Web Services Challenge 2008

Overview

Call for Participation
in the
2008 Web Services Challenge
in conjunction with
EEE’08 and CEC’08

21-24 July 2008, Crystal City, Washington, DC USA

The Web Services Challenge (WS-Challenge) is a venue where researchers can collaborate on web service composition tools and techniques. The competition solicits industry and academic researchers that develop software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to discover pertinent web services and also compose them to create higher-level functionality.

The 2008 Web Services Challenge is the 4th challenge and will be co-located with the 2008 Conference on Electronic Commerce and the Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2008). This fourth competition is more narrowly defined than that of the last year, which included both syntactic and semantic matching of WSDL part names. This year, the competition will focus exclusively on semantic composition of web service chains. Additionally, the challenge will incorporate use of OWL ontologies rather than XML Schema to define services and their relationships to each other. The participants will be required to determine relations between different types during the process of service composition.

The WS-Challenge invites the participation of students and researchers addressing the composition challenge stated above, with details posted on the Web Services Challenge website. The competition entails the submission of a four-page description of the approach to be submitted in early 2008. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services guidelines, in an 8.5” x 11” two-column layout. After a peer-review process, the technical descriptions will be included in the conference proceedings of the joint conference. As a next step later in the spring of 2008, the participants will be required to provide a preliminary version of their software for a pre-competition evaluation stage. The pre-competition evaluation is required in order for teams to participate in the challenge taking place during the conference.

For submissions or inquiries, please contact:

Brian Miller
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University
E-mail: wscdc08 [at] gmail.com


Overview Results Schedule & Deadlines Student Travel Awards Technical Details Interface Package Contact Information Competition Rules	Overview Call for Participation in the 2008 Web Services Challenge in conjunction with EEE’08 and CEC’08 21-24 July 2008, Crystal City, Washington, DC USA The Web Services Challenge (WS-Challenge) is a venue where researchers can collaborate on web service composition tools and techniques. The competition solicits industry and academic researchers that develop software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to discover pertinent web services and also compose them to create higher-level functionality. The 2008 Web Services Challenge is the 4th challenge and will be co-located with the 2008 Conference on Electronic Commerce and the Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2008). This fourth competition is more narrowly defined than that of the last year, which included both syntactic and semantic matching of WSDL part names. This year, the competition will focus exclusively on semantic composition of web service chains. Additionally, the challenge will incorporate use of OWL ontologies rather than XML Schema to define services and their relationships to each other. The participants will be required to determine relations between different types during the process of service composition. The WS-Challenge invites the participation of students and researchers addressing the composition challenge stated above, with details posted on the Web Services Challenge website. The competition entails the submission of a four-page description of the approach to be submitted in early 2008. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services guidelines, in an 8.5” x 11” two-column layout. After a peer-review process, the technical descriptions will be included in the conference proceedings of the joint conference. As a next step later in the spring of 2008, the participants will be required to provide a preliminary version of their software for a pre-competition evaluation stage. The pre-competition evaluation is required in order for teams to participate in the challenge taking place during the conference. For submissions or inquiries, please contact: Brian Miller Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Georgetown University E-mail: wscdc08 [at] gmail.com