ICWS 2006: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Introduction

• Message from the General Chairs.
  
• Message from the Program Chairs.
  
• Message from the Application Services and Industry Track Chair.
  
• Technical Steering Committee.
  
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing.
  
• Conference Officers.
  
• Program Committee.
  
• External Reviewers.
  
• Keynote Speaker 1: Web Services at Amazon.com.
  
• Keynote Speaker 2: Business Drivers for Services Computing.
  
• Keynote Speaker 3: Service Computing: The AppExchange Platform.
  
• Panel Session 1: Software and Services: Where Do They Meet?
  
• Panel Session 2: Web Services - A View from the Top.
  
• Panel Session 3: Event-Driven Architectures and Complex Event Processing.
  
• Panel Session 4: Mobile Web Services Trend Perspectives.
  
• Tutorial 1: SOA and Web Services.
  
• Tutorial 2: SOA Services and Solutions.
  
• Tutorial 3: Automatic Web Service Composition.
  
• Tutorial 4: Web Services on Rails: Using Ruby and Rails for Web Services Development and Mashups.
  
• Tutorial 5: Business Agility and Process Management.
  
• Tutorial 6: Security in SOA and Web Services.
  

Research Session 1: SOAP Specifications and Enhancements

• Steffen Heinzl, Markus Mathes, Thomas Friese, Matthew Smith, Bernd Freisleben:
  Flex-SwA: Flexible Exchange of Binary Data Based on SOAP Messages with Attachments. 3-10
  
• Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Michael J. Lewis:
  Lightweight Checkpointing for Faster SOAP Deserialization. 11-18
  
• Christian Werner, Carsten Buschmann, Ylva Brandt, Stefan Fischer:
  Compressing SOAP Messages by using Pushdown Automata. 19-28
  

Research Session 2: Web Services Matchmaking

• Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, David Al-Dabass:
  Semantic-Driven Matchmaking of Web Services Using Case-Based Reasoning. 29-36
  
• Rama Akkiraju, Biplav Srivastava, Anca-Andreea Ivan, Richard Goodwin, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood:
  SEMAPLAN: Combining Planning with Semantic Matching to Achieve Web Service Composition. 37-44
  
• Sudhir Agarwal, Rudi Studer:
  Automatic Matchmaking of Web Services. 45-54
  

Research Session 3: Web Services Composition

• Xuan Thang Nguyen, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Manh Tan Phan:
  Modelling and Solving QoS Composition Problem Using Fuzzy DisCSP. 55-62
  
• Fabio Barbon, Paolo Traverso, Marco Pistore, Michele Trainotti:
  Run-Time Monitoring of Instances and Classes of Web Service Compositions. 63-71
  
• Rainer Berbner, Michael Spahn, Nicolas Repp, Oliver Heckmann, Ralf Steinmetz:
  Heuristics for QoS-aware Web Service Composition. 72-82
  

Research Session 4: Management of Web Services Composition

• Raman Kazhamiakin, Marco Pistore:
  Static Verification of Control and Data inWeb Service Compositions. 83-90
  
• Frederic Montagut, Refik Molva:
  Augmenting Web Services Composition with Transactional Requirements. 91-98
  
• Sami Bhiri, Walid Gaaloul, Claude Godart:
  Discovering and Improving Recovery Mechanisms of CompositeWeb Services. 99-110
  

Research Session 5: Web Services Integration

• Ignacio Silva-Lepe, Michael J. Ward, Francisco Curbera:
  IntegratingWeb Services and Messaging. 111-118
  
• Sudarshan S. Chawathe:
  Strategic Web-Service Agreements. 119-126
  
• Martin Szomszor, Terry R. Payne, Luc Moreau:
  Automated Syntactic Medation forWeb Service Integration. 127-136
  

Research Session 6: Web Services Discovery

• Lihui Lei, Zhenhua Duan:
  Transforming OWL-S Process Model into EDFA for Service Discovery. 137-144
  
• Daniela Grigori, Juan Carlos Corrales, Mokrane Bouzeghoub:
  Behavioral matchmaking for service retrieval. 145-152
  
• Jim Luo, Bruce E. Montrose, Anya Kim, Amitabh Khashnobish, Myong H. Kang:
  Adding OWL-S Support to the Existing UDDI Infrastructure. 153-162
  

Research Session 7: Trust for Web Services

• Zhengping Wu, Alfred C. Weaver:
  Bridging Trust Relationships with Web Service Enhancements. 163-169
  
• Minghui Zhou, Hong Mei:
  A Service-Oriented Trust Management Model on Application Server. 170-177
  
• Chao Wang, Chi-Hung Chi:
  Quantitative Trust Based on Actions. 178-188
  

Research Session 8: QOS for Web Services

• Abdelkarim Erradi, Piyush Maheshwari, Vladimir Tosic:
  Recovery Policies for Enhancing Web Services Reliability. 189-196
  
• Wei Zhang, Robert van Engelen:
  A Table-Driven Streaming XML Parsing Methodology for High-Performance Web Services. 197-204
  
• Florian Rosenberg, Christian Platzer, Schahram Dustdar:
  Bootstrapping Performance and Dependability Attributes of Web Services. 205-212
  
• Carlos Gutiérrez, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Mario Piattini:
  PWSSec: Process for Web Services Security. 213-222
  

Research Session 9: Web Services Modeling and Benchmarks

• Li Li, Wu Chou, Feng Liu, Dan Zhuo:
  Semantic Modeling and Design Patterns for Asynchronous Events in Web Service Interaction. 223-230
  
• Shuchao Wan, Jun Wei, Jingyu Song, Heqing Guan:
  Developing a Selection Model for Interactive Web Services. 231-238
  
• Seog-Chan Oh, Hyunyoung Kil, Dongwon Lee, Soundar R. T. Kumara:
  WSBen: A Web Services Discovery and Composition Benchmark. 239-248
  

Research Session 10: Web Services Investigation

• Robert van Engelen, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Wei Zhang:
  Exploring Remote Object Coherence in XMLWeb Services. 249-256
  
• Kunal Verma, Prashant Doshi, Karthik Gomadam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth:
  Optimal Adaptation in Web Processes with Coordination Constraints. 257-264
  
• Thierry Moyaux, Ben Lithgow Smith, Shamimabi Paurobally:
  Towards Service-Oriented Ontology-Based Coordination. 265-274
  

Research Session 11: Web Services-Driven Business Process Management

• Elisa Bertino, Jason Crampton, Federica Paci:
  Access Control and Authorization Constraints for WS-BPEL. 275-284
  
• Chun Ouyang, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Wil M. P. van der Aalst:
  From BPMN Process Models to BPEL Web Services. 285-292
  
• Anis Charfi, Benjamin Schmeling, Mira Mezini:
  Reliable Messaging for BPEL Processes. 293-302
  

Research Session 12: Business Process Modeling

• Bendick Mahleko, Andreas Wombacher:
  Indexing Business Processes based on Annotated Finite State Automata. 303-311
  
• Antoon Goderis, Peter Li, Carole A. Goble:
  Workflow discovery: the problem, a case study from e-Science and a graph-based solution. 312-319
  
• Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Akhil Sahai, Roger S. Barga, Gueyoung Jung:
  DSCWeaver: Synchronization-Constraint Aspect Extension to Procedural Process Specification Languages. 320-330
  

Research Session 13: Web Services-Based Mobile Computing

• Vincenzo Auletta, Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Guerriero Raimato:
  A Lightweight Framework forWeb Services Invocation over Bluetooth. 331-338
  
• Hassan Artail, Hasan Al-Asadi:
  A Cooperative and Adaptive System for Caching Web Service Responses in MANETs. 339-346
  
• Szabolcs Payrits, Péter Dornbach, István Zólyomi:
  Metadata-Based XML Serialization for Embedded C++. 347-356
  

Research Session 14: Semantics in Web Services

• Lin Lin, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar:
  Discovery of Semantic Relations between Web Services. 357-364
  
• Puwei Wang, Zhi Jin, Lin Liu:
  An Approach for Specifying Capability ofWeb Services based on Environment Ontology. 365-372
  
• Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Jon Lathem:
  Semantic Interoperability of Web Services - Challenges and Experiences. 373-382
  

Research Session 15: Web Services Architecture

• Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman:
  Extensible Web Services Architecture for Notification in Large-Scale Systems. 383-392
  
• Eric Wohlstadter, Stefan Tai, Thomas A. Mikalsen, Judah Diament, Isabelle Rouvellou:
  A Service-oriented Middleware for Runtime Web Services Interoperability. 393-400
  
• Jinghai Rao, Dimitar Dimitrov, Paul Hofmann, Norman M. Sadeh:
  A Mixed Initiative Approach to Semantic Web Service Discovery and Composition: SAP's Guided Procedures Framework. 401-410
  

Research Session 16: Web Services-Based Software Engineering

• M. Brian Blake:
  A Lightweight Software Design Process for Web Services Workflows. 411-418
  
• William R. Cook, Janel Barfield:
  Web Services versus Distributed Objects: A Case Study of Performance and Interface Design. 419-426
  
• Yogesh L. Simmhan, Beth Plale, Dennis Gannon:
  A Framework for Collecting Provenance in Data-Centric Scientific Workflows. 427-436
  

Application Services and Industry Session 1: Web Service Performance Modeling

• Shiping Chen, Bo Yan, John Zic, Ren Liu, Alex Ng:
  Evaluation and Modeling of Web Services Performance. 437-444
  
• Seiichi Koizumi, Shigeru Hosono, Satoru Fujita:
  BizCast: Business Process Performance Model with Workload Overlap Analysis. 445-452
  
• Robert D. van der Mei, Hendrik B. Meeuwissen:
  Modelling End-to-end Quality-of-Service for Transaction-Based Services in Multi-Domain Environments. 453-462
  

Application Services and Industry Session 2: Web Service Discovery and Applications

• M. Brian Blake, David H. Fado, Gregory A. Mack:
  Proactive Service Discovery and Execution Using Agents. 463-470
  
• Yanzhen Zou, Liang-Jie Zhang, Lu Zhang, Bing Xie, Hong Mei:
  User Feedback-Based Refinement for Web Services Retrieval using Multiple Instance Learning. 471-478
  
• Joonsoo Bae, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, William B. Rouse:
  Process Mining, Discovery, and Integration using Distance Measures. 479-488
  

Application Services and Industry Session 3: Web Service Composition and Applications

• Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Patrick C. K. Hung:
  Security Conscious Web Service Composition. 489-496
  
• Raman Kazhamiakin, Paritosh K. Pandya, Marco Pistore:
  Representation, Verification, and Computation of Timed Properties in Web. 497-504
  
• Hans Albrecht Schmid:
  Service Congestion: The Problem, and an Optimized Service Composition Architecture as a Solution. 505-514
  

Application Services and Industry Session 4: Web Services for Communication Services

• Wu Chou, Li Li, Feng Liu:
  WIP: Web Service Initiation Protocol for Multimedia and Voice Communication over IP. 515-522
  
• Claudio Venezia, Paolo Falcarin:
  Communication Web Services Composition and Integration. 523-530
  
• Ricardo Lemos Vianna, Maria Janilce Bosquiroli Almeida, Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville:
  Investigating Web Services Composition Applied to Network Management. 531-540
  

Application Services and Industry Session 5: Business Process and Service Grid Based Service Composition

• Yuhong Yan, Yong Liang, Han Liang:
  Composing Business Processes with Partial Observable Problem Space in Web Services Environments. 541-548
  
• Girish Chafle, Koustuv Dasgupta, Arun Kumar, Sumit Mittal, Biplav Srivastava:
  Adaptation inWeb Service Composition and Execution. 549-557
  
• Wei Tan, Zhong Tian, Fangyan Rao, Li Wang, Ru Fang:
  Process Guided Service Composition in Building SoA Solutions: A Data Driven Approach. 558-568
  

Application Services and Industry Session 6: Web Services Security

• Jun Wang:
  A Web Services Secure Conversation Establishment Protocol Based on Forwarded Trust. 569-576
  
• Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Vineet Singh, K. M. Senthil Kumar, Abhishek Chatterjee:
  Preventing Service Oriented Denial of Service (PreSODoS): A Proposed Approach. 577-584
  
• Fumiko Satoh, Yuichi Nakamura, Koichi Ono:
  Adding Authentication to Model Driven Security. 585-594
  

Application Services and Industry Session 7: QoS Enhancement for Web Services

• Xinfeng Ye:
  Towards a Reliable Distributed Web Service Execution Engine. 595-602
  
• Lei Li, Chunlei Niu, Ningjiang Chen, Jun Wei:
  High Performance Web Services Based on Service-Specific SOAP Processor. 603-610
  
• Kevin J. Ma, Radim Bartos:
  Analysis of Transport Optimization Techniques. 611-620
  

Application Services and Industry Session 8: Web Services for Mobile and Network Services

• Wolf-Tilo Balke, Jörg Diederich:
  A Quality- and Cost-based Selection Model for Multimedia Service Composition in Mobile Environments. 621-628
  
• Feng Liu, Gesan Wang, Wu Chou, Lookman Fazal, Li Li:
  TARGET: Two-way Web Service Router Gateway. 629-636
  
• Jaakko Kangasharju, Tancred Lindholm, Sasu Tarkoma:
  On Encrypting and Signing Binary XML Messages in the Wireless Environment. 637-646
  

Application Services and Industry Session 9: Privacy and Trust

• George Yee:
  Measuring Privacy Protection in Web Services. 647-654
  
• Wei Xu, V. N. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar, I. V. Ramakrishnan:
  A Framework for Building Privacy-Conscious Composite Web Services. 655-662
  
• Kaiqi Xiong, Harry G. Perros:
  Trust-based Resource Allocation in Web Services. 663-672
  

Application Services and Industry Session 10: Performance Enhancement for Web Services

• Ikuo Matsumura, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, Yoshiyuki Fujishiro:
  Situated Web Service: Context-Aware Approach to High-Speed Web Service Communication. 673-680
  
• Gang Wang, Cheng Xu, Ying Li, Ying Chen:
  Analyzing XML Parser Memory Characteristics: Experiments towards ImprovingWeb Services Performance. 681-688
  
• Francesco Lelli, Gaetano Maron, Salvatore Orlando:
  Improving the performance of XML based technologies by caching and reusing information. 689-700
  

Application Services and Industry Session 11: QoS and Testing for Web Services

• Siva Gurumurthy, Parul A. Mittal, Amit Anil Nanavati, Dipanjan Chakraborty:
  Mapping Service Level Agreements in 3-tier settings. 701-708
  
• Ken Ueno, Michiaki Tatsubori:
  Early Capacity Testing of an Enterprise Service Bus. 709-716
  
• Lourival F. Júnior de Almeida, Silvia Regina Vergilio:
  Exploring Perturbation Based Testing for Web Services. 717-726
  

Application Services and Industry Session 12: Management of Web Services

• Qiang Yue, Hao Wang, Li Zha, Li Wei, Zhiwei Xu:
  An Approach to Exception Handling for Service-Oriented Systems. 727-734
  
• Yi Huang, Dennis Gannon:
  A Flexible and Efficient Approach to Reconcile Different Web Services-based Event Notification Specifications. 735-742
  
• Ying Guan, Aditya K. Ghose, Zheng Lu:
  Using constraint hierarchies to support QoS-guided service composition. 743-752
  

Application Services and Industry Session 13: Business Process Management

• Zaihan Yang, Chengfei Liu:
  Implementing a Flexible Compensation Mechanism for Business Processes in Web Service Environment. 753-760
  
• Casey K. Fung, Patrick C. K. Hung, William M. Kearns, Stephen A. Uczekaj:
  Dynamic Regeneration of Workflow Specification with Access Control Requirements in MANET. 761-769
  
• Rania Khalaf, Frank Leymann:
  E Role-based Decomposition of Business Processes using BPEL. 770-780
  

Application Services and Industry Session 14: QoS Support in Web Services

• Abdelkarim Erradi, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Niranjan Varadharajan:
  Differential QoS support in Web Services Management. 781-788
  
• Andrea D'Ambrogio:
  A Model-driven WSDL Extension for Describing the QoS ofWeb Services. 789-796
  
• Conrad Hughes, Jamie Hillman:
  QoS Explorer: A Tool for Exploring QoS in Composed Services. 797-806
  

Application Services and Industry Session 15: Web Service for Information Systems

• Valeria de Castro, Marcos López Sanz, Esperanza Marcos:
  Business Process Development based on Web Services: a Web Information System for Medical Image Management and Processing. 807-814
  
• Corneliu Cotofana, Longjiang Ding, Peter Shin, Sameer Tilak, Tony Fountain, Jennifer Eakins, Frank Vernon:
  An SOA-based Framework for Instrument Management for Large-scale Observing Systems (USArray Case Study). 815-822
  
• Sriram Krishnan, Brent Stearn, Karan Bhatia, Kim Baldridge, Wilfred W. Li, Peter W. Arzberger:
  Opal: SimpleWeb Services Wrappers for Scientific Applications. 823-832
  

Application Services and Industry Session 16: Web Service Middleware and Service Solutions

• Srinath Perera, Chathura Herath, Jaliya Ekanayake, Eran Chinthaka, Ajith Ranabahu, Deepal Jayasinghe, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Glen Daniels:
  Axis2, Middleware for Next Generation Web Services. 833-840
  
• Liang-Jie Zhang, Abdul Allam, Cesar A. Gonzales:
  Service-Oriented Order-to-Cash Solution with Business RSS Information Exchange Framework. 841-848
  
• Masahide Nakamura, Akihiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Igaki, Haruaki Tamada, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  Adapting Legacy Home Appliances to Home Network Systems UsingWeb Services. 849-858
  

Application Services and Industry Session 17: Web Service Based Software Engineering

• Michiaki Tatsubori, Kenichi Takashi:
  Decomposition and Abstraction of Web Applications for Web Service Extraction and Composition. 859-868
  
• Walter Binder, Ion Constantinescu, Boi Faltings:
  Decentralized Orchestration of CompositeWeb Services. 869-876
  
• Hong Cai:
  A Two Steps Method For Analyzing Dependency of Business Services On IT Services Within A Service Life Cycle. 877-884
  

Work-in-Progress Session 1: Web Services Modeling

• Ghita Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Zakaria Maamar, Nanjangud C. Narendra, Philippe Thiran:
  Towards Aspect-based Modeling of Self-Healing Web Services. 885-886
  
• Ronan Barrett, Claus Pahl:
  Model Driven Design of Distribution Patterns forWeb Service Compositions. 887-888
  
• Guadalupe Ortiz, Juan Hernández:
  Toward UML Profiles for Web Services and their Extra-Functional Properties. 889-892
  
• Hongli Yang, Xiangpeng Zhao, Zongyan Qiu, Geguang Pu, Shuling Wang:
  A Formal Model forWeb Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL). 893-894
  
• Stanislav Pokraev, Dick A. C. Quartel, Maarten W. A. Steen, Manfred Reichert:
  A Method for Formal Verification of Service Interoperability. 895-900
  

Work-in-Progress Session 2: Web Services Discovery and Composition

• Michael Pantazoglou, Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, George Athanasopoulos, Thomi Pilioura:
  A Unified Approach for the Discovery of Web and Peer-to-Peer Services. 901-902
  
• Christopher A. Perryea, Sam Chung:
  Community-Based Service Discovery. 903-906
  
• Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns:
  Inferring, Validating, and Coordinating the Commitments in aWorkflow. 907-908
  
• Daniela Berardi, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Massimo Mecella, Diego Calvanese:
  ComposingWeb Services with Nondeterministic Behavior. 909-912
  

Work-in-Progress Session 3: Web Services Semantics and Service Level Agreements

• Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner:
  Grounding OWL-S in WSDL-S. 913-914
  
• Dean Kuo, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Surya Nepal, John Zic, Savas Parastatidis, Jim Webber:
  Expressing and Reasoning about Service Contracts in Service-Oriented Computing. 915-918
  
• Avi Jencmen, Amiram Yehudai:
  Fortified Web Services Contracts for Trusted Components. 919-926
  
• Boris Wu, Jian Ying Zhang, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Jian Lin, SukKeong Goh, Xuan Thang Nguyen, Ingo Müller, E. Gomes, L. Zheng, Jun Han, Ryszard Kowalczyk:
  Adaptive Service Agreement and Process Management. 927-930
  

Work-in-Progress Session 4: SOA and Web Services-Based Software Engineering

• Takayuki Yamaizumi, Takashi Sakairi, Masaki Wakao, Hideaki Shinomi, Samuel Adams:
  Easy SOA: Rapid Prototyping environment withWeb Services for End Users. 931-932
  
• Janaka Balasooriya, Jaimini Joshi, Sushil K. Prasad, Shamkant B. Navathe:
  A Two-Layered Software Architecture for Distributed Workflow Coordination over Web Services. 933-934
  
• Ulrich Dinger, Roy Oberhauser, Christian Reichel:
  A Semantic Web Services Approach Towards Automated Software Engineering. 935-938
  
• Rajeev Mahajan:
  SOA and the Enterprise -- Lessons from the City. 939-944
  

Work-in-Progress Session 5: Web Services-Based Grid Applications and Domain-Specific Solutions

• Matthew Smith, B. Klose, Ralph Ewerth, Thomas Friese, Michael Engel, Bernd Freisleben:
  Runtime Integration of Reconfigurable Hardware in Service-Oriented Grids. 945-948
  
• Jinlei Jiang, Guangwen Yang, Meilin Shi:
  A Transaction Model for Service Grid Environment and Implementation Considerations. 949-950
  
• Ayla Dantas, Guilherme Germoglio, Flavio Santos, Marcelo Iury S. Oliveira, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Dejan S. Milojicic, Sandro Rafaeli, Katia B. Saikoski:
  UsingWeb Services for Configuration and Deployment according to the CDDLM Standard. 951-954
  
• Chi-Hung Chi, Lin Liu, Xiaoyin Yu:
  Task Delegation in Active Web Intermediary Network. 955-956
  
• Daniel R. Kahan, Michael F. Nowlan, M. Brian Blake:
  Taming Web Services in the Wild. 957-958
  
• Incheon Paik, Daisuke Maruyama, Michael N. Huhns:
  A Framework for Intelligent Web Services: Combined HTN and CSP Approach. 959-962