September 1st, 2008
Milano, Italy
in conjunction with
BPM 2008 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
September 1-4 2008
Milan, Italy
sponsored by the EU FP6 WS-Diamond Project
Web Service DIAgnosability, MONitoring, and Diagnosis
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Important dates
Deadline for Workshop paper submissions:Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2008
Final version and copyright form: July 5, 2008
Workshop day: September 1, 2008
Post-proceeding version of the paper: September 23, 2008
Technical Program:
Session I: Self-healing Web Services and Autonomic Service-Oriented Systems.
Session II: Technical Papers.
Objectives
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, both from the Academia and from the Industry, working in the areas of Web Service composition, QoS management and diagnosis, who investigate concepts, methods, techniques, and tools to design and manage self-healing Web Services.The development of composite services poses very interesting challenges concerning their Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics. On the one hand, a composite Web Service depends on the QoS properties of its own Web Service suppliers in order to provide a satisfactory service to the user. On the other hand, the main issues for the fulfillment of QoS and service level agreements are concerned with Web service performance variability. Indeed, the QoS of a Web Service may evolve relatively frequently, either because of internal changes or because of workload fluctuations. The performance of the composite Web service may be significantly improved by monitoring the execution of the component Web Services and by flexibly reacting to faults and anomalies in a timely fashion.
The concept of self-healing Web Service has been introduced in order to describe services which exhibit such properties. A self-healing Web Service can repair itself if any execution problems occur, in order to successfully complete its own execution, while respecting QoS agreements. In the design of a self-healing WS, several aspects have to be considered. For instance, the service should be able to detect failures as soon as possible and to enact suitable recovery actions. Moreover, different QoS service levels might be considered in order to complete the service execution in case of error, possibly with degraded performance.
For this workshop, contributions devoted to Web Services, QoS management, diagnosis and autonomic services will be considered. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed and centralized solutions for the diagnosis and repair of choreographed and/or orchestrated Web Services
- Design for the diagnosability and repairability of Web Services
- QoS management in choreographed and/or orchestrated Web Services
- Monitoring simple and composite Web Services
- Ontologies for QoS
- Dynamic reconfiguration of Web Services
- Predictive QoS management for Web Services
- Autonomic services
Publication Details
All contributions will be made available in a Web site before the main conference, so that participants can read them in advance. Morever, a CD including the contributions and pre-proceedings will be distributed at the conference. After the workshop, post-proceedings will be prepared and published in a volume edited by Springer (the post-proceedings will include the papers presented at all the BPM 2008 workshops and reviewed on the basis of the discussion).Moreover, the best paper of each workshop will be invited to a special issue of the "Software Process Improvement and Practice" Journal: best papers will undergo a further peer revision process in order to select the subset to be published in the special issue.
Submission instructions:
The following types of submission are solicited:- Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long.
- Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be at most 6 pages long.
- There is no possibility to buy additional pages.
- The first page should include the title, author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, e-mail, the abstract of the paper and up to five keywords.
- Papers should be submitted in the new Springer LNBIP format: Suitable templates can be retrieved from the LNCS Web site at the following URL: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0.
- Papers should be submitted exclusively as PDF files.
Organizers
Liliana ArdissonoDipartimento di Informatica
Universita di Torino
Torino, Italy
http://www.di.unito.it/~liliana
liliana@di.unito.it
Khalil Drira
LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse
Toulouse, France
http://www.laas.fr/~khalil
khalil.drira@laas.fr
Danilo Ardagna
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italy
http://home.dei.polimi.it/ardagna/
ardagna@elet.polimi.it
Program Committee Members:
Daniela Barreiro Claro, LASID/UFBA, Federal University of Bahia, BrazilStefano Bocconi, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tarak Chaari, LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France
Christophe Chassot, LAAS-CNRS, INSA Toulouse, France
Marco Comuzzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Ernesto Exposito, LAAS-CNRS, INSA Toulouse, France
Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Roberto Furnari, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Karim Guennoun, LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France
Mohamed Jmaiel, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Ahmed Hadj Kacem, FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stefano Modafferi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Raul Jacinto Montes, DIDETEC, Guadalajara, Mexico
Mohamed Mosbah, LARBI, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France
Enrico Mussi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Olga Nabuco, CNEPRA, Campinas, Brazil
Ilia Petrov,Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Laurence Roze, IRISA-INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France
Patricia Serrano Alvarado, LINA - University of Nantes, France
Amirreza Tahamtan, University of Vienna, Austria
Louise Trave-Massuyes, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Contact Person
Liliana ArdissonoDipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185
10149 Torino, Italy
liliana@di.unito.it
