The EEE-05 challenge: a new Web service discovery and composition competition

With growing acceptance of service-oriented computing, an emerging area of research is the investigation of technologies that enables the discovery and composition of Web services. Using the same approach as the popular trading agent competitions (TAC), the EEE-05 Web services challenge is the first event geared towards the management of Web services. The competition solicits industry and academic researchers that develop software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to discover pertinent Web services and also compose them to create higher-level capabilities. This paper describes the competition details for this first year and expectations for future events.