Autonomic Web Processes
Autonomic Web Processes (AWPs) propose to elevate autonomic computing from individual information technology resources to the Web processes that govern the functioning of individual resources. AWPs are highly adaptive Web processes, which are characterized by the autonomic computing properties (self configuring, self healing, self optimizing and self protecting).

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1. K. Verma, A. Sheth. Autonomic Web Processes. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Service-oriented Computing (ICSOC), - Vision Paper, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3826), Springer Verlag. B. Benatallah, F. Casati, P. Traverso editors. pdf
    

Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes
The METEOR-S project seeks to support the complete lifecycle of Semantic Web Services and Processes. I have been involved in the following phases:

• Dynamic Web Process Configuration
  This part of METEOR-S deals with optimal selection of Web service partners using quantitative and logical constraint analysis. We have proposed using an ILP solver and a SWRL reasoner in conjunction to dynamically configure Web processes.
  
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  1. Kunal Verma, Rama Akkiraju, Richard Goodwin, Semantic Matching of Web Service Policies, Second International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes (SDWP 2005) pdf
      

  2. Rohit Aggarwal, Kunal Verma, John A. Miller and William Milnor, "Constraint Driven Web Service Composition in METEOR-S," Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004), Shanghai, China, September 2004 , pp. 23-30 pdf ppt
     



• Dynamic Web Process Execution
  Dynamic Web Process execution proposes a proxy invocation of partner services. It support run-time binding of Web services.
  
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  1. Kunal Verma, Rama Akkiraju, Richard Goodwin, Prashant Doshi, Juhnyoung Lee, On Accommodating Inter Service Dependencies in Web Process Flow Composition, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web Services, March, 2004, pp. 37-43 pdf ppt
      

  2. Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John Miller, Amit Sheth, and Kunal Verma, Framework for Semantic Web Process Composition, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Winter 2004-5, Vol. 9(2) pp. 71-106
      

• Semantic Web Service Discovery
  This project deals with using semantic templates to discover Web services. The semantic templates represent the abstract functionality of each operation required by service requestors by referring to domain ontologies. In addition, we have also tackled the problem of large proliferation of Web service registries by proposing a peer to peer network for semantically routing the queries to the ontolgies.
  
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  1. Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar and John Miller, METEOR-S WSDI: A Scalable Infrastructure of Registries for Semantic Publication and Discovery of Web Services, Journal of Information Technology and Management, Special Issue on Universal Global Integration, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005) pp. 17-39. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
      

  2. Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, Discovery of Web Services in a Federated Registry Environment, Proceedings of IEEE Second International Conference on Web Services, June, 2004, pp. 270-278  (acceptance rate 28%)
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• Semantic Web Service Annotation
  In this project, we proposed annotations to WSDL for annotating Web services. We also explored schema matching techniques for semi-automatically annotating Web services.
  
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  1. Sivashanmugam, K., Verma, K., Sheth, A., Miller, J., Adding Semantics to Web Services Standards, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), Las Vegas, Nevada (June 2003) pp. 395-401. pdf   ppt
      

  2. Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma, METEOR-S Web service Annotation Framework, The Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, May, 2004 (WWW2004), pp. 553-562 (acceptance rate 14%) pdf ppt
      

  3. R. Akkiraju, J. Farrell, J.Miller, M. Nagarajan, M. Schmidt, A. Sheth, K. Verma, , W3C Member Submission. November 2005.