[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Semantic
Execution Environment Technical Committee has been proposed by the members
of OASIS listed below. The proposal (below) meets the requirements of the
OASIS TC Process [1]. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of
deliverables, audience, and language specified in the proposal will
constitute the TC's official charter. Submissions of technology for
consideration by the TC, and the beginning of technical discussions, may
occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting.
This TC will operate under our 2005 IPR Policy.[2] The eligibility
requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the first meeting (see
details below) are that:
(a) you must be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an
individual member of OASIS;
(b) the OASIS member must sign the OASIS membership agreement (see [3]);
(c) you must notify the TC chair of your intent to participate at
least 15 days prior to the first meeting, which members may do by using the
"Join this TC" button on the TC's public page at [4]; and
(d) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and date
fixed below.
Of course, it also will be possible to join the TC at a later time.
Standards always are improved by broad participation. Non-OASIS
members who wish to participate may contact us about joining OASIS
[3]. Our rules and structure are designed to promote inclusiveness. We
look forward to assisting parties interested in joining the community of
implementers, technologists, academics and end-users working on OASIS
standardization projects. All also are welcome to take advantage of the
public resources maintained for each TC: a mail list archive, document
repository and public comments facility, which will be available via the
TC's public home page at [4]. Archives of the TC's mail list and public
comment lists, as with all OASIS TCs, will be visible at [5].
Further information generally related to the topic area addressed by
this TC may be found on the Cover Pages at "Semantic Web: Projects,
Initiatives, Specifications":
http://xml.coverpages.org/semanticWeb.html
Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other
appropriate lists. OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage
your feedback. JBC
~ James Bryce Clark
~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
[3] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/
[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=semantic-ex
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/
====
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
END
|
