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Subject: Re: [regrep] [Fwd: SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE CORRECTIONS!)]
The conference is next week, and the submissions were due some time ago. Or is this a "BYOS" (Bring Your Own Submission) type of event? Joe Carl Mattocks wrote: > > Matthew Dovey or I are hoping we will have the opportunity to present a > position paper based on the text below .. > > Enabling Semantic Grid Computing with ebXML > Matthew J. Dovey1 and Carl Mattocks2 > 1 Oxford e-Science Centre, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 > Banbury Road, Ox-ford OX2 6NN, UK > matthew.dovey@oucs.ox.ac.uk, http://e-science.ox.ac.uk > 2 CHECKMi compendium, 225 emerson lane berkeley heights, > nj 07922 USA > carlmattocks@checkmi.com, http://www.checkmi.com > Abstract. ebXML is a suite of standards from the e-business community > ad-dressing the entire lifecycle for Service Oriented Architectures for > business to business and business to consumer activities. This position > paper outlines how the Semantic GRID can benefit from the use of ebXML > related standards (such as Business Process, Collaboration Protocol > Profiles and Agreements, Registry, Business Centric Methodology, Access > Control Policy Management). > Introduction > The Semantic GRID is about the autonomous discovery and assembly of > distributed remote resources including computational, informational, > storage or instrumentational. This autonomous discovery and assembly is > performed by agents acting towards achieving user specified goals, and > involve the interaction of independent resources from different domains > and owned by different entities. ebXML is a suite of [ISO/TS 15000] > standards from the e-business community addressing the entire lifecycle > re-quired for Service Oriented Architectures for business to business and > business to consumer activities. This position paper outlines the > relevance of ebXML technologies in enabling Semantic GRID computing. In a > similar manner to the emerging GRID standards, ebXML uses Web Service > standards as a foundation layer. ebXML builds upon these to define agreed > mechanisms for aspects such as the registration, descrip-tion and > discovery of services, and service contract (or quality of service) > negotiations in a generic manner (not dependent upon any particular > business context). The GRID also attempts to define generic standards for > the discovery of research oriented re-sources and the negotiation of their > use (including quality of service e.g. for moving and processing large > qualities of experimental data). At present, ebXML and GRID are tackling > these issues in different ways but a merger of technologies would benefit > both communities. > ebXML and Semantic Grid > All stakeholders in the Semantic Grid need to be able to publish and > discover re-sources, exposed as web or Grid services. Agents representing > the stakeholders would use ontologies to both assist the discovery process > and also to pull the services to-gether into a workflow. An example of > this would be the semantically enriched web services planned for the > ARTEMIS project, which provides interoperability of medical information > systems [1]. In the worst case, service enablement would require a > coor-dinating agent to employ the ontologies of many different domains > declared using a differing formats (RDF, KIF, OWL, Topic Map). The worst > case scenario combined with the dynamic nature of the Grid, (e.g. > providers changing characteristics of service offering at will), agents > working to deliver a seemingly simple service are faced with major > semantic management challenges. > Federated ebXML knowledge management and SOA policy management offers an > infrastructure to meet that challenge. In particular, when following BCM > (Business-Centric Methodology) guidelines, SOA / ebXML service description > and discovery extends beyond classification and resource location towards > the support of activity negotiation. Specifically, when a service is > profiled within a federated ebXML regis-try, the meta-information > identifies both the SOA business conditions and the policy rules of access > per level of privilege. For instance, service procurement requires the > construction of a contract and workflow. The ebXML Business Process (ebXML > BP) standard defines metadata for describing the service capabilities > needed to support electronic business collaborations with default error > state resolution. An “e-contract” employing terms of workflow can be > structured using Collaboration Protocol Profiles (CPPs) and Collaboration > Protocol Agreements (CPAs). ebXML BP also defines and describes activities > during service enactment for the transactions (including point-in-time > parameters) that have to be fulfilled according to the services’ usage > terms. When facilitated by an ebXML repository, workflows may be tracked > with a messaging audit trail. A future e-Notary option, would enable the > provision of self-proving electronic legal information [2]. > ebXML management specifications explicitly addresses the semantic support > needed for the choreography of the web services. The Business Centric > Methodology improve the understanding of the semantics in the Conceptual > layer by aligning the terminology of the business with the operational > meaning of the services [3]. ebXML BP define the business process-rules, > semantics and syntax for collaborations. > The ebXML registry would contain the grid meta-information. It allows for > pub-lishers to retain ownership of their content and knowledge > classifications using locally or externally stored Taxonomies. Support for > OWL ontologies in the next evolution of the registry will lever ongoing > research as the Satine project [4]. ebXML Registry & Repository can be > federated for high scalability to handle huge content. > Conclusion > Many of the issues in co-ordinating Service Oriented e-business > transactions are similar to those facing Semantic Grid architectures. The > leverage of the ebXML stan-dards, which facilitate e-business processes, > would facilitate the development of the underlying Semantic Grid > architecture & allow for the sharing of tools & expertise between the two > different communities. > References > 1. Artemis - A Semantic Web Service-based P2P Infrastructure for the > Interoperability of Medi-cal Information > http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/artemis/ > 2. E-Notary a set of technical requirements to govern self-proving > electronic legal information > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/legalxml-enotary/charter.php > 3. Business Centric Methodology > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/5931/BCM%20Executive%20Brochure.pdf > 4. Satine - a secure semantic-based interoperability framework for > exploiting Web service platforms in conjunction with Peer-to-Peer networks > in tourism industry > http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/satine/index.html > > <quote who="Chiusano Joseph"> > > Following up on this posting from January 2004: Is anyone attending this > > conference? Did we submit an abstract? > > > >>> ****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ > >> > >> 2nd Workshop on > >> Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SemPGRID) > >> at the > >> Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference > >> 17-18 May 2004, New York, USA > >> in cooperation with the > >> GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD) > >> Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~hongsuda/SemPGRID04 > >> > > -- > Carl Mattocks > > co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC > co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC > CEO CHECKMi > v/f (usa) 908 322 8715 > www.CHECKMi.com > Semantically Smart Compendiums > (AOL) IM CarlCHECKMi > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/members/leave_workgroup.php. -- Kind Regards, Joseph Chiusano Associate Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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