CS 595 - Web Services

Description:

The emerging paradigm of electronic services promises to bring to distributed computation and services the flexibility that the web has brought to the sharing of documents. An understanding of fundamental properties of e-service composition is required in order to take full advantage of the paradigm. There are a variety of research topics including behavioral service signatures, verification and synthesis techniques for composite services, analysis of service data manipulation commands, and XML analysis applied to service specifications. In this seminar we will discuss proposals, standards, and research results concerning e-services.

Instructors:

Tevfik Bultan and Jianwen Su

Enrollment Code:

73684

Meeting time and place

1:00PM, Thursdays, CS conference room

Presentations:

  1. April 10, Jianwen Su
    R. Hull, M. Benedikt, V. Christophides, and J. Su. E-Services: A Look Behind and Curtain, in Proc. ACM PODS, 2003
  2. April 17, Ying Yan
    Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (Version 1.0). http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-bpel, 2002
  3. April 24, Xiang Fu
    Model Checking Conversation Protocols
  4. May 8, Stacy E. Patterson
    Java Message Service (JMS)
  5. May 15, Constantinos Bartzis
    Pi-Calculus
  6. May 22, Xiang Fu
    S. Abiteboul, V. Vianu, B. Fordham, and Y. Yesha. Relational transducers for electronic commerce. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 61(2):236--269, 2000
  7. May 29
    Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
  8. June 5, Ozgur Sahin
    XL: An XML Programming Language for Web Service Specification and Composition

Tentative Reading List

  1. P. Wohed, W.M.P. van der Aalst, M. Dumas, and A.H.M. ter Hofstede. Pattern based analysis of BPEL4WS. Technical Report FIT-TR-2002-04, QUT, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/wvdaalst/Publications/p175.pdf.
  2. W. M. P. van der Aalst. Don't go with the flow: Web services composition standards exposed, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Jan/Feb 2003.
  3. A. Arkin. Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), Version 1.0. BPML.org, 2002.
  4. ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (Version 1.01). http://www.ebxml.org/specs/ebBPSS.pdf, May 11 2002.
  5. N. Daswani, H. Garcia-Molina, and B. Yang. Open problems in data-sharing peer-to-peer systems. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Database Theory, pages 1-15, 2003.
  6. DAML-S Coalition (A. Ankolekar et al). DAML-S: Web service description for the semantic web. In The Semantic Web - ISWC 2002, Proc. 1st Int. Semantic Web Conference, volume 2342 of LNCS, pages 348-363, June 2002.
  7. DAML Services Coalition (A. Ankolekar et al). DAML-S: Semantic markup for web services. In Proc. of Int. Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), pages 411-430, July/August 2001.
  8. D. Florescu, A. Gruhagen, and D. Kossmann. XL: An XML programming language for web service specification and composition. In Proc. World Wide Web Conf., pages 65-76, 2002.
  9. I. Foster and C. Kesselman, editors. The Grid: Blueprint for a Future Computing Infrastructure. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
  10. J. Frey, T. Tannenbaum, I. Foster, M. Livny, and S. Tuecke. Condor-G: A computation management agent for multi-institutional Grids. In Proc. IEEE Symp. High Performance Distributed Computing (HDPC), 2001.
  11. S. Gay and M. Hole. Types for correct communication in client-server systems. Tech. Report CSD-TR-00-07, Dept. of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, Dec. 2000.
  12. F. Leymann. Web Services Flow Language (WSFL 1.0), May 2001.
  13. S. Thatte. XLANG: Web services for business process design, 2001.
  14. Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of Web Services (UDDI) 3. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/tcspecs.shtml#uddiv3, 2002.
  15. W.M.P. van der Aalst, M. Dumas, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, and P. Wohed. Pattern based analysis of BPML (and WSCI). Technical Report FIT-TR-2002-05, QUT, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2002. http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/wvdaalst/Publications/p176.pdf.
  16. Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL) 1.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-wscl10-20020314, 2002.
  17. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-wsdl-20010315, 2001.
  18. V. Christophides, R. Hull, G. Karvounarakis, A. Kumar, G. Tong, and M. Xiong. Beyond discrete e-services: Composing session-oriented services in telecommunications. In Proc. of Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES), Springer LNCS volume 2193, Rome, Italy, September 2001.
  19. V. Christophides, R. Hull, and A. Kumar. Querying and splicing of XML workflows. In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Cooperating Information Systems (CoopIS), 2001.
  20. S. Gribble, A. Halevy, Z. Ives, M. Rodrig, and D. Suciu. What can databases do for Peer-to-Peer? In Workshop on Databases and the Web (WebDB), 2001.
  21. K. Honda, V. Vasconcelos, and M. Kubo. Language primitives and type discipline for structured communication-based programming. In Programming Languages and Systems, 7th European Symposium on Programming, 1998.
  22. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/, 2000.
  23. Java Message Service (JMS) http://java.sun.com/products/jms/