Technologies for E-Services: Second International Workshop, TES 2001 Rome, Italy, September 14–15, 2001 Proceedings

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by  Thomi Pilioura

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Technologies
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Preface
The workshoponTechnologiesforE-Services(TES)is aforumforthe exchange
of ideas, results, and experiences in the area of e-services. The first edition of
the workshop (TES 2000) was organized in Cairo, Egypt in conjunction with
the VLDB conference. Following the success of the first edition and pushed by
many requests, we organized a second edition, also in conjunction with VLDB.
TES 2001took place in Rome, Italy, in the Pontificia Universita` Urbaniana,
auniversitybelongingtotheCatholicChurch,locatedinthecenterofRomeand
overlookingSt. Peter’s Cathedral. The TES workshopbegan right after VLDB,
andlastedtwodays.Itfeaturedthepresentationoffifteenpapersfocusedonsev-
eral aspects of e-services, including e-service description, e-service composition,
peer-to-peer execution of e-services, transactional issues in e-services, e-services
infrastructures, and e-services for mobile users. In addition, the workshop in-
cludedoverviewanddiscussionpapersthatpresentedandsummarizedtheissues
that still need to be addressed to realize the e-services vision.
We take this opportunity to thank the many people that contributed to
the organization of the workshop. The TES organization was coordinated by
MariagraziaFugini(TESorganizationchair),inconjunctionwiththe wonderful
support provided by the local VLDB organization. VLDB 2001 officers, and in
particular Paolo Atzeni (general chair) and Stefano Ceri (program chair and
workshop coordinator), also provided invaluable help and support. We are very
grateful to all of them.
We also thank the members of the program committee and the additional
reviewers for their thorough work, that greatly contributed to the quality of
the final program.A special thank goes to Stefanie Chatelain, who coordinated
manyaspectsofthepaperreviewprocess.Thequalityofalltheacceptedpapers
wasveryhigh,andwearegratefultotheauthorsforsubmittingtheirinteresting
results and innovative contributions to the TES workshop.
Wehopethattheparticipantshavefoundtheworkshopinterestingandstim-
ulating, and we thank them for attending the workshop and for contributing to
the discussions, despite the many temptations provided by the beautiful city of
Rome.Wearealsoconfidentthatthereadersofthisbookwillfindthatthetime
and money have been well invested.
July 2001 Fabio Casati
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Ming-Chien Shan
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TES 2001 Organization
Workshop Officers
General Chair
Ming-Chien Shan
Hewlett-Packard
Palo Alto, California, USA
Program Chair
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Telcordia Technologies
Austin, Texas, USA
Organization Chair
MariagraziaFugini
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
Program Committee
Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Alejandro Buchmann Darmstad University of Technology, Germany
Christoph Bussler Oracle corp., USA
Fabio Casati Hewlett-Packard, USA
Andrzej Cichocki Telcordia, USA
Panos Chrysanthis University of Pittsburgh, USA
Anindya Datta Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA
Umesh Dayal Hewlett-Packard, USA
Claude Godart LORIA, France
Paul Grefen University of Twente, The Netherlands
Rick Hull Lucent Labs, USA
Alfons Kemper PassauUniversity, Germany
Hong Jun Lu Honk Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Heiko Ludwig IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
John Mylopoulos University of Toronto, Canada
Maria Orlowska University of Queensland, Australia
Tamer Ozsu University of Waterloo, Canada
Mike Papazoglou Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Louiqa Raschid University of Maryland, USA
Hans-J¨org Schek ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Cyrus Shahabi USC, USA
Preface VII
Afroditi Tsalgatidou University of Athens, Greece
Gerhard Weikum University of the Saarland, Germany
Lizhu Zhou Tsinghua University, China
Additional Referees
MariagraziaFugini Heiko Schuldt
Ralf Muhlberger Wijnand Derks
Table of Contents
E-Services: Current Technology and Open Issues ....................... 1
Thomi Pilioura, Aphrodite Tsalgatidou (University of Athens, Greece)
The Role of B2B Protocols in Inter-Enterprise Process Execution ........ 16
Christoph Bussler (Oracle Corp., USA)
Conversations + Interfaces = Business Logic .......................... 30
Harumi Kuno, Mike Lemon, Alan Karp, Dorothea Beringer
(Hewlett-Packard, USA)
Compatibility of e-Services in a Cooperative Multi-platform Environment . 44
Massimo Mecella (Unversita` di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy),
Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy),
Paolo Craca (Unversita` di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)
Beyond Discrete E-Services: Composing Session-OrientedServices in
Telecommunications................................................ 58
Vassilis Christophides (FORTH, Heraklion, Greece),
Richard Hull, Gregory Karvounarakis, Akhil Kumar, Geliang Tong,
Ming Xiong (Bell Laboratories, USA)
View-Based Contracts in an E-Service Cross-OrganizationalWorkflow
Environment ...................................................... 74
Eleanna Kafeza, Dickson K.W. Chiu
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China),
Irene Kafeza (City University of Hong Kong, China)
BizBuilder - An E-Services Framework Targeted for Internet Workflow.... 89
Raja Krithivasan, Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal
(University of Florida at Gainesville, USA)
Peer-to-PeerTraced Execution of Composite Services................... 103
Marie-Christine Fauvet (UNSW Sydney, Australia and University
of Grenoble, France), Marlon Dumas (QUT Brisbane, Australia),
Boualem Benatallah, Hye-Young Paik (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
SupportingReliableTransactionalBusinessProcessesbyPublish/Subscribe
Techniques........................................................ 118
Christoph Schuler, Heiko Schuldt, Hans-J¨org Schek
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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User Action Recovery in Internet SAGAs (iSAGAs) .................... 132
Kaushik Dutta, Debra VanderMeer, Anindya Datta (Georgia Institute
ofTechnology,USA),KrithiRamamritham(UniversityofMassachusetts
at Amherst, USA and IIT-Bombay, India)
Security for Distributed E-Service Composition ........................ 147
Stefan Seltzsam, Stephan B¨orzso¨nyi, Alfons Kemper
(Universita¨t Passau, Germany)
ESTIA-Efficient Electronic Services for Tourists in Action............... 163
Guillermo Fernandez Ortiz, Ana Sofia Caires Branco,
Paz Ruiz Sancho, Jos´e Luis Castillo (SEMA, Spain)
InfoPipes: A Flexible Framework for M-Commerce Applications.......... 175
Marcus Herzog, Georg Gottlob
(University of Technology, Wien, Austria)
Ψ-Pervasive Services Infrastructure................................... 187
Dejan Milojicic, Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Ira Greenberg
(Hewlett-Packard, USA), Olaf Spinczyk, Danilo Beuche,
Wolfgang Schro¨der-Preikschat
(Otto-von-Guericke Universita¨t Magdeburg, Germany)
Adaptive Migration Strategy for Mobile Agents on Internet ............. 201
DongChun Lee (Howon University, South Korea),
JeomGoo Kim (Namseoul University, South Korea)
Author Index.................................................... 213
E-Services: Current Technology and Open Issues
Thomi Pilioura* and Aphrodite Tsalgatidou†
University of Athens
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
TYPA Buildings, Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia
GR-157 84, Athens, Greece
{thomi,afrodite}@di.uoa.gr
Abstract. The Internet changes the way business is conducted. It
provides an affordable and easy way to link companies with their
incorporating trading and distribution partners as well as customers.
However, the Internet’s potential is jeopardized by the rising digital
anarchy: closed markets that cannot use each other’s services;
incompatible applications and frameworks that cannot interoperate or
build upon each other; difficulties in exchanging business data; lack of
highly available servers and secure communication. One solution to
these problems is a new paradigm for e-business in which a rich array
of modular electronic services (called e-services) is accessible by
virtually anyone and any device. This new paradigm is currently the
focus of the efforts of many researchers and software vendors. This
paper presents the e-services architecture, its advantages as opposed to
today’s applications and gives an overview of evolving standards. It
then presents the related technical challenges, the way some of them are
addressed by existing technology and the remaining open issues.
1 Introduction
Companies face a number of challenges in choosing and implementing the right
software and technology solutions in order to better serve their needs and support
their business endeavors. This has become particularly problematic in recent years as
companies attempt to leverage existing practices, systems and resources across the
Web. Critical to success in this environment is to find an integrated, robust e-business
solution that allows a company to leverage existing applications, rapidly adapt to the
unique needs of the business, and continually evolve as business requirements change
over time.
Nowadays, the current trend in the application space is moving away from tightly
coupled systems (e.g. DCOM based business solutions [1]) and towards systems of
loosely coupled, dynamically bound components (e.g. Jini [2] or Enterprise Java

* Ms. Thomi Pilioura is also with the National Bank of Greece, email: [email protected].
† Corresponding Author.
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