WS-FM 2005 Call For Participation

WS-FM 2005 Call For Participation

[Mario Bravetti]

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			Call for Participation

                     2nd International Workshop on
                    Web Services and Formal Methods
                             (WS-FM 2005)

                1-3 September 2005, Versailles, France

                      http://cs.unibo.it/WS-FM05

                        Co-located with EPEW'05
             2nd European Performance Evaluation Workshop 

	      * Early registration deadline: July 28th *

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SCOPE

 Web Services technology aims at providing standard mechanisms for
 describing the interface and the services available on the web, as well
 as protocols for locating such services and invoking them (e.g. WSDL,
 UDDI, SOAP). Innovations are moving towards two main directions:
 The first one tends to the definition of new standards
 that support the specification of complex services out of
 simpler ones (the so called Web Service orchestration and choreography).
 Several proposals have been already set up: BPML, XLANG and
 BizTalk, WSFL, WS-BPEL, WS-CDL, etc...
 The second approach consists of the design of new (meta-)Web Services to
 be exploited at run-time by other Web Services: e.g. managing
 the cooperation of Web Services or acting as dynamic registry services.

 Formal methods, which privide formal machinery for representing and
 analysing the behavior of communicating concurrent/distributed systems,
 may potentially play a fundamental role in the development of such
 innovations. First of all they may help in understanding the basic
 mechanisms (in terms of semantics) which characterize different
 orchestration and choreography languages and to focus on the essence 
 of new features that are needed. Secondly they may provide a formal 
 basis for reasoning about Web Service semantics (behaviour and 
 equivalence): e.g. for realizing registry services where retrieval 
 is based on the meaning of a service and not just a Web Service name. 
 Thirdly also studies on formal coordination paradigms can be exploited 
 for developing mechanisms for complex run-time Web Service coordination. 
 Finally, given the importance of critical application areas for 
 Web Services like E-commerce, the development of the Web Service 
 technology can certainly take advantage from formal analisys of 
 security properties and performance in concurrency theory.

 The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working
 on Web Services and Formal Methods in order to activate a fruitful
 collaboration in this direction of research. This, potentially, could
 also have a great impact on the current standardization phase of Web
 Service technologies.

LIST OF TOPICS

 The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Protocols and standards for WS (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc... )
   - Languages and descripion methodologies for
     Coreography/Orchestration/Workflow
     (BPML, XLANG and BizTalk, WSFL, WS-BPEL, WS-CDL, YAWL, etc... )
   - Coordination techniques for WS
     (transactions, agreement, coordination services, etc...)
   - Semantics-based dynamic WS discovery services
     (based on Semantic Web/Ontology techniques or other semantic theories)
   - Security, Performance Evaluation and Quality of Service of WS
   - Semi-structured data and XML related technologies
   - Comparisons with different related technologies/approaches

INVITED TALKS

 Peter Harrison, Imperial College London
 "Performance Engineering and Stochastic Modelling"

 Gianfranco Ciardo, University of California
 "Implicit representations and algorithms for the logic and 
 stochastic analysis of discrete--state systems"

 Cosimo Lavene,  University of Bologna
 "PiDuce: A Process Calculus with Native XML Datatypes"

 Wil van der Aalst,  Eindhoven University of Technology
 "Life After BPEL ?"

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

 Mario Bravetti and Gianluigi Zavattaro

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

 Marco Aiello           University of Trento, Italy 
 Jean-Pierre Banatre    University of Rennes1 and INRIA, France 
 Boualem Benatallah     University of New South Wales, Australia 
 Karthik Bhargavan      Microsoft research Cambridge, UK 
 Manfred Broy           Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany 
 Roberto Bruni          University of Pisa, Italy 
 Michael Butler         University of Southampton, UK 
 Fabio Casati           HP Labs, USA 
 Rocco De Nicola        University of Florence, Italy 
 Schahram Dustdar       Wien University of Technology, Austria 
 Gianluigi Ferrari      University of Pisa, Italy 
 Jose Luiz Fiadeiro     University of Leicester, UK 
 Peter Furniss          Choreology Ltd, UK 
 Stephanie Gnesi        CNR Pisa, Italy 
 Reiko Heckel           University of Leicester, UK 
 Nickolas Kavantzas     Oracle Co., USA 
 Leila Kloul            Université de Versailles, France 
 Mark Little            Arjuna Technologies Limited, UK 
 Natalia López          University Complutense of Madrid, Spain 
 Roberto Lucchi         University of Bologna, Italy 
 Jeff Magee             Imperial College London, UK 
 Fabio Martinelli       CNR Pisa, Italy 
 Shin Nakajima          National Institute of Informatics and JST, Japan 
 Manuel Nunez           University Complutense of Madrid, Spain 
 Fernando Pelayo        University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain 
 Marco Pistore          University of Trento, Italy 
 Wolfgang Reisig        Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 
 Vladimiro Sassone      University of Sussex, UK 
 Frank Van Breugel      York University, Toronto, Canada 
 Friedrich Vogt         Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany