W3C Workshop on Authoring

Welcome to Dublin and the Alexander hotel

Thanks to MobileAware and the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland
Thanks to The Programme Committee:
- Stéphane Boyera (W3C/ERCIM)
- Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware)
- Kazuhiro Kitagawa (Keio University)
- Rhys Lewis (Volantis Systems)
- Fabio Paternò (ISTI - CNR)
- Dave Raggett (W3C/Volantis Systems)
- Thomas Roessler (W3C/ERCIM)
- Kevin Smith (Vodafone)
- Jean Vanderdonckt (Université catholique de Louvain)
- Petri Vurimaa (Helsinki University of Technology)
- Charles Wiecha (IBM)

Declarative Models of Web Applications

Capturing intentions as a means to reduce costs and improve quality
- How to enable developers to focus on applications and end user experience, leaving the details for how this is to be realised to tools that deal with the capabilities and shortcomings of each device?
- Why this matters in a world where the range of devices is rapidly expanding
Potential discussion topics
- Architectures for device and modality independent representations
- Policies for describing presentation and behaviour as appropriate to user preferences, device capabilities and shortcomings
- What it means to evolve beyond today's client-server models to distributed models of Web agents?
- How we can exploit existing work, and what remains to be done?
- Use cases for exploring security and usability issues
- The role of the Semantic Web for describing capabilities and access control rules

Presentations will be 30 minutes long including time for questions. It is up to speakers to choose whether to take questions during their presentation or to leave them to afterwards.
Please copy your presentation onto the USB memory stick or if you can't do that email it to me: dsr@w3.org
A workshop report, with a record of the discussions, presentations and position papers will be made public.
We need volunteers for minute taking!
We will collect discussion topics as we go, starting with the topics collected from the registration forms

0900: Introduction and scene setting by the host (Rotan Hanrahan) and workshop chairs (Dave Raggett W3C/Volantis and Kevin Smith, Vodafone)
0930: Round table introductions
0945: Why declarative approaches matter by Steven Pemberton, W3C
1015: Migrating Web Applications through Declarative Models by Fabio Paternò, HIIS Laboratory, ISTI
1045: Refreshment break (15 mins)
1100: Declarative techniques in Distributed Media Center system by Jari Kleimola and Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology
1130: Using declarative models for multi-device smart space environments by Sailesh Sathish, Nokia Research
1200: Connecting XForms to Databases by Oskari Koskimies, Mikko Honkala, Nokia Research Center and Markku Laine, Helsinki University of Technology
1230: Lunch break (1 hour)

1330: XML-based solutions for declarative authoring by Hideki Hiura, Justsystems
1400: Compositional Business-Task Organization by Koiti Hasida, Noriaki Izumi and Akira Mori, ITRI, AIST
1430: The role of Web Services as a means for browsers to provide services by Lasse Pajunen, Nokia Research
1500: Collage: A Declarative Programming Model for Compositional Development and Evolution of Cross-Organizational Applications by Bruce Lucas and Charlie Wiecha, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
1530: Refreshment break and a chance to collect ideas (30 mins)
1600: Discussion period (90 mins)
1730: 1st day ends
1930: Dinner at nearby restaurant Break For The Border, which is within an easy walking distance.

0900: Recap of yesterday's proceedings (Dave/Kevin)
0915: From conditional markup to modeling intentions by Rotan Hanrahan, MobileAware
0945: Content and Application Adaptation by Rhys Lewis, Volantis Systems
1015: Improving UI portability by Joerg Heuer, Siemens
1045: Refreshment break (15 mins)
1100: Declarative Models for Ubiquitous Web Applications Morfeo-MyMobileWeb by José Manuel Cantera Fonseca, Ignacio Marín Prendes, Javier Soriano, and Juan J. Hierro
1130: The PUCC Protocol and Service Descriptor Metadata, Giles Payne, NTT DoCoMo
1200: Evolution approaches and emerging techologies by Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software
1230: Lunch break (1 hour)

1330: Analyses of usability considerations for providing secure access to device capabilities and personal/confidential information by Joshue O Connor, CFIT
1400: Discussion period (90 mins)
1530: Refreshment break (30 mins)
1600: Discussion period (60 mins)
1700: Summing up and recommendations
1730: Close of Workshop