Abstract A Semantic Template Based Designer for Web Processes (2009)
Ranjit Mulye, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam, Amit Sheth
The growing popularity of Service Oriented Computing based on Web services standards is creating a need for paradigms to represent and design business processes. Significant work has been done in the...
Web Service Conceptual Stack 1 Flow Discovery Publication Description (2008)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth, John Miller, Description:web Service Description
• Challenges in web services adoption • Web services conceptual stack and semantics at different layers • Semantics for web service usage lifecycle • METEOR-S project at LSDIS lab •...
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller
With the rising popularity of Web services, both academia and industry have invested considerably in Web service description standards, discovery, and composition techniques. The standards based...
�Abstract Process Annotator �Discovery Engine �Constraint Analyzer and Optimizer (2008)
Rohit Aggarwal, Major Advisors, P. Sheth, A. Miller, ...
�In supply chains, businesses have to be statically bound to the partners �Difficult to change the existing setup to deal with a new partner �Businesses cannot choose partners dynamically based...
Ivan Vasquez, John A. Miller, Kunal Verma
Transactional business processes require a high degree of reliability in order to guarantee consistent results. In case of failure, participants must take the necessary actions to leave the process...
Kunal Verma, Written Kunal Verma
Published in PM World Today- August 2007 (Vol. IX, Issue VIII) The paper is intended to help the project managers and program managers understand the project management challenges around enterprise...
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Dr. Hamid R. Arabnia, Kunal Verma, Deepti Chafekar, Ivan Vasquez
Rajasekaran and others
version) Framework for Semantic Web Process Composition (2008)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma
Web services have been recognized to have the potential to revolutionize ecommerce. The potential for businesses to be able to interact with each other on the fly is very appealing. To date, however,...
Abstract A Semantic Template Based Designer for Web Processes (2008)
Ranjit Mulye, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam, Amit Sheth
The growing popularity of Service Oriented Computing based on Web services standards is creating a need for paradigms to represent and design business processes. Significant work has been done in the...
WSDL-S: Adding Semantics to WSDL- White Paper (2008)
John Miller, Kunal Verma, Preeda Rajasekaran, Amit Sheth, Rohit Aggarwal, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam
Web services have primarily been designed for providing inter-operability between business applications. Current technologies assume a large amount of human interaction, for integrating two...
LINKING SEMANTICS WEB SERVICE EFFORTS Integrating WSMX and METEOR-S (2008)
Kunal Verma, Adrian Mocan, Michal Zaremba, Amit Sheth, John A, Christoph Bussler
Abstract: The METEOR-S and WSMO projects deal with the lifecycle Semantic Web services and processes. Though, they are separate projects with different approaches, we have identified points of...
WSDL-S: A Proposal to W3C WSDL 2.0 Committee (2008)
John Miller, Kunal Verma, Preeda Rajasekaran, Amit Sheth, Rohit Aggarwal, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam
Web services have primarily been designed for providing inter-operability between business applications. Current technologies assume a large amount of human interaction, for integrating two...
OpenWS-Transaction: Enabling Reliable Web Service Transactions (2008)
Ivan Vasquez, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth
Abstract. OpenWS-Transaction is an open source middleware that enables Web services to participate in a distributed transaction as prescribed by the WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction set of...
LINKING SEMANTICS WEB SERVICE EFFORTS Integrating WSMX and METEOR-S (2008)
Kunal Verma, Adrian Mocan, Michal Zaremba, Amit Sheth, John A, Christoph Bussler
Abstract: The METEOR-S and WSMO projects deal with the lifecycle Semantic Web services and processes. Though, they are separate projects with different approaches, we have identified points of...
Abstract. We seek to elevate autonomic computing from infrastructure to process level. Different aspects of autonomic computing – self configuring, self healing, self optimizing and self aware are...
A Semantic Framework for Identifying Events in a Service Oriented Architecture (2008)
Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma
We propose a semantic framework for automatically identifying events as a step towards developing an adaptive middleware for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Current related research focuses on...
Demonstrating Dynamic Configuration and Execution of Web processes (2008)
Karthik Gomadam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller
Abstract. Web processes are next generation workflows on the web, created using Web services. In this paper we demonstrate the METEOR-S Configuration and Execution Environment (MCEE 1) system. It...
Web Processes (Web service based workflows) are perceived as key enabler technologies for automation. In the real world, it is often important for the processes to evolve and adapt to changing...
OpenWS-Transaction: Enabling Reliable Web Service Transactions (2008)
Ivan Vasquez, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth
Abstract. OpenWS-Transaction is an open source middleware that enables Web services to participate in a distributed transaction as prescribed by the WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction set of...
Abstract Discovery of Web Services in a Multi-Ontology and Federated Registry Environment (2008)
Swapna Oundhakar, Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, John Miller
The potential of a large-scale growth of private and semi-private registries is creating the need for an infrastructure, which can support discovery and publication over a group of autonomous...
Abstract Adding Semantics to Web Services Standards (2008)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth, John Miller
With the increasing growth in popularity of Web services, discovery of relevant Web services becomes a significant challenge. One approach is to develop semantic Web services where by the Web...
Chapter 1 Designing Semantic Web Processes: The WSDL-S Approach (2008)
Ke Li, Kunal Verma, Ranjit Mulye, Reiman Rabbani, John A. Miller, P. Sheth
Many businesses are adopting Web Service technologies to provide greater access to their applications. Due to the fast-paced E-Commerce requirements, more and more businesses prefer to only creating...
Tutorial Session Services Oriented Architecture and Semantic Web Processes (2008)
Francisco Curbera, Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma
This tutorial presents what can be achieved by symbiotic synthesis of two of the hottest R&D and technology application areas: Web services and the Semantic Web. It presents the more recent...
Abstract Adding Semantics to Web Services Standards (2007)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth, John Miller
With the increasing growth in popularity of Web services, discovery of relevant Web services becomes a significant challenge. One approach is to develop semantic Web services where by the Web...
Optimal adaptation in web processes with coordination constraints (2006)
Kunal Verma, Prashant Doshi, Karthik Gomadam, John Miller, Amit Sheth
We present methods for optimally adapting Web processes to exogenous events while preserving inter-service constraints that necessitate coordination. For example, in a supply chain process, orders...
Configuration and Adaptation of Semantic Web Processes (2006)
Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam, Prashant Doshi, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth
In this paper, we present the METEOR-S framework for configuration and adaptation of Semantic Web processes. This paper shows how semantic descriptions of Web services can be used to facilitate Web...
Semantic WS-Agreement Partner Selection (2006)
In a dynamic service oriented environment it is desirable for service consumers and providers to offer and obtain guarantees regarding their capabilities and requirements. WS-Agreement defines a...
Semantic Interoperability of Web Services - Challenges and Experiences (2006)
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John Miller, Jon Lathem
With the rising popularity of Web services, both academia and industry have invested considerably in Web service description standards, discovery, and composition techniques. The standards based...
Semantic WS-Agreement Partner Selection (2006)
In a dynamic service oriented environment it is desirable for service consumers and providers to offer and obtain guarantees regarding their capabilities and requirements. WS-Agreement defines a...
Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam
Services are pervasive in today's economic landscape, and services-based architectures are
Optimal adaptation in web processes with coordination constraints (2006)
Kunal Verma, Prashant Doshi, Karthik Gomadam, John Miller, Amit Sheth
Abstract — We present methods for optimally adapting Web processes to exogenous events while preserving inter-service constraints that necessitate coordination. For example, in a supply chain...
Optimal adaptation in autonomic web processes with inter-service dependencies (2005)
Kunal Verma, John Miller, Prashant Doshi
We present methods for optimally adapting Web processes to exogenous events while preserving inter-service dependencies. For example, in a supply chain process, orders placed by the manufacturer may...
The METEOR-S approach for configuring and executing dynamic web processes (2005)
Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Zixin Wu
Web processes are the next generation workflows created using Web services. This paper addresses research issues in creating a framework for configuring and executing dynamic Web processes. The...
Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, John Miller
Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services...
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Dynamic Web Processes (DWP 2005) (2005)
Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth, Michal Zaremba, Christoph Bussler (eds
been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be...
Dynamic Discovery and Binding of Web Services to Abstract Web Process Flows (2005)
Rama Akkiraju, John Colgrave, Kunal Verma, Prashant Doshi, Richard Goodwin, Rama Akkiraju, ...
been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be...
Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, John Miller
Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services...
Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, John Miller
Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services...
Dynamic Workflow Composition using Markov Decision Processes (2005)
Prashant Doshi, Richard Goodwin, Rama Akkiraju, Kunal Verma
The advent of Web services has made automated workflow composition relevant to Web based applications. One technique that has received some attention, for automatically composing workflows is...
R.: Semantic Matching of Web Service Policies (2005)
Kunal Verma, Rama Akkiraju, Richard Goodwin
Abstract: In this work, we present a novel approach for matching the nonfunctional properties of Web Services represented using WS-policy. To date, most policy matching has been done using syntactic...
R.: Semantic Matching of Web Service Policies (2005)
Kunal Verma, Rama Akkiraju, Richard Goodwin
Abstract: In this work, we present a novel approach for matching the nonfunctional properties of Web Services represented using WS-policy. To date, most policy matching has been done using syntactic...
Constraint driven web service composition in METEOR-S (2004)
Rohit Aggarwal, Kunal Verma, John Miller, William Milnor
Creating Web processes using Web service technology gives us the opportunity for selecting new services which best suit our need at the moment. Doing this automatically would require us to quantify...
On accommodating inter service dependencies in web process flow composition (2004)
Kunal Verma, Rama Akkiraju, Richard Goodwin, Prashant Doshi, Juhnyoung Lee
Current business process flow representation languages such as BPEL4WS are prescriptive and operate at the execution level. They do not accommodate abstract specifications of business activities and...
Executing abstract web process flows (2004)
Rama Akkiraju, Kunal Verma, Richard Goodwin, Prashant Doshi, Juhnyoung Lee
Current business process flow representation languages specifications of business activities and dynamic binding of web services at run time. Moreover, dynamic selection of individual web services...
K.: METEOR-S Web Service Annotation Framework with Machine Learning Classification (2004)
Nicole Oldham, Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma
Researchers have recognized the need for more expressive descriptions of Web services. Most approaches have suggested using ontologies to either describe the Web services or to annotate syntactical...
METEOR-S Web service Annotation Framework (2004)
Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma
The World Wide Web is emerging not only as an infrastructure for data, but also for a broader variety of resources that are increasingly being made available as Web services. Relevant current...
Enhancing Web Services Description and Discovery to Facilitate Composition (2004)
Preeda Rajasekaran, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Amit Sheth
Abstract. Web services are in the midst of making the transition from being a promising technology to being widely used in the industry. However, most efforts to use Web services have been manual,...
Framework for semantic web process composition (2003)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma
Web services have been recognized to have the potential to revolutionize ecommerce. The potential for businesses to be able to interact with each other on the fly is very appealing. To date, however,...
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Rohit Aggarwal, Preeda Rajasekaran
There is much to be gained from adding semantics to Web services. This chapter provides a review of current metadata standards for Web services and explains the need for adding semantics to Web...
Designing an XML Database Engine: API and Performance (2002)
Sudhanshu Sipani, Kunal Verma, Xiao-qing Zeng, Dongsheng Che, Kai Wong, Advisor Dr, ...
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is fast becoming the common electronic data interchange language between applications. In this paper we describe a query processing engine called ‘Db4XML’....