CALL FOR PAPERS

The increasing use of the Web as a software platform together with the advance of technology has given raise to a completely new generation of Web Applications; these applications allow ubiquitous access from fixed and mobile devices, provide personalized features to individuals, support complex business processes and workflows, etc. Applications are now also built by composing (reusing) services provided by third parties, often as a function of the place, time, and device being used to access it.

The Web engineering community has already discussed and solved many of the design problems arising from this complexity. However, as technology and theory advances new possibilities appear, new kinds of applications can be built, and thus existing methodologies, modeling, and design approaches must be adapted to cope with these new problems, domains, and applications aspects.

Since 2001, IWWOST has been an international forum for discussing state-of-the art modeling approaches for Web applications. The first edition was held in Valencia in 2001, the second in Malaga (together with Ecoop 2002), the third in Oviedo (co-located with ICWE 2003), and the fourth in Munich (co-located with ICWE04). The first three editions were sponsored by CYTED, the Iberoamerican Institution for Science and Technology.

IWWOST has been thought as a place for methodologists, designers, and developers to meet and exchange their experiences in the process of building complex Web applications. Usually, IWWOST attendees work on the same problem from different points of view, those supported by the method or design approach of their choice. In this way, IWWOST participants can compare their own approaches with others’ and discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Most widely known methods (such as WebML, WSDM, OOHDM, OO-H, UWE, WUML, W2000, etc) have been discussed in previous IWWOST editions.

The fifth edition of IWWOST is scheduled to take place on June 13th, 2005, in Porto, Portugal co-located with the 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'05).

Since its first edition, IWWOST has been a forum for methodologists and designers to discuss their own modeling and design approaches and compare them with others. The workshop is organized to allow detailed technical discussions on topics of interest - we stress the “work” part of the workshop.

In order to allow this, we have tried to focus on a common problem or research topic, to allow well-focused discussions. Different from other workshop we do not intend to organize it as a set of papers presentations but rather as continuous discussions in which all presenters are involved and contribute actively.

This year´s edition will focus on different approaches for dealing with issues involved in the construction of context aware applications, and their deployment for example, as mobile Web applications, for distance learning, for “physical hypermedia,” etc. A second related aspect will be the integration of rich interactive interfaces in the design process.

In addition to these topics, a recurrent focus of IWWOST has been the use of various types of formal or semi-formal models as the basis for the design and implementation of Web-based applications.

The discussion of these topics will also be placed in the context of the emerging Semantic Web, and the use of Web Services, as already initiated in the previous edition of the Workshop.

We invite participants to present their approaches for the different aspects of the engineering of applications belonging to the areas above or some domain areas in which these aspects are outstanding. Paper may discuss any of the following indicative issues:

• Context Modeling
• Engineering adaptation to context
• Role-based modeling
• Physical hypermedia
• Ontology driven Web applications
• Interface modeling for rich media Web applications
• Meta-modeling
• MDA for the Web
• Quality Measurement for Web Applications

We strongly suggest that prospective authors focus on concrete examples to explain how their approach copes with some of the previously mentioned issues. We do not require originality or finished work; ongoing work or examples of previously published approaches are welcomed. The goal of the workshop will be to allow presentation or solution proposals with detailed technical discussions.

The expected outcome of the workshop is a set of recommendation for methodologists, designers, and applications developers regarding the technical problems that must be faced together with the solutions discussed during the workshop.

All submissions will be screened by the organizing committee for appropriateness with the workshop themes and format. Authors will be shepherded (in the style of Pattern conference) to improve their presentations for the Workshop.

Workshop proceedings will be published electronically at CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org), and will be available online before the workshop.

Those contributions describing novel work will have special consideration for publication in the Journal of Web Engineering.