Nowadays, evolution of enterprises is characterized by an aggressive economic world-wide competition, and often, by an unforeseeable environment in terms of needs and market demands. To survive in such a context, enterprises must collaborate, and they must be flexible and reactive enough to achieve this collaboration. In particular, with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), a collaborative application application can be now considered as an assembly of services, built on composition of services, WfMS, and legacy applications. Thus, the way a business process is designed, executed, and monitored is changing. A business process can now be seen as a set of composed services that are shared across different business units, organizations, or that can be outsourced to partners. To realize such business processes, a very detailled comprehension and integration of the information systems of companies become necessary, and classical problems of information systems integration remain important. These problems are very complicated, due to the evolution of information systems that became even more complex and heterogeneous. Technologies of the Web, and precisely the concept of Web services, promise to facilitate the integration of applications between companies by proposing architectures and tools mitigating the limits of the conventional mediators (e.g., EAI). These technologies constitute a promising solution in order to meet the complex need for integration and urbanization of information systems. Indeed, Web services make it possible to publicly expose the functionalities of an information system, making it accessible through the Web technologies that rely on intensive use of standard interfaces and protocols, reducing the heterogeneity of the systems and providing less expensive and simple implementation solutions for achieving integration.
Currently, Web services tend to becoming a very active research field grouping researchers of several communities: software engineering, workflows, databases, information systems, multi-agents systems... However, it is clear that the scientific literature treating of Web services is far too dispersed. The result is that it does not exist a clear unification and integration of the concepts, making very difficult to have a full and synthetic understanding of this field. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the academic researchers around the topics around Web services, being focused more particularly, but not exclusively, on the role of this technology in the emergence of new approaches of design and integration of information systems.
The objective of the workshop will be to support presentations and to encourage in-depth discussions about both current state of research efforts, and practical experiences. The list of topics includes (but not limited to):
The workshop solicits scientific papers that address problems specific to distributed and mobile collaboration environments. Additionally, position papers outlining interesting new research domains and approaches are welcome. The selection of papers is based primarily on their potential to influence future research.
The workshop will be a one day workshop, and the objective of the workshop is to encourage both presentations and productive discussions around the topics covered by the accepted papers. An invited keynote is scheduled in order to set the focus of the workshop.
Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the-art work. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their views of the field at the oral presentation. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Authors should also provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic address. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three program commitee members.
Formatting Instructions and templates are available at:
Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
The submission site is closed.
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Opening of WETICE 2007 |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Plenary talk: Rainer Ruggabe, SAP |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Plenay talk: Franck Capello, INRIA |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Session 1
Reconciling Web service failing interactions. Towards an approach based on automatic generation of mediators How to Handle QoS Aspects in Web Services Substitutivity Verification A QoS-driven reconfiguration management system extending Web services with self-healing properties Discussion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Session 2
Using Activity-centered Semantics in Service-oriented Processes Context Adaptation of Web Services Orchestrations Towards An Approach For Enhancing Web Services Discovery Discussion |
| 18:30 | WETICE Reception |
Pr. Fabio Casati, from University of Trento, will give a keynote on Wednesday 11:00 AM on business processes and the Web (“Business process mashups? Process management and the Web growing together”). We encouraged you to attend this keynote.