Papers were invited based on their quality, relevance and significance,
and the - ability of extending their results. Extended versions prepared
by authors were subject to the traditional two-round scholarly review
process, and the authors were required to respond to all concerns
expressed by the reviewers before papers were accepted. Eight papers
were eventually accepted for publication in this issue. The selection of
SWESE best papers eventually resulted in the acceptance of two papers.
The first paper "Experiences in the Design of Semantic Services Using
Web En- neering Methods and Tools," by Brambilla, Ceri, Celino, Cerizza,
Della Valle, Facca, Turati, and Tzviskou, shows how classical software
engineering methods (such as formal business process development and
automatic code generation) combine with semantic methods and tools
(i.e., ontology engineering, semantic service annotation and discovery)
to forge a new approach to software development for the Semantic Web. In
the paper, the authors present their experience in the participation to
the - mantic Web Service Challenge 2006, where the proposed approach
achieved very good results in solving the proposed problems. The second
paper "Automatically Generated Model Transformations Using Ont- ogy
Engineering Space," by Roser and Bauer, presents an approach to using
the - mantic technologies to improve cross-organizational modeling by
automated gene- tion of model transformations. By automated generation
of mappings it offers new possibilities for the integration of domain
specific languages and 'legacy' models in a plug&play manner, making it
easier for new organizations to join collaborations.
