2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)

Special Theme: Dynamic Services Composition and User Steering

held in conjunction with 6th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC-2008), Honolulu, USA

Workshop Agenda


Location: Room 6

NOTE: Please note that this is a tentative program and is subject to change. Also, at this time each presentation is allotted 25 minutes (20 mins. talk + 5 mins. Q&A), which is subject to change as well.



2:15-3:45 pm: SESSION 1 (chair: John Harney)
  • Welcome and opening by Samik Basu
  • A Method for Automated Web Server Selection by Hong Qing Yu
  • Dynamic Service Discovery Using Active Lookup and Registration by Haldor Samset and Rolv Braek
  • Composition of Interactive Web Services Based on Controller Synthesis by Philippe Balbiani, Guillaume Feuillade, and Fahima Cheikh
3:45-4:15 pm: PM Break with Refreshments


4:15-5:30 pm: SESSION 2 (chair: Samik Basu)
  • Automatic Composition of Services with Security Policies by Yannick Chevalier, Mohammed Anis Mekki, Michael Rusinowitch
  • Techniques to Produce Optimal Web Service Compositions by Yudith Cardinale and Maria-Esther Vidal
  • On Utilizing Qualitative Preferences in Web Service Composition: A CP-net based Approach by Vasant Honavar, Samik Basu, and Ganesh Ram Santhanam
5:30-6:00 pm: DISCUSSION SESSION (topic: TBA)





List of accepted papers

Congratulations to the following authors for acceptance!
  • Hong Qing Yu (University of Leicester). A Method for Automated Web Server Selection.
  • Philippe Balbiani (Irit), Guillaume Feuillade (Irit), Fahima Cheikh (IRIT FR). Composition of Interactive Web Services Based on Controller Synthesis.
  • Yannick Chevalier (Inria Grad Est), Mohammed Anis Mekki (Inria Grad Est), Michael Rusinowitch. Automatic Composition of Services with Security Policies.
  • Yudith Cardinale (Universidad Simon Bolivar), Maria-Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar). Techniques to Produce Optimal Web Service Compositions
  • Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University), Samik Basu (Iowa State University), Ganesh Ram Santhanam (Iowa State University). On Utilizing Qualitative Preferences in Web Service Composition: A CP-net based approach.
  • Haldor Samset (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Rolv Braek (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Dynamic Service Discovery Using Active Lookup and Registration.