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WS-FM 2012 : 9th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal MethodsConference Series : Web Services and Formal Methods | |||||||||||||||||
Link: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ws-fm2012/ | |||||||||||||||||
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Call for Papers what to submit to WS-FM
The aim of the WS-FM workshop series is to bring together researchers working on Web Services and Formal Methods in order to catalyze fruitful collaboration. Web services are fundamental to cloud computing and other computing paradigms based on service-oriented architectures and applications. They make functional and autonomous building blocks available over the Internet, independent of platforms and programming languages, and both within and across organizational boundaries. These can then be described, located, orchestrated, and invoked. Virtualization technology has moreover led to the Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service notions. Formal methods can play a fundamental role in research on these concepts. They can help define unambiguous semantics for the languages and protocols that underpin web service infrastructures, and provide a basis for checking the conformance and compliance of bundled services. They can also empower dynamic discovery and binding with compatibility checks against behavioral properties, quality of service requirements, and service-level agreements. The resulting possibility of formal verification and analysis of (security) properties and performance (dependability and trustworthiness) is essential to cloud computing and to application areas like e-commerce, e-government, e-health, workflow, business process management, etc. Moreover, the challenges raised by research on these concepts can extend the state of the art in formal methods. The scope of the WS-FM workshop series is not limited to technological aspects. In fact, there is a strong tradition of attracting submissions on formal approaches to enterprise systems modeling in general, and business process modeling in particular. Potentially, this might have a significant and lasting impact on the ongoing standardization efforts in cloud computing technologies. Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Mathematical foundations of service-oriented and cloud computing Security, trust, and privacy in service-oriented and cloud computing Performance and dependability of services/clouds Multi-tenancy, adaptability and evolvability in the cloud Model-driven development of services/clouds Quality of service and service-level agreements Web service coordination and transactions Web service ontologies and semantic descriptions Goal-driven discovery and composition of web services Semi-structured data management and XML technology Types and logics for web services/clouds Verification, analysis, and testing of services/clouds Web services for business process management Process management in the cloud Enterprise modeling and business process modeling Contractual issues between service providers and consumers Innovative application scenarios for web services/clouds Data services and data-centric process modeling Standards and technologies for service-oriented and cloud computing Case studies on formal methods in service-oriented and cloud applications Case studies on formal methods in business process management |
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