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International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling

 

Special issue on: “Designing, Modelling, and Simulating Trustworthy Web Services”

Guest Editor: Prof. W. T. Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

Web Services (WS) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are emerging technologies that are changing the way we use and develop computer software. Major computer corporations including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and SAP are moving into this direction. In the near future, computer users may no longer need to buy hardware or software. All they need is to sign up a service contract with a service broker. Hardware with necessary software may be provided for free. Users are charged for the services they use. This model is similar to the models used by cable TV and cellular phone operators. WS have been applied in several major business sectors, including banking services, retail and shopping services, supply chain services, stock exchange services, and travel services. WS and SOA are being adopted in mission critical applications such as the Command and Control Systems in the U.S. Department of Defense.

WS and SAO are open platform that allow service providers to freely publish their services. The major concern from WS users is the trustworthiness of the services, including performance, reliability, availability, security, confidentiality, and business integrity. Traditional software design, testing, verification, and validation techniques can be applied in the development process of WS, but may not be suitable for assuring the runtime behaviours and interoperability among the WS that are dynamically discovered and used in composite WS. New techniques for testing, verification, and validation need to be developed to address the new challenges.

Modelling and simulation can play a major role in developing the trustworthy WS applications as well as new tools supporting the development of trustworthy WS.

Subject Coverage
This special issue welcomes both academic and practical contributions in all aspects of designing, modelling, and simulating trustworthy WS, their applications in business, and tools supporting the development of trustworthy WS. Relevant topics may include, but are not limited to, the design, analysis, testing, evaluation, modeling, and simulation of following:

• Trustworthy computing over the Internet
• Web services based computing
• Specification, design and implementation of service-oriented architecture
• Web services searching, discovery, remote invocation and monitoring
• Dynamic Web services composition, configuration and reconfiguration
• Web services testing, reliability assessment and ranking
• Test case generation using formal methods and model checking
• Tools supporting WS development
• Web services security and privacy
• Quality assurance of Web services
• Web service experimentation environment
• Infrastructure supporting service-oriented architecture and Web services
• Web data management and data mining
• Web protocols and description languages supporting cooperative computing, for example, SOAP, UDDI, UML, WSDL, XAML, XLANG and XML
• Applications of trustworthy Web services, for example, in supply chain, banking, travel services and mission-critical tasks

Notes for Prospective Authors

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines

To submit a paper, please go to Submission of Papers

This is our preferred route for submitting papers; please use it if at all possible. However, if you experience any problems submitting papers in this way, an alternative route is suggested below

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

Important Dates

Full paper due: 28 February 2005

Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2005

Final version of paper due: 30 August 2005