CFP: YR-SOC 2007

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                         Call for Papers
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                           YR-SOC 2007

               2nd European Young Researchers Workshop on
                     Service Oriented Computing

			        May 3-4, 2007

                      University of Leicester,
                           Leicester, UK

            http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/yrsoc2007/

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Introduction:

Following the success of the first workshop in 2005, the University of 
Leicester is pleased to host the 2nd European Young Researchers 
Workshop on Service Oriented Computing (co-organised with De Montfort 
University). This 2-day workshop is designed to bring together PhD 
students, young researchers working in the industry and those who 
completed their doctoral studies within the past few years. Attendance 
at the workshop is open to all. The aim of the workshop is to build a 
reputable and respectable forum for young researchers with inputs from 
industry practitioners. The core objectives are to exchange information 
regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of SOC, as 
well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future 
trends in this domain. 


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Keynote Speakers:

Steve Ross-Talbot (Pi4tech, UK)
Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

(we are also awaiting confirmation from two internationally 
recognised speakers)


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Scope:

Service oriented computing is more than just ideas related to those 
services: in particular it is a chance of bringing together the 
business/user domain and the services domain. The word 'service' 
encompasses web services, semantic web services, grid services and 
e-services. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:  
- Mathematical foundations of SOC
- Data management issues in SOC
- Frameworks for building SOC applications
- Composite SOC creation and enabling infrastructures 
(e.g., workflow technology)
- SOC composition, orchestration, and choreography
- SOC modelling & design
- Semantic Web, ontologies, and SOC
- Agents and SOC
- Dynamic invocation mechanisms for SOC
- Contractual issues between provider and consumer of SOC
- Version management in SOC
- Customization of SOC
- SOC architecture
- SOC negotiation & agreement
- SOC discovery & selection
- UDDI and SOAP enhancements
- SOC and process management
- Trust, security & privacy in SOC
- Scalability and performance of SOC
- SOC standards and technologies
- Automatic computing for SOC infrastructure
- Wireless web, mobility, and SOC
- SOC based Grid Computing and peer to peer computing
- SOC based applications for e-commerce
- Quality of service for SOC
- Multimedia applications using SOC
- Economics and pricing models of utility computing and SOC
- Resource management of SOC
- Solution management for SOC
- Adoption of SOC by organizations
- Case studies on SOC based applications
- Analysis, testing, and verification of Services
- Context aware services
- Business modelling for services 


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Submission Information:
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YR-SOC presentations will be selected according to originality, 
significance, and general interest. Selections will be on the basis 
of submitted 6-page concise papers. The workshop proceedings with 
the accepted papers will be available at the workshop. After the 
workshop, the author(s) of each presentation will be invited to 
submit a full 10-15 page paper on the same topic. They will also be 
asked to write (anonymous) reviews of papers submitted by other 
authors on related topics; further reviewing, and the final 
selection of papers, will be carried out by the organisers. 
Contributions of a high quality will be published in the proceedings 
(a suitable publisher will be found). 

Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF form. Papers 
should be no longer than 6 sides of A4, formatted in LNCS style. 
Author instructions may be found at 
http://www.springer.com/uk/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=3-164-7-72376-0.


Papers may be submitted at 
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/yrsoc2007/Submission.html.


IMPORTANT DATES (all in 2007)
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Deadline for submissions   16 February
Author notification        30 March
Camera-ready		   13 April
Workshop		   	   3-4 May


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Organising Committee
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PC Chairs
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Stephen Gorton (University of Leicester)
Monika Solanki (De Montfort University)
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec (University of Leicester)


Steering Committee
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Barry Norton (Open University, UK)
Monika Solanki (De Montfort University)
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec (University of Leicester)


Programme Committee
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Antonio Cau (De Montfort University, UK)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Schahram Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
David Edmond (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Pisa, Italy)
Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle, UK)
Barry Norton (Open University, UK)
Mike Papazoglou (University of Tilburg, Netherlands)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)
Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy)


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