Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard panel discussion moderated by Dr. Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) on 10/20/2005

* Topic Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard * Moderator Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) * Organizing Team Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) John Domingue (Open University, UK) Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center) * Panelists John Domingue (WSMO) from Open University, UK MichaelGruninger (SWSF / FLOWS) from University of Toronto Amit Sheth (WSDL-S) from University of Georgia David Martin (OWL-S) from SRI International * Date 10 October 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_10_20 * Abstract We intend to bring together a good cross-section of top researchers and practitioners in the Semantic Web Service Ontology space, both in the panel and among the participants for this session. We will invite our panelists to open the discussion by familiarizing everyone with the different (and possibly still divergent) perspectives and approaches being taken on the subject matter -- OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S and SWSF/FLOWS ... etc., and then make a collective attempt to make some sense of the current state of affairs, and possibly suggest where things should be heading. The key initiatives that we will be talking about, will include (as mentioned above, but not limited to): o OWL-S - Web Ontology Language for Services o WSMO - Web Service Modeling Ontology o WSDL-S - Web Services (Description Language) Semantics o SWSF/FLOWS - Semantic Web Services Framework / First-oder Logic Ontology for Web Services