Advance Program

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• Schedule Highlight

• Workshops

• Keynotes

• Panels

• Industrial Sessions

• Tutorials

• Full Paper Sessions

• Short Paper Session

• WS-Challenges

• Meeting Rooms

Schedule Highlight

Workshops

• DEEC 2006

• WMCS '06

• BSN' 06 & SoS4CO'6

Keynote 1:

Scaling eBay and a Perspective on the Next Generation of eCommerce Applications

Eric Billingsley, Sr. Director, eBay Research Labs

Keynote 2:

Innovation in Everyday Life by IT Culture

Tadao Saito, CTO, Toyota Infotechnology Center

Keynote 3:

Global Innovation, Creating An Innovation Process, Catherine Lasser, VP, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business, IBM Research

Keynote 4:

Exploiting Platform Technologies for Creating Real-Time
Enterprises, Wen-Hann Wang, General Manager, Intel Middleware Product Division

Panels
 

Panel 1:
 

Business Process Automation and XML Standards: Is there a semantic gap?

Chair: Savitha Srinivasan (IBM Almaden)
 

panelist: Rob Barrett of e2open;  Chester Karwatowski of IBM;  Adam Trachtenberg of ebay;  Ajay Patel of Sonoa Systems, Wendell Baker of Yahoo
 

Panel 2:

Services Science, Management, and Engineering

Chairs: Kannan Govindarajan (HP Labs) & Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden)

Panelist:  Nicholas Bambos (Stanford), Eric Harmon (McKinsey), Sean Randolph (Bay Area Economic Forum), Sara Moulton Reger (IBM Research), Scott Sampson (BYU), John Sargent (US Department of Commerce).

Industrial Sessions

Industrial Session 1:
Services-Oriented Business Solutions                                                       
Chair: Kumar Bhaskaran, IBM Watson

Speakers: J. L. C. Sanz (IBM Almaden), K. Bhaskaran,  S. Kumaran, and Ying Huang (IBM Watson)               

Industrial Session 2:
RFID and Sensor Applications
Chair: Krish Mantripragada, RFID Business Development, SAP Labs
Speakers: Mike Nichols, Intermec; Richard Swan, T3Ci ; Dave Marzouk, SAP

Industrial Session 3:
Services Science, Management, and Engineering                                
Chairs: K. Govindarajan, HP Labs and E. M. Maximilien, IBM Almaden                               
Speakers: Hank Chesbrough (UC Berkeley), Luke Hughes (Accenture), Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Bill Rouse (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Tutorials
 

Tutorial 1:
Enabling electronic business collaboration: From supply chain business models towards business transaction development

Eric Dubois, Bertrand Grégoire

Tutorial 2:

Contract-Based QoS Monitoring and Control of XML Web Services

Vladimir Tosic, Patrick Hung

Session 1: Performance Management

Real-Time Complex Event Processing using Simple Rule-based Event Correlation Engines for Business Performance Management                                                                                                   
Shyh-Kwei Chen, Jun-Jang Jeng and Henry Chang (IBM T. J. Watson)

Modeling and Measuring Privacy Risks in QoS Web Service                                                               
Tao Yu, Yue Zhang and Kwei-Jay Lin (UC Irvine)

Soft Real-Time Aspects for Service-Oriented Architectures                                                
Michael C. Jaeger and Gero Muehl (TU Berlin)

Session 2: Collaborations

High-speed Processing by Autonomous Decentralized Architecture and Decentralized Algorithm in a Wired-and-Wireless Integrated IC Card Ticket System                                                                  
Akio Shiibashi (East Japan Railway Co.) and Kinji Mori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Decentralized Consistency Checking in Cross-organizational Workflows                                       
Andreas Wombacher (U. of Twente)

Evaluating Centrality Measures in Large Call Graphs                                                                    
Christine Kiss, Andreas Scholz and Martin Bichler (Technical U. of Munich)

Session 3: Workflows

Improving Patient Activity Schedules by Multi-agent Pareto Appointment Exchanging 
Ivan Vermeulen, Sander Bohte, Koye Somefun and Han La Poutre (CWI, Amsterdam)

DAG Synchronization Constraint Language for Business Processes                                                    
Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Akhil Sahai (HP Labs)

Concept Covering for Automated Building Blocks Selection based on Business Processes Semantics    
Francesco di Cugno (DEE Politecnico di Bari), Tommaso Di Noia (Politecnico di Bari), Eugenio Di Sciascio (DEE Politecnico di Bari), Francesco M. Donini (Universita della Tuscia) and Azzurra Ragone (DEE Politecnico di Bari)^{Best Paper Award!}

Session 4: Personalization

Ranking Web Search Results from Personalized Perspective                                                              
Wen-Chih Peng and Yu-Chin Lin (National Chiao Tung University)

Moderating the Price Sensitivity of Online Customers                                                                       
Hee-Woong Kim (National University of Singapore)

A Real-Time Yield Management Framework for E-services                                                    
Parijat Dube (IBM Research) and Yezekael Hayel (IRISA, Rennes France)

Session 5: Auctions

ZIP60: An Enhanced Variant of the ZIP Trading Algorithm                                                              
Dave Cliff (University of  Southampton)

Effect of Time Strategies on the Profit of Agents Using Adaptive Bid Softness Determination in Continuous Double Auctions with a Fixed Deadline                                                                        
Huiye Ma and Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Multi Unit Auctions with Constraints In Financial Domain                                                           
A. R. Dani (IDRBT), Arun K. Pujari (University of Hyderabad) and V. P. Gulati (IDRBT)

Session 6: E-payment

Secure E-Commerce Transactions for Multicast Services                                                             
A. K. Venkataiahgari, J. W. Atwood and M. Debbabi (Concordia University)

Evaluation of Probabilistic Payment Systems                                                                                  
Y. Afify (Ain Shams University), A. Hamad (Octobor 6 University) and M. Kouta (Arab Academy of Science and Technology)

A Mutual Authentication Enabled Fair-Exchange and Anonymous E-Payment Protocol                      
Q. Zhang, K. Markantonakis and K. Mayer (University of London)

Session 7: Security

An Empirical Study on Consumer Behavior in the Interaction with Knowledge-based Recommender Applications                                                                                                                        
A. Felfernig and B. Gula (U. of Klagenfurt)

A Method for Reducing False Hits in Querying Encrypted Databases                                          
Yi Tang and Jun Yun (Guangzhou University)

Detecting Profile Injection Attacks in Collaborative Recommender Systems                                      
R. Burke, B. Mobasher, C. Williams and R. Bhaumik (DePaul University)^{Best Paper Award!}

Session 8: Products and Markets

Agile Decision Agent for Services-Oriented E-Commerce Systems                                                    
J. Zhang, P. Pu and B. Faltings (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)

Transforming Pharmaceutical Marketing Through e-detailing: Case Studies and Recommendations      
Martina Trucco (HP) and Saidat Amirkhanova (Novartis Pharma AG)

Dynamic Focus Strategies for Electronic Trade Execution in Limit Order Markets                      
Jiaqi Wang and Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney)

Session 9: Business Intelligence

A Fuzzy Paradigm Approach for Business Process Intelligence
Oliver Thomas, Otmar Adam, Katrina Leyking, Peter Loos (German Research Center for AI)

Service-Oriented Business Performance Management for Real-Time Enterprise                                  
Jun-Jang Jeng and Jorge Sanz (IBM Watson)

Real Time Business Intelligence for the Adaptive Enterprise                                                       
Ben Azvine, Zhan Cui, Detlef Nauck and Basim Majeed (BT Plc)

Session 10: Architecture

Probing and Monitoring of WSBPEL Processes with Web Services                                         
Heinz Roth, Josef Schiefer and Alexander Schatten (Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems)

Value-Oriented, Model-Driven Business Transformation                                                         
Juhnyoung Lee and Anca Ivan (IBM Watson)

Corporate Portals from a Service-Oriented Perspective - The Cofipot Implementation 
Hong Tuan Kiet Vo (U. of Karlsruhe), R. Wojciechowski (Bayer Corp.), C. Weinhardt (U. of Karlsruhe)

Session 11: Contracts

An Automatic Method to Extract Data from an Electronic Contract Composed of a Number of Documents in PDF Format                                                                                                                 
Thomas Kwok and Thao Nguyen (IBM)

A Feature-based Approach to Electronic Contracts  
Marcelo Fantinato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo (U. of Campinas) and Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes (U. of Maringa)

Enhancing e-Commerce with Intelligent Agents in Collaborative e-Communities                                   
X. Shen, S. Shirmohammadi, C. Desmarais, N. Georganas and I. Kerr (U. of Ottawa)

Session 12: Recommender Systems

A Learn-Based Hybrid Approach for Anonymous Recommendation                                                         
J. P. Knuchel (Mentasys GmbH) and Nenad Stojavovic (U. of Karlsruhe)

DIRECT: A Robust Distributed Broker Framework for Trust and Reputation Management                          
Yue Zhang, Kwei-Jay Lin and Raymond Klefstad (UC Irvine)

Short Paper Sessions

Session 13: Auctions

Iterative Combinatorial Auctions with Linear Prices: Results of Numerical Experiments                         
A. Pikovsky and P. Shabalin (Technical University of Munich)

Performance Analysis for a Multi-Stage Negotiations (Invited Paper)
J. Li (Fudan U.), J.-H. Chen (Shih Chien U.), K.-M. Chao, Nick Godwin (Coventry U.), Y. Li (Fudan U.) and Y. Huang (IBM Watson)

Socially Optimal Use of Recommender Systems                                                                                 
D. Bergemann (Yale University) and D. Ozmen (Boston Consulting)

Session 14: Composition & Contracts

On State Synchronization of Business Conversations                                                                
C. Molina-Jimenez, S. Shrivastava and S. Woodman (U. of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Agent-based Service Composition for Real-time Supply Chain Management                                       
M. Wang, W. Cheung, Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.) and Z. Luo (The U. of Hong Kong)

A Privacy-Aware Service-oriented Platform for Distributed Data Mining                                              
X. Zhang, H.-F. Wong and W. Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Session 15: Discovery and Negotiation

Registering UMM Business Collaboration Models in an ebXML Registry                                  
B. Hofreiter, C. Huemer and M. Zapletal (U. of Vienna)

Capacity-Context based Service Discovery Middleware in Wide-area Ad-hoc P2P Networks                      
Q. Liang (Singapore Management U.), J.-Y. Chung and H. Lei (IBM Watson)

SLA Automated Negotiation Manager for Computing Services                                                            
H. Kaminski and M. Perry (U. of Western Ontario)

Session 16: Resource Management

Evaluation of Adaptive Computing Concepts for Classical ERP Systems and Enterprise Services                 
M. Wimmer, V. Nicolescu, D. Gmach, M. Mohr, A. Kemper and H. Krcmar (Technical University of Munich)

Dynamic Resource Prices in a Combinatorial Grid System                                                           
M. Schwind (University Frankfurt), O. Gujo(University Frankfurt) and  T. Stockheim (Technical University Kaiserslautern)

Economic Evaluation Framework of Resource Allocation Methods in Service-Oriented Architectures        
W. Streitberger, M. Reinicke (U. of Bayreuth), M. Catalano (U. Ancona) and G. Giulioni (U. of Chieti-Pescara)

Session 17: Security and Transactions

Representing Real Time Semantics for Distributed Application Integration                            
Polly M. S. Poon, Tharam Dillon and Elizabeth Chang (Curtin U. of Technology)

AXMEDIS: an MPEG-21 Based Solution for Protected                                                                 
S. Chellini, T. Martini and P. Nesi (University of Florence)

Transactions in Distributed Event-Based Middleware                                                                             
L. Vargas, J. Bacon and K. Moody (University of Cambridge)

Session 18: Data View and Integration

Global Software Enterprise: A New Software Constructing Architecture (Invited Paper)
W.T. Tsai, Bingnan Xiao (Arizona State U.), Ray Paul (US Dept. of Defense), Qian Huang, and Yinong Chen (Arizona State U.)

A Transparent Collaborative Integration Approach for Ad Hoc Product Data                          
Jingzhi Guo (University of Macau)

Extracting a Semantic View from an E-business Vocabulary                                                         
N. Gessa, M. Busanelli (U. of Bologna), P. De Sabbata (ENEA) and F. Vitali (U. of Bologna)

Deep Visibility in Enterprise Value Networks: Real-Time Monitoring, Knowledge Models and E-Commerce
 M. Chen, A. Ivan and J. Sairamesh (IBM Watson)

Meeting Rooms

Note: Hickory and Hawthorn are combined into one room

Ballroom uses sections 1-4 or ABWS