International Workshop on
Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2005)

Theme of the Workshop

Web Information Systems (WIS) use the Web paradigm (and technologies) to retrieve information from data sources and deliver it to the users. Due to their complex requirements the design of WIS is not a trivial task. Design methodologies provide guidelines for the creation of WIS so that the complexity of this process becomes manageable.
Based on the separation-of-concerns principle some of these methodologies propose models to specify different aspects of WIS design like data integration, navigation structure, user interface, user interaction, presentation personalization, etc.
Model-driven WIS design methodologies have been recently influenced by emerging technologies like the Semantic Web, (Semantic) Web Services, and (Semantic) Web Rule Languages, which foster application interoperability. Semantic Web languages (like RDF(S), OWL) facilitate the description of WIS models.
In the past WIS have been modeled as monolithic applications. Today we see a tendency of building WIS by composing (Semantic) Web Services that fulfill a certain WIS functionality. The business rules that govern WIS business logic can be naturally expressed using (Semantic) Web Rule Languages.
Realizing the benefits that Semantic Web technologies offer, many traditional WIS design methodologies as well as newly proposed WIS design methodologies do use Semantic Web technologies for modeling WIS.

Goal of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS to enable a fruitful exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of WIS modeling.

Topics of Interest

The workshop topics include but are not limited to:

• WIS Architectures
• Semistructured Data in WIS
• Methodologies for WIS Design
• Semantic Web Information Systems
• Data Models in WIS
• Web Metadata in WIS
• Query Languages in WIS
• Integration of WIS
• Ontologies in WIS
• Optimization Techniques for WIS
• Business rules in WIS

Paper Submission

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related to one (or more) of the workshop topics. Papers should not exceed 5000 words in length and should be formatted as close as possible to the IEEE Computer Society style http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm . They need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers. Papers should be submitted to wism2005@win.tue.nl in PDF format.

Publication

Workshop proceedings will be published in the official ICWE workshop proceedings with an ISBN number. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in prestigious international journals.

Important Dates

Organizing Committee & Workshop Co-chairs

Flavius Frasincar (flaviusf@win.tue.nl)
Geert-Jan Houben (houben@win.tue.nl)
Richard Vdovjak (richardv@win.tue.nl)

Address

Information Systems Group
Department of Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513
NL-5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Tel: +31402472733
Fax: +31402463992
Email: wism2005@win.tue.nl

Program Committee

Tom Barrett (Boeing, USA)
Mario Cannataro (University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy)
Olga De Troyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Martin Gaedke (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Jaime Gomez (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Massey University, New Zealand)
Bernhard Thalheim (Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany)

Local Organizer

Peter Barna (pbarna@win.tue.nl)