***************************************************************************** * * * WWV 2013 * * Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems * * 9th International Workshop * * Call for Papers * * * ***************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission March 22, 2013 Full Paper Submission March 29, 2013 Acceptance Notification May 3, 2013 Camera Ready (pre-proceedings) May 20, 2013 Workshop June 6, 2013 Camera Ready (post-proceedings) June 26, 2013 SCOPE The Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV, http://users.dsic.upv.es/grupos/elp/wwv/) is a yearly workshop that aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum to facilitate the cross-fertilization and the advancement of hybrid methods that exploit concepts and tools drawn from Rule-based programming, Software engineering, Formal methods and Web-oriented research. Nowadays, many companies and institutions have diverted their Web sites into interactive, completely-automated, Web-based applications for, e.g., e-business, e-learning, e-government and e-health. The increased complexity and the explosive growth of Web systems has made their design and implementation a challenging task. Systematic, formal approaches to their specification and verification can permit to address the problems of this specific domain by means of automated and effective techniques and tools. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - Rule-based approaches to Web system analysis, certification, specification, verification, and optimization. - Languages and models for programming and designing Web systems. - Formal methods for describing and reasoning about Web systems. - Model-checking, synthesis and debugging of Web systems. - Analysis and verification of linked data. - Abstract interpretation and program transformation applied to the semantic Web. - Intelligent tutoring and advisory systems for Web specifications authoring. - Middleware and frameworks for composition and orchestration of Web services. - Web quality and Web metrics. - Web usability and accessibility. - Testing and evaluation of Web systems and applications. AUDIENCE Participation to WWV is open. The workshop is intended for, but not limited to, researchers from the communities of Rule-based programming, Software engineering, Formal methods and Web-oriented research. SUBMISSION Submitted papers should present original unpublished work and cannot be under review for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program Committee. Contributions should be submitted through the EasyChair online submission system in PDF format, and should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS-style format and should not exceed 15 pages (typeset 11 points). Submission is a firm commitment that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop, if the paper is accepted. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in the pre-proceedings, which will be made available in electronic form through the WWV web site. After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare, by incorporating insights gathered during the event, a final version of their paper to be published in the post-proceedings. We plan to publish the workshop post-proceedings as a volume of the EPTCS series. STEERING COMMITTEE Maria Alpuente Technical University of Valencia, Spain (co-Chair) Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Santiago Escobar Technical University of Valencia, Spain Moreno Falaschi University of Siena, Italy (co-Chair) Laura Kovacs Vienna University of Technology, Austria Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy Rosario Pugliese University of Florence, Italy Josep Silva Technical University of Valencia, Spain Francesco Tiezzi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Antònio Ravara New University of Lisbon, Portugal Josep Silva Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jesús Almendros University of Almeria, Spain Maria Alpuente Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy Daniela Da Cruz Universidade do Minho, Portugal Raymond Hu Imperial College London, United Kingdom Ivan Lanese University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy Anders Møller Aarhus University, Denmark Elie Najm Telecom ParisTech, France Kostis Sagonas University of Uppsala, Sweden Francesco Tiezzi IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, United Kingdom WORKSHOP FORMAT One full day meeting, including 1 or 2 invited talks and about 8 refereed contributions. PAST WORKSHOP EDITIONS Started in 2005, the series of this workshop established itself as a lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions. 1. WWV'05 in Valencia, Spain; March 14-15, 2005 homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv05/ 2. WWW'06 in Paphos, Cyprus; November 19, 2006 homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv06/ 3. WWV'07 in Venice, Italy; December 14, 2007 homepage: http://wwv07.dimi.uniud.it/ 4. WWV'08 in Siena, Italy; July 4, 2008 homepage: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/ 5. WWV'09 in Castle of Hagenberg, Austria; July 17, 2009 homepage: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/wwv09/ 6. WWV'10 in Vienna, Austria; July 30-31, 2010 homepage: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/WWV2010/ 7. WWV'11 in Reykjavik, Iceland; June 9, 2011 (as part of DisCoTec 2011) homepage: http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/wwv2011/ 8. WWV'12 in Stockholm, Sweden; June 16, 2012 (as part of DisCoTec 2012) homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2012/ The previous 7 editions of WWV attracted high quality papers that were published in ENTCS (WWV'05, WWV'07, WWV'08), IEEE (WWV'06) and EPTCS (WWV'11,WWV'12). After WWV'09, a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the topics of the WWV has been organized. Similarly, a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic has been organized after WWV'10, and a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming is being organized after WWV'11 and WWV'12.