Preface - 1st Web Services Quality Workshop (WQW 2003)

This volume includes the papers accepted for the 1st International Web Services Quality Workshop (WQW 2003), which was held in Rome, Italy, on 13 December 2003. This workshop aims to promote all the areas related to the quality of the Web services by providing researchers an opportunity to share and discuss their work. Submissions were invited, but not limited, to the following topics: Definition, Automation and Validation of Web Services Quality Metrics, Web Services Modelling, UDDI Enhancements, Instrumentation of Web Services for QoS, Agent-Based Web Service Architecture as a Means of Providing QoS Attributes, QoS Models, Computation of Web Processes QoS Based on Web Services QoS, and Semantic Description of Web Services QoS. All the papers received were reviewed by three Program Committee members. Finally, only the 60% of the papers were selected for presentation. After the workshop, all the papers were reviewed and improved, based on the recommendations and comments received by the authors during the workshop. The revised papers appear in this volume.