2009 Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2009) Workshop

Held at the EDOC 2009 conference in Auckland, New Zealand

Workshop Schedule (Joint Sessions with AQuSerM)

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About the Workshop

During the past several years, Web services technologies have become very prominent in both the research community and the industry. Web services are distributed computing application components that use a number of Extensible Markup Language (XML) based technologies to implement the service-oriented architecture (SOA). Implementation-independence of Web services technologies allows different businesses to collaborate and achieve common business goals despite the fact that the collaborating Web services can be distributed over the Internet, run on different platforms, and implemented in different programming languages. Web services technologies are already embedded in various products and services of all major computing companies and used for diverse purposes. An important application area is e-business process integration in business-to-business (B2B) and/or enterprise application integration (EAI) scenarios. Additionally, Web service technologies became the basis for several other recent distributed computing technologies, such as Grid services, Cloud computing and Semantic Web services.

Middleware plays an important role for Web services technologies. Reusable Web services technologies are implemented in middleware, so appropriate middleware is a prerequisite for the growing acceptance of these technologies. For example, implementation independence of Web services is achieved using middleware, such as application servers and/or SOAP engines (software that analyzes, processes, and generates SOAP messages). In addition, middleware solutions have been proposed to provide, monitor, and manage quality of service (QoS) aspects, such as response time, throughput, availability, reliability, security, and privacy.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together industrial, academic, and government researchers and developers interested in Web services and middleware technologies. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of remaining open research issues.

Continuing the great successes of the past years, we invite practitioners and academic researchers alike to submit papers to Middleware for Web Services 2009. Papers presenting and analyzing completed projects are particularly welcome. Papers about on-going research projects are also welcome, especially if they contain critical analysis of already achieved results and remaining open research issues. In addition, we invite papers about experiences and comparative analysis of middleware-related issues for Web services. We especially encourage submissions from industry. While the focus of the workshop is middleware for Web services, we are also interested in papers discussing the use of Web services as a middleware technology for utility computing, telecommunications, e-business, e-government, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, distributed artificial intelligence, spontaneous networks, and other application areas, including "middleware as service" offerings from the open source community.

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Topics of Interest (include, but are not limited to)

Application servers for Web services
Aspect-oriented Web services middleware
Autonomic computing solutions for Web services and/or using Web services
Best practices and patterns for Web services middleware
Comparative analysis of middleware issues for Web services and other technologies (e.g., CORBA)
Industrial experiences with Web services middleware
Middleware for Cloud Computing, Grid services and Utility Computing
Middleware for discovery and/or selection of Web services
Middleware for choreography and/or orchestration of Web services
Middleware for Web-services based Semantic Web
Middleware for Web services-based workflows
Middleware for Web services executing in mobile, embedded, and ubiquitous/pervasive environments
Monitoring and management middleware for Web services
Negotiation middleware for Web services
Policy-based middleware for Web services
Quality of service middleware for Web services
Query middleware for Web services
Reputation and/or trust middleware for Web services
Reliability, dependability, and fault-tolerance middleware for Web services
Security and/or privacy middleware for Web services
Service-oriented middleware
SOAP engines
Web services as a middleware technology
Restful Web services

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The Past Workshops

Middleware is traditionally one of the main topics in the EDOC (Enterprise Distributed Object Computing) community. Web services are quickly becoming a key technology within enterprise computing, making it one of the central topics of the EDOC conferences.

For this reason, the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) workshops were organised at EDOC for the past four years: 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. The workshops were successful, as they gathered academic, industrial, and government researchers and developers interested in Web services and/or middleware technology, many of whom have not attended previous EDOC conferences. Several regular EDOC attendees, some of whom have extensive experience with middleware for other distributed computing technologies, but not yet Web services, also attended the workshops. The keynote speakers (Dr. Heiko Ludwig from IBM Research at MWS 2005, Professor Lionel M. Ni from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at MWS 2006, Dr. Patrick C.K. Hung from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology at MWS 2007 and A/Prof. Luciano Baresi from Politecnico di Milano, Dr. Rui Carlos Oliveira from University of Minho at MWS 2008) and the panelists were praised for the insights they passed to the audience. This all lead to useful exchanges of ideas, improvement of understanding of wider research issues, and clearer identification of important open research issues and possible approaches towards their solution. Another group of successful recent workshop in this area were Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2006 held at Middleware 2006 and Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2007 held at Middleware 2007, Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2008 at Middleware 2008. We have now established close collaboration and coordination between the MWS workshops at EDOC conferences and the MW4SOC workshops at Middleware conferences. To further the achievements of all these past workshops and to facilitate scientific growth of this important area, we now organize the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2009 workshop at EDOC 2009.

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Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished, high-quality papers before ~~31 May 2009~~ 14th June 2009. Papers published or submitted elsewhere will be automatically rejected. Two types of submissions are solicited:
* Full papers – describing mature research or industrial case studies – up to 8-10 pages long
* Short papers – describing work in progress or position statements – up to 4 pages long

Submissions should be in the IEEE Computer Society conference paper format. Guidelines and templates for this format are available here. An online submission system will be available at: MWS2009 EasyChair Conference System

All submissions should include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. The preferred format is Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Inquiries about paper submission should be e-mailed to Dr. Helen Paik (hpaik at cse dot unsw dot edu dot au) and include "MWS2009" in the Subject line.
All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance by 12 July 2009. At least one author of every accepted paper MUST register for the Workshop and present the paper. The proceedings of EDOC 2009 workshops will be published after the conference as ePub by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and the IEEE Xplore. There will be a single electronic volume containing proceedings from all workshops. Electronic versions of the papers will be published on the Workshop Web site.

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Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: ~~31 May 2009~~ 14th June 2009
Paper acceptance notification: 12 July 2009
Camera ready of papers: 27 July 2009

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Workshop Chairs

Dr. Helen Hye-young Paik , School of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia, e-mail: hpaik (server: cse.unsw.edu.au)
Dr. Karl Michael Göschka, Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, e-mail: Karl.Goeschka (server: tuwien.ac.at)
Dr. Aad van Moorsel, School of Computing Science, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, e-mail: aad.vanmoorsel (server: ncl.ac.uk)
Dr. Raymond Wong, School of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia; NICTA, Australia; and Green Pea Software, Australia, e-mail: wong (server: cse.unsw.edu.au) or raymond (server: greenpea.net)
Dr. Ian Warren, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, e-mail: ian-w (server: cs.auckland.ac.nz)

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Workshop Program Committee

Sergio Andreozzi, U. of Bologna, Italy
Danilo Ardagna , Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Djamal Benslimane, U. of Lyon 1, France
Siddhartha Bose, Applied Research and Technology Centre, Motorola, India
Paul Brebner, NICTA, Australia
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA
Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
Nick Cook, U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna U. of Technology, Austria
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton U., Canada
Chirine Ghedira, U. of Lyon 1, France
Xiaofeng Gong, U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash U., Australia
Franky Lam, Microsoft, USA
Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
Anna Liu, U. New South Wales, Australia
Jenny Liu, NICTA, Australia
Hanan Lutfiyya, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed U., UAE
Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, HP Lab, USA
Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue U., USA
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dick A.C. Quartel, U. of Twente, The Netherlands
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff U., UK
Claudia Raibulet, U. of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dumitru Roman, Semantic Technology Institute / U. of Innsbruck, Austria
Regis Saint-Paul, CREATE-NET, Italy
Halvard Skogsrud, ThoughtWorks, Australia
Yazhe Tang, Xi’an Jiaotong U., China
Farouk Toumani, LIMOS, Blaise Pascale U., France
Srikumar Venugopal, U. of New South Wales, Australia
Kunal Verma, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
Chunyang Ye, U. of Toronto, Canada
George Yee, Carleton University, Canada
Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State U., USA
Liming Zhu, NICTA, Australia

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