Vladimir Tosic - Publications
Vladimir Tosic - Publications
SELECTED PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH
(Reprints of all publications are available upon request by e-mail with "Request for Your Research Publications" in the Subject line.)A) BOOKS OR EDITED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS IN ENGLISH
1. Goeshka, K.M., Dustdar, S., Leymann, F., Tosic, V. (eds.) “Proceedings of the Workshop on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2007”, Proc. of the MW4SOC 2007 workshop held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference – Middleware 2007, Newport Beach, California, USA, November 26, 2007, ACM. Editorial: Goeshka, K.M., Dustdar, S., Leymann, F, Tosic, V. “Editorial Message: Middleware for Service Oriented Computing Workshop 2007”, in Proc. of the Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC) 2007 workshop held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference – Middleware 2007, Newport Beach, California, USA, November 26, 2007, ACM, pp. 4-5. publisher site, PDF2. Tosic, V., Goeshka, K.M., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. (eds.) “Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2007”, Proc. of the MWS 2007 workshop held at EDOC 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, October 16, 2007, IEEE-CS. Editorial: Tosic, V., Goeshka, K.M., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. “Introduction to the Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2007”, in Proc. of the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2007 workshop held at EDOC 2007, Annapolis, Maryland,USA, October 16, 2007, IEEE-CS, pp. 1-4. Also published in Proc. of the 11th IEEE EDOC Conference – EDOC 2007 Workshops, IEEE-CS, pp. 69-72. publisher site, preprint PDF
3. Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. (eds.) “Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2006”, Proc. of the MWS 2006 workshop held at EDOC 2006, Hong Kong, China, October 16, 2006, IEEE-CS. Editorial: Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. “Introduction to the Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2006”, in Proc. of the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2006 workshop held at EDOC 2006, Hong Kong, China, October 16, 2006, IEEE-CS, pp. 1-4. Also published in Proc. of the 10th IEEE EDOC Conference – EDOC 2006 Workshops, IEEE, p. 7. publisher site, preprint PDF
4. Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. (eds.) “Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2005”, Proc. of the MWS 2005 workshop held at EDOC 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 19, 2005, IEEE-CS. Editorial: Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. “Introduction to the Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2005”, in Proc. of the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2005 workshop held at EDOC 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 19, 2005, IEEE-CS, pp. 1-2. preprint site, preprint PDF
B) EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES IN ENGLISH
5. Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. (eds.) “Special Issue on Middleware for Web Services (MWS)”, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), special issue, Vol. 2, No. 3 (July-Sep. 2007), Inderscience. Editorial: Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. “Introduction to the Special Issue on Middleware for Web Services (MWS)”, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), special issue on Middleware for Web Services (MWS), Vol. 2, No. 3 (July-Sep. 2007), Inderscience, pp. 153-155. publisher site, PDFC) PAPERS IN ENGLISH PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS WITH ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW BASED ON THE FULL PAPER
6. Tang, Y., Lutfiyya, H., Tosic, V. “An Analysis of Web Service SLA Management Infrastructures Based on the C-MAPE Model”, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), special issue on Contract Architectures and Languages, Inderscience. Early version of this paper was published in Proc. of CoALa 2005 (Workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages) held at EDOC 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 20, 2005, IEEE-CS.7. Babar, A., Cox, K., Tosic, V., Bleistein, S., Verner, J. “Integrating B-SCP and MAP to Manage the Evolution of Strategic IT Requirements”, Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, Vol. 50, No. 7-8, pp. 815-831.
8. Tosic, V., Erradi, A., Maheshwari P. “On Extending WS-Policy with Specification of XML Web Service Semantics, Monitoring, and Control Driven by Business Value”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, WSEAS Press, Vol. 6, No. 5 (May 2007), 2007, pp. 805-812. This is an extended version of the paper (by the same authors) “On Extending WS-Policy with Specification of XML Web Service Semantics” published in Proc. of the 2007 WSEAS International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications (CEA'07), Gold Coast, Australia, January 17-19, 2007, WSEAS Press, pp. 407-412.
9. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. “Analytical Comparisons of Switching of Web Services and Switching of Service Offerings”, International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) special issue on Web Services, Business Process, and Services Science, Inderscience, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2006, pp. 50-67.
10. Tosic, V., Ma, W., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Lutfiyya, H. “Extending Apache Axis for Monitoring of Web Service Offerings”, International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC), Idea Group, Vol. 2, No. 3 (July-Sept. 2006, special issue on Business Services Networks), 2006, pp. 53-75. The same paper was later selected for re-publication as a book chapter in Becker, S.A. (ed.) “Electronic Commerce: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications”, Information Science Reference (IGI Global), pp. 641-658, 2007. This paper is a significantly extended and updated version of the paper: Ma, W., Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B. “Extending Apache Axis for Monitoring of Web Service Offerings”, in Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSN’05) held at EEE-05, Hong Kong, China, March 29, 2005, pp. 44-51.
11. 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. 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. Early versions of this paper were published as: Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Research Report SCE-03-29 (October 2003), SCE-03-09 (May 2003), and SCE-03-04 (February 2003).
D) INVITED PAPERS AND CONFERENCE KEYNOTE TALKS WITH A FULL PAPER (NOT PEER REVIEWED) IN ENGLISH
12. Tosic, V. “On Modeling and Maximizing Business Value for Autonomic Service-Oriented Systems”, invited paper for Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on QoS in Self-healing Web Services – QSWS-08 at BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, September 1, 2008, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Springer, 2008.E) PAPERS IN ENGLISH PUBLISHED IN BOOK CHAPTERS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW BASED ON THE FULL PAPER
13. Zhu, L., Staples, M., Tosic, V. “On Creating Industry-Wide Reference Architectures”, accepted for publication in Proc. of the 12th IEEE EDOC Conference – EDOC 2008, Munich, Germany, September 15-19, 2008, IEEE.14. Suleiman, B., Tosic, V., Aliev, E. “Non-Functional Property Specifications for WRIGHT ADL”, in Proc. of the IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2008), Sydney, Australia, July 8-11, 2008, IEEE-CS, pp. 766-771.
15. Babar, A., Cox, K., Tosic, V. “Evaluating Three Map and B-SCP Integration Methods for Requirements Evolution Situation”, in Proc. of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008, ACM, pp. 650-655.
16. Babar, A., Tosic, V., Potter, J. “Aligning the Map Requirements Modelling with the B-method for Formal Software Development”, in Proc. of the 14th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2007), Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 3-7, 2007, IEEE-CS, pp. 17-24.
17. Erradi, A., Tosic, V., Maheshwari, P. “WS-Policy based Monitoring of Composite Web Services”, in Proc. of the 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS’07), Halle on Saale, Germany, Nov. 26-28, 2007, IEEE-CS, pp. 99-108.
18. Tosic, V., Suleiman, B., Lutfiyya, H. “UML Profiles for WS-Policy4MASC as Support for Business Value Driven Engineering and Management of Web Services and Their Compositions”, in Proc. of the 11th IEEE EDOC Conference – EDOC 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, October 15-19, 2007, IEEE, pp. 157-168.
19. Babar, A., Cox, K., Tosic, V., Bleistein, S., Verner, J. “Identifying Domain Context for the Intentional Modelling Technique MAP”, in Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications – DEXA 2007 (including First International Workshop on Enterprise Information Systems Engineering – WEISE 2007), Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, IEEE, pp. 835-839.
20. Tosic, V., Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P. “WS-Policy4MASC – A WS-Policy Extension Used in the Manageable and Adaptable Service Compositions (MASC) Middleware”, in Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Services Computing Conference (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, USA, July 9-13, 2007, IEEE, pp. 458-465. Early, longer version of the conference paper published as Technical Report no. UNSW-CSE-TR-0705, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, January 2007.
21. Erradi, A., Tosic, V., Maheshwari, P. “MASC – .NET-Based Middleware for Adaptive Composite Web Services”, in Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), Salt Lake City, USA, July 9-13, 2007, IEEE, pp. 727-734.
22. Taylor, K., Brebner, P., Kearney, M., Zhang, D., Lam, K., Tosic, V. “Towards Declarative Monitoring of Declarative Service Compositions”, in Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2007) published as part of the Proc. of 2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007) Workshops, Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2007, IEEE-CS, pp 315-322.
23. Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P., Tosic, V. “Policy-Driven Middleware for Self-Adaptation of Web Services Compositions”, in Proc. of Middleware 2006, Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4290, Springer, 2006, pp. 62-80. Its updated, but significantly shorter, version (by the same authors) “Policy-Driven Middleware for Manageable and Adaptive Web Services Compositions” was presented as a demo at the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), Brisbane, Australia, September 24-28, 2007.
24. Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P., Tosic, V. “A Policy-based Middleware for Enhancing Web Services Reliability using Recovery Policies”, in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), Chicago, USA, September 18-22, 2006, IEEE, pp. 189-196.
25. 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.
26. 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. This is a significantly extended and updated version of the paper: Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H., Tang, Y. “A Management Infrastructure for Mobile/Embedded XML Web Services”, in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), Vancouver, Canada, April 3-7, 2006, IEEE, pp. 11-18. Early version of the NOMS 2006 paper was published as Technical Report #648, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, 2005.
27. 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. Early version in Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Mobility, Agents, and Mobile Services (MAMS’05) held at EEE-05, Hong Kong, China, March 29, 2005, pp. 45-52.
28. Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H., Tang, Y., Sherdil, K., Dimitrijevic, A. “On Requirements for Management of Mobile/Embedded XML Web Services and a Corresponding Management System”, in Proc. of TELSIKS '05 (The 7th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable, and Broadcasting Services), Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Sept. 2005, IEEE, Vol. 1, pp. 57-60. An early version presented at the IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC) 2005 held at IM 2005, Nice, France, May 15, 2005.
29. Esfandiari, B., Tosic, V. “Towards a System for Web Service Composition Management”, in Proc. of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005), Orlando, USA, July 11-15, 2005, IEEE, pp. 419-426. This is a significantly extended and updated version of the paper: Esfandiari, B., Tosic, V. “Requirements for Web Service Composition Management”, in Proc. of the 11th Hewlett-Packard Open View University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, Paris, France, June 21-23, 2004.
30. 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. Early, longer, version published as: Technical Report #635, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, October 2004.
31. 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. A version of this paper was published as Research Report SCE-03-19, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2003. The final NOMS 2004 version is shorter than this research report, but it also contains some updates and additions requested by referees.
32. Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. “Reusability Constructs in the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL)”, in Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web - Proc. of the Second International Workshop, WES 2003 (Revised Selected Papers), Bussler, C. et al. (eds.), workshop held at CAiSE’03, Velden, Austria, June 2003, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 3095, pp. 105-119, 2003. A significantly extended version of this paper was published as: Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. “Reusability Constructs in the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) [Second Extended Revision]”. Research Report SCE-03-21, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, September 2003. Early versions of this paper were published as Research Report SCE-03-14 (May 2003) and Research Report SCE-03-08 (April 2003).
33. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. “WSOL – A Language for the Formal Specification of Classes of Service for Web Services”, in Proc. of ICWS'03 (The 2003 International Conference on Web Services), Las Vegas, USA, June 23-26, 2003, CSREA Press, pp. 375-381. This paper was one of the best ICSW'03 papers. An early version of this paper was published as Research Report SCE-03-05, The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, February 2003.
34. 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. 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.
35. Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. “WSOL - Web Service Offerings Language”, in Proc. of the Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web - WES (at CAiSE’02), Bussler, C. et al. (eds.), Toronto, Canada, May 2002, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2512, pp. 57-67. An early version of this paper was published in preliminary workshop proceedings.
36. Tosic, V., Esfandiari, B., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. “On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services”, in Proc. of the Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web - WES (at CAiSE’02), Bussler, C. et al. (eds.), Toronto, Canada, May 2002, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 2512, pp.237-247. An early version of this paper was published in preliminary workshop proceedings.
37. Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. “On Dynamic Service Composition and Its Applicability to E-Business Software Systems - The ICARIS Experience”, in Corchuelo et al. (eds.) Advances in Business Solutions, Catedral Publicaciones (Salamanca, Spain), pp. 93-104, 2002. This is an extended and improved version of: Tosic, V., Mennie, D., Pagurek, B. “On Dynamic Service Composition and Its Applicability to E-Business Software Systems”, in Proc. of the WOOBS'01 (Workshop on Object-Oriented Business Solutions) workshop (at ECOOP 2001), Budapest, Hungary, June 18, 2001, pp. 95-108.
F) PAPERS IN ENGLISH PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW BASED ON AN EXTENDED ABSTRACT OR A SHORT PAPER
38. Tosic, V., Liu, Y.(J.), Zhu, L. “On Combining WS-Policy4MASC and ASF to Support Business-Driven Autonomic Service-Oriented Computing”, accepted for publication in Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on QoS in Self-healing Web Services – QSWS-08 at BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Springer, 2008. An early, longer version of this paper was: Tosic, V., Liu, Y.(J.), Zhu, L. “Towards Business Driven Autonomic Service-Oriented Computing”, selected for presentation at the CASCON 2007 workshop Fourth International Workshop on Engineering Autonomic Software Systems – EASS 2007, Markham, Canada, October 2007, abstract published on-line.39. Babar, A., Zowghi, D., Cox, K., Tosic, V., Bleistein, S., Verner, J. “Problem Frames and Business Strategy Modelling”, in Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Applications and Advances in Problem Frames (IWAAPF’08) at ICSSE 2008, Leipzig, Germany, May 10, 2008, ACM, pp. 48-51.
40. Yew, C.H., Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H. “On Integrating Trust into Business-Driven Management of Web Services and Their Compositions”, in Proc. of the Third IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-Driven IT Management (BDIM 2008), Salvador, Brazil, April 7, 2008, IEEE, pp. 102-105.
41. Tosic, V., Suleiman, B., Babar, A. “Specification of Business Value with and in Software Patterns”, in Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Software Patterns and Quality (SPAQu'07) at APSEC'07, Nagoya, Japan, December 3, 2007, Information Processing Society of Japan, pp. 49-50.
42. Suleiman, B., Aliev, E., Tosic, V. “Time-Quality Metric Model for Quality Measurement of Web-Based Systems”, poster presentation with abstract in Proc. of the 14th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2007), Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 3-7, 2007, IEEE-CS, p. 566.
43. Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H. “Integrating Business-Driven IT Management (BDIM) with Value-Based Software Engineering (VBSE)”, in Proc. of the Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-Driven IT Management (BDIM 2007), Munich, Germany, May 21, 2007, IEEE, pp. 97-98.
44. Castaldo, R.J., McKay, M.A., Tosic, V. “Exposing GNU Octave Signal Processing Functions As Extensible Markup Language (XML) Web Services”, in Proc. of the 2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE/CCGEI 2006), Ottawa, Canada, May 7-10, 2006, IEEE, pp. 1442-1445.
45. Tosic, V., Ma, W., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. “On the Dynamic Manipulation of Classes of Service for XML Web Services”, in Proc. of the 10th Hewlett-Packard Open View University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, July 6-9, 2003. A version of this paper was published as Research Report SCE-03-15, The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 2003.
46. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B., Patel, K. “Management of Compositions of E- and M-Business Web Services with Multiple Classes of Service”, in Proc. of NOMS (IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2002, Florence, Italy, April 15-19, 2002, IEEE, pp. 935-937.
47. 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.
48. Rancic, D., Djordjevic-Kajan, S., Stoimenov, L., Tosic, V. “Some Applications of the Multimedia Geographical Information Systems”, Information and Communications Technologies in Tourism 1997, A. Min Tjoa (ed.), (Proc. of the 4th International Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, January 22-24, 1997), Springer, pp. 327-335.
G) CONFERENCE TUTORIALS IN ENGLISH – SELECTED AND PRESENTED AFTER SOME REVIEW, BUT NOT FULL FORMAL ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW
49. Tosic, V., Bartolini, C., Hung, P.C.K. “Management of Service-Oriented Implementations of Business Processes: From Quality of Service to Business Value”, tutorial accepted at the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, September 1-4, 2008), under preparation.50. Tosic, V., Hung, P.C.K. “XML Web Services: Standards, Tools, and Ongoing Work towards Comprehensive Contractual Description”, 4 hour beginner-level tutorial presented at the 2007 WSEAS International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications (CEA'07, Gold Coast, Australia, January 17-19, 2007).
51. Tosic, V., Hung, P.C.K. “Contract-Based QoS Monitoring and Control of XML Web Services”, 3 hour intermediate-level tutorial presented at the Joint 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and 3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2006, San Francisco, USA, June 26-29, 2006).
52. Tosic, V., Hung, P.C.K. “Quality of Service (QoS) Specification and Management for XML Web Services”, 3.5 hour intermediate-level tutorial presented at the 2005 IEEE Joint International Conference on Web Services / Services Computing Conference (ICWS/SCC 2005, Orlando, USA, July 11-15, 2005).
53. Tosic, V., Hung, P.C.K. “Comprehensive Description and Management of XML Web Services”, 2.5 hour beginner-level tutorial presented at the IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services (WTAS 2005, Calgary, Canada, July 4-6, 2005).
H) PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH – SELECTED AND PUBLISHED AFTER SOME REVIEW, BUT NOT FULL FORMAL ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW
54. Tosic, V., Kannengiesser, U. “Improving Business Processes in the Australian Lending Industry”, industrial presentation at the 12th IEEE EDOC Conference – EDOC 2007, Munich, Germany, September 15-19, 2008. Abstract published on-line.55. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K., Esfandiari, B., Ma, W. “The Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) and the Web Service Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI)”, invited presentation at the CASCON 2003 workshop Policy and Service Level Agreements: Their Role in Automated Management in Systems, Markham, Canada, October 2003. Abstract published on-line.
56. Patel, K., Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. “XML Grammar and Parser for WSOL”, presentation at the CITO (Communications and Information Technology Ontario) Knowledge Network Conference 2002, Ottawa, Canada, October 2002. Abstract published in conference proceedings by CITO.
57. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B., Patel, K., Ma, W. “Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) and Web Service Composition Management (WSCM)”, position paper at the Workshop on Object-Oriented Web Services - OOWS (at OOPSLA 2002), Seattle, USA, November 2002. Paper published in on-line workshop proceedings. Also published as: Technical Report OCIECE-02-05, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering - OCIECE, September 2002.
58. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B., Patel, K. “On the Management of Compositions of Web Services”, position paper at the Workshop on Object-Oriented Web Services - OOWS (at OOPSLA 2001), Tampa, USA, October 2001. Paper published in on-line workshop proceedings. Also published as: Technical Report OCIECE-01-10, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering - OCIECE, October 2001.
59. Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. “E-Business Service Components with Multiple Classes of Service and Dynamic Adaptability Mechanisms”, presentation at the CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2001, Ottawa, Canada, October 2001. Abstract published in conference proceedings by CITO.
60. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. “A New Approach to Information Modeling for Manageable Component-Based, Active, and Autonomous Service Provisioning”, presentation at the CITO Knowledge Network Conference 2000, Nepean (Ottawa), Canada, October 2000. Abstract published in conference proceedings by CITO. This presentation won the CITO Knowledge Network Student Presenter Award.
I) ADDITIONAL UNREFEREED EDITORIAL-TYPE PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
61. Tosic, V., van Moorsel, A., Wong, R. “Quality of Service (QoS) Middleware for Web Services: Achieved Results and Challenges for the Future – Middleware for Web Services (MWS) Panel”, in Proc. of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2005 workshop held at EDOC 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 19, 2005, IEEE-CS, pp. 65-67.J) THESES IN ENGLISH
62. 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 2004.63. Tosic, V. “On Object-Oriented Information Specification in Network and System Management” (in English, also translated into Serbian), M.Sc. thesis, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, November 1998.
K) SELECTED UNREFEREED RESEARCH REPORTS IN ENGLISH
64. Tosic, V., Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P. “WS-Policy4MASC Version 0.8”, Technical Report no. UNSW-CSE-TR-0702, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, January 2007.65. 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.
66. Tosic, V., Lutfiyya, H., Tang, Y. “Major Requirements for a System for Comprehensive Management of XML Web Services”, Technical Report #644, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada, April 2005.
67. Tosic, V. “On the Algorithms and Protocols for Manipulation of Service Offerings”, Research Report SCE-04-12, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2004.
68. Tosic, V. “WSOL Version 1.2”, Research Report SCE-04-11, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 2004.
69. Tosic, V. “WSOL versus Related Work”, Research Report SCE-04-07, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 2004.
70. Tosic, V. “Overview of Some Industrial Products for Web Service Management (WSM) and Web Service Composition Management (WSCM)”, Research Report SCE-04-06, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 2004.
71. Tosic, V. “Extending the Design by Contract Software Engineering Approach with Differentiated Contracts”, Research Report SCE-04-05, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 2004.
72. Patel, K., Pagurek, B., Tosic, V. “Improvements in WSOL Grammar and ‘Premier’ WSOL Parser”, Research Report SCE-03-25, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, October 2003.
73. Tosic, V. “The Position of the Web Service Offerings Infrastructure (WSOI)”, Research Report SCE-03-09, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 2003.
74. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Patel, K. “WSOL – A Language for the Formal Specification of Various Constraints and Classes of Service for Web Services”, Technical Report OCIECE-02-06, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering - OCIECE, November 2002.
75. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B., Patel, K. “On Various Approaches to Dynamic Adaptation of Distributed Component Compositions”, Technical Report OCIECE-02-02, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE), June 2002.
76. Tosic, V. “Dynamic Adaptation of Service Compositions Using Service Offerings”, Ph.D. thesis proposal, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, January 2002.
77. Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. “E-Commerce Service Components with Multiple Classes of Service and Dynamic Adaptability Mechanisms”, Technical Report OCIECE-01-09, Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE), May 2001.
L) SELECTED UNREFEREED PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS IN ENGLISH
78. Tosic, V. “Business Value Driven Engineering and Management of Web Services and Their Compositions”, seminar, October 2007 – May 2008 (at several different venues).79. Tosic, V. “Impact of Various Execution Environments on Middleware for Web Services”, introductory presentation at the discussion session held at the Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2007 workshop at EDOC 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, October 16, 2006.
80. Tosic, V. “Web Services and LIXI: A Primer”, tutorial presented at the LIXI (Lending Industry XML Initiative) Workshop, Sydney, Australia, August 2007.
81. Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P, Tosic, V. “Policy-Driven Middleware for Self-Adaptation of Web Services Compositions”, seminar, October 2006 – December 2006 (at several different venues).
82. Tosic, V. “Using the Web Service Offerings Language and Infrastructure (WSOL/WSOI) for Management of XML Web Services”, seminar, March 2005 – August 2006 (at several different venues).
83. Tosic, V. “The Specification, Monitoring, and Management of Classes of Service for XML Web Services”, seminar, December 2003 – May 2004 (at several different venues).
84. Patel, K., Tosic, V., Pagurek, B. “Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL): Characteristics, Applications, and Tools”, presented at the Ottawa IEEE Computer Society Seminar Series, Ottawa, Canada, July 2003.
85. Tosic, V., Patel, B., Pagurek, B. “Characteristics of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL)”, presented at the Network Management and Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, November 2002.
86. Tosic, V., Patel, B., Pagurek, B., Esfandiari, B. “Dynamic Adaptation of Service Compositions Using Service Offerings”, presented at the Network Management and Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, February 2002.
87. Tosic, V. “Some Research Issues in Network and System Management, Dynamic Service Composition, and Service Components” (in English, summary in Serbian and English), presented at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering Seminar Series, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, June 2001.
SELECTED PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED PAPERS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Continues the above list of publications in English. Does not include numerous unrefereed publications and presentations. Reprints of all publications are available upon request by e-mail with "Request for Your Research Publications" in the Subject line.)M) EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES IN SERBIAN
88. Tosic, V. (ed.) “Naucni Podmladak”, Vol. 27, No. 1-4, University of Nis, 1995.N) PAPERS IN SERBIAN PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL OR NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW BASED ON THE FULL PAPER
89. Dimitrijevic, A., Stoimenov, L., Tosic, V. “A Proposal for Principles for Developing Client/Server GIS Web Applications in Java” (in Serbian), in Proc. of YUINFO '99, Kopaonik, Serbia, Yugoslavia, March 1999.90. Tosic, V., Rancic, D., Dimitrijevic, A. “Analysis of the Programming Language Support for Agent Programming” (in Serbian), in Proc. of the 3rd Conference Information Technologies - Present and Future 1998, Jaukovic, N. D., Stankovic, S. S., Turajlic, S. R. (eds.), Zabljak, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, March 1998, pp. 12-15.
91. Petkovic, M., Mitrovic, D., Tosic, V. “Hierarchy of Graphical Classes in the GeoTT System” (in Serbian), in Proc. of ETRAN '96, Budva, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, June 1996.
92. Volcansek, B., Tosic, V. “Object-oriented Implementation of the Visual System for Work with Decision Diagrams” (in Serbian), in Proc. of YUINFO '96, Brezovica, Serbia, Yugoslavia, April 1996.
93. Tosic, V., Volcansek, B. “VENEM - A Program for Becoming Acquainted with Artificial Neural Networks” (in Serbian), in Proc. of YUINFO '96, Brezovica, Serbia, Yugoslavia, April 1996.
O) PAPERS IN SERBIAN PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL OR NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW BASED ON AN EXTENDED ABSTRACT OR A SHORT PAPER
94. Tosic, V., Petkovic, M. “Some Comparisons of Graphical Support in Smalltalk-80 and Microsoft Visual C++ Programming Languages” (in Serbian), in Proc. of SINFON '96, Zlatibor, Serbia, Yugoslavia, November 1996.95. Petkovic, M., Tosic, V. “Data Sources for Geographical Information Systems” (in Serbian), in Proc. of SINFON '96, Zlatibor, Serbia, Yugoslavia, November 1996.
96. Tosic, V., Volcansek, B. “Object-oriented Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks” (in Serbian), in Proc. of SINFON '95, Zlatibor, Serbia, Yugoslavia, November 1995.
97. Volcansek, B., Tosic, V. “Visual Environment for Work with Binary Decision Diagrams” (in Serbian), in Proc. of SINFON '95, Zlatibor, Serbia, Yugoslavia, November 1995.
P) PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS IN SERBIAN – SELECTED AND PUBLISHED AFTER SOME REVIEW, BUT NOT FULL FORMAL ANONYMOUS PEER REVIEW
98. Tosic, V. “Object-Oriented Software Engineering” (in Serbian), ELEF, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 25, No. 6, 1996, pp. 19-21.99. Tosic, V., Volcansek, B. “Artificial Neural Nets and Pattern Recognition” (in Serbian), Naucni podmladak, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 27, No. 1-4, 1995, pp. 63-71.
100. Volcansek, B., Tosic, V. “ISDN, B-ISDN” (in Serbian), in Proc. of SUSEJ '95, Budva, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, May 1995.
101. Tosic,V., Volcansek, B. “A Program for Work with Various Kinds of Artificial Neural Nets” (in Serbian), in Proc. of SUSEJ '95, Budva, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, May 1995.
102. Tosic, V. “Artificial Intelligence?” (in Serbian), ELEF, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 35, No. 4-5, 1995, pp. 45-47.
103. Tosic, V. “Multimedia Information Technologies” (in Serbian), ELEF, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 34, No. 2-3, 1995, pp. 19-20.
104. Tosic, V. “Building Expert Systems” (in Serbian), Naucni podmaladak, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 1991, pp. 85-90.
105. Tosic, V. “Characteristics of Expert Systems” (in Serbian), Naucni podmaladak, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 1991, pp. 79-83.
106. Tosic, V. “The Concept of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence” (in Serbian), Info, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1993, pp. 22-27.
107. Tosic, V. “Fields of Artificial Intelligence Research” (in Serbian), Praksa, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Vol. 26, No. 4, April 1991, pp. 7 -11.