[ ARCHIVE ] The Second International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'06)


Montpellier, France, 29 Oct 2006

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag 

About AWeSOMe'06

Web services are a rapidly expanding approach to building distributed software systems across networks such as the Internet. A Web service is an operation typically addressed via a URI, declaratively described using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent XML-based messages.

Emerging ontologies are being used to construct semantically rich service descriptions. Techniques for planning, composing, editing, reasoning about and analysing these descriptions are being investigated and deployed to resolve semantic interoperability between services within scalable, open environments.

Agents and multi-agent systems can benefit from this combination, and can be used for web service discovery, use and composition. In addition, web services and multi-agent systems bear certain similarities, such as a component-like behaviour, that can help to make their development much easier.

The AWeSOMe workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of an intelligent service Web.


TOPICS OF INTEREST 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Agent-based modelling and design techniques to address problems in web service system development;
  • Agent-based resource and service management in grid environments;
  • Agents and the semantic web;
  • Architectures and infrastructure for distributed agent- or service- based frameworks;
  • Architectures for supporting agents and web services within the semantic web;
  • Capability matching and matchmakers;
  • Composing agents and web services on the grid;
  • Evaluation of dynamic pricing and trading mechanisms using autonomous agents;
  • Infrastructure and architectures for M-services;
  • Intelligent matchmaking and service brokering;
  • Interoperability of web services;
  • Multi-agent techniques to describing, organizing, and discovering web services;
  • Ontology or semantic-based approaches to describing and classifying services and capabilities;
  • Ontologies for describing service parameters and request preferences;
  • Ontologies for describing agent resources and agent security parameters;
  • Ontologies for describing low-level services and platform characteristics;
  • Pricing and payment models for Web services;
  • Process modeling for service/agent composition, orchestration and coordination;
  • Scaleable service composition for heterogeneous environments;
  • Security support for agents and services, and agent-based approaches to service security;
  • Semantics for service delegation and knowledge aggregation;
  • Semantics in Agent Communication Languages;
  • Services and the semantic web, including initiatives such as OWL-S (formerly DAML-S);
  • Software engineering for agent-based semantic web services;
  • Supporting service discovery and service management using agent-based approaches;
  • Use of agent-based approaches for web service personalization;
  • Use of context and conversations for Web services composition;
  • Use of web service infrastructure and tools for building multi-agent systems;
  • Web agents


 
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Daniel Grosu
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
5143 Cass Avenue, 464 State Hall
Detroit, Michigan, 48202

Phone: (313) 577-5171
Fax: (313) 577-6868
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Pilar Herrero
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Campus de Montegancedo S/N
28660 Boadilla del Monte
Madrid (Spain)

Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56
Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
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Gonzalo Méndez
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
C/ Prof. José García Santesmases, s/n.
28040 Madrid (Spain)

Phone: (+34) 91.394.75.99
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Marta Sabou
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA (UK)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

José Luis Bosque - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Juan A. Botía Blaya - Universidad de Murcia, Spai
Liliana Cabral - Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
Isaac Chao - Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
Adam Cheyer - SRI International, USA
Ian Dickinson - HP Labs, UK
John Domingue - Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
Antonio Garcia Dopico - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Jorge Gómez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dominic Greenwood - Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Jingshan Huang - University of South Carolina, USA
Margaret Lyell - The MITRE Corporation, USA
Dan Marinescu - University of Central Florida, USA
Gregorio Martinez - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Michael Maximilien - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Mauricio Paletta - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Venezuela
Juan Pavón - Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
José María Peña - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
María Pérez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ronald Poell - Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Netherlands
Debbie Richards - Macquarie University, Australia
Víctor Robles - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Paul Roe - Queensland University of Technology , Australia
Manuel Salvadores - Imbert Management Consulting Group, Spain
Alberto Sánchez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Weisong Shi - Wayne State University, USA
Marius-Calin Silaghi - Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Henry Tirri - Nokia Research Center(NRC), Finland
Santtu Toivonen - VTT Information Technology, Finland
Rainer Unland - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Chris van Aart - Acklin B.V., The Netherlands
Sander van Splunter - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland
Julita Vassileva - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Niek Wijngaards - Thales Research & Technology, The Netherlands
Cheng-Zhong Xu - Wayne State University, USA