A special issue on Web Services is organized. You are encouraged to extend your WORDS 2005 paper, or to write a new paper for the special issue. The submission deadline for the special issue is February 28, 2005. Please plan ahead.

 

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling  (IJSPM)

Call For papers

Special issue on: “Designing, Modeling, and Simulating Trustworthy Web Services”

Special Issue: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=114

IJSPM Home: https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=100

Guest Editor: Prof. W. T. Tsai, Arizona State University

Web Services (WS) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are emerging technologies that are changing the way we use and develop computer software. Major computer corporations including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and SAP are moving into this direction. In the near future, computer users may no longer need to buy hardware or software. All they need is to sign up a service contract with a service broker. Hardware with necessary software may be provided for free. Users are charged for the services they use. This model is similar to the models used by cable TV and cellular phone operators. WS have been applied in several major business sectors, including banking services, retail and shopping services, supply chain services, stock exchange services, and travel services. WS and SOA are being adopted in mission critical applications such as the Command and Control Systems in the U.S. Department of Defense.

WS and SAO are open platform that allow service providers to freely publish their services. The major concern from WS users is the trustworthiness of the services, including performance, reliability, availability, security, confidentiality, and business integrity. Traditional software design, testing, verification, and validation techniques can be applied in the development process of WS, but may not be suitable for assuring the runtime behaviors and interoperability among  the WS that are dynamically discovered and used in composite WS. New techniques for testing, verification, and validation need to developed to address the new challenges.

Modelling and simulation can play a major role in developing the trustworthy WS applications as well as new tools supporting the development of trustworthy WS.

 Go Top  Subject Coverage

This special issue welcomes both academic and practical contributions in all aspects of designing, modeling, and simulating trustworthy WS, their applications in business, and tools supporting the development of trustworthy WS. Relevant topics may include, but are not limited to, the design, analysis, testing, evaluation, modeling, and simulation of followings:

  • Trustworthy computing over the Internet
  • Web services based computing
  • Specification, design, and implementation of service-oriented architecture
  • 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
  • Tools supporting WS development
  • Web services security and privacy
  • Quality assurance of Web services
  • Web service experimentation environment
  • Infrastructure supporting service-oriented architecture and Web services
  • Web data management and data mining
  • Web protocols and description languages supporting cooperative computing, for example, SOAP, UDDI, UML, WSDL, XAML, XLANG, and XML.
  • Applications of trustworthy Web services, for example, in supply chain, banking, travel services, and mission-critical tasks.

 Go Top  Notes for Intending Authors

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines

To submit a paper, please go to Submission of Papers

This is our preferred route for submitting papers; please use it if at all possible. However, if you experience any problems submitting papers in this way, an alternative route is suggested below

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

 Go Top  Important Dates

Full Paper Due: 28 February 2004

Notification of Acceptance: 31 May 2005

Final Version of Paper Due: 30 August 2005

 Go Top  Editors and Notes

As an alternative to using the Submission of Papers site, you may send THREE copies of each manuscript (in hard copy) or one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of both formats in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Dr. W. T. Tsai, Guest Editor
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Arizona State University

P.O. Box 8809

Tempe, AZ 85287-8809
USA
Tel: +1 480 727 6921
E-mail: ijspm05@asu.edu

with a copy to:

Editor-in-Chief
IEL Editorial Office
PO Box 735
Olney, Bucks MK46 5WB
UK
Fax: +44 1234-240515
E-mail: ijspm@inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor