WSMO minutes, 31-March-04

“Meeting Protocol”

Participants:

Dieter Fensel, David Aiken, Gerard Bleeker, Jos de Bruijn, Emilia Cimpian, Pat Croke, Ying Ding, Michael Felderer, Fionnuala Foy, Kieran Hannon, Cliodhna Hurst, Ann Johnston, Uwe Keller, Michael Kifer, Edward Kilgarriff, Holger Lausen, Aine Leddy, Adrian Mocan, Matthew Moran,, Eyal Oren, Axel Polleres, Chris Priest, Dumitru Roman, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Michal Zaremba, Peter Zugmann

Organizational Issues:

- Website:

o Delete Prof. Sung-Kook Han from participant list since he is back to his country

o Math & Internet Explorer: proposal by Eyal, Jos and Uwe has been approved

- Next meetings:

o April 7 WSMO (14:00 Innsbruck time, 13:00 Galway time)

o April 14 WSMO (11:00 Innsbruck time, 10:00 Galway time)

o April 14 WSML (15:00 Innsbruck time, 14 Galway time)

o Fixed time will be further announced by Dieter via email

WSMO Deliverables:

• D3.1
• Will be discussed next week

• D10:

o Add reference of UDDI v3 and v2

o Heading of the figures should go below the figures

o Should follow the deliverable template

o Section 3: difference mediator and mediator services

o The reason for not using UDDI v3 is lack of implementation support currently

o Section 4: reusable goals should be part of UDDI repository, which can help users to form the new goals, improve the discovery.

o Should add reusable goals and goal template which can be published in repository

o Section4.3.3: distinguish semi automatic mediation

o Section 4.3: Jos will help update the wrong copy-paste

o Section 6.3.1 is not existing in document, the reference is wrong, please correct

o Please rephrase this section not to make misleading (especially category schema)

o Conclusion should be added here

o UDDI for WSMO: we could implement UDDI registrators (such as universal business registrator by Microsoft or IBM) locally for testing

o UDDI test server will be set up by Holger and Titi (they should be the editors of this deliverable) and running systems in 3-weeks (which should also be included in the next version of the deliverable in 3-weeks)

o Not valid xhtml, please correct

• D2:

o ER model of WSMO should be included here.

o Titi will take care: put it as appendix and add acknowledgement to the contributor

• D13.1:

o WSMX conceptual model vs. WSMO lite

o Propone to discuss it next week

• D13.2:
• PDF layouts is missing many layout information, please add them
• please add all these missing information to PDF template
• D8 is discussing language in high conceptual level, while D13.2 is discussing languages in system design and execution environment level
• Semantics in data mediation and future work
• Static discovery not dynamic discovery
• Very much on web services, not many semantic web services
• All the terminologies are described in D13.1
• The scope and purpose of the deliverable should be further clarified

• D13.3:
• Scope is missing
• Only be data mediation, please make it clear in the deliverable
• Mention other mediations in the future versions
• Central or non-central ontology: pros and cons for using intermediate ontology for mediation
• Related Paper proposed by dieter: B. Omelayenko and D. Fensel: An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogues for B2B E-commerce. In Proceedings of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database (DS-9), Semantic Issues in e-commerce Systems, Hong Kong, April 2001.
• Justify the requirement, scopes and focus on mediation
  
  
• D13.4:
• Web version is not printable
• PDF has broken logo
• Discuss next week

Talks, Deliverables & Deadlines:

Task	Responsible Persons	Deadline
UDDI test server	Holger Lausen Dumitru Roman	April 19, 2004
D10 next version	Peter Zugman	April 19, 2004
D13.0: Overview of WSMX (requirement, purpose and functionalities of WSMX)	Editors: Eyal Oren, Matthew Moran, Michal Zaremba	April 12, 2004
D13.2 next version	Eyal Oren	April 26, 2004
D13.3 next version	Adrian Mocan	April 26, 2004
D13.4 next version	Michal Zaremba	April 5, 2004
Discussion of PhD thesis of Raphael Volz	Eyal Oren	April 12, 2004

Papers presentation:

• Laurentiu: ontomerger
• How to use this ontomerger for data mediation
• Decision is made that not to use this tool

• Jos: Web service resource framework
• Pat Croke will write a short discussion paper on stateful and stateless issue together with dieter
• Jos will send the useful points of WS context around

• Axel: CVS: has been proposed to next week.

• Presentation for next meeting
• WS metadata exchange: David Aiken
• WS orchestration: Eyal Oren
• WS Choreography requirement: Emilia Cimpian
• WS choreography interface: Dumitru Roman
• IBM conversation support for WS: agent and eBusiness (Cliodhna Hurst), interface (Cliodhna Hurst)

WSML issues:

• Presentation on Ian’s software framework for matchmaking (Eyal Oren)
• Setting up WSML mailinglist (Dumitru Roman)
• Next meeting: April 14 WSML (14:00-17:00 Innsbruck time, 13:00-16:00 Galway time)

Other issues

• Jos: The following deliverables will be marked as web-standard documents, which should be provided in xhtml (the rest needs only a PDF version): D2, D3.1, D3.2, D14, D15, D16.1, D16.2, D16.3, D16.5.
• Jos: the fix for the example at the end of section 4.3.3 in D10 can be found in the chat log