The 6th Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-05) was held September 2-3, 2005, in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005) in Trondheim, Norway. The next generation of applications will be developed in the form of services that are offered over a network, either a company's intranet or the Internet. Service-based architectures depend on an infrastructure that allows service providers to describe and advertise their services and service consumers to discover and select the services that best fulfill their requirements. Frameworks and messaging protocols for e-services in stationary and mobile environments are being developed and standardized, metadata and ontologies are being defined, and mechanisms are under development for service composition, delivery, monitoring, and payment. End-to-end security and quality of service guarantees will be essential for the acceptance of e-services. As e-services become pervasive, e-service management will play a central role. The workshop's objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present new developments and experience reports. The goal of the TES workshop is to identify the technical issues, models, and infrastructures that enable enterprises to provide e-services to other businesses and individual customers. In response to the call for submissions, 40 papers were submitted, out of which the Program Committee selected 10 high-quality submissions for presentation at the wo- shop. Unfortunately, one author had to withdraw, and the remaining nine papers that were presented are included in these proceedings.

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Christoph Bussler is Staff Software Engineer at BEA Systems, Inc., working in the core WebLogic application server product development organization. Before joining BEA, Chris was architect at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA, USA, responsible for the service-oriented architecture at Cisco Systems'Quote-to-Cashbusiness unit. Before taking this position he was Science Foundation Ireland Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland and Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). In addition to his role as Executive Director of DERI, Chris led the Semantic Web Services research group at DERI. Chris has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Erlangen, Germany and a Master in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Chris published a book titled'B2B Integration', two books on workflow management, over 100 research papers in journals and academic conferences, gave tutorials on several topics including B2B integration, workflow management and service-oriented architectures and was keynote speaker at many conferences and workshops on topics like workflow management, B2B and EAI integration as well as Semantic Web.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services held in September 2005.

The nine revised full papers presented together with one keynote article were carefully reviewed and selected from forty submissions for inclusion in the book. Their common purpose is to identify the technical issues, models and infrastructures that enable enterprises to provide e-services to other businesses and individual customers.

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Keynote Presentation.- Challenges in Business Process Analysis and Optimization.- Design.- Bootstrapping Domain Ontology for Semantic Web Services from Source Web Sites.- Systematic Design of Web Service Transactions.- A Matching Algorithm for Electronic Data Interchange.- Technology.- A Lightweight Model-Driven Orchestration Engine for e-Services.- Ad-UDDI: An Active and Distributed Service Registry.- WS-Policy for Service Monitoring.- Composite Web Services.- SENECA Simulation of Algorithms for the Selection of Web Services for Compositions.- Monitoring for Hierarchical Web Services Compositions.- Efficient Scheduling Strategies for Web Services-Based E-Business Transactions.