An essential prerequisite for making these technologies working is agreement reflected by widely used standards. Only then, these technologies scale and meet the demands of large user communities. Therefore, all these objectives can only be achieved based on a truly international cooperation. Therefore, we decided to join forces of European and US researchers funded by DARPA and EU and a future extension will broaden the range to additional areas. The body of SWSI is formed by five well defined sub-committees reflecting different needs that ensure the overall success of our approach.
	Name Mission Chair Steering Committee The Steering Committee ensures the overall coherence of the work, monitor the overall progress, and present the achieved results to the outside world. In addition, this committee will coordinate with other relevant bodies in this area. Dieter Fensel dieter.fensel@deri.ie Katia Sycara katia@cs.cmu.edu Language Committee The Language Committee will define a semantic Web markup language for describing Web services. This is an essential step for combining semantic Web and Web service technology. It is the key requisite for transforming Web services to an automated and flexible value-added technology. This committee will take the current DAML-S draft as a starting point in order to develop a language/ontology specification for semantic Web services, that, besides ontological definitions includes service specification, support for service enactment, composition, orchestration and messaging. The final deliverable will be a note to the W3C. Further information about the Language Commitee is available at www.daml.org/services/swsl. Michael Kifer kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu David Martin martin@ai.sri.com Architectural Committee The Architectural Committee will define additional functionalitiy on top of current Web service standards. This is an essential step for making Web services a mature technology. This committee is oriented to the potential users of Web services, enabling them to use this technology for their practical needs in eCommerce and other mission critical applications. It will take the current WSMF draft as a starting point. In addition, this subcommittee will define use cases to help test the validity of assumptions and the coverage of real situations. Further information about the Architectural Committee is available at www.daml.org/services/swsa. Mark Burstein burstein@bbn.com Christoph Bussler chbussler@aol.com Industrial Partners The Industrial Partners provides feedback to the results and deliverables of the Language and Architecture Committees. It will help keep the scientific results, and any associated early-phase standards proposals, aligned with the actual needs of industry and governmental organizations and will also play a prominent role in disseminating these results to the user communities. In particular, such feedback will include suggestions and discussion of use cases, applications, and requirements. Our intent is that the Industrial Partners part of SWSI, and its mailing list, will further provide a forum more generally for sharing SWSI-relevant information, including news about relevant industry developments. John Davies (co-chair) john.nj.davies@bt.com Benjamin N. Grosof (co-chair) bgrosof@mit.edu Michael F. Uschold (co-chair) michael.f.uschold@boeing.com Advisory Board The Advisory Board comprises key technical advisors together with representatives of sponsoring agencies, standardization organizations, and other groups with long-term commitments to Semantic Web Services. Advisory Board members will provide strategic advice, feedback and other input reflecting the long-term vision for Semantic Web Services and the needs, policies, and plans of member organizations. The Advisory Board members will promote the activities of the Semantic Web Service Initiative globally and within their respective organizations and programs, as appropriate. The Advisory Board will provide other assistance as requested from the committee. Murray A. Burke (co-chair) mburke@darpa.mil Roberto Cencioni (co-chair) roberto.cencioni@cec.eu.int Mark Greaves mgreaves@darpa.mil Jim Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Sheila McIlraith sam@ksl.stanford.edu Rudi Studer studer@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de