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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] RE: Resolving Various Policy Languages with Ontologies


Having not yet had a chance to really read any of this, I believe SEE  
is more related to service description than it is to semantic mapping.   
It touches on some of the semantics discussions we had early on.

Ken


On Oct 13, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:

> Ken Laskey wrote:
>
> "NO NO NO NO NO NO ..."
>
> It is already too late...
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [members] OASIS TC Call for Participation: OASIS Semantic  
> Execution Environment Technical Committee
>
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> ====
> OASIS SEMANTIC EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT TC
>
> a. Name
>
> OASIS Semantic Execution Environment (SEE) Technical Committee
>
> b. Statement of purpose
>
> The technology of Semantic Web services (SWSs) envisions easy access to
> various systems and facilitates the consumption of the functionality
> exposed by these systems on the Web. Seamless integration, ad-hoc
> cooperation between various business parties or dynamic collaborations  
> on
> the Web, can be achieved only if tools for handling semantically  
> enhanced
> services are provided.
>
> The OASIS SEE TC aims to continue work initiated by the WSMX project  
> and
> working group visible at http://www.wsmx.org and several other  
> projects in
> Europe such as DIP (http://dip.semanticweb.org/), ASG
> (http://asg-platform.org/) and other projects in the area of Semantic  
> Web
> Services which will start in the coming months. The aim of the SEE TC  
> is to
> provide guidelines, justifications and implementation directions for an
> execution environment for Semantic Web services. The resulting  
> architecture
> will incorporate the application of semantics to service-oriented  
> systems
> and will provide intelligent mechanisms for consuming Semantic Web  
> services.
>
> Service-oriented architectures anticipate a large number of ambient
> heterogeneous computational services that may be utilized in various
> combinations.  However, a typical composition of services to meet a
> business goal often is an attempt to coordinate disparate resources  
> from
> multiple sources - services that may not know, or fully understand,  
> each
> other in advance.  When planning to invoke multiple services, it is not
> always readily apparent whether the methods and outputs of one service  
> meet
> the requirements of another.  So some interpretation, mediation or  
> common
> understanding is essential for any significant deployment.  The SEE TC  
> will
> define methods for using semantic technologies to solve these  
> coordination
> and automation issues.
>
> The TC also will define the functional components of such an SWS  
> system and
> the semantics descriptions of these components' interfaces.  The TC  
> will
> also define a formal description of execution semantics of such a  
> system.
> In addition, the TC will define a generic and open framework, using
> metadata, to allow for new components to be plugged into the system and
> made available to the execution engine dynamically. Further, after
> providing the basic methods described above, or in parallel if  
> appropriate,
> the SEE TC will seek to develop specifications addressing specific  
> problem
> sets covering the spectrum from a general purpose environment to a  
> specific
> business-domain-focused applications addressing financial,
> telecommunication, military and e-Government applications of Semantic  
> Web
> Services technologies.
>
> In the course of existing research, it has become clear that Semantic  
> Web
> services and Grid Computing are closely related research activities  
> with
> many shared objectives. Both address distributed computing systems from
> different perspectives and we believe that they should be investigated  
> in
> parallel as complementary technologies enabling the next era of  
> internet
> applications. In our vision, the usage of arbitrary resources  
> (physical or
> logical) for building complex business applications should be  
> simplified,
> so that their discovery, deployment, composition, provisioning and
> management, can be performed by the means of semantic-enhanced  
> services. To
> reach this goal, on the one hand, current Grid technologies need to be
> extended to support semantically enriched resource descriptions and
> services, e.g. to simplify their discovery and composition. On the  
> other
> hand, Semantic Web services technology has to be extended to support
> resource management, including dynamic provisioning of services and
> resources, execution management, and support of security-related issues
> concerning virtual organization management. This TC aims to combine  
> Grid
> Computing with Semantic Web Services technologies and to take  
> advantage of
> their different perspectives to provide architecture of the  
> infrastructure
> for machine-to-machine enabled communication and cooperation.
>
> The SEE TC's efforts will foster compatibility across specifications
> developed for Semantic Web Services, and where possible re-use existing
> standards and methods that already have been carried in areas of  
> Semantic
> Web and Web Services. This TC will engage with industry, academic and
> research communities to facilitate understanding, awareness and  
> possible
> collaborations regarding emerging semantic technologies and research
> applicable to semantically-aware Web Services.
>
> c. Scope.
>
> Initial requirements have indicated that Semantic Web services systems
> should enable automatic or semi-automatic discovery, negotiation,
> selection, composition, mediation, invocation and interoperation of
> multiple services.  The SEE TC will assess the subsequent and related  
> works
> and implementation experience of existing efforts in a variety of  
> sectors
> (financial, telecommunication, e-health and e-governament) to define  
> and
> implement these functions related with Semantic Web Services. Based on
> those experiences, the detailed analysis of requirements for Semantic  
> Web
> services Architecture will be provided.
>
> The SEE TC will provide a testbed for the Web Services Modeling  
> Ontology
> (WSMO), which is anticipated as a contribution for use by the TC on a
> non-exclusive basis, and will seek to demonstrate the viability of  
> using
> WSMO concepts, relationships and definitions as a means to achieve
> successful dynamic interoperation of multiple ambient services,  
> whether or
> not they share a common design or source.
>
> The TC anticipates contribution of the draft WSMX specifications and  
> WSMO
> ontology on a non-exclusive basis. Other contributions will be  
> accepted for
> consideration without any prejudice or restrictions, and evaluated on  
> their
> technical merit, as long as the contributions conform to this charter.
>
> Following a top-down, component based development approach, the TC will
> provide a whole framework capable of carrying out the dynamic  
> discovery,
> mediation, selection, invocation and inter-operation of Web Services  
> and
> any other functionality which will be revealed during the requirements
> analysis phase. While the focus of this group will remain on a high  
> level
> semantic description of components interfaces, the TC will seek tight
> cooperation with any group working on semantics-enabled functional
> components that fulfill the requirements of such system.
>
> The SEE TC will not implement actual software products or solutions  
> based
> on the specifications developed along the course of work of this group.
>
> d.  Deliverables
>
> OASIS SEE TC will develop two Technical Specifications described  
> below, and
> also may elect to issue Technical Reports and White Papers:
>
> * Semantic Web Services Architecture and Information Model - final  
> version
> available in December 2007 (the TC may issue intermediate versions as
> frequently as every 6 months)
> * Services Specification - Execution Semantics for Semantics-Enabled
> systems - final version available in December 2007 (intermediate  
> versions
> may be available as frequently as every 6 months)
> * Technical Reports will be drafted as appropriate
> * White Papers as appropriate
>
> e. IPR Mode
>
> SEE TC will operate under "RF on Limited Terms" mode.
>
> f.  Anticipated audience
>
> The anticipated audience for this work includes all OASIS Web Service  
> and
> ebXML TCs, non-OASIS Web Service standards groups, Semantic Web  
> Services
> research and interest groups, SOA architects and programmers, vendors  
> and
> users. The work should be of interest to anyone involved with Semantic  
> Web
> Services and more generally also in Service Oriented Architectures  
> (SOAs).
>
> g.  Language.
>
> English.  The TC may elect to form subcommittees that produce localized
> documentation of the TC's work in additional languages.
>
> ----
>
> The following is informational only for the purposes of starting the  
> TC,
> and will not be part of the TC's charter.
>
> a. Similar and related work and liaisons
>
> All Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture groups are the  
> primary
> target of this work. It is anticipated that liaisons may be needed for  
> many
> SOA-related Technical Committees such as the following:
>
> OASIS SOA Reference Model TC
> OASIS ebSOA TC
> OASIS Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) TC
> OASIS ebXML Registry TC
> OASIS UDDI TC
> OASIS FWSI TC
> OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints TC
> OASIS ebXML BP TC
> W3C WS Description Working Group
> W3C WS Choreography Working Group
> W3C Resource Description Framework
> Web Services Modelling Ontology Working Group
> Web Services Modelling Language Working Group
> OASIS WSBPEL TC
> SWSI
> Meteor-S
> OWL-S
>
> b.  Anticipated contributions
>
> Overview and Scope of WSMX, http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d13/d13.0/v0.2/
> WSMX Conceptual Model, http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d13/d13.1/v0.2/
> WSMX Mediation, http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d13/d13.3/v0.1/
> WSMX Architecture,  http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d13/d13.4/v0.1/
> Processes Mediation in WSMX, http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d13/d13.7/v0.1/
> WSMO, http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d2/v1.2/
>
> c. First meeting
>
> Date: 11 November 2005
> Time: 1:00 pm CET
> Telephone conference:  immediately after the International Semantic Web
> Conference 2005 in Galway, Ireland (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/)
> Meeting Sponsor: DERI
>
> d. On-going meeting schedule (subject to TC approval)
>
> Meeting schedule will be biweekly conference calls as well as quarterly
> Face to Face meetings pending approval and adoption by the TC.
> Sponsor: DERI
>
> e. Proposers.
>
> Jürgen Angele, angele@ontoprise.de, Ontorprise, Germany
> Boualem Benatallah boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au, University of New South  
> Wales,
> Australia
> Michael Brodie, michael.brodie@verizon.com, Verizon, USA
> Mark Burstein, burstein@bbn.com, BBN Technologies, USA
> Christoph Bussler chris.bussler@deri.org, DERI, Ireland
> Dario Cerizza, cerizza@cefriel.it, Cefriel, Italy
> Marin Dimitrov, marin.dimitrov@ontotext.com, Ontotext, Bulgaria
> John Domingue, j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk, Open University, UK
> Asuman Dogac, asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr, Software Research & Development
> Center, Turkey
> Arik Elberse, elberse@nortel.com, Nortel, Ireland
> Jerome.Euzenat, Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr, Inria, France
> Dieter Fensel, dieter.fensel@deri.org, DERI, Austria
> Masahiro Hori, horim@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp, Kansai University, Japan
> Mike Huhns, huhns@engr.sc.edu, University of South Carolina, USA
> Hong-Gee Kim, hgkim@snu.ac.kr, DERI, Korea
> Rafael Garcia Leiva, rafael.garcia@andago.com, Andago, Spain
> Sara Carro Martínez, scm@tid.es, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
> Dugki Min, dkmin@konkuk.ac.kr, Konkuk University, Korea
> Colm O hEocha, Colm.O'hEocha@ie.fid-intl.com, Fidelity, Ireland
> Massimo Paolucci, paolucci@docomolab-euro.com
> Amit Sheth, amit@cs.uga.edu, LSDIS, USA
> Emanuele Della Valle emanuele.dellavalle@cefriel,Cefriel, Italy
> Kunal Verma, verma@cs.uga.edu, LSDIS, USA
> Alexander Wahler, wahler@niwa.at, Niwa, Austria
> Michal Zaremba, michal.zaremba@deri.org, DERI, Ireland
>
> f.  TC Convener
>
> Michal Zaremba, michal.zaremba@deri.org, DERI, Ireland
>
> g. Proposed TC chair or co-chairs
>
> Dieter Fensel, dieter.fensel@deri.org, DERI, Austria
> Michal Zaremba, michal.zaremba@deri.org, DERI, Ireland
>
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