Announcing: W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: WORKSHOP ON FRAMEWORKS FOR SEMANTICS IN WEB
SERVICES


 W3C is holding a workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web
 Services. This workshop is being held to discuss the establishment of
 a generic extensible framework based on Semantic Web technologies, to
 support longer-term objectives, while continuing to develop immediate
 solutions for the most pressing Web Services requirements.
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   When:  9-10 June 2005
   Where: Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI),
          Innsbruck, Austria
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 Other details about the workshop are available at:
      http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html
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 The event is being organized by the W3C Architecture Domain. The
 workshop will be chaired by Steve Battle, <steve.battle@xxxxxx> and
 David Martin, <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>. Carine Bournez <carine@xxxxxx> is
 the W3C Contact for this workshop; please direct any questions you
 have to her.
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Important Information

 Other important dates and deadlines for this workshop are:
    April 22, 2005: Position papers due
    May 20, 2005: Final agenda available
    May 27, 2005: Registration closes
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 Please note that:
   - There will be a limit of 80 participants.
   - Attendance is open to everyone, including non-W3C members,
     but each organization or individual wishing to participate
     must submit a position paper.
   - To ensure maximum diversity among participants, only two
     participants may attend per organization.
   - There is no registration fee.
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Scope

 There is a lot of potential relationship to existing Semantic Web
 efforts as well as to existing Web Services development, including:
    Semantic Web background technologies; e.g. RDF, OWL
    Web Services background technologies; e.g. SOAP, WSDL
    Registries, taxonomies, and search mechanisms; e.g. UDDI
    Rule languages; e.g. SWRL
    Ontologies for Web Services; e.g. OWL-S, WSMO
    Web Services Choreography; e.g. WS-CDL
    Business process; e.g. BPEL4WS
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 Discussion of the relationship of these areas to the workshop topic is
 encouraged.