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We apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
Please note that the conference paper submission deadline has
been extended to August 12, 2009.
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Call for Papers:

SOCA'09: IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications
December 14-15, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/soca09

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Important Dates
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Paper submission: August 12, 2009
Author notification: September 15, 2009
Final manuscript: October 15, 2009

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Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Service-oriented architecture
* Service-oriented software engineering
* Service system technology
* Service-oriented semantic computing
* SOC for cyber-physical systems
* Embedded and real-time services
* Grid and cloud services
* Service-oriented applications

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Paper Submission
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Papers presenting original and unpublished work are invited
and will be evaluated based on originality, significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Submitted
papers should be formatted in a two-column IEEE Computer
Society format (URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm)
and should not exceed eight pages including figures and
references. Submissions will be via the conference web site:
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/soca09.

For further information of the conference, please contact
Prof. Chung-Ta King at king@cs.nthu.edu.tw

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Honorary Co-chairs
- Pen-Chung Yew, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Ming-Syan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

General Co-chairs
- Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA

Program Co-chairs
- Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Program Vice Chairs
1. Service-oriented Architecture and System Technology
- Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
- Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK
2. Service-oriented Applications
- Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia
3. Embedded Services
- Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
4. SOC for Cyber-physical Systems
- Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
5. Grid and Cloud Services
- Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
6. Business Services and Technology
- Fu-ren Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Industry Chair
- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research, USA

Publication Chair
- Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Finance Chair
- Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publicity Chair
- Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Panel Chair
- Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Local Organization Co-chairs
- Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Sheng-Wei Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Web Chair
- Chiou-Feng Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan