I survived the mad rush to complete that paper in 96 hours. I successfully submitted it and now I’m waiting to hear whether it was accepted or not. My advisor told me it was a good job and he liked the final product, so that was good news. There were 14 papers submitted for that particular workshop. It’s a one-day event, so I expect there will be about 7 papers selected. Those aren’t bad odds.

I spoke to my advisor this past Friday and he told me again that he thought it was a good paper, so I’m cautiously optimistic about my chances of being accepted. In the meantime, I have begun some implementation work to try and show the work i described in the paper. I’m successfully parsing a BPMN model and launching individual agents for each task in the model, so I’m off to a decent start. Now I am trying to figure out how to assemble the discovered services into a connected graph. I’ve got a couple of ideas, but I need to mull them over a little more.

In the meantime, I still have a fighting chance of completing my research by the end of the spring semester.