CfP: 1st Intl Workshop on Web Service Choreography and Orchestration for Business Process Management

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

                     C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s
                      1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
               WEB SERVICE CHOREOGRAPHY AND ORCHESTRATION
                      FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
              http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/bpm2005/  

                      a workshop to be held at the
     3rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM
2004)
                        http://bpm2005.loria.fr/  

                            Nancy, France
                      Monday, September 5th, 2005

DESCRIPTION

This workshop aims to addresses research around methods, concepts,
models, languages and technologies for Choreography and Orchestration
of Web Services with special focus on Web Service technologies and
solutions for Business Process Management.

In order to overcome the deficiencies of current BPM technologies, Web
Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) have been identified
as the basic technical building block for the next generation of
web-based business solutions. A Web Service offers a modular
functionality, and has a seamless usage interface that hides technical
details from a user client.  Web Services technologies shall allow
automated discovery, composition, contracting, and execution of Web
Services, thereby providing a new technology for information systems.
The current Web Service technology stack allows exchange of messages
between Web Services (SOAP), describing the technical interface for
consuming a Web Service (WSDL), and advertising a Web Services in a
registry (UDDI). However, these technologies do not explicitly
describe all aspects of a Web Service's functionality; neither do they
provide support for the Semantic Web, i.e., descriptions on the
meaning of the information to be interchanged between a Client and a
Web Service.  Consequently, the emerging concept of Semantic Web
Services aims at providing more sophisticated support for automated
discovery, composition, execution, as well as for monitoring and
management of Web Services.

The set up of the workshop intersects the research fields of BPM and
Web Services.

Further and actual information can be found at the workshop website:
http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/bpm2005/ 

INVITED SPEAKER
Prof.dr.ir. Wil van der Aalst is the invited speaker of the workshop.
He will give a presentation on "Pattern in Interaction".

TOPICS

The following indicates the general focus of the workshop. However,
related contributions are welcome as well.

- Requirements on Choreography and Orchestration languages for BPM
- Choreography languages
- Orchestration languages
- Formal models for Choreography and Orchestration
- Practical applications of Choreography and Orchestration languages
- Reasoning about Choreography and Orchestration
- Web Service Conversation Models and Interaction Protocols
- Web Service composition languages
- Web Service composition techniques
- Composition Engines
- Interactions between service composition and execution
- Contracting with Web Services
- Reuse and versioning of services and compositions
- Web Service Invocation and Execution
- Mediation with Choreography and Orchestration

INTENDED AUDIENCE

The workshop addresses researchers, professionals and industrial
practitioners that work in the fields of Web Services and Business
Process technologies. The workshop aims at establishing a starting
point for closer collaboration and exchange in future work.

WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE

The program will occupy one full day, and will include presentations of
papers selected from the full papers category (see 'submission' below).

The workshop is open to all participants of the BPM.

Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must
attend the workshop. The BPM 2005 conference formalities are applied
for fees and respective organizational aspects. Submission of a paper
is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event
that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate,
those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given
priority for registration.

SUBMISSIONS

Two categories of submissions are solicited:
(1) Full papers (up to 15 pages).
(2) Position papers (1-2 pages).

All submissions should be formatted in Springer's LNCS style
(www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html),
and sent by e-mail to  michael.stollberg@xxxxxxxx

Full papers should comprise a solid contribution. We emphasize that a
larger word count does not necessarily confer any greater likelihood
of acceptance; figures that help the reader to quickly grasp the essence
of complex material are strongly encouraged.

Full papers will receive a peer-review. Position statements are intended
to present very early or planned future work that is regarded as
relevant
to the workshop. Position statements are limited to 2 pages; position
statements will not receive a peer-review.

Accepted full papers will be scheduled for a presentation at the
workshop. Shorter full papers may be given appropriately shortened
time slots.  In some cases, papers may be presented as part of
themed discussion panels.

All accepted full papers as well as all position papers of attendees
will published in the workshop proceedings
(see further and actual information on the workshop website).

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers: March 18, 2005
Notification: May 11, 2005
Final Version Due: May 27, 2005
Workshops day: September 5, 2005

ORGANIZATION

Organizing Committee
- Christoph Bussler     (DERI, Ireland)
- Alistair Duke         (BT, UK)
- Dumitru Roman         (DERI, Austria)
- Michael Stollberg     (DERI, Austria)

Invited Speaker
- Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands)

Program Committee (alphabetically)

- Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands) 
- Michael Altenhofen (SAP, Germany) 
- Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia) 
- Liliana Cabral (Open University, UK)
- Fabio Casati (HP, USA)
- Martin Chapman (Oracle Corporation, USA)
- Jessica Chen-Burger (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Francisco Curbera (IBM, USA)
- Peter Dadam (University of Ulm, Germany)
- John Davies (British Telecom, UK) 
- Marin Dimitrov (Ontotext, Bulgaria) 
- John Domingue (Open University, UK)
- Dieter Fensel (DERI)
- Ira Fuchs (QCC/CUNY, USA)
- Manfred Hauswirth (EPFL, Switzerland) 
- Martin Hepp (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) 
- Dimka Karastoyanova (TU Darmstadt / University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Rania Khalaf (IBM Research, Hawthorn, USA)
- Akhil Kumar (Penn State University, USA)
- Dan Marinescu (University of Central Florida, USA) 
- Axel Martens (IBM Research, Hawthorn, USA)
- Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Olivier Perrin (University Nancy2, Frace) 
- Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) 
- Chris Priest (HP, UK) 
- Dieter Roller (IBM & University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Steve Ross-Talbot (Enigmatec corporation, UK) 
- Satish Thatte (Microsoft, USA)
- Ioan Toma (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) 
- Laurentiu Vasiliu (DERI, Ireland)
- Alexander Wahler (Niwa Web Solutions, Austria)
- Mathias Weske (HPI, Germany)
- Michal Zaremba (DERI, Ireland)