ICWS 2007: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Keynotes and Panels

• Robert Morris:
  Services Research at IBM.
  
• Ike Nassi:
  Web Services: Meeting the Software Challenge of Future Hardware and Global Business Trends.
  
• Ling Liu, Frank Ferrante:
  Message from the IEEE ICWS/SCC/SERVICES 2007 Plenary Panel Program Co-Chairs.
  
• Hemant K. Jain, Calton Pu, Sridhar Iyengar, M. Brian Blake, Carl K. Chang:
  Services Computing in Daily Work: Service Engineering vs. Software Engineering.
  

Tutorials

• Ephraim Feig, Liang-Jie Zhang, Ali Arsanjani, Zhiwei Xu:
  Services Computing in Action: Services Architectures.
  
• Liang-Jie Zhang:
  SOA Solution Reference Architecture.
  
• Kamalakar Karlapalem, P. Radha Krishna:
  State of the Art in Modeling and Deployment of Electronic Contracts.
  
• Patrick C. K. Hung, Casey K. Fung:
  Web Services Security and Privacy.
  
• Ning Yan:
  Build Your Mashup with Web Services.
  
• Parachuri Deepti, Bijoy Majumdar, Ujval Mysore:
  Semantic SOA in Action: A Practical Demonstration.
  

Research Track

Security Challenges for Web Services

• Mudhakar Srivatsa, Arun Iyengar, Thomas A. Mikalsen, Isabelle Rouvellou, Jian Yin:
  An Access Control System for Web Service Compositions. 1-8
  
• Ustun Yildiz, Claude Godart:
  Information Flow Control with Decentralized Service Compositions. 9-17
  
• Aameek Singh, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Ling Liu:
  Efficient and Secure Search of Enterprise File Systems. 18-25
  

Web Services Deployment and Datacenters

• Pu Liu, Michael J. Lewis:
  Uniform Dynamic Deployment of Web and Grid Services. 26-34
  
• Walter Binder, Samuel Spycher, Ion Constantinescu, Boi Faltings:
  An Evaluation of Multiversion Concurrency Control forWeb Service Directories. 35-42
  
• Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Alfons Kemper:
  Capacity Management and Demand Prediction for Next Generation Data Centers. 43-50
  

Web Services-Driven Business Process Management

• Yuhong Yan, Philippe Dague:
  Modeling and Diagnosing OrchestratedWeb Service Processes. 51-59
  
• Jacques Thomas, Federica Paci, Elisa Bertino, Patrick Eugster:
  User Tasks and Access Control overWeb Services. 60-69
  
• Seiichi Koizumi, Kazuya Koyama:
  Workload-aware Business Process Simulation with Statistical Service Analysis and Timed Petri Net. 70-77
  

Semantics in Web Services

• Zhen Liu, Anand Ranganathan, Anton Riabov:
  ModelingWeb Services using Semantic Graph Transformations to aid Automatic Composition. 78-85
  
• Umesh Bellur, Roshan Kulkarni:
  Improved Matchmaking Algorithm for Semantic Web Services Based on Bipartite Graph Matching. 86-93
  
• Freddy Lécué, Alexandre Delteil, Alain Léger:
  Applying Abduction in Semantic Web Service Composition. 94-101
  

Web Services Assessment

• Sam Weber, Paula Austel, Michael McIntosh:
  A Framework for Multi-Platform SOA Security Analyses. 102-109
  
• Amit M. Paradkar, Avik Sinha, Clay Williams, Robert D. Johnson, Susan Outterson, Charles Shriver, Carol Liang:
  Automated Functional Conformance Test Generation for Semantic Web Services. 110-117
  
• Hui Guo, Anca Ivan, Rama Akkiraju, Richard Goodwin:
  Learning Ontologies to Improve the Quality of Automatic Web Service Matching. 118-125
  

Quality of Service and Security

• Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Claude Jard:
  Probabilistic QoS and soft contracts for transaction based Web services. 126-133
  
• Jaakko Kangasharju:
  Efficient Implementation of XML Security for Mobile Devices. 134-141
  
• Nils Gruschka, Meiko Jensen, Norbert Luttenberger:
  A Stateful Web Service Firewall for BPEL. 142-149
  

Autonomic Web Service Platform Technologies

• Srividya Kona, Ajay Bansal, Gopal Gupta:
  Automatic Composition of SemanticWeb Services. 150-158
  
• Sang Jeong Lee, Kyung Dong Ryu, Kang-Won Lee, Jong-Deok Choi:
  Improving the Performance of Web Services Using Deployment-Time Binding Selection. 159-167
  
• Hélia Pouyllau, Stefan Haar:
  A protocol for QoS contract negotiation and its implementation using Web Services. 168-175
  

Web Services Integration

• Matthew Arrott, Barry Demchak, Vina Ermagan, Claudiu Farcas, Emilia Farcas, Ingolf H. Kriiger, Massimiliano Menarini:
  Rich Services: The Integration Piece of the SOA Puzzle. 176-183
  
• San-Yih Hwang, Ee-Peng Lim, Chien-Hsiang Lee, Cheng-Hung Chen:
  On Composing a Reliable Composite Web Service: A Study of Dynamic Web Service Selection. 184-191
  
• Jyotishman Pathak, Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar:
  On Context-Specific Substitutability of Web Services. 192-199
  

Web Services Standards and Implementation

• Marcel-Catalin Rosu:
  A-SOAP: Adaptive SOAP Message Processing and Compression. 200-207
  
• Giancarlo Tretola, Eugenio Zimeo:
  Extending Web Services Semantics to Support Asynchronous Invocations and Continuation. 208-215
  
• Hannes Erven, Georg Hicker, Christian Huemer, Marco Zapletal:
  The Web Services-BusinessActivity-Initiator (WS-BA-I) Protocol: an Extension to the Web Services-BusinessActivity Specification. 216-224
  

Context-Aware Web Services Discovery

• László Kovács, András Micsik, Peter Pallinger:
  Handling User Preferences and Added Value in Discovery of Semantic Web Services. 225-232
  
• George Spanoudakis, Khaled Mahbub, Andrea Zisman:
  A Platform for Context Aware Runtime Web Service Discovery. 233-240
  
• Colin Atkinson, Philipp Bostan, Oliver Hummel, Dietmar Stoll:
  A Practical Approach to Web Service Discovery and Retrieval. 241-248
  

Web Services Indexing and Discovery

• Ziqiang Xu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Farhana H. Zulkernine:
  Reputation-Enhanced QoS-based Web Services Discovery. 249-256
  
• Li Kuang, Ying Li, Jian Wu, ShuiGuang Deng, Zhaohui Wu:
  Inverted Indexing for Composition-Oriented Service Discovery. 257-264
  
• Henry Song, Doreen Cheng, Alan Messer, Swaroop Kalasapur:
  Web Service Discovery Using General-Purpose Search Engines. 265-271
  

Reliable, Available, and Scalable Web Services

• An Liu, Qing Li, Mingjun Xiao:
  A Declarative Approach to Enhancing the Reliability of BPEL Processes. 272-279
  
• Huipeng Guo, Jinpeng Huai, Huan Li, Ting Deng, Yang Li, Zongxia Du:
  ANGEL: Optimal Configuration for High Available Service Composition. 280-287
  
• Hong Cai:
  Scale-Free Web Services. 288-295
  

Web Services Composition

• Gero Decker, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann, Mathias Weske:
  BPEL4Chor: Extending BPEL for Modeling Choreographies. 296-303
  
• Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Youssef Achbany, Marco Saerens:
  Dynamic Web Service Composition within a Service-Oriented Architecture. 304-311
  
• Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi:
  Haley: A Hierarchical Framework for Logical Composition ofWeb Services. 312-319
  

Web Services Modeling and Tooling

• George N. Prezerakos, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Giovanni Cortese:
  Model-driven Composition of Context-aware Web Services Using ContextUML and Aspects. 320-329
  
• Qiang Yue, Zhiwei Xu, Haiyan Yu, Wei Li, Li Zha:
  An Approach to Debugging Grid or Web Services. 330-337
  
• Michelle S. Wangham, Emerson Ribeiro de Mello, Joni da Silva Fraga, Davi da Silva Böger:
  A Model to support SPKI Federations management through XKMS. 338-345
  

Web Services Composition and Verification

• Joyce El Haddad, Maude Manouvrier, Marta Rukoz:
  A Hierarchical Model for TransactionalWeb Service Composition in P2P Networks. 346-353
  
• Mohsen Rouached, Claude Godart:
  Requirements-driven Verification of WSBPEL Processes. 354-363
  
• Saayan Mitra, Ratnesh Kumar, Samik Basu:
  Automated Choreographer Synthesis for Web Services Composition Using I/O Automata. 364-371
  

Multimedia and Other Web Services

• Wu Chou, Li Li, Feng Liu:
  Web Services Methods for Communication over IP. 372-379
  
• Yan Li, Yao Liu, Liang-Jie Zhang, Ge Li, Bing Xie, Jiasu Sun:
  An Exploratory Study of Web Services on the Internet. 380-387
  
• Yijun Yu, Jianguo Lu, Juan Fernández-Ramil, Phil Yuan:
  Comparing Web Services with other Software Components. 388-397
  

Application Services and Industry

Autonomic Web Services Applications

• Henri Naccache, Gerald C. Gannod:
  A Self-Healing Framework for Web Services. 398-345
  
• Ru Fang, Linh Lam, Liana Fong, David Frank, Christopher Vignola, Ying Chen, Nan Du:
  A Version-aware Approach for Web Service Directory. 406-413
  
• Akira Shimaya, Naoto Morita, Tadashi Okudaira, Shuji Inoue, Suguru Amitani, Satoshi Tahara, Masashi Nakatsukasa:
  Autonomic Web Service Platform with Dynamic Multi-Layer Control. 414-421
  

Quality of Service and Performance

• Daniel A. Menascé, Vinod Dubey:
  Utility-based QoS Brokering in Service Oriented Architectures. 422-430
  
• Shiping Chen, John Zic, Kezhe Tang, David Levy:
  Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Web Services Security. 431-438
  
• Lingshuang Shao, Jing Zhang, Yong Wei, Junfeng Zhao, Bing Xie, Hong Mei:
  Personalized QoS Prediction forWeb Services via Collaborative Filtering. 439-446
  

Web Services Security

• Rafae Bhatti, Daniel Sanz, Elisa Bertino, Arif Ghafoor:
  A Policy-Based Authorization Framework for Web Services: Integrating XGTRBAC and WS-Policy. 447-454
  
• Jinpeng Wei, Lenin Singaravelu, Calton Pu:
  Guarding Sensitive Information Streams through the Jungle of Composite Web Services. 455-462
  
• Gwan-Hwan Hwang, Yu-Hsuan Chang, Tao-Ku Chang:
  An Operational Model and Language Support for Securing Web Services. 463-470
  

Secure Web Services Applications

• Mohammad Ashiqur Rahaman, Andreas Schaad:
  SOAP-based Secure Conversation and Collaboration. 471-480
  
• Mohsen Rouached, Claude Godart:
  Reasoning about Events to Specify Authorization Policies forWeb Services Composition. 481-488
  
• Joachim Biskup, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Frank Muller, Sandra Wortmann:
  Towards Secure Execution Orders for CompositeWeb Services. 489-496
  

Security Policy and Interaction

• Kouichi Ono, Yuichi Nakamura, Fumiko Satoh, Takaaki Tateishi:
  Verifying the Consistency of Security Policies by Abstracting into Security Types. 497-504
  
• Sven De Labey, Marko van Dooren, Eric Steegmans:
  ServiceJ A Java Extension for ProgrammingWeb Services Interactions. 505-512
  
• Fumiko Satoh, Yumi Yamaguchi:
  Generic Security Policy Transformation Framework for WS-Security. 513-520
  

Semantics in Web Services

• John T. E. Timm, Gerald C. Gannod:
  Specifying Semantic Web Service Compositions using UML and OCL. 521-528
  
• Il-Woong Kim, Kyong-Ho Lee:
  Describing Semantic Web Services: From UML to OWL-S. 529-536
  
• Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue:
  A Semantic Web Services-based Infrastructure for Context-Adaptive Process Support. 537-543
  

Semantics for Events and Collaboration

• Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma:
  A Semantic Framework for Identifying Events in a Service Oriented Architecture. 545-552
  
• M. Omair Shafiq, Michal Zaremba, Dieter Fensel:
  On communication and coordination issues of Semantic Web Services. 553-560
  
• Shun Jiang, Chunhua Tian, Feng Li, Hao Zhang, Wei Ding:
  A Dynamic Concept Interpretation Approach for OWL Extension. 561-566
  

Web Services Applications in Datacenters

• Xinfeng Ye, Santokh Singh:
  A SOA Approach to Counter DDoS Attacks. 567-574
  
• M. Brian Blake, Michael F. Nowlan:
  A Web Service Recommender System Using Enhanced Syntactical Matching. 575-582
  
• Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, Raluca Dragnea:
  Hosting Web Services on Resource Constrained Devices. 583-590
  

Web Services Replication and Analysis

• Johannes Osrael, Lorenz Froihofer, Martin Weghofer, Karl M. Göschka:
  Axis2-based Replication Middleware forWeb Services. 591-598
  
• Julian Jang, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield:
  Delivering Promises for Web Services Applications. 599-606
  
• Valery Abu-Eid:
  An Aspect Oriented Approach for Applying Features to Web Services. 607-614
  

Web Services Transactions and Reliability

• Ivan Djordjevic, Srijith K. Nair, Theodosis Dimitrakos:
  Virtualised Trusted Computing Platform for Adaptive Security Enforcement of Web Services Interactions. 615-622
  
• Marco Vieira, Nuno Laranjeiro:
  Comparing Web Services Performance and Recovery in the Presence of Faults. 623-630
  
• Li Li, Chengfei Liu, Junhu Wang:
  Deriving Transactional Properties of CompositeWeb Services. 631-638
  

Web Services Assessment

• Wim De Pauw, Robert Hoch, Yi Huang:
  Discovering Conversations in Web Services Using Semantic Correlation Analysis. 639-646
  
• Evan Martin, Suranjana Basu, Tao Xie:
  Automated Testing and Response Analysis ofWeb Services. 647-654
  
• Ian Wootten, Shrija Rajbhandari, Omer F. Rana:
  Automatic Assertion of Actor State in Service Oriented Architectures. 655-662
  

Web Services Analysis and Reliability

• Luciano Baresi, Domenico Bianculli, Carlo Ghezzi, Sam Guinea, Paola Spoletini:
  A Timed Extension of WSCoL. 663-670
  
• George Yee:
  Visual Analysis of Privacy Risks in Web Services. 671-678
  
• Pat Pik-Wah Chan, Michael R. Lyu, Miroslaw Malek:
  ReliableWeb Services: Methodology, Experiment and Modeling. 679-686
  

Web Services Composition

• Yoji Yamato, Hiroshi Sunaga:
  Context-Aware Service Composition and Component Change-over using Semantic Web Techniques. 687-694
  
• Baoping Lin, Qing Li, Naijie Gu:
  A Semantic Specification Framework for Analyzing Functional Composability of Autonomous Web Services. 695-702
  
• Yang Li, Jinpeng Huai, Ting Deng, Hailong Sun, Huipeng Guo, Zongxia Du:
  QoS-aware Service Composition in Service Overlay Networks. 703-710
  

Web Services Composition and NFR

• Andreas Schmid, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Andreas Schroeder:
  A Soft Constraints-Based Approach for Reconciliation of Non-Functional Requirements in Web Services-Based Multi-Agent Systems. 711-718
  
• José Ghislain Quenum, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Shinichi Honiden:
  Protocol Selection alongside Service Selection and Composition. 719-726
  
• Abdelkarim Erradi, Vladimir Tosic, Piyush Maheshwari:
  MASC - .NET-Based Middleware for Adaptive Composite Web Services. 727-734
  

Process Composition and Rules

• Jun Han, Yan Jin, Zheng Li, Tan Phan, Jian Yu:
  Guiding the Service Composition Process with Temporal Business Rules. 735-742
  
• Valeria Cardellini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Vincenzo Grassi, Francesco Lo Presti:
  Flow-Based Service Selection forWeb Service Composition Supporting Multiple QoS Classes. 743-750
  
• Christos Kareliotis, Costas Vassilakis, Panagiotis Georgiadis:
  Enhancing BPEL scenarios with Dynamic Relevance-Based Exception Handling. 751-758