Call for Papers

Who?: Web researchers and engineers working on API servers and clients.
What?: A full-day workshop on current and future challenges for Web APIs and their interaction.
Why?: Web APIs are more important than ever, yet many unsolved problems demand our attention.
When?: Full-day workshop on May 18, 2015 – paper submissions before January 31, 2015.
Where?: At the WWW2015 conference in Florence, Italy.

Scope

Thousands of APIs exist and their number is growing tremendously, while use cases become increasingly complex. In contrast to the human-oriented part of the Web, Web APIs are designed to be used by machines. This makes issues surrounding their design and integration significantly different from those of the traditional Web. However, this also enables the provisioning of new added-value automated solutions on the Web.

This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners by providing an open discussion forum around the design and use of the programmable Web. It is the principal venue for discussing latests findings and research and development results around the issues, practices, and best principles surrounding Web API design and use.

Pressing Topics

We especially welcome research and engineering work in the following areas:

development of intelligent and generic Web API clients
dynamic combination of and interactions between Web APIs
novel hypermedia-driven solutions
tackling the tremendous growth and heterogeneity of APIs
analysis and understanding of the social and economic factors surrounding the development, use, and adoption of Web APIs and mashups
novel solutions for the automated discovery and profiling of Web APIs
novel technologies for facilitating the development of mashups and services for the Web of Things
lessons learned from the deployment, maintenance and evolution of Web APIs and mashups

All Topics

In addition to the topics above, this workshop is also open to:

applications of the REST architectural style to novel domains
design patterns and anti-patterns for Web APIs
automated Web API composition
inverted REST (REST for push events)
integration of pub/sub with REST
REST-compliant transaction models
frameworks for Web API implementation and consumption
modeling Web APIs
resource design and granularity
evolution, versioning, and extension of Web APIs
REST-protocols beyond HTTP

Details and Dates

We welcome full papers (6 pages) and vision/demo/poster/breaking research papers (3 pages). For your paper to be included in the official WWW companion proceedings, the ACM template is required.
Accepted publications in other formats, such as HTML or EPUB, will be published on the workshop’s website.

Submission: ~~31 January 2015~~
Notification: ~~22 February 2015~~
Workshop: ~~18 May 2015~~