WCCIA, Gyeongju, Korea, April 27-28, 2006

WCCIA
The 2 nd International Workshop on Collaborative Computing, Integration, and Assurance

April 27-28, 2006, Kolon Hotel, Gyeongju, Korea
(http://asusrl.eas.asu.edu/srlab/activities/wccia/)
in conjunction with
the 9th IEEE International Symposium on
Object and component-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC)
April 24 - 26, 2006, Kolon Hotel, Gyeongju, Korea
(ISORC 2006, http://www.rtselab.org/~isorc2006/)
and
Workshop on Software technologies for future Embedded & Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS)
April 27 – 28, 2006, Kolon Hotel, Gyeongju, Korea

Scope

Web Services (WS) and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) form a new paradigm of computing that changes the way we develop and use computer software. Under this new paradigm, all computer programs or components are given a standard and platform-independent programming interface, and be stored in an internet-searchable repository. The accumulation of available components makes it possible to compose applications completely based on existing components. Assuming that there exists a large repository of components (services), the manual coding (programming) step in the software development process can be largely replaced by automatic code generation. In other words, once the model of a system is developed, which consists of components and the relationships among the components, the executable of the system (application) or the simulation of the application can be automatically generated, if the functions of the components can be performed by existing services. Furthermore, an application can be modified at runtime. An application can dynamically discover newly available services, use the new services to replace an existing service (reconfiguration), and recompose the system based on the modified model (recomposition).
The new computing paradigm imposes new challenges and opportunities for modeling and simulation research. This year's WCCIA workshop devotes to exploring the new techniques and applications of modeling and simulation in service-oriented computing paradigm. The topics include but not limited to:

• Specification, design, and implementation of service-oriented architecture
• Model-driven development
• Architecture-based development
• Modeling languages
• Model-based simulation
• Distributed simulation
• Service-oriented system engineering
• Modeling and simulation of Web services and service-oriented applications
• Performance evaluation of Web services and service-oriented applications
• Dependability evaluation of Web services and service-oriented applications
• Quality assurance of Web services and service-oriented applications
• Trustworthy computing over the Internet
• Tools supporting Web service development
• Infrastructure supporting service-oriented architecture and Web services
• Web service experimentation environment
• Web services searching, discovery, remote invocation, and monitoring
• Dynamic Web services composition, configuration, and reconfiguration
• Web services testing, reliability assessment, and ranking
• Test case generation using formal methods and model checking
• Applications of trustworthy Web services, for example, in supply chain, banking, travel services, and mission-critical tasks.
• Collaborative verification and Validation
• Reliability, security, safety, and trustworthiness of web-based computing

General Chairs

Wei-Tek Tsai
Arizona State University, USA

Program Chairs

Yinong Chen, Arizona State University , USA
Dugki Min, Konkuk University, Korea

Program Committee (TBD)

Xiaoying Bai                  Tsinghua University, China
Farokh Bastani              Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Guilan Dai                     Tsinghua University, China
Satoshi Fukumoto          Tokyo Metropolitan University
Sung-Kook Han             Wonkwang University, Korea
Ajantha Herath              Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA
Hai Huang                     Intel Corporation, USA
Chi Chi Hung                 Tsinghua Software Institute, China
Yoko Kamidoi                Hiroshima City University
Nobuyasu Kanekawa      Hitachi Co., Japan
Helen Karatza                Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hong-Gee Kim               Seoul National University, Korea
David Kung                    University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Juanzi Li                       Tsinghua University, China
Shuangqing Li               Arizona State University, USA
Yinsheng Li                   Fudan University, China
Hong Mei                      Beijing University, China
Yukikazu Nakamoto       University of Hyogo, Japan
Akira Onoma                 Hosei University, Japan
Ray Paul                       Department of Defense, USA
Hiroshi Suganuma          Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Japan
T. H. Tse                       University of Hong Kong
Sanya Uehara                Fujitsu, Japan
Victor Winter                 University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Tsuneo Yamaura            Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Japan
Hongji Yang                   De Montfort University, UK
I-Ling Yen                      University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Qingsheng Zhu              Chongqing University, China

Operations Committee (TBD)

Information for Authors

The papers submitted should be limited to six pages in standardIEEE conference paper format (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). The papers must be written in English and in PDF (preferred), or MS Word format. The following information must be provided on the first page:

(1) Paper title

(2) Full name and affiliation of each author. A contact author must be indicated and further information provided: complete mail address, phone, fax, and e-mail address.

(3) An abstract (up to a 150 words).

All submissions must be sent by e-mail to one of the two email addresses: wccia06@asu.edu. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.

All accepted workshop papers will be published in a proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. A special issue is being organized.

Upon acceptance, at least one author of each paper must register to the workshop and and commit to present the paper at the workshop for the paper to be included in the workshop program and published in the IEEE proceedings.

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