AAAI-02 Workshop on Intelligent Service Integration

AAAI-02 Workshop on Intelligent Service Integration - Call for Participation

The evolution of the World Wide Web from a repository of data (in static web pages) to a source of varied distributed services creates exciting opportunities for offering integrated, distributed services over the web, for applications such as comparison shopping, trip planning, supply chain management, complex product configuration, and remote medical record query.

However, such opportunities come with their own challenges. Services from different providers need to be integrated into a single composite service that appears as a seamless whole. The syntactic problems of such integration are being addressed by the advent of XML-based standards for information interchange, and web-based exchange protocols like SOAP. However, the promise of service integration will not be delivered, unless services can be integrated semantically as well.

Topics

We encourage submissions that treat topics anywhere in the spectrum of solutions to semantic service integration problems, ranging from standards-based (e.g., industry-specific XML standards) to just-in-time (e.g., wrappers and mediator architectures).

In this workshop, we plan to bring together researchers working on various aspects of this problem, including architectures for semantic integration, protocols and representation languages for information interchange for service integration, semantic matching systems, and management of integrated services.

Format and Submissions

The workshop will be a mix of presentations followed by discussions and a panel session. The final topic and constitution of the panel will be decided from the submissions, but will probably cover a range of approaches to intelligent service integration. We envision four types of submissions: 1) position papers providing unique insight into the challenges of intelligent service integration, 2) application papers describing systems that accomplish run-time semantic integration, 3) descriptions of architectures, representation languages or protocols for achieving service integration, and 4) other systems for solving specific problems related to service integration (e.g., semantic matching, translation, wrapper generation, etc.). Electronic submission (ps or pdf) is preferred. Submitters who wish to be considered as panelists, should indicate this in their workshop submission.