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Ninth International Workshop on *
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Important Dates
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Paper submission
19 April 2012
Author
notification 15 May 2012
Camera-ready
paper submission 05 June 2012
Workshop dates
15 October - 18 October 2012
Theme of the
Workshop
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Web Information
Systems (WIS) use the Web paradigm (and technologies) to
retrieve information from data sources and deliver it to
the users. Due to their complex requirements the design of
WIS is not a trivial task. Design methodologies provide
guidelines for the creation of WIS so that the complexity
of this process becomes manageable. Based on the
separation-of-concerns principle some of these
methodologies propose models to specify different aspects
of WIS design like data integration, navigation structure,
user interface, user interaction, presentation
personalization, etc.
Recent advances
in networking technologies enabled WIS access via
different devices (e.g., PDA, Smart phone, PC, BlackBerry,
etc.). In addition to this device heterogeneity there is
also a heterogeneous audience (e.g., different
backgrounds, different goals, etc.) that wants to access
the same system. In order to improve the user experience,
these systems often need to personalize the content and
its presentation based on the current user needs (e.g.,
user?s browsing platform or user preferences).
Another aspect
that can influence the behaviour of a WIS is the context
of use (e.g., the geographical position, the temporal
information, the weather conditions, etc.). Systems that
are able to exploit this kind of information will further
improve the application usefulness for their users.
Integrating such information is possibly made available by
specialized services and the need to seamlessly integrate
these services into a WIS is therefore an important part
of WIS development research.
As the Web data
is very diverse, WIS are seeking efficient and flexible
approaches to provide integrated views over heterogeneous
data sources. These data sources are usually autonomous
(maintained by different organizations), overlapping,
frequently changing, and distributed. All these
characteristics make the data integration on the Web a
very challenging research topic.
The increased use
of rich-clients applications (e.g., AJAX, OpenLaszlo,
etc.) poses new demands to WIS design. The design of these
applications needs to go beyond the server roundtrip
paradigm by considering the new functionality added to
clients, an intelligent data-push communication with the
server, interactive-rich graphical interfaces, etc. Also,
with the current emergence of social Web applications
(e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.) there is a need
to properly model the highly dynamic aspects of these
systems. In addition, WIS can tap into the data made
available by these systems to provide for previously
unforeseen functionalities. Making use of rich clients and
allowing users to establish social networks are some of
the features that need to be considered when developing
Web 2.0 applications.
Semantic Web
(also known as Web 3.0) technologies (e.g., RDF(S), OWL,
etc.) can help in the representation and processing of the
different WIS design models aiming for an improved
interoperability. One example of such a model is the user
profile which is often described using a CC/PP vocabulary.
Due to their focus on distribution over the Web, Semantic
Web representation languages prove to be useful also for
specifying the semantics of data and the semantics of
interfaces in order to facilitate the integration of
heterogeneous databases and Web services, respectively.
The best practice recommendation of Linked Data allows Web
applications to seamlessly publish, interconnect, and
access information on the Semantic Web. The inference
mechanisms of the Semantic Web (captured in the semantics
of the representation language or in rule-based languages
like RuleML and SWRL) can be used for deriving new
information or building intelligent services on the Web.
Over the last few
years, Web services have offered new opportunities to
deploy WIS. Web services are independent from specific
platforms and computing paradigms, and have the capacity
to form composed processes, referred to as composite Web
services. Web services composition fulfils user requests
that require the participation of several component Web
services. Several composition languages are now available
(e.g., BPEL, WSFL, etc.). Semantic descriptions of Web
services are also proposed for automating composition
(e.g., OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S, etc.). A research topic that
is worth pursuing is the modeling of these composite Web
services.
Goal of the
Workshop
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The aim of the
workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together
researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS
and discuss how specific issues of Web Information Systems
(WIS) design can be addressed by means of modeling.
Specifically, we will discuss how the influence of
Semantic Web technology can help in a model-driven WIS
development. Thus, the workshop should enable a fruitful
exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of WIS modeling.
Topics of
Interest
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The workshop
topics include but are not limited to:
* Methodologies
for WIS Design
* WIS
Architectures
* WIS
Adaptability
* WIS
Personalization
* WIS Evolution
* Semistructured
Data in WIS
* Data Models in
WIS
* Query Languages
in WIS
* Integration of
WIS
* Optimization
Techniques for WIS
* Security in WIS
* Business Rules
in WIS
* Web Services in
WIS
* WIS Ubiquity
* Social WIS
* Rich Client WIS
* Web Metadata in
WIS
* Ontologies in
WIS
* Linked Data in
WIS
* Semantic Web
Information Systems
Paper Submission
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Prospective
workshop participants are invited to submit a paper
related to one (or more) of the workshop topics. The page
limit for workshop papers is 10 pages. Papers should be
formatted according to Springer LNCS style
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The organizers
will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted
papers. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or
having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus
automatically rejected. The papers need to be original and
not submitted or accepted for publication in any other
workshop, conference, or journal. Papers should be
submitted to
wism2012@ese.eur.nl in
PDF format.
Publication
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Workshop
proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series as the official ER workshop proceedings.
Organizing
Committee & Workshop Co-chairs
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Flavius Frasincar
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Geert-Jan Houben
(Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Philippe Thiran
(University of Namur, Belgium)
Program Committee
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Syed Sibte Raza
Abidi (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Djamal Benslimane
(University of Lyon 1, France)
Marco Brambilla
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Sven Casteleyn
(Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Richard Chbeir
(Bourgogne University, France)
Jose Palazzo
Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil)
Olga De Troyer
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Roberto De
Virgilio (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy)
Oscar Diaz
(University of Basque Country, Spain)
Flavius Frasincar
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Irene Garrigos
(Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Hyoil Han
(LeMoyne-Owen College, USA)
Geert-Jan Houben
(Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Zakaria Maamar
(Zayed University, UAE)
Michael Mrissa
(Namur University, Belgium)
Moira Norrie (ETH
Zurich, Switzerland)
Oscar Pastor
(Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
Dimitris
Plexousakis (University of Crete, Greece)
Hajo Reijers
(Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Davide Rossi
(University of Bologna, Italy)
Klaus-Dieter
Schewe (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Bernhard Thalheim
(Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany)
Philippe Thiran
(Namur University, Belgium)
Riccardo Torlone
(Universita di Roma Tre, Italy)
Lorna Uden
(Staffordshire University, UK)
Erik Wilde (UC
Berkeley, USA)
Local Organizer
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Peter Barna
(TOPIC, the Netherlands)
Contact Address
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