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，但自动发现此类服务并将其组合成更高级别功能的能力仍然难以捉摸。 这是用于支持国际Web服务发现和组合竞争的资金，WS-Challenge，其目标是识别，评估和基线方法来解决这个问题。 在第一届比赛（今年三月在香港举行的EEE05挑战赛）成功的基础上，首席信息官将组织第二届比赛的策划和制定工作，该比赛将与明年七月在旧金山弗朗西斯科举行的2006年IEEE电子技术、电子商务和电子服务国际会议（2006）一起举行。 第一个竞赛仅限于使用Web服务描述语言（WSDL）进行语法匹配;参赛者需要根据WSDL文档目录中指定的输入和输出消息来识别和组合WSDL指定的服务。 2006年的比赛将侧重于使用资源描述框架（RDF）和/或服务网络本体语言（OWL-S）等技术的网络服务语义链接。 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。 其中一小部分资金将用于资助两名本科生，他们将为比赛提供全年的支持，并支付他们和PI参加比赛的差旅费。IEEE电子技术、电子商务和电子服务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人员提供了一个场所，以探索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。 重点是两方面的：研究促进新一代电子转型的技术;以及推广在电子商务、电子学习、电子政府、电子金融等主题方面的应用和部署经验。由于研讨会集中讨论电子服务的应用，涉及多个"电子领域"，更广泛的影响：研讨会和由此产生的工件将作为一个集中的存储库，在一个及时出现的领域中存储算法、软件和技术。 讲习班将为参加者提供一个机会，让他们在社区中了解自己的创新工作，并从研究界的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。 这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在其专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社会网络。 研讨会的经验将与软件工程教育的目标很好地结合起来，因为参与者除了他们的方法的性能外，还对他们的设计进行评估。 为了在明年的活动中吸引更广泛的观众，PI将特别努力从代表性不足的大学招募团队。

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.