Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids,
and Web languages and protocols have enabled development of,
and led to the proliferation of, distributed and autonomously developed
Web services. These include WSDL/SOAP based services well suited for enterprise
applications as well as lighter-weight WebAPIs and REST-ful services widely used
in Web applications. Correspondingly, the construction and deployment of mashup and
composite services that combine and reuse independently developed component services
is an important capability in the emerging Web-based computing infrastructure.
Given that business and application needs continually change, and component
services may also independently change, a number of challenges in provide dynamic,
flexible and adaptable approaches to such integration and composition of services
remains an important challenge.
Against this background, the proposed workshop invites manuscripts
addressing various aspects related to (a) discovery or selection of
component services that will be integrated, (b) use of semantics to ease
data mediation and integration of component services, (c) developing approaches
to handling service failures, changes in service functionalities, and changes to
quality of service parameters, and (d) understanding external events, which are the
sources of volatility in service compositions. Insightful examples of and approaches to
service composition and adaptation in a variety of applications such as scientific and
engineering workflows, mobile computing, sensor networks, consumer and social networking,
are welcomed as well. Additionally, we invite discussions of toolkits that support
composition and adaptation objectives.
Specific topics of interest include (but not limited to):
- Dynamic service discovery and selection
- Semantic annotation and mediation of services
- Formal methods in service composition
- Verification of service composition
- Domain specific languages for mashups
- Reuse in service composition: service compatibility and substitution
- Ontology-based approaches to service composition and mashups
- Adaptation and Evolution of services, including modeling of events that impact service com-
positions and mashups, and techniques to respond to these events
- Case studies and applications (e.g., in e-Science, e-Business, e-Government, mobile comput-
ing, social computing, sensor networks)
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Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not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://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/IEEEProceedingsTemplate.doc
Papers can be submitted electronically via
the Confhub
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 ICWS/SERVICES-2009) will be published by IEEE Computer Society.