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Description
Over the past five years there have been attempts to bring together languages and tools developed for Software Engineering (SE) with Semantic Web (SW) languages. One of the most recent of these attempts is the development of the Object Management Group's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM). Until recently, this work has been motivated largely by an interest to exploit the popularity and features of Unified Modeling Language (UML) tools for the creation of vocabularies and ontologies for the Semantic Web. But what are the potential benefits related to the reversal of this approach and the use of Semantic Web concepts in the field of Software Engineering? Could the Web-based, semantically rich formality of the Web Ontology Language OWL be combined with emerging model driven development tools to provide badly needed improvements in both the process and product of software development activities? Certainly there appear to be a number of strong arguments in favour of this approach, but consensus on the best way forward has not yet formed. This workshop seeks to explore and evaluate this area.
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Intended Audience
While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Semantic Web languages and tools, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as Software Engineering, Automatic Software Engineering (ASE), Knowledge Based Software Engineering (KBSE), UML/MDA, and Software/legacy Modernization.
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Visions for Semantic Web driven software engineering
- Tools developed or being developed for software engineering using SW languages
- Integration or application development projects combining software
- Engineering techniques and Semantic Web tools or languages
- Lessons learned in ASE or KBSE applicable to SW based SE
- Shortcomings with the Semantic Web with respect to Software Engineering
- Deficiencies in the ODM
- Visions for SW driven software modernization
- Integration of UML and Semantic Web languages
- Integration of formal methods and Semantic Web languages
- Software specification and Semantic Web languages
- Component discovery and ontologies
- Feature modelling and ontologies
- Ontology reasoning for software engineering
- Semantic annotations in software engineering
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Workshop Format and Attendance
This will be an all day workshop with at least one invited speaker, a poster session, technical talks, and panels discussing competing visions for Semantic Web enabled software engineering (final format will be dependent on submissions). A working session will follow to form and document a sense of the workshop on the following question:
Are the conditions right for a major advancement in software engineering
tools and practice through the incorporation of Semantic Web languages and tools?
This workshop is open to all members of the ISWC community, as well as other communities identified in the Intended Audience discsussion above.
Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper will be given priority for registration. All workshop attendees must pay the ISWC2005 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. We encourage those who plan to attend this workshop, to register early in order to help conference organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance.
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Organizing Committee
Evan Wallace (contact person), NIST
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Manchester
Phil Tetlow, IBM
Elisa F. Kendall, Sandpiper Software
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Program Committee
Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim
Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University
Dragan Gasevic, (CA) Simon Fraser University Surrey
Michael Goedicke (DE), University of Essen
Ian Horrocks (UK), Manchester University
Mitch Kokar (US), Northeastern University
Bob Lojek (UK), IBM
David Martin (US), SRI International
Jishnu Mukerji (US), Hewlett-Packard Company
Daniel Oberle (DE), University of Karlsruhe
Marwan Sabbouh (US), MITRE Corporation
Michael K. Smith (US), Electronic Data System
Michael Uschold (US), Boeing
Andrea Zisman, (UK) City University, London
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Submissions and Publication
We invite three forms of submission to this workshop:
- Full papers
- Short position papers
- Posters
Format required for submissions:
Full technical papers should not exceed fifteen pages in length, while the body of short position papers should not exceed two pages.
Submissions should be sent in PDF to the primary contact or the conference submission address. Please use the Springer's LNCS format for accepted papers. Complete details on this format are available at Springeronline. Technical papers will be peer reviewed by a group of experts representing a cross-section of fields relevant to Semantic Web enabled software engineering.
Publication:
All accepted papers will be published online as part of the workshop proceedings.
In order to increase the quality of the submitted papers and to provide a stronger background for discussions, we will publish extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop in a special Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering section of a future issue of the Journal of Web Semantics.
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Important Dates
- 8 August 2005 - Paper submission deadline extended
- 2 September 2005 - Notification of acceptance to authors
- 30 September 2005 - Camera-ready version of accepted papers
- 6 November 2005 - Workshop
Please send any questions or comments to Evan Wallace.
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