To be held in conjunction with the

Sixth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005)

Background

The first edition of the Web Services Quality Workshop (WQW 2003) was held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2003) in December 2003 in Roma, Italy. The workshop was organised by Oscar Diaz (University of the Basque Country, Spain), Coral Calero (Univeristy of Castille-La Manch, Spain) and Mario Piattini (Univeristy of Castille-La Manch, Spain). The workshop had eight accepted full papers (with an acceptance rate of 60%) and one invited keynote. The paper presentations and discussions were very focussed and generated tremendous interest. The workshop post-proceedings were published by IEEE CS Press.

In 2004, the second edition of WQW was proposed by Shonali Krishnaswamy (Monash Univesity), Seng Loke (Monash University) and Amit Sharma (Infosys Technologies) along with the first edition of the FIPWIS workshop was proposed by Roland Kaschek (Massey University), Bernhard Thalheim (CA University, Kiel), and Kinshuk (Massey University). The response to the call for papers of WQW 2004 and FIPWIS 2004 was not so numerous as to justify running both workshops as separate events on one day duration base. Furthermore, given the holistic perspective that needs to be taken when dealing with quality of web information systems, it became evident that the two workshops could meaningfully be integrated. In this context WIS 2004 was conducted successfully as a whole day workshop with nine full papers and one invited keynote. The workshop proceedings were published by Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

WISQ 2005 aims to continue this series with its focus as the quality aspects of web information systems.

Aims and Scope

The number of web-based applications has grown phenomenally. This in turn has triggered specific research and development focusing on Web information systems (WIS), i.e., information systems (IS) that heavily rely on using (a part of) the Web as a resource. Also recently new paradigms have evolved such as web services. The heavy utilization of the resource Web and the openness of WIS implies that users of WIS tend to be much less well known at system development time than users of traditional, i.e., non-Web IS are. The way functionality can be accessed by users, i.e., quality of applications becomes more important as well.

From a users' perspective quality can be defined as the suitability for intended or practical use. However, this notion of suitability is subjective and cannot be applied easily at a system under study. A number of quality aspects have been defined, already for non-WIS, for simplifying quality related investigations of information systems. Specific expectations of users regarding WIS justify a fresh look on the quality of WIS. New technologies such as Web services seem to suggest that WIS quality should be considered from a different angle or with different concepts, methods and tools than information systems in general.

This workshop will provide a forum discussion and dissemination of research from a holistic and comprehensive perspective on quality of web information systems including web services. This workshop aims to promote all the areas related to the quality of the web information systems. The topics for which submissions are solicited include (but are not limited to