TUTORIAL 1 Lifecycle of Semantic Web Processes

Tutorial Outline
This tutorial presents what can be achieved by symbiotic synthesis of two of the most important research and technology application areas: Web Services and the Semantic Web. It presents the more recent evolution of the Web Service platform towards rich Web Service and process model annotation, and explores some of the promises and challenges in applying semantics to each of the steps in the Semantic Web Process lifecycle.

Target Audience
The intended audience of this tutorial is any person interested in service oriented architectures, Web Services and processes, semantics, and business processes.

Instructors Short Bios

Jorge Cardoso (jcardoso@uma.pt) received a B.A. (1995) and a M.S. (1998) in Computer Science from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and a Ph.D. also in Computer Science from the University of Georgia (2002). His research work concentrated on workflow QoS management and semantic composition of workflows. Research results were implemented in the METEOR project at the LSDIS lab.

Christoph Bussler (http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler) is Science Foundation Ireland Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland and Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI, http://www.deri.ie). In addition to his role as Executive Director of DERI, Chris leads the Semantic Web Services research group at DERI.

Amit Sheth (http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/) is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the LSDIS lab at the University of Georgia. He is a co-founder and CTO of Semagix, Inc., a Semantic Web technology company based on the technology licensed from the LSDIS Lab. Earlier he worked at R&D in Honeywell, Unisys and Bellcore. He is one of leading researchers and entrepreneur in the areas of Semantic Web (and more broadly semantic information integration and interoperability) and workflow process management.

Duration: Half Day

TUTORIAL 2 (Cancelled) Ontology Development for Software Engineers - a hands-on tutorial

Tutorial Outline
The tutorial will be divided in two parts.
During the first part we present an introduction to ontologies in the context of the semantic web. The second part consists of a supervised exercise.

• SE academics and professionals at large, practitioners working with agent based software systems in particular. .
• All participants interested in walking away knowing how to elicit, model and implement working ontologies in W3C recommeded ontology standard, OWL.

Instructors Short Bios

Luiz Marcio Cysneiros is an Assistant Professor at York University – Toronto. He has held a post-doc position at the University of Toronto from April 2001 to July 2002, where he continued his studies on non- functional requirements. His Ph.D (from PUC-Rio – Brazil) work was on integrating non-functional requirements on modelling languages.

Duration: Half Day

TUTORIAL 3 Practical Aspects of Software ReEngineering and Code Transformation

Tutorial Outline

• Introduction To Reengineering
• Code Transformation
• Approaches to Web-Enabling Legacy Systems
• Survey and Categorization of Reengineering Tools.

Target Audience
Software practitioners and academics and postgraduate students interested in software reengineering.

Instructors Short Bios

Georgios Koutsoukos (http://www.atxsoftware.com/) is a Senior Solutions Analyst at ATX Software, an IT company specialized in application's development, software architectures and reengineering solutions . His professional experience spans a variety of roles: object-oriented developer, engineering process coach, software solutions designer, instructor, and solutions innovation researcher.

Dr. Mohammad El-Ramly (http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/~mel-ramly) is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Leicester , UK , where he teaches a postgraduate module on software reengineering besides other software engineering subjects. His research interests include software reengineering, reverse engineering and evolution and the application of data mining methods to software data, particularly the practical aspects of these topics.

URL: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/mer14/CAiSE-Reeng.htm

Duration: Full Day

TUTORIAL 4 Abstract Prototyping for User Interface Design

Tutorial Outline
This tutorial will introduce abstract prototyping using canonical abstract components with particular attention to their use within the framework of a model-driven, usage-centered design approach.

Instructor Short Bio

Larry L. Constantine , IDSA, is one of the pioneers of software design whose current work centers on usage-centered design. He has contributed numerous concepts and techniques forming the foundations of modern practice in software engineering and applications design and development. An award-winning designer, Constantine specializes in visual and interaction design for critical software and Web applications in such areas as medical informatics and industrial automation.

URL: http://www.foruse.com/

Duration: Full Day

TUTORIAL 5 (Cancelled) Design and Development of Web Information Systems

Tutorial Outline
After a brief introduction describing the various aspects that have to be taken into account when developing a web information system (purpose, usage, content, functionality, context, presentation) we will present major blocks dealing with storyboarding, content and functionality modelling and design patterns.

Storyboarding concerns the usage of the intended system. It consists of three interconnected parts: the modelling of the story space, the classification of users, and the modelling of tasks. We will then address personalisation according to user preferences and goals.

Content and functionality modelling will then take a deeper look into the scenes of the story space and link the abstract storyboard layer with the necessary database support. This leads to supporting views that are extended in several ways to support dynamic functionality, presentation options and adaptivity to users, channels and devices.

In the third block we extend the design support for the presented methodology. For this we will introduce web page design patterns and web page design grids. Grids are orchestrated according to the environment, the user profiles, and the website content and functionality. Patterns are configurable to grids depending on the context of the website and on the intention of the website.

Target Audience
The tutorial addresses two groups of people:

• Information Systems practitioners who will learn about an integrated methodology that has been applied to the challenging task of setting up reliable, maintainable web information systems, and its underpinning research results.
• Researchers who are interested in the problems arising from the design of web information systems

Instructors Short Bio

Klaus-Dieter Schewe (MSc, PhD, DSc) is full professor at Massey University in New Zealand and Director of Massey’s Information Science Research Centre. His major research interests are database theory and systems, logic in databases and systems development methodologies, in particular for web information systems.

Bernhard Thalheim (MSc, PhD, DSc) is full professor at Christian Albrechts University in Germany. His major research interests are database theory, logic in databases, and systems development methodologies, in particular for web information systems.

Duration: Full Day

TUTORIAL 6 (Cancelled) A pattern-based approach to building organisational memories

Tutorial Outline
The full day tutorial will consist of two parts – theoretical and practical .

The theoretical part (3 hours) will address the following topics:

• Overview of the Enterprise Knowledge Patterns (EKP) approach to Knowledge Management.
• The use of participative enterprise modelling for capturing organisational knowledge
• The use of organisational patterns for packaging and storing the organisational knowledge.
• Practical experiences from applying the EKP approach for building components of employee KM portals and knowledge repositories.

The practical part (3 hours) will engage the participants in hands-on participative development of reusable knowledge components.

Target Audience
The tutorial is aimed at managers and knowledge workers of private and public organisations, KM professionals, management consultants, and researchers

Instructors Short Bio

Duration: Full Day