Advance Program & Call for Participation

14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering:

Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government

RIDE-WS-ECEG'2004

Boston, USA , March 28-29, 2004

http://www.nvc.cs.vt.edu/ride04

In conjunction with ICDE'04

Organization Committee

General Co-Chairs:

William McIver,
Univ. of Albany, USA

Larry Brandt,
NSF, USA

Program Co-Chairs:

Athman Bouguettaya,
Virginia Tech, USA

Boualem Benatallah,
Univ. of NSW, Australia

Panel Co-Chairs:

Valerie Gregg,
NSF, USA

Sam Redwine,
James Madison Univ., USA

Publicity Chair:

Alex Delis,
Polytechnic Univ., USA

Local Arrangement Chair:

George Kollios,
Boston Univ., USA

Registration Chair:

Denis Gracanin,
Virginia Tech, USA

Steering Committee:

Ahmed Elmagarmid,
RIDE'04 Liaison, Co-chair,
Purdue University, USA

Joseph Urban,
Co-chair,
Ariz. State University, USA

Yahiko Kambayashi,
Kyoto University, Japan

Marek Rusinkiewicz,
Telcordia Research, USA

RIDE-WS-ECEG'2004 is the fourteenth workshop in a series of annual workshops on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE), which have been held in conjunction with the IEEE CS International Conferences on Data Engineering.  In 2004, RIDE focuses on Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications. The objective of RIDE-WS-ECEG'2004 is to bring together researchers, e-commerce leaders, e-government leaders, and users to exchange the results and ideas on the issues related to Web services and the support they provide for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications.

Sunday, March 28, 2004

9.00 - 9:30

Conference Opening

9:30 - 10:30

Keynote Talk: Exploiting Semantics of Web Services in eBusiness Applications
Prof. Asuman Dogac, Director, Software R&D Center, Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

TS1: Service Description and Matchmaking

A Constraint Language Approach to Matchmaking

Chuang Liu and Ian Foster

PYRAMID-S: A Scalable Infrastructure for Semantic Web Service Publication and Discovery

Thomi Pilioura, Georgios-Dimitrios Kapos, and Aphrodite Tsalgatidou

Resolution and Constraint Propagation for Semantic Web Services Discovery

Salima Benbernou, Etienne Canaud, Mohand-Said Hacid, and Farouk Toumani

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00

TS2 : Security

An Access Control System for a Web Map Management Service

Elisa Bertino, Maria Luisa Damiani, and David Momini

A Security-Enhanced One-Time Payment Scheme for Credit Card

Yingjiu Li and Xinwen Zhang

A Novel Watermarking Algorithm for the MPEG-4 XMT Scene Structure

Ziad Sakr and Nicolas D. Georganas

Exploring a Multi-Faceted Framework for SOC: How To Develop Secure Web-service Interactions?

Kees Leune, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, and Michael Papazoglou

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel Discussion
Engineering Governance: Design, Public Value, and E-government
David Lazer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Moderator
Jean Camp, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Lin Salisbury, Director of Technology, Utah Interactive, Inc.
Rajiv Shah, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Monday, March 29, 2004

9.00 - 10:00

Keynote Talk: The Challenges of Delivering Content and Applications on the Internet
Prof. Tom Leighton, Chief Scientist, Akamai Technologies Inc.

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30  - 12:00

TS3: Service Discovery and Composition

Enriching ebXML Registries with OWL Ontologies for Efficient Service Discovery

Asuman Dogac, Yildiray Kabak, and Gokce Laleci

From DAML-S Processes to BPEL4WS

Sisi Liu, Rania Khalaf, and Francisco Curbera

Policy-based Web Service Composition

Soon Ae Chun, Vijay Atluri, and Nabil R. Adam

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00

TS4 : Secure Interoperability, Availability and Dependability

A layered IT infrastructure for secure interoperability in Personal Data Registry Digital Government Services

Franco Arcieri, Fabio Fioravanti, Enrico Nardelli, and Maurizio Talamo

THROWS: An Architecture for Highly Available Distributed Execution of Web Services Compositions

Neila Ben Lakhal Takashi Kobayashi Haruo Yokota

DeW: A Dependable Web Services Framework

Esam Alwagait and Shahram Ghandeharizadeh

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00

TS5 : Document Publishing, Caching, and Versioning

Smart Mirrors: Peer-to-Peer Web Services for Publishing Electronic Documents

Omar G. Rodrguez-Martnez, Maritere Martnez-Montes, Elfred Pagan, Manuel Rodrguez-Martnez, and Pedro I. Rivera-Vega

Caching Dynamic Data in Portal Applications

Mehregan Mahdavi and John Shepherd

Supporting Branched Versions on XML documents

Zografoula Vagena, Mirella M. Moro, and Vassilis J. Tsotras