Modeling and Developing Process-Centric Virtual Enterprises with Web-Services (VIEWS'03)

A new paradigm of computation is emerging in the networked world, one based on service-oriented computing. As new standards and practices for web-service technologies are materializing, the way business processes are designed and used may radically change. In particular, emerging web-service standards offer exiting new ways for standardizing business processes, within or beyond vertical domains. This development allows companies to swiftly architect extended virtual enterprises to support business collaborations which can last as short as a single business transaction or span a couple of years. Unfortunately, existing web-service standards tend to focus on defining the semantics of processes as a set of collaborating interfaces, neglecting potential semantic conflicts. In addition, most of these initiatives lack sufficient business mechanisms to make web-service collaborations a viable solution in the business context, e.g., no mechanism currently exist to allow non-deterministic planning of business operations, and pro-active business change. Moreover, existing web-service initiatives seem to have reasonable techniques for describing the functional requirements of business processes as a set of, potentially collaborating, interfaces, but the non-functional properties are largely neglected while it is generally believed they make up 80% of the final design of a web-service. Lastly, and possibly most importantly, the convergence of web-services and business processes requires that process-centric (extended) enterprises carefully commence with aligning processes and web-services both from a top-down and bottom-up perspective. This session focuses on both scientific and new industrial solutions for the problems that are outlined in the above. The session focuses at web-service computing, the interrelation and interaction of business processes and web-services, and lastly, extending existing web-service initiatives with mechanisms that allow them to become more effective in highly volatile business contexts.

• designing WSs for supporting BPs, e.g., extending existing OO/CBD modeling and design approaches;
• allowing BP and WS alignment, e.g., at the technical level by facilitating configuration management (traceability) and at the business level by defining new information planning techniques
• functional web-service support for business processes, e.g., modeling languages and methodologies to develop BPs with WSs
• non-functional web-service support for business processes, e.g., matching non-functional properties of processes and WSs
• web-service orchestration both bottom-up (fusing WSs) and top-down (first designing processes and then matching process semantics with WS semantics)
• web-service planning and coordination languages
• web-service ontologies
• extended enterprise design and implementation
• transaction management, e.g., extending distributed transaction models to allow long-running business transaction protocols that relax traditional ACID properties;
• standardization efforts in vertical and horizontal business domains;
• light-weigted workflow systems for modeling and enacting web-services;
• legacy integration with web-services, e.g., selective reuse of legacy functionality that is viable in new business contexts.

Martin Henkel	A framework for understanding the vision, goals, instruments and uses of software services	download pdf download ppt
Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Jeffrey G. Gray, Carol C. Burt, Rajeev R. Raje, Andrew M. Olson, Mikhail Auguston	Modeling Web Services: Toward System Integration In Uniframe	download pdf download ppt
Liu Yin, Liu Wenyin, and Jiang Changjun	Object Diagrams as Explicit Graphic Tool for Web Service Composition	download pdf download ppt
Daniela Berardi, Fabio De Rosa, Luca De Santis and Massimo Mecella	A conceptual model for e-services based on fsa	download pdf download ppt
Bart Orriens, Jian Yang, and Mike Papazoglou	Service Component: a mechanizsm for web service composition reuse and specialization	download pdf
Sami Bhiri, Olivier Perrin, Walid Gaaloul, and Claude Godart	An Object Oriented Metamodel for Inter-enterprises Cooperative Processes based on Web Services	download pdf
Jane Jayaputera, Iman Poernomo, and Heinz Schmidt	UML Specialization for Fault Tolerant	download pdf download ppt
Robert Laubacher, John Quimby, Thierry Bouron, Wilson Lau, Yanming Li, and Siham Sinaceur	The process library: Enabler of cross-SME collaboration	download pdf download ppt
Moe Thandar Wynn, David Edmond, and Stephen Milliner	The estimation of invocation costs for composite services	download pdf

The papers in pdf format are available for downloading to sessions participants. If you need access and qualify for it please get in touch with a session organizer. The slides of the presentations are available in powerpoint format. If you need access please get in touch with either session organizer.

• Bernd Kraemer, Fern Universitaet, Hagen, Germany
  
• Ralf Reussner, DSTC, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  

• Willi Hasselbring, Oldenburg University, Germany
  
• Jos van Hillegersberg, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
• Maurizio Lenzerini, Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
  
• Zalaria Maamar, Dubau, United Emirates
  
• Barbara Perinici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  
• Jeff Sutherlands, PatientKeeper, USA
  
• Jian Yang, Univ. Tilburg, The Netherlands
  

The IDPT Conference is a major international forum for the integration of design and process technologies to create a symbiotic relationship among scientists, engineers, software developers, decision makers, and other critical thinkers. IDPT is organized by the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and traditionally covers all topics of integrated design and process technology in software development as well as mechanical and other areas of engineering. IDPT is certainly one of the most challenging conferences combining different communities from Computer Science and Engineering.

The IDPT 2003 conference committees are headed by Yongxiang Lu (honorary chair, China), Raymond T. Yeh (honorary chair, USA), C.V. Ramamoorthy (steering, USA), Yingluo Wang (steering, China), Ben Hua (chair, China), K. H. (Kane) Kim (chair, USA), Yousen Huang (program, China), Atila Ertas (program, USA), Derrick Tate (program ,USA).

The conference program will consist of invited and selected papers. Plenary sessions and keynote addresses will be presented by prominent speakers. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, competitively selected papers will be reviewed for publication in the SDPS Transactions: Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science.

More information regarding IDPT 2003 can be found at:

• Society for Design and Process Science: http://www.sdpsnet.org/
• Conference Brochure: http://www.sdpsnet.org/Other_PDFs/IDPT-2003.pdf (local copy)