Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web CAiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES 2002, Toronto, Canada, May 27-28, 2002, Revised Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, WES 2002, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2002 in conjunction with CAiSE 2002.
The 18 revised full papers presented together with two keynote papers were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on web services, e-business, and e-services and the semantic web.

Keynote Presentation.- Ten-Step Survival Guide for the Emerging Business Web.- Web Service Track.- Process Aggregation Using Web Services.- The Use of Patterns in Service Composition.- Workflow View Driven Cross-Organizational Interoperability in a Web-Service Environment.- WSOL — Web Service Offerings Language.- e-Business Track.- On ?-, ?-, ?-, and ?-Contracting.- A Three-Layer Framework for Cross-Organizational e-Contract Enactment.- XRL/Flower: Supporting Inter-organizational Workflows Using XML/Petri-Net Technology.- Towards User Centric e-Learning Systems.- Data Quality in e-Business Applications.- Personalised Organisation of Dynamic e-Catalogs.- Keynote Presentation.- The World of e-Business: Web-Services, Workflows, and Business Transactions.- DAML+OIL: A Reason-Able Web Ontology Language.- e-Services and the Semantic Web.- A Service Infrastructure for e-Science: The Case of the ARION System.- Formal Verification of e-Services and Workflows.- Processing Schedules Using Distributed Ontologies on the Semantic Web.- Value-Added Web Services Composition Using Automatic Program Synthesis.- Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI.- On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services.- Me-Services: A Framework for Secure & Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments.- Discovering Services: Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval.