EuroWeb 2002 Conference - Index

Abstract

The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business.

The conference theme was intended to prompt debate on the convergence of three technologies that are considered candidates for the future information infrastructure: Web Services, the Grid and the Semantic Web.

These are often presented as three different visions supported by different technologies. However, in the current state of development convergence is appearing.

The Grid using Globus technology has pioneered in e-science the distributing on computing applications across multiple sites and the application of terabytes of data over gigabit communication links to teraflop computers. The Grid is now moving to adopting OGSA based on Web services thereby providing a declarative rather than a procedural representation of available services.

Web services are developing to provide declarative interfaces to services offered by systems on the Internet. They include messaging protocols, service interfaces and directory services as well as security layers not included in the Grid technology so far. However, they have not been applied to the large data, communication and processing sizes that the Grid has, so lessons on scaling up to these large applications can be learned from the Grid.

The Semantic Web vision has been demonstrated in a Web environment using RDF and Ontology languages such as DAML+Oil and OWL, but with these also provide mechanisms for defining vocabularies for service properties and qualities such as DAML-S has shown which can be adopted by both Web Services and the Grid in order to lead to clear description of what services offer, and to support machine negotiation of policies for quality of service and trust.

The communities who identify with the web, the GRID, Web Services, Grid Services and Semantic Web should not be isolated from each other, but need to come together to unify their approaches to meet the real needs of information, data and knowledge technology users.

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Sponsors

This conference was sponsored by ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.

Supporters

This conference was also supported by the World Wide Web Consortium - UK & Ireland Office and the International World Wide Web Conference Committee

Papers:

Session 1: The Semantic Web and the Grid

A. Barnell RDF Objects http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.1

L. Chen, S.J. Cox, C Goble, A.J. Keane, A Roberts, N.R. Shadbolt, P. Smart & F. Tao Engineering Knowledge for Engineering Grid Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.2

M.I. Yagüe & J.Mª Troya A Semantic Approach for Access Control in Web Services http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.3

S.A. Ludwig & P. van Santen Position Paper: A Grid Service Discovery Matchmaker Based on Ontology Description http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.4

A. Sadovykh, S. Wesner & J-E. Bohdanowicz Position Paper: GeneSyS: A Generic Architecture for Supervision of Distributed Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.5

Session 2: From e-science to e-business

T. Dimitrakos, D. Raptis, B. Ritchie & K. Stølen Model Based Security Risk Analysis for Web Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.6

A. Eberhart Towards Universal Web Service Clients http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.7

M. Greenwood, C. Wroe, R. Stevens, C. Goble & M. Addis Position Paper: Are Bioinformaticians doing e-Business? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.8

M.B. Hursthouse, M. Surridge, J.G. Frey, S.J. Coles, M.E. Light, K.E. Meacham, D.J. Marvin, D.C. De Roure & H.R. Mills Position Paper: Grid/Web Enhancements to the National Crystallographic Service: Experiences with an Interactive e-science Demonstrator http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.9

Session 3: Presentation of Information from the Web and Grid

K.W. Brodlie, J. Wood, D.A. Duce, J.R. Gallop, D. Gavaghan, M. Giles, S. Hague, J. Walton, M. Rudgyard, B. Collins, J. Ibbotson & A. Knox XML for Visualization http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.10

M. Dewar, D. Carlisle & O. Caprotti Position Paper: Description Schemes for Mathematical Web Services http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.11

J.G. Frey, D. De Roure & L. Carr Position Paper: Publication at Source: Scientific Communication from a Publication Web to a Data Grid http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.12

Session 4: Extending the Grid

M. Draoli, C. Gaibisso & D. Giannelli Deploying the Globus Security Infrastructure in a Production Environment: Testing and Evaluation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.13

K. Amin, S. Nijsure & G. von Laszewski Open Collaborative Grid Service Architecture (OCGSA) http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.14

G. Goulas & E. Housos SchedSP: Providing GRID-enabled Real-World Scheduling Solutions as Application Services http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.15

S. Prabhakar, C. Ribbens & P. Bora Multifaceted Web Services: An Approach to Secure and Scalable Grid Scheduling http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.16

Session 5: Web and Grid Services

T. Boehm Web Service Based Data Management for Grid Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.17

N. Mukhi, R. Khalaf & P. Fremantle Multi-protocol Web Services for Enterprises and the Grid http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.18

P. Lindner, N. Currle-Linde, M.M. Resch & E. Gabriel Distributed Application Management in Heterogeneous Grids http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.19

L. Pajunen, J. Korhonen & J. Puustjärvi Adaptive Web Transactions: An Approach for Achieving the Atomicity of Composed Web Services http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EW2002.20