ECOWS 2010 - The 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services

Conference Schedule


The workshops will be held on the 1st of December.

The Main Conference will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of December.

The PhD symposium will be held on the 3rd of December.


Social events
  • Wednesday the 1st of December: Welcome Reception (for both conference and workshop participants)
  • Thursday the 2nd of December: Conference Dinner (for conference participants). Meeting point: hotel reception area at 8:00 p.m.


Workshop schedule.

(Conference Rooms: Grecian A, Grecian B, Syndicate 1, Syndicate 2)

Wednesday - December 1st
09:00 10:30 Workshop Sessions.
10:30 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 13:00 Workshop Sessions.
13:00 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 16:00 Workshop Sessions.
16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:00 Workshop Sessions.
19:00 Welcome Reception at the Grecian Bay Hotel.



Main Conference schedule.

(Conference Room: Grecian A)

Download the Main Conference schedule (pdf)

Thursday - December 2nd
09:00 9:30 Opening and Welcome Messages.

George Angelos Papadopoulos, Antonio Brogi, Cesare Pautasso

09:30 10:30 Keynote.

Paul W.P.J.Grefen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

Service-Oriented Business Integration: Will we be Dynamic?

Session chair: Antonio Brogi

10:30 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 13:00 Research track session: Secure data distribution and trust
  • Michael Mrissa, Salah-Eddine Tbahriti and Hong Linh Truong. Privacy model and annotation for DaaS.
  • Nils Gruschka and Luigi Lo Iacono. Server-side Streaming Processing of Secured MTOM Attachments.
  • Joachim Goetze, Simon Schwantzer, Tino Fleuren and Paul Mueller. License4Grid: Adopting DRM for Licensed Content in Grid Environments.
  • Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Harald Psaier and Schahram Dustdar. Social Formation and Interactions in Evolving Service-oriented Communities.
Session chair: Wolf Zimmermann

13:00 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 16:00

(parallel sessions)
Research track session: Security requirements
  • Jens Müller, Jutta Mülle, Silvia von Stackelberg and Klemens Böhm. Secure Business Processes in Service-Oriented Architectures - a Requirements Analysis.
  • Robert Warschofsky, Michael Menzel and Christoph Meinel. Transformation and Aggregation of Web Service Security Requirements.
  • Ehtesham Zahoor, Olivier Perrin and Claude Godart. DISC-SeT: Handling temporal and security aspects in the Web services composition.
Session chair: Rainer Unland

Industrial track session: SOA, Business, Security and Cloud
  • Anis Charfi, Benjamin Schmeling, Francesco Novelli, Heiko Witteborg and Uwe Kylau. An overview of the Unified Service Description Language.
  • Theo Dimitrakos. Common capabilities for service oriented infrastructures and platforms: an overview.
  • S. Nair, Sakshi Porwal, Theo Dimitrakos, Ana Juan Ferrer, Johan Tordsson, Tabassum Sharif, Craig Sheridan, Rajarajan Muttukrishnan and Afnan Ullah Khan. Towards Secure Cloud Bursting, Brokerage and Aggregation.
Session chair: Cesare Pautasso

16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:00 Research track session: Quality of Service
  • Matthias Winkler, Thomas Springer and Alexander Schill. Automating Composite SLA Management Tasks by Exploiting Service Dependency Information.
  • Anja Strunk. QoS-Aware Service Composition: A Survey.
  • André Miede, Ulrich Lampe, Dieter Schuller, Julian Eckert and Ralf Steinmetz. Evaluating the QoS Impact of Web Service Anonymity.
Session chair: Ulf Schreier



Friday - December 3rd
09:00 10:00 Industrial track keynote.

K. Scott Morrison (Layer 7 Technologies, USA).

How to Fail with Web Services.

Session chair: Cesare Pautasso

10:00 10:30 Research track paper.

  • Marvin Ferber, Thomas Rauber and Sascha Hunold. Combining OO Design and SOA with Remote Objects over Web Services.

Session chair: Cesare Pautasso

10:30 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 13:00 Research track session: Service Discovery
  • José Antonio Martín and Ernesto Pimentel. Feature-Based Discovery of Services with Adaptable Behaviour.
  • John Coffey, Laura White, Sharon Simmons and Norman Wilde. Locating Software Features in a SOA Composite Application.
  • Maria Maleshkova, Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue. Investigating Web APIs on the World Wide Web.
  • Sudhir Agarwal and Martin Junghans. Swapping out Coordination of Web Processes to the Web Browser.
Session chair: Sami Bhiri

13:00 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 16:00

(parallel sessions)
Research track session: Service composition for end users
  • Abdallah Namoune, Tobias Nestler and Antonella De Angeli. Service Composition for Non Programmers: Prospects, Problems, and Design Recommendations.
  • Nikolay Mehandjiev, Freddy Lecue, Usman Wajid and Abdallah Namoune. Assisted Service Composition for End Users.
  • Nikolay Mehandjiev, Abdallah Namoune, Usman Wajid, Linda Macaulay and Alistair Sutcliffe. End User Service Composition - Perceptions and Requirements.
Session chair: Walter Binder

Industrial track session: SOA Usability and Applications
  • Lars Dannecker, Andre Preussner, Tobias Nestler, Marius Feldmann and Abdallah Namoun. Service Annotations for Improving the Generation of Web Service User Interfaces.
  • Kerstin Denecke. A Service-oriented Architecture for Text Analytics Enabled Business Applications.
Session chair: Srijith Nair

16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:00 Research track session: Model-driven service engineering
  • Luciano Baresi, Mauro Caporuscio, Carlo Ghezzi and Sam Guinea. Model-driven Management of Services.
  • Karim Dahman, François Charoy and Claude Godart. Generation of Component Based Architecture from Business Processes: Model Driven Engineering for SOA.
  • Zachary J. Oster, Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu. Decomposing the Service Composition Problem.
Session chair: Ernesto Pimentel




PhD Symposium schedule.

(Conference Room: Grecian B)

Friday - December 3rd
10:00-10:40 Michel Embe Jiague. A BPEL Implementation of a Security Filter

(Supervisors: Richard St-Denis, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Regine Laleauy, Frederic Gervaisy, Universite Paris-Est, France)
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 Mandy Weissbach. Checking of Liveness Properties in Component-based Systems and Service-oriented Architectures

(Supervisor: Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
11:40-12:20 Marvin Ferber. Building Flexible and Collaborative Distributed Applications Based on Java and Web Service Technology

(Supervisor: Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany)
12:20-13:00 Luciano Manelli. Modeling Grid Services with ASM

(Supervisors: Sebastiano Pizzutilo, Alessandro Bianchi, University of Bari, Italy)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:10 Atousa Pahlevan. Self-Adaptive Management ofWeb Service Discovery

(Supervisor: Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada)
15:10-15:50 Chrysostomos Zeginis. Towards realizing WS cross-layer monitoring and adaptation

(Supervisor: Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece)
15:50-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:10 Mohammed AbuJarour. Information Integration in Service-Oriented Computing

(Supervisor: Felix Naumann, University of Potsdam, Germany)
17:10-17:50 George Baryannis. Towards Realizing Dynamic QoS-aware Web Service Composition

(Supervisor: Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece)