Moderator

1
SWSWPC Panel DiscussionDo Academic Research and
Industrial Development Differ in their Role and
Approach Regarding the use of Semantics for Web
Processes?

• Moderator
• John A. Miller (LSDIS Lab, University of
  Georgia)
• Panelists
• Shishir Garg (France Telecom RD)
• Jianwen Su (University of California,
  Santa Barbara)
• Jeff Pollock (Network Inference, Ltd.)
• Ryusuke Masuoka (Fujitsu Laboratories of
  America, Inc.)

2
SWSWPC Panel Discussion

• Issues
• Academic Research vs. Industrial Development
• Do they differ?
• Should they differ?
• What are the main differences?
• If they do not differ enough, will intellectual
  pursuit and innovation
• be stifled?
• If they differ too much, will academic research
  become abstruse and
• possibly irrelevant.
• Pitfalls to be avoided?
• Facilitators of long-term cooperative RD.