We would like to invite you to participate in the "Advances in Semantics for Web services 2008 (semantics4ws 2008)" workshop at the Fifth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2008). The event will take place in Milan, Italy between 1-4 September, 2008.

THEME

The theme of semantics4ws 2008 is “BPM 2.0 - Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Meet BPM: Semantics in Business and Scientific Processes”.

TOPICS

• Tools, middleware, case studies and applications involving or supporting SWS
• ontologies, modelling and descriptions of quality of services (QoS), services level agreements (SLAs), and non-functional properties (NFPs) of Web services, policies, agreements and contracts related to SWS
• formal languages for describing SWS and related aspects including QoS, SLAs, and NFPs
• Web 2.0 techniques related to BPM
• reasoning tasks and their complexity in SWS
• validation and verification for Web services,
• advertising, discovery, matchmaking, selection, brokering and data/process/protocol mediation in SWS and processes
• composition, planning, and re-planning with SWS
• execution and lifecycle management of SWS
• monitoring, adaptability, and recovery strategies for SWS
• semantics for Grid services and e-Services

These topics indicate the general focus of the workshop, however, related contributions are welcome also.

WEB SITE

For additional information go to: http://www.knoesis.org/workshops/bpm2008_semantics4ws.html