[clean-list] WS-FM 2006 Call for Partecipation

[Mario Bravetti]

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                      3rd International Workshop on
                     Web Services and Formal Methods
                              (WS-FM 2006)
                 8-9 September 2006, Vienna, Austria
                       http://cs.unibo.it/ws-fm06

             Official event of "The Process Modelling Group"
                 http://www.process-modelling-group.org

                        Co-located with BPM 2006
      4th International Conference on Business Process Management
                       http://bpm2006.tuwien.ac.at
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           ***** Early registration deadline: July 31st *****


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 mainly devoted to the definition of
  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...

  Formal methods, which provide formal machinery for representing and
  analysing the behavior of communicating concurrent/distributed systems,
  are playing a fundamental role in the development of such
  innovations. First of all they are exploited to understand 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 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 and behaviour of a service and not just a
  Web Service name. Thirdly, the 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 facilitate 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 description 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

INVITED TALKS

   Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
   "DecSerFlow: Towards a Truly Declarative Service Flow Language"

   Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy
   "SCC: a Service Centered Calculus"

   Schahram Dustdar, Wien University of Technology, Austria
   "Service QoS composition at the level of part names"

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs

  Mario Bravetti         University of Bologna, Italy
  Gianluigi Zavattaro    University of Bologna, Italy

Board of "The Process Modelling Group"

  Wil van der Aalst         Eindhoven Univ.of Technology, The Netherlands
  Rob van Glabbeek          NICTA, Sydney, Australia
  Keith Harrison-Broninski  Role Modellers Ltd.
  Robin Milner              Cambridge University, UK
  Roger Whitehead           Office Futures

Other PC members

  Marco Aiello           University of Trento, Italy
  Farhad Arbab           CWI, The Netherlands
  Matteo Baldoni         University of Torino, Italy
  Jean-Pierre Banatre    University of Rennes1 and INRIA, France
  Boualem Benatallah     University of New South Wales, Australia
  Karthik Bhargavan      Microsoft research Cambridge, UK
  Roberto Bruni          University of Pisa, Italy
  Michael Butler         University of Southampton, UK
  Fabio Casati           HP Labs, USA
  Rocco De Nicola        University of Florence, Italy
  Marlon Dumas           Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  Schahram Dustdar       Wien University of Technology, Austria
  Gianluigi Ferrari      University of Pisa, Italy
  Jose Luiz Fiadeiro     University of Leicester, UK
  Stefania Gnesi         CNR Pisa, Italy
  Reiko Heckel           University of Leicester, UK
  Kohei Honda            Queen Mary, University of London, UK
  Nickolas Kavantzas     Oracle Co., USA
  Leila Kloul            Universite' de Versailles, France
  Cosimo Laneve          University of Bologna, Italy
  Mark Little            JBoss Inc
  Natalia Lopez          University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
  Roberto Lucchi         University of Bologna, Italy
  Jeff Magee             Imperial College London, UK
  Fabio Martinelli       CNR Pisa, Italy
  Manuel Mazzara         University of Bolzano, Italy
  Ugo Montanari          University of 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 Southampton, UK
  Marjan Sirjani         Tehran University, Iran
  Friedrich Vogt         Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
  Martin Wirsing         Ludwig-Maximilians University Munchen, Germany