W3C Workshop
on
Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services

Program

08:00am - 08:30am: Registration
08:30am - 09:00am: Introduction to the workshop: Overview and Objectives - C. Bournez [slides]

Introduction session: domain boundaries, definitions, challenges...

09:00am - 09:30am: "The Semantic Web as Types, Web Services as Functions: Ten Points on a Semantic Framework for Web Services" - H. Halpin [slides]
09:30am - 10:00am: "Two main challenges in service description: Web service tunnel vision and Semantic myopia" - J. O'Sullivan [slides]
10:00am - 10:30am: "Discovery and Contracting of Semantic Web Services" - R. Lara [slides]
10:30am - 11:00am: Morning Break
11:00am - 12:00pm: Discussion / Break-out: Problem Domain. Connections to other domains and limits. [slide summarizing topics after discussion]

Use Cases session

12:00am - 12:30pm: "Managing enterprise applications as dynamic resources in corporate semantic webs" - F. Gandon, INRIA [slides]

01:30pm - 02:00pm: "Semantic Evolution of Geospatial Web Services" - Todd Pehle, Northrup Grumman TASC [slides]
02:00pm - 02:30pm: "Application of Standard Semantic Web Services and Workflow Technologies in the SIMDAT Pharma Grid" - Changtao Qu, NEC [slides]
03:00pm - 03:30pm: "Describing Web Services for user-oriented retrieval" - Duncan Hull, Univ. Manchester [slides]
03:00pm - 03:30pm: Afternoon Break
03:30pm - 04:00pm: "Semantic web and pan-European eGovernment services" - P. Brown [slides]
04:00pm - 05:00pm: Discussion / Break-out [Slides about points made by various participants during discussion]

Framework technologies session

08:30am - 09:00am: "Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) - An Ontology for Semantic Web Services" - John Domingue [slides]
09:00am - 09:30am: "The OWL-S Experience" - B. Parsia [slides]
09:30am - 10:00am: "Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S" - M. Nagarajan [slides]
10:00am - 10:30am: "A First-Order Ontology for Semantic Web Services" - S. McIlraith [slides]
10:30am - 11:00am: Morning Break
11:00am - 11:30am: "Web Services Annotation and Reasoning" - M Roshchin, Siemens AG [slides]
11:30am - 12:30pm: Discussion: Lessons learned [slides summarizing discussion topics]

"Debate" session

01:30pm - 02:00pm: Semantic Interoperability for WebServices: The Needs and Challenges for the Demanding Consumer - Ken Laskey, MITRE [slides]
02:00pm - 02:30pm: "A Semantic Web Services challenge" - Stuart Williams, HP [slides]
02:30pm - 03:00pm: "Suggestions from the Other Side of the Aisle" - Mark Nottingham, BEA
03:00pm - 03:30pm: Afternoon Break
03:30pm - 05:00pm: Round table: Discussion and Summary

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