International Workshop on
Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2006)

Theme of the Workshop

Web Information Systems (WIS) are information systems that exploit 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. As a consequence, also the trust that the users of the systems have in them is not trivial. Today, many organizations and individuals depend on WIS in order to fulfil their objectives. The trustability of WIS is therefore an important issue. Ad-hoc development of WIS that are not based on rigorous specifications very often lead to error-prone systems that users cannot trust. The use of explicit, formal models in the design of WIS before constructing them helps the development of reliable systems.
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 methodologies provide the means to increase the trust of the users in their WIS.
Many of the 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.

Goal of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS and discuss how specific issues in model-driven design of WIS can increase the trust of the users. Specifically, we will discuss how the influence of Semantic Web technology can help to improve the trust. Thus, the workshop should 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:

• Trust in WIS
• Business Rules in WIS
• WIS Architectures
• Rich Client WIS
• 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
• Security 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 Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 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 wism2006@win.tue.nl in PDF format.

Publication

Workshop proceedings will be published in the official CAiSE 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 (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Geert-Jan Houben (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & TU Eindhoven, Belgium & the Netherlands)
Philippe Thiran (Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium)

Program Committee

Djamal Benslimane (University of Lyon 1, France)
Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Martin Gaedke (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Jaime Gomez (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Geert-Jan Houben (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & TU Eindhoven, Belgium & the Netherlands)
Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE)
Philippe Thiran (Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium)
Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK)
Jean Vanderdonckt (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Local Organizer

Peter Barna (TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands)

Contact Address

wism2006@win.tue.nl