CFP: ICAPS-2003 Workshop on "Planning for Web Services"

[Jose-Luis Ambite <ambite@ISI.EDU>]

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

			     Workshop on

		     "Planning for Web Services"

		    to be held in conjunction with

 The 13th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling
			     (ICAPS 2003)

		      Trento, Italy, 10 June 2003


Web services are revolutionizing the way industry and government
operate.  Web services both provide information (e.g. listing
available flights) and change the world (e.g. buying a flight ticket).
As the Web evolves into the Semantic Web, the myriad of available
services are being described declaratively. Machine-understandable
descriptions enable the automatic discovery, use, and composition of
web services.

With the increased interest in the web services paradigm, composition
of web services has become of primary importance. Several languages
for describing web services and their composition are currently being
defined and seek to become standards.  The current leading proposals
are the Web Service Description Language [WSDL 2001] and the Business
Process Execution Language for Web Services [BPEL4WS 2002], an
industry-developed flow language, and DAML Services [DAML-S 2001], a
Semantic Web ontology for services developed under the DAML program.
Some promising initial results on automatic web service composition
are starting to appear [McIlraith 2002, Thakkar 2002], but a deeper
and broader treatment of the planning aspects of web services is
necessary.