Ikuo Matsumura, T. Ishida, Yohei Murakami, Yoshiyuki Fujishiro
{"title":"Situated Web Service: Context-Aware Approach to High-Speed Web Service Communication","authors":"Ikuo Matsumura, T. Ishida, Yohei Murakami, Yoshiyuki Fujishiro","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.122","url":null,"abstract":"A framework is proposed to improve Web service performance based on context-aware communication. Two key ideas are introduced to represent a client context: (1) available protocols that the client can handle, and (2) operation usage that shows how the client uses Web service operations. We call our context aware approach a situated Web service (SiWS). We implemented and evaluated the SiWS and found that the overall performance was improved if more than three Web services were executed between context changes","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124939570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliable Messaging for BPEL Processes","authors":"A. Charfi, Benjamin Schmeling, M. Mezini","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.111","url":null,"abstract":"There are currently two specifications that address reliable messaging in Web services: WS-reliablemessaging and WS-reliability. Both specifications consider the general case of Web services as being black boxes with WSDL interfaces. In this paper, we address the reliable messaging requirements of composite Web wervices in BPEL. In such Web services, the BPEL programmer sees not only the WSDL interface but also the implementation, i.e., the process definition. BPEL processes have several reliable messaging requirements, which cannot be supported by current reliable messaging specifications. The most challenging of those requirements is to support ordered message delivery between many endpoints. Current reliable messaging specifications support only reliable messaging between two endpoints. This paper presents several approaches to support multi-party reliable messaging and introduces a reliable messaging Web service for BPEL that is integrated with a BPEL engine by using a process container framework. This Web service supports the reliable messaging requirements of BPEL processes and its implementation is based on Sandesha, which is an open source implementation of WS-ReliableMessaging","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126108245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WIP: Web Service Initiation Protocol for Multimedia and Voice Communication over IP","authors":"W. Chou, Li Li, Feng Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.146","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present WIP - Web service initiation protocol for multimedia and voice communication over IP. WIP is an entirely Web service based communication protocol, consisting of a set of Web service operations for initiating and establishing converged (e.g. multimedia, IM, voice, etc.) communication services over IP. It inherits the principle of separation signaling and media transmission of SIP (session initiation protocol); but it relies on a single Web service stack to provide a full featured communication signaling protocol. WIP opens a new paradigm of Web service based VoIP communication, which is extensible and can be easily integrated in end-to-end SOA solutions. The generic Web service approach used in WIP overcomes many limitations which would be otherwise difficult to achieve in non-Web service based communication methods used today. WIP is based on two-way, full duplex Web service interaction. The communication signaling establishment in WIP is through Web service interactions, and the media negotiation in WIP is modeled as a special Web service \"event\" subscription, which is fully extensible for various media needs. The signaling messages of WIP are encoded in the standard based SOAP message envelops which can be carried by multiple transport protocols, including HTTP. WIP supports both P2P (peer-to-peer) and B2B (back-to-back) broker mode communication services. A prototype research system has been implemented, and the results indicate that WIP, as a full Web service based communication protocol, is both feasible and advantageous","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128987475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Service-Oriented Ontology-Based Coordination","authors":"T. Moyaux, B. Smith, S. Paurobally","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.133","url":null,"abstract":"Coordination is a central problem in distributed computing. The aim is towards flexible coordination, managed at run-time, in open, dynamic environments. This approach would benefit from an explicit common vocabulary for coordination and hence, in a previous paper, we modelled coordination in an ontology, describing the activities carried out and the interdependencies among these activities. The purpose of this paper is to show how such an ontology can be used alongside a set of rules to perform coordination by managing the interdependencies among activities. The ontology and rules can then be used to provide a general purpose coordination tool in the form of a Web service","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131277209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Transport Optimization Techniques","authors":"K. Ma, R. Bartos","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.30","url":null,"abstract":"The popularity of Web-based transactions and the need for more sophisticated content distribution methods has helped to fuel the rapid growth of Web Service adoption, specifically, HTTP-bound Web services. Secure and efficient content delivery has long been a requirement of traditional Web-based distribution schemes, and existing Web infrastructure provides numerous options for securing and optimizing HTTP. Two exemplary technologies are SSL/TLS and HTTP compression. While efforts to solidify the more granular WS-Security standards are ongoing, and methods for XML message compression schemes continue to be investigated, HTTP provides an interim solution, supporting transactional security and message compression. The SSL/TLS and HTTP compression technologies have become commoditized and pervasive. And with the trend in content delivery toward hardware offload for these functions, modern data centers have begun to raise the bar for performance. In this paper, we examine three different paradigms for implementing SSL/TLS and HTTP compression: software-based functionality, server-resident hardware accelerators, and centralized network-resident hardware accelerators. We discuss the trade-offs between the two different offload techniques (i.e., PCI accelerator vs. network proxy) and explore their relationship to the current performance activities, in the field of Web services. In analyzing the results for SSL/TLS offload, and the effects of compression, in conjunction with SSL/TLS, we draw parallels with the efforts of WS-Security and XML message compression. Although optimizations for software-based cryptography continues to advance, the potential for hardware-based acceleration should not be overlooked. We discuss our results and address deployment scenarios for optimizing Web-based transactions, and the future optimization of Web Service transactions","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130991584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Approach for Specifying Capability ofWeb Services based on Environment Ontology","authors":"Puwei Wang, Zhi Jin, Lin Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.27","url":null,"abstract":"Capability specification is key problem for Web service discovery. Conventional one-step process based capability specification has its limitations. This paper proposes an approach for semantic behavior-based capability specification of Web service to stride over the limitations. Meta-level environment ontology is proposed to provide formal and sharable specifications of environment resources in a particular domain. For each environment resource, there is a corresponding hierarchical state machine specifying its dynamic characteristics. Then, effects on the environment resources are modelled with the hierarchical state machines. On the basis of the environment ontology, forest-structured communicating hierarchical state machines (FCHM) are defined and expected to be semantics of capability specification of Web services, which can be derived from the effects that Web services impose on their environments","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122557702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inferring, Validating, and Coordinating the Commitments in aWorkflow","authors":"Jiangbo Dang, M. Huhns","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.75","url":null,"abstract":"A workflow can be represented as a set of Web services and a specification for the control and data flows among these services. It can also be represented as a colored Petri net (CPN), which is a graphical and mathematical modeling tool. In multiagent systems (MAS), a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to model a workflow and coordinate their execution of it. This paper presents methodologies to map an OWLS model for a workflow to a CPN, and then to infer commitments and causal relationships from the CPN graph. With our methodologies, agents can collaboratively enact a workflow through commitment-based formalisms","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133412389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric Wohlstadter, S. Tai, Thomas A. Mikalsen, J. Diament, I. Rouvellou
{"title":"A Service-oriented Middleware for Runtime Web Services Interoperability","authors":"Eric Wohlstadter, S. Tai, Thomas A. Mikalsen, J. Diament, I. Rouvellou","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.13","url":null,"abstract":"A major goal of service-oriented architectures is to enable software interoperability in heterogeneous and dynamic environments. Web services standards and protocols aim to support this goal and middleware systems implementing these standards and protocols consequently are needed. Maintenance and administration of middleware is made difficult due to variations in standards and their constant evolution. In this paper, we introduce a new service-oriented middleware architecture for runtime Web services interoperability. Different from other middleware systems our approach applies service-oriented computing principles on the middleware layer, thereby establishing an on-demand model for middleware features. Clients can use middleware as services, dynamically discovering and using the services as interoperability requirements are determined. Further, middleware as services allows middleware to be provided and managed separately from its clients. We present the policy-based programming model, architecture, and details of our middleware, and discuss new challenges that arise in this context, such as distribution of middleware services. The approach is validated through a scenario integrating Web service transaction middleware","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115982041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Krishnan, B. Stearn, K. Bhatia, K. Baldridge, Wilfred W. Li, P. Arzberger
{"title":"Opal: SimpleWeb Services Wrappers for Scientific Applications","authors":"S. Krishnan, B. Stearn, K. Bhatia, K. Baldridge, Wilfred W. Li, P. Arzberger","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.96","url":null,"abstract":"The grid-based infrastructure enables large-scale scientific applications to be run on distributed resources and coupled in innovative ways. However, in practice, grid resources are not very easy to use for the end-users who have to learn how to generate security credentials, stage inputs and outputs, access grid-based schedulers, and install complex client software. There is an imminent need to provide transparent access to these resources so that the end-users are shielded from the complicated details, and free to concentrate on their domain science. Scientific applications wrapped as Web services alleviate some of these problems by hiding the complexities of the back-end security and computational infrastructure, only exposing a simple SOAP API that can be accessed programmatically by application-specific user interfaces. However, writing the application services that access grid resources can be quite complicated, especially if it has to be replicated for every application. In this paper, we present Opal which is a toolkit for wrapping scientific applications as Web services in a matter of hours, providing features such as scheduling, standards-based grid security and data management in an easy-to-use and configurable manner","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114246746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Perturbation Based Testing for Web Services","authors":"Lourival F. Júnior de Almeida, S. Vergilio","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2006.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.60","url":null,"abstract":"Web service is a modern technology commonly used to integrate software projects among different platforms, operating systems or even programming languages. This distributed and heterogeneous nature complicates the testing activity which is, in general, expensive and effort demanding. Adequate and cost effective testing methods are needed for Web services. An extended approach based on XML messages perturbation has been introduced to test pairs of Web services. Perturbation operators produce modified XML messages, which are used as test cases. This paper explores the use of such promising approach by introducing new perturbation operators for SOAP messages and describing a supporting tool, named SMAT-WS. An experimental study was accomplished with this tool. The obtained results allow an evaluation of the perturbation operators regarding cost and efficacy","PeriodicalId":408032,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114302783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}