Intelligent Integration of Information and Services on the Web

It was held on Sunday, 28 July 2002. The workshop papers are available as a technical report from AAAI Press. After a welcome and introductions, David Martin of SRI International started the day's presentations with an overview of the The objective of the language is to enable automated software agents to easily accomplish real-world planning tasks by discovering related services, selecting the most appropriate among them, composing them into effective plans, and invoking them to execute these plans and accomplish their tasks. The ServiceModel specification is aimed at supporting service invocation, composition, and monitoring and consists of a workflow model describing how the service is accomplished in terms of atomic and composite processes and their data and control dependencies. Finally, the ServiceGrounding specification specifies the implementation-specific details of service invocation, related to protocols, message formatting, and type serialization.