Call for Papers

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, functional and non functional (QoS, security)  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

The following types of submission are solicited:

    * Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work. Long papers should be 8 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.

Submission link: http://confhub.com/conf.php?id=118.

A special  international journal issue is planned for the best papers from the workshop.

All the submissions should be formatted as follows:

    * 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 exclusively as PDF files.

More information can be found at:

http://www.laas.fr/~khalil/SHWS

Organizers

Program Committee Members

Yamine Ait-Ameur,  LISI / ENSMA, Futuroscope, France
Liliana Ardissono, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Daniela Barreiro Claro, LASID/UFBA, Brazil
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, UCL, UK
Djamal Ben Slimane, LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Stefano Bocconi,  Elsevier Labs, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Rodrigo Bonacin, CTI, Campinas, Brazil
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Miriam Capretz, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Tarak Chaari, ISECS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Marco Comuzzi, City University London, UK
Luca Console, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Marcos Da Silveira, CR SANTEC, Luxembourg
Elisabetta Di-Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy  
Laurence Duchien, INRIA, LIFL, Universite de Lille, France
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria  
Mohamed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Morrocco,
Ernesto Exposito, LAAS-CNRS, INSA Toulouse, France  
Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria  
Chirine  Ghedira, LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Karim Guennoun, EHTP, Casablanca, Morocco
Ahmed Hadj-Kacem, FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Brahim Hamid, IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France
Guillermo Hoyos-Rivera Universidad, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico  
Raul Jacinto-Montes, Ec-Solucions, Guadalajara, Mexico  
Mohamed Jmaiel, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia 
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Nicole Levy, PRISM, UVSQ, PARIS
Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology,  Dubai Campus, UAE.
Fatma Mili, Oakland University , USA  
Jose-Martin  Molina ITESM, Mexico    
Francisco Moo-Mena Univ. Autonome du Yucatan, Mexico 
Mohamed Mosbah, LARBI, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France  
Ali Noui-Mehidi, General Motors Corp. USA
Ilia Petrov,Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany 
Marcos Rodrigues, CTI, Campinas, Brazil
Flavio Oquendo, Université Européenne de Bretagne - UBS/VALORIA, France
Mourad Oussalah, LINA, Université de Nantes, France
Mike Papazouglou, INFOLAB, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
René Pegoraro, DCo-FC, UNESP, Bauru, Brazil
Barbara Pernici , Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Saul  Pomares-Hernandez INAOEP, Puebla, Mexico   
Amirreza Tahamtan, University of Vienna, Austria  
Samir Tata, Institut TELECOM, Paris, France
Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse I, France
Maria Beatriz F. Toledo, Coumputation Insitute, UNICAMP, Brazil
Louise Trave-Massuyes, LAAS-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, France  
Jó Ueyama, EACH, São Paulo University, Brazil
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA