Working Groups

Conceptual Models for Services (CMS)

The mission of the Conceptual Models for Services Working Group (CMS WG) is to continue the efforts of the WSMO working group in two ways. Firstly, the group will maintain WSMO adding updates as appropriate to fulfil requests from Semantic Web Service researchers and practitioners. Secondly, building on WSMO we will create a number of new generic ontologies including:

• WSMO-Lite - a lightweight ontology which uses RDFS as the description language and defines mechanisms to annotate WSDL descriptions using SAWSDL.
• MicroWSMO - an annotation mechanism for RESTful services.
• Semantic Annotations of Processes - an ontology for describing processes which are implemented as Web services.

The working group integrates the work from various past and present projects mainly funded from the EU FP6 and FP7 R&D programs. The core projects of the CMS WG are SOA4ALL and SUPER.

OASIS Semantic Execution Environment TC (OASIS SEE)

The technology of Semantic Web services (SWSs) envisions easy access to various systems and facilitates the consumption of the functionality exposed by these systems on the Web. Seamless integration, ad-hoc cooperation between various business parties or dynamic collaborations on the Web, can be achieved only if tools for handling semantically enhanced services are provided.

The OASIS SEE TC aims to continue work initiated by the WSMX project and working group visible at http://www.wsmx.org and several other projects in Europe such as DIP (http://dip.semanticweb.org/), ASG (http://asg-platform.org/) and other projects in the area of Semantic Web Services which will start in the coming months. The aim of the SEE TC is to provide guidelines, justifications and implementation directions for an execution environment for Semantic Web services. The resulting architecture will incorporate the application of semantics to service-oriented systems and will provide intelligent mechanisms for consuming Semantic Web services.