Web services are revolutionizing the way industry and government operate. Web services both provide information (e.g. listing available flights) and change the world (e.g. buying a flight ticket). As the Web evolves into the Semantic Web, the myriad of available services are being described declaratively. Machine-understandable descriptions enable the automatic discovery, use, and composition of web services.
With the increased interest in the web services paradigm, composition of web services has become of primary importance. Several languages for describing web services and their composition are currently being defined and seek to become standards. The current leading proposals are the Web Service Description Language [WSDL 2001] and the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services [BPEL4WS 2002], an industry-developed flow language, and DAML Services [DAML-S 2001], a Semantic Web ontology for services developed under the DAML program. Some promising initial results on automatic web service composition are starting to appear [McIlraith 2002, Thakkar 2002], but a deeper and broader treatment of the planning aspects of web services is necessary.
From a planning perspective, web services can be seen as operators, specific web services compositions as plans, and automatic web service composition as a form of planning. Many of the research areas on automated planning and scheduling are relevant to the web service paradigm including:
This workshop offers researchers on automated planning and scheduling with a forum for presenting results relevant to web services, identify new challenges, and lead the development of the critically important field of web services.
Papers should be at most 8 pages based on the AAAI style template:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html
Submissions must be made electronically by sending a PDF file to:
icaps2003-p4ws@isi.edu
For more information about the workshop, consult:
or send email to: icaps2003-p4ws@isi.edu|
Jose Luis Ambite
Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA Phone: +1 310 448 8472 Fax: +1 310 822 0751 E-mail: ambite@isi.edu |
Craig Knoblock
Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA Phone: +1 310 448 8786 Fax: +1 310 822 0751 E-mail: knoblock@isi.edu |
Sheila McIlraith
Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University Gates Sciences Building, 2A-248 Stanford, CA 94305, USA Phone: +1 650 723 7932 Fax: +1 650 725 5850 E-mail: sam@ksl.stanford.edu |
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Mike P. Papazoglou
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands Phone: +31 13 466 2349 Fax: +31 13 466 3069 E-mail: M.P.Papazoglou@uvt.nl |
Biplav Srivastava
IBM India Research Lab Block I, Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India Phone: +91 11 686 1100 Fax: +91 11 686 1555 E-mail: sbiplav@in.ibm.com |
Paolo Traverso
Automated Reasoning Systems Division (SRA) IRST - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Via Sommarive 18, Povo, 38050, Trento, Italy Phone: +39 0461 314 327 Fax: +39 0461 302 040 E-mail: traverso@itc.it |