WORKSHOP: A New Web Service Discovery and Composition Competition (EEE '06); July, 2006; San Francisco, CA

尽管面向服务的环境和技术在学术界和企业界都受到了极大的关注，但将此类服务的发现和组合自动化为更高级别的功能的能力仍然难以捉摸。这笔资金用于支持国际Web服务发现和组合竞赛WS-Challenges，其目标是识别、评估和基线解决该问题的方法。在首届比赛(今年三月在香港举行的EEE05挑战赛)取得成功的基础上，国际联盟将筹划和颁布第二届比赛，该比赛将与将于明年7月在旧金山举行的2006年IEEE电子技术、电子商务和电子服务国际会议(EEE 06)一起举行。第一个竞赛仅限于使用Web服务描述语言(Web Services Description Language，Web Services Description Language，WSDL)的句法匹配；参与者被要求根据他们的输入和输出消息识别和组成由Web服务描述语言(Web Services Description Language，Web Services Description Language)指定的服务，这些消息是在一个目录中指定的。2006年，竞争的焦点将是使用资源描述框架(RDF)和/或服务的Web本体语言(OWL-S)等技术进行Web服务的语义链接。NSF的资金将支持来自美国的最多8支队伍参加比赛，平均每支队伍由3名学生组成。其中一小部分资金指定给两名本科生，他们将全年支持比赛，并支付他们和PI参加比赛的旅费。IEEE关于电子技术、电子商务和电子服务的国际会议汇集了来自不同计算领域的研究人员和开发人员。这些会议为开发人员和从业者提供了一个场所，以探讨和解决围绕电子技术的具有挑战性的研究问题，以便为电子商务和电子商务制定共同的研究议程和愿景。重点有两个方面：调查促进下一代电子转型的使能技术；以及传播电子商务、电子学习、电子政务、电子金融等电子商务主题的应用和部署经验。电子电气和电子设备会议特别及时和相关，因为它们侧重于电子服务的应用，因为它们跨越几个“电子领域”，而其他会议往往要么关注特定技术，要么关注单一领域。广泛影响：研讨会和由此产生的成果将成为一个及时新兴领域的算法、软件和技术的集中储存库。研讨会将为参与者提供一个机会，让他们在社区中接触到他们的创新工作，并从研究界的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社交网络。研讨会的体验将与软件工程教育的目标很好地结合在一起，因为除了他们的方法的性能之外，参与者还会就他们的设计进行评估。为了在明年的活动中吸引更多的观众，PI将特别努力从代表性不足的大学征集团队。

Although service-oriented environments and technologies are receiving a great deal of attention in both academic and corporate arenas, the ability to automate the discovery and composition of such services into higher-level capabilities remains elusive. This is funding to support an international web service discovery and composition competition, the WS-Challenge, whose objective is to identify, evaluate and baseline approaches to solving that problem. Building on the success of the first competition (The EEE05 Challenge, which was held this past March in Hong Kong), the PI will organize the planning and enactment of the second competition to be held in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce, and e-Services (EEE 06) which will take place in San Francisco next July. The first competition was limited to syntactical matching using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL); participants were required to identify and compose WSDL-specified services based on their input and output messages as specified in a directory of WSDL documents. In 2006, the competition will focus on the semantic linking of web services using such technologies as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and/or the Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S). NSF funding will support participation in the competition of up to 8 teams from the United States, consisting on average of 3 students apiece. A small portion of the funds is earmarked for two undergraduate students who will support the competition throughout the year, as well as to cover the cost of travel by them and the PI to the competition.The IEEE International Conferences on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service bring together researchers and developers from diverse areas of computing. The conferences provide a venue for developers and practitioners to explore and address challenging research issues surrounding e-technology, in order to develop a common research agenda and vision for e-commerce and e-business. The focus is two-fold: to investigate enabling technologies to facilitate next generation e-transformation; and to disseminate application and deployment experience in e-themes such as e-business, e-learning, e-government, e-finance, etc. The EEE conferences are particularly timely and relevant because they focus on the application of electronic services as they cut across several "e-domains", whereas other conferences tend to either focus on a specific technology or on a single domain.Broader Impacts: The workshop and resulting artifacts will serve as a centralized repository of algorithms, software, and techniques in a timely emerging area. The workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to gain exposure in the community for their innovative work, and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. The workshop experience will integrate well with the goals of a software engineering education, as participants are evaluated on their design in addition to the performance of their approaches. In an effort to engage a broader audience in next year's event, the PI will make a special effort to solicit teams from under-represented universities.