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Vladimir Tosic - Publication Highlights

Vladimir Tosic - Publication Highlights




This Web page highlights some publications that I (Vladimir Tosic) would like to bring to the attention of the visitors of this Web site. There can be various reasons why a particular publication is included on this Web page: novelty of the ideas, quality of the research, comprehensiveness of the paper (e.g., compared to some earlier publications on the same topic), or even controversy of the ideas. While many of my publications are widely referenced (in late 2011 my h-index was 17 and my g-index was 31), I feel that some good publications have missed the public attention they deserve. The fact that many of my publications are not listed here does not mean that they are not important or that they are of lower quality - I believe that they are also very good and important. However, it would not be a proper "highlights" Web page if I included too many publications. The publications listed on this Web page are organized by the topic they discuss.

Note that the PDF file Vladimir Tosic - Full Curriculum Vitae lists almost all recent and most of the old publications (co-)authored by me. Additionally, publications in English that were peer-reviewed or have particular importance are listed on Web pages Vladimir Tosic - Selected Peer-Reviewed Papers, Vladimir Tosic - Invited Papers and Keynotes, Vladimir Tosic - Tutorials, Vladimir Tosic - Edited Volumes, Vladimir Tosic - Additional Publications. Reprints of all publications are available upon request by e-mail with "Request for Your Research Publications" in the Subject line.

For up-to-date information about my recent publications, please search the NICTA Publications Database using my family name as the search term.


SOFTWARE PATENTS AND PATENT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE


THE MAIN PAPERS ON BUSINESS-DRIVEN MANAGEMENT OF SERVICE-ORIENTED AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS (USING WS-POLICY4MASC AND MINIZNMASC)

General overview:

MiniZnMASC (previously called: MiniMASC+MiniZinc) middleware and earlier MiniMASC and MASC middleware:
WS-Policy4MASC language (for a recent summary of WS-Policy4MASC, see the above "General overview" papers):

UML profiles for WS-Policy4MASC:

THE MAIN PAPERS ON CONTRACT-BASED QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT OF SERVICE-ORIENTED AND CLOUD SYSTEMS (USING THE WEB SERVICE OFFERINGS LANGUAGE - WSOL AND THE WEB SERVICE OFFERINGS INFRASTRUCTURE - WSOI)

  • Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. "Management Applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL)", Information Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 7 (Nov. 2005, special issue with the best CAiSE'03 papers), pp. 564-586. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF), preprint PDF. An early version of this paper was published in Proc. of CAiSE'03 (The 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering), Velden, Austria, June 16-20, 2003, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2681, pp. 468-484. This paper was one of the best CAiSE'03 papers, so its revised version has been invited for journal publication. The journal version contains significant extensions and updates. 
  • Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H., Tang, Y. "Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) Support for Context Management of Mobile/Embedded Web Services", in Proc. of the International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'06), Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, February 23-25, 2006, IEEE-CS. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF), preprint PDF 
  • Tosic, V., Ma, W., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. "Web Services Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI) - A Management Infrastructure for XML Web Services", in Proc. of NOMS (IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2004, Seoul, South Korea, April 19-23, 2004, IEEE, 2004, pp. 817-830. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF), preprint PDF 
  • Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H., Tang, Y. "Extending Web Service Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI) for Management of Mobile/Embedded XML Web Services", in Joint Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2006), 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Wireless Services (WMCS 2006), 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks and 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations (BSN '06 - SoS4CO '06), San Francisco, USA, June 26-29, 2006, IEEE, pp. 571-578. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF), preprint PDF
  • Tosic, V. “Service Offerings for XML Web Services and Their Management Applications”, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2004. full text (PDF)

VARIOUS PAPERS RELATED TO THE MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (PARTICULARLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS)

  • Tosic, V. "The 5 C Challenges of Business-Driven IT Management and the 5 A Approaches to Addressing Them", in Proc. of the 1st IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Business Driven IT Management (BDIM 2006) held at NOMS 2006, Vancouver, Canada, April 7, 2006, IEEE, pp. 11-18. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF)
  • Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. "On Comprehensive Contractual Descriptions of Web Services", in Proc. of EEE-05 (The 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce, and e-Service), Hong Kong, China, March 29 - April 1, 2005, IEEE, pp. 444-449. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF)
  • Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. "Software Configuration Management Related to the Management of Distributed Systems and Service Oriented Architectures", in Westfechtel, B., van der Hoek, A. (eds.) Software Configuration Management, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2649, pp. 54-69, 2003. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF) This is a significantly extended and updated version of the paper: Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. "Software Configuration Management Related to Management of Distributed Systems and Services and Advanced Service Creation", in Proc. of the SCM-10 (The Tenth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management) workshop (at ICSE 2001), Toronto, Canada, May 2001. This paper was one of the best SCM-10 papers, so its extended and updated version was published in LNCS 2649, together with the other best SCM-10 and SCM-11 papers.
  • Tosic, V., Djordjevic-Kajan, S. "The Common Information Model (CIM) Standard - An Analysis of Features and Open Issues", in Proc. of TELSIKS '99 (The 4th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable, and Broadcasting Services), Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Oct. 1999, IEEE, Vol. 2, pp. 677-680. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF), preprint PDF
  • Tosic, V. “On Object-Oriented Information Specification in Network and System Management” (in English, also translated into Serbian), Mag.Sc. thesis, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, November 1998. full text (PDF)

SOME DEBATABLE (CONTROVERSIAL) OPINIONS

I believe that scientific progress requires critical re-examination and discussion of the achieved results and ideas, as well as assumptions that various authors have adopted. Based on my 25-years of experience in software engineering (I started as a "hacker" in primary school by learning assembly language for a now obsolete computer system), I no longer believe in computing "hypes" (I experienced many of them, sometimes ending in a significant disappointment). I do not believe in "silver bullets" and I try to apply critical evaluation (looking at both strengths and weaknesses) both to my work and the work of the other authors. From time to time, this leads to opinions that are different from the opinions of many members of the scientific community. I think that this is OK. I have heard and read the arguments of the authors who disagree with me, but they have not convinced me. While some people in the scientific community agree with my arguments, not everyone does. I understand that it is impossible to get everyone to agree with me. I even think that this would be undesirable. However, it is desirable that there is a healthy and respectful debate instead of the "group think". Therefore, I will try to sharpen my arguments in the future. My papers/presentations in the following list have not yet been published after formal anonymous peer review, although I would like them to be brought to the attention of the broader scientific community (thus, I post them here). If you have (supporting and/or opposing) comments related to these opinions, please e-mail me with the name of the topic (e.g., "Re: Service Science Is NOT Needed") in the Subject line.
  • Tosic, V. "Formalization of a Software Systems Research Methodology that Uses Prototypes for Evaluation", several seminars (with some differences/updates and somewhat different names, but using the same talk design), held at: NICTA (Sydney, Australia), University of Nis (Nis, Serbia), February 2011 – June 2011. NICTA Publications Database entry (abstract & PDF slides 6 per page)
  • Tosic, V. "Evaluation – The Crucial Part of Research (and Your Ph.D. Dissertation, too)", seminar at NICTA (Sydney, Australia), September 2009. This is improved version of the lecture (with the same name) within the graduate course GSOE9400 "Engineering Postgraduate Research Essentials", University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2009. NICTA Publications Database entry (abstract & improved PDF slides 6 per page)
  • Tosic, V. “Three Common Mistakes in Modeling and Analysis of QoS of Service Oriented Systems”, introductory presentation at the discussion session held at the 1st International Workshop on Quality-of-Service Concerns in Service Oriented Architectures – QoSCSOA’08 at ICSOC 2008, Sydney, Australia, December 1, 2008. Abstract to be published in formal workshop proceedings. Abstract and slides published on-line. publisher website (abstract & link to the official PDF), NICTA Publications Database entry (abstract & PDF slides 6 per page), preprint of the abstract (PDF), workshop Web site
  • Tosic, V. “Service Science Is NOT Needed”, position presentation slides distributed to participants at the Workshop on Service Science, Technologies, and Architectures, Sydney, Australia, May 2008. slides (PDF, 6 per page)
  • Tosic, V. “Is Self-Management a Right Buzzword for Modern Management Challenges?”, Technical Report #647, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2005. technical report (PDF)