Aligning WSMO and WS - Policy ?

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) suggest that IT systems should be developed from coarse-grained, loosely coupled, business-aligned components, so called services. One way towards loose coupling is to refrain from hard-coding policies in the system and to represent them explicitly. Semantic Web Services (SWS) add semantics to Web services (main realization of SOAs). However, SWS research currently ignores most of the work done on Web service policies, therefore in this paper we present a proposal for combining WSMO, a major SWS framework, and WS-Policy Framework, a set of specifications with heavy industrial backing. The resulting combination is aimed at serving as the basis of applying the logical reasoning capabilities that have been developed (or are being developed) for WSMO to WS-Policy, and the basis for integrating WSMO in the WS-Policy framework.