, DAML-S, DAML+OIL >* Web Services Integration Standards (description, discovery and > interoperation) >* Data/Information/Knowledge Integration by Use of Ontologies >* Use of Foundational Ontologies in BIS > >The successful papers should focus on complex solutions >rather than >technological aspects. > >Submission >---------- >Papers to be considered for regular conference presentation and >proceedings >should be submitted via the regular conference submission process. >Detailed >instructions, especially formatting, will be published on conference >Web page >(see http://bis2003.info). Questions on content should be directed to: >Dr. Krzysztof Wecel, K.Wecel@bis2003.info. > >A. Research papers >Papers should not exceed 5000 words. They should describe original >research >(practical or theoretical). Theoretical papers should provide an >overview of >area of research closely related to ontologies in BIS. Practical >papers can >describe an implemented tool or service that contributes to the ontologies. > >B. Work in progress >Papers should not exceed 2500 words. They may present some aspects >related to >ontologies and describe work that it is still in progress but its >results may be >interesting for a broader audience. > >Important Dates >--------------- >Jan 15, 2003 submission deadline for long and work-in-progress >papers to be > published in refereed proceedings >Feb 28, 2003 notification of acceptance/rejection >Apr 15, 2003 submission of final papers >Jun 4-6, 2003 the conference > >Special Session Co-Chairs >------------------------- >Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria >dieter.fensel@uibk.ac.at > >Krzysztof Wecel, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland >K.Wecel@kie.ae.poznan.pl > >Program Committee >----------------- >* Michel Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting, Texas, USA >* Mark Burstein, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA >* Peter E. Clark, Boeing Maths and Computing Technology, Seattle, USA >* Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA >* Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut Connecticut USA >* Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA >* Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy >* Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Technical University Madrid, Spain >* Nicola Guarino, Italian National Research Council, Padova, Italy >* Pat Hayes, University of West Florida, USA >* Jerry R. Hobbs, USC/ISI, USA >* Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Sofia, Bulgaria >* Massimo Marchiori, W3C, Cambridge, USA >* Natasha Fridman Noy, Stanford University, USA >* Terry R. Payne, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA >* Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece >* Kilian Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland >* Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA >* Mike Uschold, The Boeing Company, Seattle, USA >* Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA >* Yannis Zorgios, Applied Information Engineering, Croydon, UK > >BIS 2003 Conference Co-Chairs >----------------------------- >Gary Klein, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA >gklein@brain.uccs.edu > >Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland >W.Abramowicz@kie.ae.poznan.pl > >Address >------- >The Poznan University of Economics >Department of Management Information Systems >Al. Niepodleglosci 10 >60-967 Poznan, Poland >phone: +48/61/ 856 93 33 >fax: +48/61/ 856 93 34 >bis2003@bis2003.info > > >-- >Krzysztof Wecel, Ph.D. http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/~kaw >Department of Management Information Systems >The Poznan University of Economics, al. Niepodleglosci 10, 60-967 Poznan >K.Wecel@kie.ae.poznan.pl Tel:(+48 61) 856-9333 Fax:(+48 61) 856-9334 Sender: owner-seweb-list@cs.vu.nl Precedence: bulk =================== Dr. Ying Ding Div of Math & Comp Sci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Bolelaan 1081 a, 1081 HV Amsterdam www.cs.vu.nl/~ying Fax: +31 84 86 63569 -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Sun Jan 12 13:50:51 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03644 for ontolog_site22-list; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:50:51 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03640 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:50:48 -0800 Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CLolV24132 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:50:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CLoji05819 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:50:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from unity-18-91.mitre.org (129.83.18.91) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 721497; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:50:36 -0500 Message-ID: <3E21E321.E7316ABB@mitre.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:50:25 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] [Fwd: VISION: Next Generation Knowledge Management Workshop] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net FYI. European Workshop. -------- Original Message -------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:58 +0100 From: owner-seweb-list@cs.vu.nl > , > , > >Content-Length: 5087 > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C2A820.E62BC010 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Dear all, > >we would like to invite you to the VISION - Towards Next=20 >Generation Knowledge Management Workshop to be held on=20 >28th January 2003, 14.00 - 17.00 in Brussels, Belgium. > >The workshop will bring together European experts from=20 >industry and academia to present and discuss the=20 >state-of-the-art, the technologies and the tools,=20 >remarkable case-stories, best practices, open issues=20 >and challenges within the field of knowledge management=20 >and invites people and organizations interested in the=20 >field of knowledge management, especially focusing on=20 >future collaboration in the context of the 6th=20 >framework programme.=20 > >Further information about the location, timing and=20 >agenda of the workshop is available at > >http://wim.fzi.de/vision/workshops/workshop_brussels.html > >Please confirm your participation as soon as possible by >sending a fax to: > >FZI Research Center for Information Technologies >Knowledge Management >Mark Hefke >+49 721 9654 865 > >or sending an email to: > >hefke@fzi.de >Subject: VISION Workshop Brussels > >Best Regards, >Alexander Maedche >-- >Dr. A. Maedche >FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the >University of Karlsruhe, Research Group WIM, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany >Tel.: +49-(0)721-9654-802 , Fax.: +49-(0)721-9654-803 >e-mail: maedche@fzi.de >www: http://www.fzi.de/wim/ > > > > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C2A820.E62BC010 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > >VISION - Next Generation Knowledge Management Workshop > >Dear all, > >we would like to invite you to the = VISION - Towards Next >Generation Knowledge Management = Workshop to be held on >28th January 2003, 14.00 17.00 = in Brussels, Belgium. > >The workshop will bring together = European experts from >industry and academia to present and = discuss the >state-of-the-art, the technologies and = the tools, >remarkable case-stories, best = practices, open issues >and challenges within the field of = knowledge management >and invites people and organizations = interested in the >field of knowledge management, = especially focusing on >future collaboration in the context of = the 6th >framework programme. > >Further information about the location, = timing and >agenda of the workshop is available = at > ><3d.htm>http://wim.fzi.de/vision/workshops/workshop_brussels.html<= /FONT> > >Please confirm your participation as = soon as possible by >sending a fax to: > >FZI Research Center for Information = Technologies >Knowledge Management >Mark Hefke >+49 721 9654 865 > >or sending an email to: > >hefke@fzi.de >Subject: VISION Workshop = Brussels > >Best Regards, >Alexander Maedche >-- >Dr. A. Maedche >FZI Research Center for Information = Technologies at the >University of Karlsruhe, Research = Group WIM, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany >Tel.: +49-(0)721-9654-802 , Fax.: = +49-(0)721-9654-803 >e-mail: maedche@fzi.de >www: <3d.htm>http://www.fzi.de/wim/ > > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C2A820.E62BC010-- Sender: owner-seweb-list@cs.vu.nl Precedence: bulk =================== Dr. Ying Ding Div of Math & Comp Sci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Bolelaan 1081 a, 1081 HV Amsterdam www.cs.vu.nl/~ying Fax: +31 84 86 63569 -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Sun Jan 12 13:52:11 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03664 for ontolog_site22-list; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:52:11 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03660 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:52:08 -0800 Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CLq8V24215 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:52:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CLq7i05866 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:52:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from unity-18-91.mitre.org (129.83.18.91) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 721502; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:51:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3E21E370.4820ED04@mitre.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:51:44 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] [Fwd: CFP: Service Sharing in Agent-Enabled Concurrent Engineering] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net FYI. Concurrent engineering is a business problem too. -------- Original Message -------- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:19 +0100 From: owner-seweb-list@cs.vu.nl > Service Sharing in Agent-Enabled Concorrent Engineering at 10-th ISPE > CE'2003 >Cc: valli@csc.liv.ac.uk >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >X-Authenticated-Sender: eva@zsu.zp.ua >X-MDRemoteIP: 212.8.36.104 >X-Return-Path: eva@zsu.zp.ua >X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: seweb-list@cs.vu.nl >Reply-To: eva@zsu.zp.ua >Content-Length: 6964 > >Our apologies for cross-postings. > >Dear collegues, > >Please find below the Call for Papers. Deadline for paper submissions is >Friday, February, the 28-th, 2003. > >ISPE/CE2003 Conference and Exhibition >10th ISPE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON >CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS >Carlton Madeira Hotel - Madeira Island, Portugal >26 - 30 JULY, 2003 >http://isg.uninova.pt/ce2003/ >Invited Session on: >Automated Knowledge and Service Sharing >in Agent-Enabled Concurrent Engineering >http://www.zsu.zp.ua/ce-2003 > >Call for Papers > >Concurrent Engineering (CE) is widely known as an effective product >development approach. Its major objective is to reduce the system/product >development time and effort through a better integration of activities and >processes. As defined by the US Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), CE is >the systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products >and related processes, including manufacturing and support throughout the >whole product life cycle from conception to disposal. >CE methodology becomes even more attractive today and in the future when >the procedures and the technologies of design and manufacturing become more >globalized, standardized, dynamic and flexible. The challenge for the >future generation of CE methodologies and infrastructures is the provision >of the solutions for automated rational interoperation among independent >human and artificial team-players in open organizations. The appearance of >virtual enterprises, consortia as temporary coalitions in design and >manufacturing make CE activities and processes globally dispersed >organizationally and geographically. Another big task for CE methodology is >to properly and effectively guide the assembly of a design or a production >process from matching distributed service components. The services are >evidently provided by independent parties and possess varying availability >and price over time. The facet of reputation and trust among the members of >these open dynamic constellations of economically rational agents is of >extreme importance as well. >The agent paradigm has proved its capability to provide successful >solutions for the application areas where autonomous, loosely-coupled, >heterogeneous, and distributed systems or players need to rationally >interoperate in order to achieve a common goal. Ontologies are recognized >as shared common specifications of the concepts used for interoperation in >open heterogeneous systems of autonomous rational agents. It is topical >that both Agents and Ontologies are central to the rapidly emerging >Semantic Web. Their combined use will enable the sharing of heterogeneous, >autonomous knowledge on services, service providers, service capabilities >in a scalable, adaptable and extensible manner in frame of the Semantic Web >of Services. >The focus of CE'2003 is "The vision for the future generation". Following >this, we solicit research and profound visionary papers providing for >better understanding of and forming the emerging landscape of >(semi-)automated knowledge sharing models, methodologies, solutions and >infrastructures in agent-enabled CE. > >Scope > >The scope of the session is formed of, but not limited to, the following >topics: >- Models, methodologies and solutions supporting the semi-automation of >knowledge sharing in open CE organizations >- Ontology based semantic interoperation among agents in open CE architectures >- Modelling and semantics of life cycles in CE >- Automated negotiation, argumentation and reaching consensus among >team-players in the processes of CE >- Dynamic CE process planning execution and control by coalitions of >interoperating agents >- Semantic Web Services as an enabling technology for agent-based CE >- Dynamic reputation assessment, trust and coalition formation among agents >in CE domain > >Submissions and Publication > >Only full paper submissions will be accepted to CE2003, subject to the >international scientific rules for review. Only electronic submissions will >be accepted to the Session. Please submit the PDF version of your >manuscript to one of the Session co-chairs: > >Vadim Ermolayev >Dept. of Mathematical modeling and IT, >Zaporozhye State Univ., >Zaporozhye, Ukraine >eva@zsu.zp.ua > >Valentina Tamma >Department of Computer Science >University of Liverpool >Liverpool UK >valli@csc.liv.ac.uk > >Proceedings will be published as an ISBN numbered book with accompanying CD >by A.A. Balkema Publishers (http://balkema.ima.nl/) and will be available >at the conference. > >The authors of selected papers will be invited to publish their extended >versions in International Scientific Journals: >- International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications >(CERA Journal) (http://www.ceraj.com/) >- International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM) >(http://www.inderscience.com/catalogue/i/ijiem/ijiem.html) >- International Journal of Agile Manufacturing(IJAM) >(http://www.geocities.com/ijamjournal/) >- Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems(JAMS) >(http://www.worldscinet.com/jams/jams.shtml) > >Review > >Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the >conference program committee and selected on the basis of their relevance, >originality and scientific quality. Program committee members targeted to >the session submissions review are (alphabetically): > >Sonia Bergamaschi Univ. of Modena, Italy >Ying Ding Univ. of Insbruck, Austria >Vadim Ermolayev (co-chair) Zaporozhye State Univ., Ukraine, eva@zsu.zp.ua >Valentina Tamma (co-chair) Univ. of Liverpool, UK, valli@csc.liv.ac.uk >Steven Willmott Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, >Spain >Michael Wooldridge Univ. of Liverpool, UK > >Author guidelines > >Papers should include: Title, name(s) and affiliations(s) of authors, an >abstract of no more than 200 words, a set of relevant keywords, resulting >in a manuscript of six to eight A4-size pages together with figures and >references. >Please also include a cover sheet containing name, address, telephone, FAX >numbers, and e-mail address of the person to whom correspondence regarding >the paper should be addressed. >Formatting guidelines may be downloaded from >http://isg.uninova.pt/ce2003/instrution_to_authors.htm > >Important dates > >Friday, February 28, 2003: Paper submission deadline >Monday, March 24, 2003: Notification of acceptance >Monday, April 14, 2003: Camera ready due >Monday, April 21, 2003: Preliminary program due >Friday, April 25, 2003: Early bird registration deadline > > >Dr. Vadim A. Ermolayev >Dept of Mathematical modelling and IT >Zaporozhye State University >66, Zhukovskogo st., >69063, Zaporozhye, >Ukraine > >Tel. +380 61 264 17 24 >Fax. +380 61 264 45 46 >E-mail mailto:eva@zsu.zp.ua >URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=Vadim+Ermolayev >or: http://eva.zsu.zp.ua/ Sender: owner-seweb-list@cs.vu.nl Precedence: bulk =================== Dr. Ying Ding Div of Math & Comp Sci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Bolelaan 1081 a, 1081 HV Amsterdam www.cs.vu.nl/~ying Fax: +31 84 86 63569 -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Sun Jan 12 13:53:17 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03692 for ontolog_site22-list; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:53:17 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03688 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:53:13 -0800 Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CLrDV24274 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:53:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0CLrCi05904 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:53:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from unity-18-91.mitre.org (129.83.18.91) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 721505; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:52:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3E21E3AD.7183D766@mitre.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:52:45 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] [Fwd: (SeWeb) Call for Contributions: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (ICEC 2003)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net FYI. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: (SeWeb) Call for Contributions Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:42:24 +0100 From: Ying Ding To: seweb-list@cs.vu.nl >From: Norman Sadeh >Subject: Thanks but the attachment seems unreadable >Cc: Raghua@cs.cmu.edu > > > > Call for Contributions > >Fifth International Conference on >ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (ICEC 2003) > >Pittsburgh, PA, USA >October 1-3, 2003 > >http://www.icec03.org/ > >** April 1, 2003 deadline for paper submission ** >**February 15, 2003 deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals** > >With adoption of eBusiness practices continuing to rise and with annual >worldwide transaction volumes poised to pass the trillion-dollar mark, i= t >is clear that eBusiness is here to stay. Despite the gloom and doom of t= he >post-bubble years, eBusiness innovation has not stopped. This is >exemplified by the emergence of Web services, the mobile Internet, agent= >technologies, wireless computing, novel market mechanisms, automated >trading and negotiation techniques, P2P technologies, pervasive computin= g, >the Semantic Web and Online Dispute Resolution to name just a few. Along= >with the many promises they hold, these technologies and associated >practices continue to challenge established business models as well as >existing legal and regulatory frameworks. As the leading eBusiness >research conference, ICEC provides an interdisciplinary forum where both= >researchers and practitioners come together, present their latest findin= gs >and engage in discussions aimed at charting the future of this fascinati= ng >and ever-expanding area. > >As in the past, ICEC2003 will feature invited presentations, high-level >panels, refereed paper presentations, tutorials and seminars aimed at >taking stock of eBusiness today and at uncovering future opportunities a= nd >challenges. In contrast to more specialized eCommerce events, ICEC is op= en >to technical, business as well as policy contributions and strongly >encourages submission of panel and workshop proposals of an >interdisciplinary nature. > >PAPER SUBMISSIONS >ICEC2003 welcomes the submission of original, previously unpublished, >papers focused on the themes of electronic commerce. The papers will be >published in conference proceedings. Arrangements are also being made wi= th >a number of leading journals to organize special issues featuring extend= ed >versions of the best papers. > >The conference will be organized around three tracks: >=B7 The eCommerce Technologies track will focus on technologies fo= r >supporting the practices of eBusiness. >Track Co-Chairs: Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu) & Onn Shehory (IBM) >Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) trading mechanisms >(e.g., auctions, exchanges, fixed-price, RFP), trade and communication >strategies, price determination, winner determination, collaborative >eCommerce, quality of service in eCommerce, mobile commerce, intelligent= >agents, security mechanisms, electronic contracting and commitment, >negotiation and dispute resolution, models and analysis of marketplaces,= >product/service description and cataloging, electronic payment systems, >trust, privacy and reputation in eCommerce, multi-lingual electronic >commerce, eCRM, web services, supply chain management, and semantic web >technologies. >=B7 The eBusiness Management track will focus on the management, >business models and adoption challenges of eCommerce. >Track Co-Chairs: Robert Kauffman (U. of Minnesota) and Rahul Telang (CMU= ) >Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) B2B markets and >exchanges, eConsumer behavior, B2C eCommerce, buyer search behavior and >shopping agents, eCommerce adoption, diffusion and procurement, >personalization and targeting, pricing and price discrimination models, >eTailer competition and strategies, direct marketing, user satisfaction,= >web content quality, reputation, knowledge management, and user privacy.= >=B7 The eCommerce Law and Policy track >Track Co-Chairs: Lorrie Cranor (AT&T) and Mary Jo Dively (CMU) >Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) privacy, digital >rights management and intellectual property issues, international legal >framework, information security, authentication systems, security versus= >commerce, outsourcing, competition, Internet governance, online dispute >resolution, consumer protection, regulation of online >activities, taxation, and sovereign censorship. > >The organization around tracks is to ensure that each paper is reviewed = by >the most knowledgeable experts in the field. It should not be construed = as >a requirement that papers fall within a given track. To the contrary, we= >strongly encourage interdisciplinary submissions. >Papers should be written in English, and not be simultaneously submitted= >for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial results at >workshops with informal proceedings is allowed). Authors are invited to >submit papers in Word, PDF or postscript by April 1, 2003 see conferenc= e >website for details. Submissions should not exceed 5000 words, including= >an abstract of up to 150 words and a list of references. Each submission= >should also indicate one or more relevant tracks and include a list of u= p >to 6 relevant keywords to facilitate the review process. Over-length >papers will be rejected without consideration. > >WORKSHOP, TUTORIAL AND PANEL SUBMISSIONS >Conference organizers are also inviting proposals for workshops, >tutorials, and panels. These are due by February 15, 2003. For submissio= n >requirements, please contact: >=B7 Workshops: Bruce McLaren (workshop chair, bmclaren+@pitt.edu) >=B7 Tutorials: Terry Payne (tutorial co-chair, trp@ecs.soton.ac.uk) >=B7 Panels: Norman Sadeh (general chair, sadeh@cs.cmu.edu) > >Please consult the conference web page for updates: http://www.icec03.or= g > >For questions, please contact the conference secretariat at icec03@cs.cm= u.edu. > >LOCAL ORGANIZATION >Local organization of the conference is provided by Carnegie Mellon >University through collaboration between the Institute for eCommerce, th= e >School of Computer Science, the Heinz School of Management and Public >Policy, the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, the Institute >for Software Research International, the Institute for the Study of >Information Technologies and Society, the Sustainable Computing >Consortium. The conference is further supported by the International >Center for Electronic Commerce (www.icec.net). > >General Chair >Prof. Norman M. Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > >International Program Co-Chairs >Dr. Lorrie Cranor, AT&T, USA (eCommerce Law and Policy Co-Chair) >Mary Jo Dively, Esq., Carnegie Mellon University, USA (eCommerce Law and= >Policy Co-Chair) >Prof. Robert Kauffman, University of Minnesota, USA (eBusiness Managemen= t >Co-Chair) >Dr. Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu, USA (eCommerce Technology Co-Chair) >Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM, Israel (eCommerce Technology Co-Chair) >Prof. Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (eBusiness Managemen= t >Co-Chair) > >WORKSHOP CHAIR >Dr. Bruce McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > >TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS >Dr. Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK >Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM, Israel > >Conference Advisors >Prof. L. K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China >Prof. David Farber, University of Pennsylvania, USA >Prof. Hardy Hanappi, University of Technology, Austria >Prof. Jim Hendler, University of Maryland at College Park, USA >Prof. Richard Ho, City University of Honk Kong, China >Prof. Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK >Prof. Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA >Prof. Jae Kyu Lee, KAIST, Korea >Prof. Louis Ma, City University of Hong Kong, China >Prof. Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Carnegie Mellon University, USA >Jeffrey B. Ritter, Esq., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, USA >Prof. Beat Schmid, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland >Prof. Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA >Prof. Michael Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. >Prof. Andrew Whinston, University of Texas at Austin, USA > >Organization Chair >Dr. Raghu Arunachalam, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > >IMPORTANT DATES >Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Due on: February 15, 2003 >Papers Due on: April 1, 2= 003 >Author Notification: May 15, 200= 3 >Camera Ready Copy Due on: June 15, 2003 >Conference Dates: October 1-3, 2003 >Workshops and Tutorials: September >30-October3, 2003 > > > > > > >************************************************************************= ************* >Prof. Norman M. Sadeh >Director, Mobile Commerce Lab. >Director, e-Supply Chain Management Lab. >eCommerce Institute - Wean Hall 1325 >ISRI - School of Computer Science >Carnegie Mellon University >5000 Forbes Avenue >Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 >U.S.A. >Tel: +1 (412) 268-8144 >Fax: +1 (412) 291-1110 >Email: sadeh@cs.cmu.edu >http://almond.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~sadeh/ >Secretary: Monika De Reno, Tel: (412)268-3163, mdereno@cs.cmu.edu >************************************************************************= ************* > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr. Ying Ding Div of Math & Comp Sci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Bolelaan 1081 a, 1081 HV Amsterdam www.cs.vu.nl/~ying Fax: +31 84 86 63569 -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Wed Jan 15 03:10:15 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA30230 for ontolog_site22-list; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 03:10:15 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA30226 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 03:10:11 -0800 Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0FB9hV01906 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:09:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0FB9fv08563 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:09:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from mbppp219.mitre.org (129.83.69.219) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 772524; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:09:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3E254168.A59F2BA7@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:09:28 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] Amazon.com: Books: Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------6CBD89FD53BF5C78237657A5" Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6CBD89FD53BF5C78237657A5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This book is just out (Dec. 31, 2002). 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Foreword.

Affiliations.

A= cknowledgements.

Introduction (Davies, Fensel and van Harmelen).

OI= L and DAML+OIL: Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web (Fensel, van Harm= elen and Horrocks).

A Methodology for Ontology-based Knowledge Managem= ent (Sure and Studer).

Ontology Management: Storing, Aligning and Main= taining Ontologies (Klein, Ding, Fensel and Omelayenko).

Sesame: A Gen= eric Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema (Broekstra,= Kampman and van Harmelen).

Generating Ontologies for the Semantic Web= : OntoBuilder (Engels and Lech).

OntoEdit: Collaborative Engineering o= f Ontologies (Sure, Erdmann and Studer).

QuizRDF: Search Technology fo= r the Semantic Web (Davies, Weeks and Krohn).

Spectacle (Fluit, Horst,= van der Meer, Sabou and Mika).

OntoShare: Evolving Ontologies in a Kn= owledge Sharing System (Davies, Duke and Stonkus).

Ontology Middleware= and Reasoning (Kiryakov, Simov and Ognyanov).

Ontology-based Knowledg= e Management at Work: The Swiss Life Case Studies (Reimer, Brockhausen, L= au and Reich).

Field Experimenting with Semantic Web Tools in a Virtua= l Organization (Iosif, Mika, Larsson and Akkermans).

A Future Perspect= ive: Peer-2-Peer Enabled Semantic Web for Knowledge Management (Fensel, S= taab, Studer, van Harmelen and Davies).

Conclusions: Ontology-driven K= nowledge Management - Towards the Semantic Web? (Davies, Fensel and van H= armelen).

References.

Index.

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--------------6CBD89FD53BF5C78237657A5-- -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Wed Jan 15 15:46:23 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA02831 for ontolog_site22-list; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:46:23 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from cim-oem.com (hermes.cim3.net [66.92.12.48]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02827; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:46:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3E25F2BF.6000803@cim-oem.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:46:07 -0800 From: "Peter P. Yim" Organization: CIM Engineering, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net Subject: [ontolog] Providing Review to the UBL Jan-2003 Release Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net Happy New Year! 1. I would like to let everyone know that the UBL - Universal Business Language - Technical Committee is imminently making the next release of their interim work product for review by the industry. 2. One of the charters of this forum is to "identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to the UBL effort." (see http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog/0209/msg00000.html#nid03) 3. We intend to collectively contribute to that review effort, and the purpose of this message is draw everyone's attention to this upcoming activity. 4. What we can possibly do, after we are provided access to the UBL work products, would be: (a) to review the work and provide general (on non-ontological issues) feedback, individually, to UBL directly; (b) to bring up ontology or ontological engineering issues for discussion within this forum, and then provide a compilation of our findings and recommendations (possibly in the form of a position paper) to UBL collectively; (c) Consider making an attempt to "ontologize" the UBL work product -- but, obviously, we need to discuss the what? and how? of this effort in more depth. (d) plus, anything else members of this community would propose and agree to take on. 5. For those members who are not very familiar with the OASIS-UBL TC and their work, please take a moment to browse their website at: http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ In particular, the two recent presentations made by UBL TC members (at the XML Conference in Baltimore, MD, USA in Dec. 2002), as highlighted at the UBL site, would provide a succinct picture of what UBL is all about. See: // UBL TC Vice Chair Mark Crawford gave the UBL keynote: http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/200212/0212ubl.ppt Schema designers will find Eve Maler's talk on Schema Rules for UBL of particular interest: http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/info/ubl2002e.pdf // 6. I'll get back to you all, shortly, once I have specific information to the new UBL release. Regards, PPY -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Thu Jan 16 10:48:44 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA11267 for ontolog_site22-list; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:48:44 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11263 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:48:41 -0800 Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0GImeV02208 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:48:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0GImci07974 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:48:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from m26451-pc-1.mitre.org (128.29.11.31) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 799903; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:48:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3E26FE7E.3447A3F4@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:48:30 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] [Fwd: Sidebar from Feb .net magizine] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------1FBE0A01FEFC39F7AACF73F1" Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net --------------1FBE0A01FEFC39F7AACF73F1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI (might be of interest here). -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sidebar from Feb .net magizine Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:31:03 -0500 From: "John Flynn" To: Meet the WS-I The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), which was cofounded by Microsoft Corp. and IBM, is an open industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. The organization works across the industry and standards organizations, responding to customer needs by providing guidance, best practices, and resources for developing Web services solutions. Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Fujitsu, Intel, Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, and SAP are nine WS-I founding companies. The WS-I has said that it plans to appoint two new members to its board, one of which could Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun finally joined WS-I in October 2002 and is, therefore, eligible. This could pave the way for the consortium to develop Web services standards that are embraced by software rivals. The WS-I was formed specifically to create, support, or promote Generic Protocols for Interoperable exchange of messages between services. Generic Protocols are independent of the specific actions messages indicate beyond those actions that messages need for secure, reliable, and efficient delivery. "Interoperable" means being suitable for and capable of being implemented neutrally on multiple operating systems, in multiple programming languages. The WS-I is organized into three key working groups: * The Basic Web Services Profile Working Group will identify a core set of specifications (including XML Schema, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI) that provide the foundation for Web services. It will establish conventions and recommendations for coordinating their use. * The Sample Applications Working Group will provide sample applications of basic Web services that accelerate deployments. These sample apps illustrate best practices for implementation and will be developed in multiple programming languages using multiple development tools. * The Test Materials and Tools Development Working Group will develop a suite of self-administered tests to verify conformance with the Basic Web Services Profile. Developers will be able to use these tools and materials to ensure Web services interoperate across platforms, applications, and programming languages. If you're implementing Web services, it's wise to comply with the existing standards-based model, which enables interoperability and a faster time to market. The WS-I can provide the clarity, guidance, and direction around usability aspects as you move into the Web services model of computing. To assist in ensuring the interoperability of Web services, the WS-I will create a suite of tools and materials initially for testing implementations and their conformance with "basic level" Web services standards: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. These testing capabilities are important so you can ensure your implementations comply with the best practices use for these Web services specifications. Tests will be self-administered and aim at uncovering unconventional usage or errors in specification implementations, thus improving interoperability between applications and across platforms. John Flynn (703) 284-4612 DAML Integration and Transition PM BBN Technologies --------------1FBE0A01FEFC39F7AACF73F1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI (might be of interest here).

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Subject:  Sidebar from Feb .net magizine
Date:  Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:31:03 -0500
From:  "John Flynn" <jflynn@bbn.com>
To:  <daml-services@daml.org>

Meet the WS-I

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), which was cofounded by Microsoft Corp. and IBM, is an open industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. The organization works across the industry and standards organizations, responding to customer needs by providing guidance, best practices, and resources for developing Web services solutions. Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Fujitsu, Intel, Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, and SAP are nine WS-I founding companies. 

The WS-I has said that it plans to appoint two new members to its board, one of which could Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun finally joined WS-I in October 2002 and is, therefore, eligible. This could pave the way for the consortium to develop Web services standards that are embraced by software rivals.

The WS-I was formed specifically to create, support, or promote Generic Protocols for Interoperable exchange of messages between services. Generic Protocols are independent of the specific actions messages indicate beyond those actions that messages need for secure, reliable, and efficient delivery. "Interoperable" means being suitable for and capable of being implemented neutrally on multiple operating systems, in multiple programming languages.

The WS-I is organized into three key working groups:

  • The Basic Web Services Profile Working Group will identify a core set of specifications (including XML Schema, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI) that provide the foundation for Web services. It will establish conventions and recommendations for coordinating their use. 
  • The Sample Applications Working Group will provide sample applications of basic Web services that accelerate deployments. These sample apps illustrate best practices for implementation and will be developed in multiple programming languages using multiple development tools. 
  • The Test Materials and Tools Development Working Group will develop a suite of self-administered tests to verify conformance with the Basic Web Services Profile. Developers will be able to use these tools and materials to ensure Web services interoperate across platforms, applications, and programming languages. 
If you're implementing Web services, it's wise to comply with the existing standards-based model, which enables interoperability and a faster time to market. The WS-I can provide the clarity, guidance, and direction around usability aspects as you move into the Web services model of computing.

To assist in ensuring the interoperability of Web services, the WS-I will create a suite of tools and materials initially for testing implementations and their conformance with "basic level" Web services standards: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. These testing capabilities are important so you can ensure your implementations comply with the best practices use for these Web services specifications. Tests will be self-administered and aim at uncovering unconventional usage or errors in specification implementations, thus improving interoperability between applications and across platforms. 

John Flynn

(703) 284-4612

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--------------1FBE0A01FEFC39F7AACF73F1-- -- To post messages mailto:ontolog@forums.cim3.net An archive of the [ontolog] forum can be found at http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog From owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Thu Jan 16 17:29:20 2003 Received: (from admin@localhost) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA14372 for ontolog_site22-list; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:29:20 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: zeus.cim3.org: admin set sender to owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org using -f Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by zeus.cim3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14368 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:29:17 -0800 Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0H1TGV25575 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:29:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0H1TFi28406 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:29:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from mbppp225.mitre.org (129.83.69.225) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 805519; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:29:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3E275C5C.281E5123@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:29:00 -0500 From: Leo Obrst Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontolog-forums-cim3-net Subject: [ontolog] Web Services Choreography Working Group Charter Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F3454154D0FD8788596CB3F9" Sender: owner-ontology_site22@zeus.cim3.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ontolog@forums.cim3.net This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F3454154D0FD8788596CB3F9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI. This has been commented on in a couple of Semantic Web lists today: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/wscwg-charter -- _____________________________________________ Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation mailto:lobrst@mitre.org Intelligent Information Management/Exploitation Voice: 703-883-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S W640 Fax: 703-883-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA --------------F3454154D0FD8788596CB3F9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="wscwg-charter" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="wscwg-charter" Content-Base: "http://www.w3.org/2003/01/wscwg-charte r" Content-Location: "http://www.w3.org/2003/01/wscwg-charte r" Web Services Choreography Working Group Charter

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Web Services Choreography Working Group Charter

  1. Goals and Scope of the Web Services Choreography Working Group
    1. Inputs
    2. Deliverables
    3. Choreography Language Specification
    4. Mapping to the Semantic Web
  2. Out of Scope
    1. Qualities
    2. Mappings to Programming Languages
    3. Graphical notation
  3. Schedule
  4. Relationships with Other Work
    1. W3C Groups and Activities
    2. External Groups
  5. Participation, Meetings, and Logistics
    1. Participation
    2. Email Communication
    3. Group Home Page
    4. Meetings
    5. Resources
    6. W3C Team Involvement
    7. Intellectual Property

1 Goals and Scope of the Web Services Choreography Working Group

Existing specifications for Web services describe the indivisible units of interactions. It has become clear that taking the next step in the development of Web services will require the ability to compose and describe the relationships between lower-level services. Although differing terminology is used in the industry, such as orchestration, collaboration, coordination, conversations, etc., the terms all share a common characteristic of describing linkages and usage patterns between Web services. For the purpose of this document, and without prejudice, we use the term choreography as a label to denote this space.

Many presentations at the W3C Workshop on Web services of 11-12 April 2001 pointed to the need for a common interface and composition language to help address choreography. The Web Services Architecture Requirements Working Draft created by the Web Services Architecture Working Group also lists the idea of Web service choreography capabilities as a Critical Success Factor, in support of several different top-level goals for the nascent Web services architecture.

Two technical Submissions, WSCL, and WSCI, have recently been published by the W3C as Technical Notes. There are other industry efforts in the area of choreography languages, such as BPML (defined by BPMI.org), BPSS (defined by ebXML), IBM's WSFL, Microsoft's XLANG, and IBM/Microsoft/BEA's BPEL4WS and their companion specifications WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction, etc. These developments make clear that there is a great deal of interest within the industry in addressing this problem area.

Some observers predict that if no steps are taken to develop a choreography specification in a vendor-neutral forum, the Web services marketplace may be divided into a number of non-interoperable sub-networks. A vendor-neutral choreography specification which commands consensus and wide support, on the other hand, can make it much easier and cheaper to create composite Web services which integrate services from multiple vendors. Small and medium-sized enterprises will be able to create more complex and more useful Web services. This in turn will help the market grow much more vigorously than would be possible without a vendor-neutral specification for choreography.

The problems posed by the lack of a widely adopted choreography specification, the current proliferation of overlapping work, and the time required to complete this effort merit the chartering a new W3C Working Group now. This Working Group should address the choreography space encompassed by the referenced documents. This Working Group should also coordinate with other Working Groups within the Web Service Activity, with the aim of developing an interoperable and open standard for Web service choreography.

WSDL has proved very useful for describing a single service. Currently complex natural language descriptions outlining the obligations of the participants and detailing how to use a service (sequencing, state management, etc.) have to accompany a WSDL description. The next step is to partially replace these somewhat imprecise instructions with precise language. This will simplify the daunting task companies now face when trying to use Web services to integrate their business processes. In a B2B context such a specification could reduce the cost of integrating with new trading partners and responding to changes in existing interfaces. In addition, creating a standard language to describe the relationships between document exchanges will be helpful to other standards bodies, such as RosettaNet or CIDX, giving them a standard infrastructure for message choreography and enabling them to focus on the core competencies relevant to their domain.

The Web Services Choreography Working Group, part of the Web Services Activity, is chartered to create the definition of a choreography, language(s) for describing a choreography, as well as the rules for composition of, and interaction among, such choreographed Web services. The language(s) should build upon the foundation of the Web Service Description Language 1.2 (WSDL 1.2).

1.1 Inputs

The Working Group shall start by considering the various input documents listed below and refine the scope and factorization of the choreography space. The Working Group is also expected to be aware of other work that has been published in this area, although it is not a formal input.

The Working Group shall consider, at a minimum, as input:

The Working Group will also consider additional input it sees fit.

1.2 Deliverables

The Working Group shall produce the following deliverables:

  • A requirements document, including a description of the factorization of the choreography space.
  • Usage scenarios.
  • One of more specifications of choreography language(s) and its XML Schema.
  • A primer.
  • A test suite:
    A test suite will be developed by the Working Group in order to assess advancement to Proposed Recommendation stage and to promote interoperability. The Working Group is expected to demonstrate two interoperable implementations during the Candidate Recommendation phase. Conformance requirements must be clearly stated in the specification produced.

1.3 Choreography Language Specification

The choreography specification(s) shall define (at a minimum) the behavior and language constructs for the following key concepts:

  • Composition features
    • The ability to define a choreography as a Web service, i.e. a recursive composition model.
    • Definition of the choreography's externally observable behavior.
    • Ability to represent stateful choreographies.
    • Definition of the identity of an instance of an execution of a choreography.
    • Life-cycle management (e.g. creation, termination, etc.)
    • Message exchange interactions between Web services (e.g. receive, invoke, etc.).
    • Behavior definitions (e.g. sequencing , looping, concurrent execution, etc.).
    • Scoping rules.
    • Activities.
  • Associations
    • Roles based on Web service use.
    • Linkages between Web services.
    • References to Web services.
  • Message exchanges
    • Conversations - correlated message exchanges that define interactions between Web services.
    • Correlations and their life cycle management.
    • Correlation relationships with choreography instances and state.
  • State Management
    • Definition, manipulation, and query capabilities.

There are two aspects to Web services choreography:

  • the process interface, external, description: this concerns the interactions with other services.
  • the process execution, internal, description: this concerns the internal behavior of the service.

The Working Group will concentrate on addressing the external description, taking into account the separation between those two aspects and their relationship, and defining the necessary process execution hooks for enabling the external interface description.

1.4 Mapping to the Semantic Web

The Choreography Working Group is strongly encouraged to provide a semantic mapping using the RDF and OWL technologies. Such a mapping will allow the information described by the choreography language to be easily combined with that of other applications. Also, as the Semantic Web languages allow the application of formal techniques to the analysis of the meaning of vocabularies, such a mapping would facilitate the understanding of the choreography language itself. The Working Group will consider the impact of each of its design choices on the ability to produce this mapping.

The goal of the Semantic Web is to enhance the utility of the Web as a machine-processable information space. The Semantic Web builds on the current Web infrastructure (XML, URI's, HTTP) and provides a standardized representation for data (XML/RDF) and for the conceptual structures behind that data (RDF Schema, Web Ontology Language). Web services are aiming at enabling automated distributed computing on the World Wide Web. It is important for both Web Services and for the Semantic Web that the semantics of the choreography language be clear and precise.

2 Out of Scope

2.1 Qualities

It is obvious that transactions, security, reliability, availability, and other such qualities are intimately related with Web service choreography, some more than others. It is not the goal of this group to define these mechanisms, but it must clearly articulate the boundaries.

2.2 Mappings to Programming Languages

Web services are composed of interfaces to applications, which can be written in different programming languages. The purpose of the Working Group is to provide a framework that supports a wide variety of applications and programming languages and is not geared towards any programming language. Given the wide variety of programming languages, the Working Group should not define mappings to any programming languages.

2.3 Graphical notation

One aspect of modeling choreographies will be to represent them graphically. It is out of the scope of the Working Group to define such a graphical notation.

3 Schedule

These are subject to revision due to editorial needs and external scheduling issues; updates will be negotiated with the related groups and recorded on the Web Services Choreography Working Group home page. Meeting dates are mentioned here for planning purposes.

January 2003
Working Group created.
March 2003
First Working Group face-to-face meeting, with presentation of the existing work in this area at the invitation of the Working Group Chairs..
April 2003
First requirements document for Web services choreography.
July 2003
First Working Draft of the Web services choreography specification.
January 2004
Last Call Working Draft of the Web services choreography specification.
April 2004
Candidate Recommendation for the Web services choreography specification.
July 2004
Recommendation for the Web services choreography specification.
December 2004
Working Group ends.

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