The Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technology (WEWST) focuses on research contributions advancing the state of the art in Web services technologies. The wide variety of tools, techniques and technological solutions presented in WEWST share one common feature: they push the envelope of current Web services research in new directions by introducing new ideas into the field.

Example topics related to such emergent technologies include but are not limited to: Model Driven Engineering for SOA, Mobility and Services, Streaming Services and Event Driven Architectures, Dynamic Web Service Discovery and Composition, Lightweight Orchestration Engines, SLA Creation and Service Delivery, Managing Change and Service Evolution, Business Driven Development, Service-Oriented Grid Computing Middleware, Business Process Management for Web Services, Software and Service Engineering.

Acting as the natural complement to the main ECOWS conference, the main goal of the WEWST workshop is to serve as a forum for providing early exposure and much needed feedback to grow and establish such original and emerging ideas within the Web Services community.

For more information see: www.iks.inf.ethz.ch/wewst06/

Semantic Web and Web Services have been envisioned as Semantic Web Services for dynamic discovery, selection, composition, negotiation and invocation of Web Services. Significant work has already been done in this decade to apply Semantic Web technologies for Web Services and a large body of relevant work exists from earlier decades, in fields such as formal languages, knowledge representation, planning, agent-based systems and artificial intelligence. Nevertheless many difficult research challenges remain, and much work is needed to adapt relevant existing technologies to the context of Web services and the Semantic Web, and to prepare the more mature models, languages, capabilities and architectures for widespread deployment.

This workshop under the umbrella of the ECOWS conference as being on of the premier conferences for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services, aims to cover the semantic aspects for Web Services. This workshop will provide a forum to focus on technical challenges for applying Semantic Web technologies to Web Services (i.e. Semantic Web Services), provide guidance to early adopters of Semantic Web Services technology, particularly in the business community and facilitate the formation of new communities of Semantic Web Services users.

Workshop Topics (include following, but not limited to)

• Semantics with W3C Web services technologies
• Semantics-enabled services designs
• Semantic Web technologies in Web services discovery, composition, ...
• Mapping Web Services technologies to Semantic Web
• Web services and agent technologies
• Semantic Web and agent technologies for Web Services
• OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S based systems
• Ontologies for modeling (semantic) Web services
• Formal languages for describing (semantic) Web services
• Quality of services (QoS) in Web Services
• Advertising, discovery, matchmaking, selection, and brokering of (semantic) Web services
• Semantic Web Services architectures, tools, middleware
• security and privacy for (semantic) Web services
• Use cases for using semantics in Web Services

Workshop Format

This workshop will be a full-day event. It will start with an invited talk, paper presentations in the morning and afternoon and ends with the wrap-up session where will be more focus on live discussion on popped-up interesting topics.

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