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# SWS 2004
Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications

### Proceedings of the ISWC 2004 Workshop on
Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications
Hiroshima, Japan, November 8, 2004.

Edited by

### David Martin *
Rubén Lara +
Takahira Yamaguchi #

* SRI International,, Menlo Park, California, USA
+ Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria
# Keio University, Japan

## Table of Contents

### Full Papers

1. Planning for Semantic Web Services
   Evren Sirin and Bijan Parsia
2. Variance in e-Business Service Discovery
   Stephan Grimm, Boris Motik and Chris Preist
3. A Logical Framework for Web Service Discovery
   Michael Kifer, Ruben Lara, Axel Polleres, Chang Zhao, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen and Dieter Fensel
4. Bridging the Gap between Abstract and Concrete Services -- A Semantic Approach for Grounding OWL-S
   Steffen Balzer and Thorsten Liebig
5. A Model of Interactions about Actions for Active and Semantic Web Services
   Yasmine Charif and Nicolas Sabouret
6. Spinning the OWL-S Process Model -- Toward the Verification of the OWL-S Process Models
   Anupriya Ankolekar, Massimo Paolucci and Katia Sycara
7. Accessing and Manipulating Ontologies Using Web Services
   Olivier Dameron, Natalya F. Noy, Holger Knublauch and Mark A. Musen
8. Using Semantic Web Technologies to Integrate Software Components
   Marwan Sabbouh and Joseph K. DeRosa
9. Triple-based Computing
   Dieter Fensel
10. Expressing WSMO Mediators in OWL-S
    Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan and Katia Sycara

### Position Papers

1. What does Software Engineering Practice offer to Semantic Web Service Composition?
   Bruce Spencer and Sandy Liu
2. A Mediated Approach Towards Web Service Choreography
   Michael Stollberg, Dumitru Roman and Juan Miguel Gómez

submitted by Rubén Lara , November 22, 2004