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- expressive description languages for web services
- efficient web service composition/planning
- web service plan verification
- web service plan quality
- efficient web service plan execution 
- web service monitoring and repair
- interleaving information gathering and execution
- distributed web service planning

This workshop offers researchers on automated planning and scheduling
with a forum for presenting results relevant to web services, identify
new challenges, and lead the development of the critically important
field of web services. 


* Paper Submission Guidelines

Papers should be at most 8 pages based on the AAAI style template:

    http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html

Submissions must be made electronically by sending a PDF file to: 

    icaps2003-p4ws@isi.edu


* Important Dates

- Submission deadline: 17 March 2003

- Acceptance Notification: 7 April 2003

- Final version from authors: 21 April 2003


* Workshop Format

In order to maximize opportunities for discussion and interaction, we
will follow a "commentator" model inspired by the NASA Planning and
Scheduling Workshops (http://www.planning.systems.org/index.htm).  For
each accepted paper we will assign a commentator.  The commentator
will be encouraged to have a dialogue with the authors and will
present his/her comments at the workshop following the paper.  The
commentary is not a review or critique, but simply a way to encourage
interaction between different communities.  To acknowledge the work of
the commentator, an optional one-page commentary will be published in the
workshop proceedings. 


* Questions

For more information about the workshop, consult:

  http://icaps03.itc.it/ 

  http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/workshops/icaps2003-p4ws/

or send email to: 

  icaps2003-p4ws@isi.edu


* Organizing Committee

Jose Luis Ambite
Information Sciences Institute 
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way                 
Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA      
Phone: +1 310 448 8472                 
Fax: +1 310 822 0751
E-mail: ambite@isi.edu
URL: http://www.isi.edu/~ambite/

Craig Knoblock
Information Sciences Institute, 
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way 
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Phone: +1 310 448 8786
Fax: +1 310 822 0751
E-mail: knoblock@isi.edu
URL: http://www.isi.edu/~knoblock/

Sheila McIlraith 
Knowledge Systems Laboratory    
Stanford University    
Gates Sciences Building, 2A-248    
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Phone: +1 650 723 7932
Fax: +1 650 725 5850
E-mail: sam@ksl.stanford.edu
URL: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/sam

Mike P. Papazoglou 
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 13 466 2349
Fax: +31 13 466 3069
E-mail: M.P.Papazoglou@uvt.nl
URL: http://infolab.uvt.nl/people/mikep/

Biplav Srivastava
IBM India Research Lab
Block I, Indian Institute of Technology
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
Phone: +91 11 686 1100
Fax: +91 11 686 1555
E-mail: sbiplav@in.ibm.com
URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/irl/

Paolo Traverso
Automated Reasoning Systems Division (SRA)
IRST - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
Via Sommarive 18, Povo, 38050, Trento, Italy
Phone: +39 0461 314 327
Fax: +39 0461 302 040
E-mail: traverso@itc.it
URL: http://sra.itc.it/people/traverso/