Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web

The 2nd Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES) was held during June 1617, 2003 in conjunction with CAiSE 2003, the 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. The Internet is changing the way businesses operate. Organizations are using the Web to deliver their goods and services, to find trading partners, and to link their existing (maybe legacy) applications to other applications. Web services are rapidly becoming the enabling technology of today's e-business and e-commerce systems, and will soon transform the Web as it is now into a distributed computation and application fra- work. On the other hand, e-business as an emerging concept is also impacting software - plications, the everyday services landscape, and the way we do things in almost each domain of our life. There is already a body of experience accumulated to demonstrate the difference between just having an online presence and using the Web as a stra- gic and functional medium in e-business-to-business interaction (B2B) as well as marketplaces. Finally, the emerging Semantic Web paradigm promises to annotate Web artifacts to enable automated reasoning about them. When applied to e-services, the paradigm hopes to provide substantial automation for activities such as discovery, invocation, assembly, and monitoring of e-services. But much work remains to be done before realizing this vision.

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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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Keynote Presentations.- Enterprise Business Integration in 2010A.D..- Old Ontology Wine in New Semantic Bags, and Other Scalability Issues.- Research Paper Track.- Meta-workflows and ESP: A Framework for Coordination, Exception Handling and Adaptability in Workflow Systems.- A Foundational Vision of e-Services.- Querying Spatial Resources. An Approach to the Semantic Geospatial Web.- A Framework for E-markets: Monitoring Contract Fulfillment.- Simple Obligation and Right Model (SORM) for the Runtime Management of Electronic Service Contracts.- Integrating Context in Modelling for Web Information Systems.- Using Message-Oriented Middleware for Reliable Web Services Messaging.- Reusability Constructs in the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL).- Event Based Web Service Description and Coordination.- A New Web Application Development Methodology: Web Service Composition.