Call for Papers

SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SERVICES ENGINEERING

(SEIW 2007)

in conjunction with

The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007)

April 16, 2007, Istanbul, Tu rkey

Advance Program Available HERE!

Journal of Database Management (JDM)

Special Issue on “XML Data Services: Technology Evolution and Challenges”

Workshop URL: http://www.hrl.uoit.ca/~seiw2007/

Theme: XML Data Services

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used to represent fine-grained data that originates in repositories in machine readable format by providing structure and the possibility of adding type information, such as XML Schema. A Web service is a software system that supports interoperable application-to-application interaction over the Internet. Web services are based on a set of XML standards, such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). Each service makes its functionality available through well-defined or standardized XML interfaces. The result of this approach is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). XML is playing an important role in the data transport protocol for Web services. For example, SOAP messages are used both by service requestors to invoke Web services, and by Web services to answer requests. The interactions of SOAP messages between Web services form the theoretical model of SOAP Message Exchange Patterns (MEP). This workshop aims to explore and investigate various research issues of XML data that is encapsulated by Web services over the network. In particular, we call these networked services as XML data services. New challenges arise in the study of services engineering, an emerging research area devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented applications. Services engineering is an important area of the Services Computing Discipline, as promoted by the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, academia and industry. Its goal is to formulate effective solutions to the quality development, deployment and management of these applications.

In order to foster a lively exchange of perspectives on the workshop topics, we encourage contributions from both researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:

• Services engineering in XML data services
• Models and languages of XML data services
• Design and implementation of XML data services
• Interoperability and integration of XML data services
• Requirements engineering for XML data services
• Generation of XML data from Web services
• Data modeling concepts for XML data in Web services
• Ontology and semantic Web services
• Security, privacy and trust with XML data services
• Transaction management in XML data services
• BPEL and Web service orchestration with XML data
• XML-related languages like XML Schema, XPath, XQuery for Web services
• Convergence of Web services and XML database technology (queries, views, updates, integration, etc.)
• XML-based middleware for Web services
• SOAP Message Exchange Patterns
• UDDI, WSDL and SOAP enhancements
• Case studies for XML data services
• Quality of XML data services and deployment issues
• Dependability of XML data services
• Technical architecture and framework of XML data services
• Design tools and methodologies for XML data services
• Usage and usefulness analysis of XML data services

Submission Information

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed Instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, and review process can be found at http://www.hrl.uoit.ca/~seiw2007. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper.

Beside the hard copy of workshop proceedings published by the ICDE, the workshop proceedings will also be published by IEEE in electronic form.

The selected best research papers will be considered for a journal special issue. Details will be announced soon.

Please submit your paper via the submission system (http://199.212.32.164/myreview/SubmitAbstract.php).

Important Dates

Deadline for Paper Submission:  November 24, 2006 December 1, 2006 (extended!)

Notification of Acceptance: January 7, 2007

Camera Ready Copies: January 17, 2007

Organizers and Program Co-chairs:

Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Program Committee

Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)

Christoph Bussler (CISCO, USA)

Mark Cameron (CSIRO, Australia)

Barbara Carminati (University of Insubria at Como, Italy)

Fabio Casati (University of Trento, Italy)

S.C. Cheung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Peter Croll (Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO, Australia)

Khalil El-Khatib (UOIT, Canada)

Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria at Como, Italy)

Paul Grefen (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Dimka Karastoyanova (Unversity of Stuttgart, Germany)

Akhil Kumar (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Ramiro Liscano (UOIT, Canada)

Maria Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia)

Chaoyi Pang (CSIRO, Australia)

Ilia Petrov (SAP, Germany)

Ken Pu (UOIT, Canada)

Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)

Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia)

Xiaohui Zhao (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Andrea Zisman (City University, United Kingdom)

* Please send e-mail to the workshop chairs for any enquires: patrick.hung@uoit.ca or cliu@it.swin.edu.au