[SEM-GRD] 2nd CFP: International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)
Jyotishman Pathak
jyotishman at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 19:17:22 CST 2008
2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)
Special Theme: Dynamic Services Composition and User Steering
Website: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jfh/WSCA2008
July 8, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Affiliated with IEEE International Services Computing Conference 2008
Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have
resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and
autonomously developed Web services. Correspondingly, the construction and
deployment of composite services by combining and reusing independently
developed component services is an important capability in the emerging Web
- based computing infrastructure. In particular, ongoing research in automatic
and semi-automatic techniques of creating and managing service compositions is
paving the way for business processes to continually evolve and be flexible--an
important requirement in managing Information Technology (IT) complexity for big
and small businesses. Typically, issues related to dynamic service compositions
include developing approaches to handling service failures, changes in service
functionalities, and changes to quality of service parameters. Other related
topics include understanding external events, which are the sources of
volatility in service compositions. In people-oriented service compositions, the
element of human intervention further complicates the compositions and the
manner in which compositions may be adapted. One example of this is user
steering, which includes human involvement in interpreting dynamic compositions
and making decisions on how the process will adapt to change. Exploring novel
techniques such as mash-ups that support incremental and dynamic process
evolution due to user steering is also an important topic of interest.
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Services Computing
Conference. SCC is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry
practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the
art and practice of services computing, which in essence, has emerged as a new
cross discipline that shapes the thinking of performing services business more
efficiently and effectively. The workshop truly complements this theme of the
conference. Additionally, for this year, we are including a special theme for
dynamic service composition and user steering---topics in SOC research that have
been lately gaining a lot of momentum in both academia and industry. We believe
that the workshop presentations and discussions will not only bring out the
current state of advances in service composition, adaptation and human
involvement in constructing processes, but also provide valuable insights for
future research and development avenues and for work-in progress in related
areas.
*Specific topics of interest include*
- Formal methods in service composition
- Verification of service composition
- Reuse in service composition: service compatibility and substitution
- Ontology-based approaches to service composition
- Adaptation and evolution of services
- Dynamic service selection and binding
- Self aware, self-optimizing, and self-healing Web services and
compositions
- Modeling of change in functional, non-functional, and process
semantics
- Re-planning of service compositions
- "People activities" and "People-initiated" processes
- Service compositions in mash-ups
- BPEL4PEOPLE
- Human interaction workflow patterns
- Case studies, and applications (e.g., in e-science and scientific workflows)
*Submission guidelines*
Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not
being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers must be limited to 8
pages and following the formatting of the IEEE Computer Science Proceedings
template (http://www.computer.org/cspress+instruct.htm). Papers can be
submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system. At least
one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper.
*Workshop proceedings*
A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in
conjunction with SCC/SERVICES-2008) will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
*Important Dates*
Paper submission: March 1, 2008
Notification: March 31, 2008
Camera-Ready due: April 7, 2008
Workshop date: July 8, 2008
*Organizing Committee*
Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Samik Basu, Iowa State University
Marco Pistore, University of Trento
Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia
Rama Akkiraju, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
*Steering Committee*
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University
Amit Sheth, Wright State University
*Program Committee* (to be expanded)
Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia
Sanjay Chaudhary, DAIICT, India
Nirmit Desai, North Carolina State University
Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University
Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University
Anca Ivan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart
Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Nanjangud Narendra, IBM India Research Lab
Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE Corportation
Michael Sheng, CSIRO, Australia
Biplav Srivastava, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Kunal Verma, Accenture Inc.
Jian Yang, Macquarie University
Haibo Zhao, University of Georgia
*Publication Chair and Webmaster*
John Harney, University of Georgia
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Jyotishman Pathak
WWW: http://www.jyotishman.org
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