Call for Papers: IEEE ICWS 2009 (Extended to 1/30/2009)

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ICWS 2009 Submission Site is Open:

http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/submission.html

 

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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009)

http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009

July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

Theme: Innovations for Web-based Services

 

Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing
(http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) &

Services Society (http://www.servicessociety.org) (Approval Pending)

 

*************************************** NEWS **********************

Call For Papers: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC,
http://computer.org/tsc). Special theme issues from ICWS 2009 will be
published in TSC.

 

Call For Papers: International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR,
http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr/) has been indexed by SCI-E. Special
theme issues from ICWS 2009 will be published in JWSR.

 

Call For papers: International Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management (IJBPIM, http://ijbpim.servicescomputing.org/)

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ICWS 2009 organizing committee invites you to participate in the seventh
edition of ICWS, to be held in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

 

ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry
practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of
the art on Web services. ICWS aims to identify emerging research topics and
define the future of Web services. Over the past seven years, ICWS has grown
steadily, attracting over 250 participants on a regular basis. Previous
editions of ICWS have been held (most recent first) in Beijing, Salt Lake
City, Chicago, Orlando, San Diego, and Las Vegas.

 

ICWS 2009 will co-locate with the 3rd World Congress on Services (SERVICES
2009) to explore the science and technology of all aspects of "Services",
which has been formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. In
addition, ICWS 2009 will be supported by a set of keynotes, panels, and
tutorials.

 

The technical program of ICWS 2009 will include a refereed research track,
an application and industry track, a work-in-progress track, and a poster
track. The research track will highlight foundational work that strives to
push beyond the limits of existing Web services platforms and products,
including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations that
identify weaknesses in the existing Web services models.

 

The ICWS 2009 research track seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers
reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Web services. Research
papers must properly cite related work and clearly indicate their
contributions to the field of Web services. All topics relevant to Web
services are of interest, but the conference program committee particularly
encourages submissions related to the following aspects of Web services:

 

Foundations of Web Services

 

        * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Evolutions

        * Models, methodologies, and tools (including analysis, design,
modeling, and composition)

        * Publishing, discovery, and selection (including in mobile
settings)

        * Validation and testing (including risk assessment and tracking)

        * Management and governance (including monitoring, QoS, privacy,
trust) 

        * Formal methods (including modeling and specification, data and
process semantics, type systems, security, QoS, and other properties)

        * Standards and implementation and deployment technologies

   

Web-based Services

        

        * Web 2.0 and Web X.0 concepts in Web services settings 

        * Software as a Service (SaaS)

        * Service As Software

        * Cloud Computing

        * Technologies for building and operating massive data centers
(including middleware)

 

Web Services Applications beyond Web

 

        * Applications (including mobile, scientific, Grid and utility,
autonomic, and embedded computing)

        * Business process management (including business protocols,
business intelligence, service level agreements, and business licensing
models)

 

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program
committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected
papers published in the ICWS 2009 will be invited through a fast review
channel for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services
Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) and
the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
(IJBPIM). Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex.
JWSR is also indexed in SCI-E.

 

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages
and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template.
Unformatted papers and papers beyond 8 pages will not be reviewed.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required.
Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel
proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be
found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present
the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be
granted at ICWS 2009. The first author of the best student paper must be a
full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider
submitting it to ICWS 2009 Applications and Industry Track. Manuscripts
submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution
descriptions may be recommended to the Applications and Industry Track for
further consideration if the session slots are available. Submitted papers
with novel ideas but not accepted by the Research Track and Applications and
Industry Track may also be recommended for potential consideration by the
chairs of the Work-in-Progress Track and Poster Track of ICWS 2009, and
other tracks and workshops of SERVICES 2009.

 

ICWS Program Committee requires that authors adopt the keywords and index
terms in Services Computing "M" from the IEEE CS taxonomy
(computer.org/tsc).

 

Important Dates:

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Abstract Submission Deadline: Extended to January 30, 2009

Full Paper Submission Due Date: Extended to January 30, 2009

Decision Notification (Electronic): March 20, 2009

Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 10, 2009

 

Organizing Committee

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General Chair

Paul Hofmann, Ph.D., Vice President Research, SAP Labs, USA

 

Program Committee Chairs

Ernesto Damiani, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Computer Technology, University
of Milan, Italy. Head of the University of Milan's Ph.D. School in Computer
Science

Rong Chang, Ph.D., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

 

Program Committee Vice Chair

Jia Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computing Science,
Northern Illinois University, USA

 

Applications and Industry Chair

Wu Chou, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, Director, Avaya Labs Fellow, Avaya Labs
Research, USA

 

Work-in-Progress Chair

Onyeka Ezenwoye, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University,
USA

 

Poster Chairs

Incheon Paik, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Aizu, Japan

Ali Bahrami, Ph.D., Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company, USA

Hong Cai, Ph.D., Chief Architecture, IBM China Software Development Lab

 

Publication Chair

Patrick C.K. Hung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and
Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
(UOIT), Canada, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

 

Local Arrangement Chair

Qun Zhou, IBM, USA

 

Global SOA Industry Summit Chair

Tony Shan, IBM, USA

Dejan S. Milojicic, Ph.D., HP Labs, USA

 

Publicity Chairs

Charles Shoniregun, Ph.D., Programme Leader for MSc TM, School of Computing
& Technology, University of East London, UK

Mikio Aoyama, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Information and
Telecommunication Engineering, Nanzan University, Japan

Hong Mei, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Institute of Software, Dean, School of
Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China

 

Panel Chairs

Calton Pu, Ph.D., Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software,
Georgia Tech, USA

Geng Lin, Ph.D., CTO of Cisco IBM Alliance, USA

Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ph.D., Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Casey Fung, Ph.D., Boeing Phantom Works, USA

 

Tutorial Chairs

Ling Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA

Brian Blake, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Computing
Science, Georgetown University, USA

 

Workshop Chairs

Umesh Bellur, Ph.D., Professor, IIT Bombay, India

Jian Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computing, Macquaire
University, Australia

Pradip K Srimani, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computer Science, Clemson
University, USA

 

Ph.D. Symposium Chair

Athman Bouguettaya, Ph.D., CSIRO ICT Center, Canberra, ACT, Australia

 

Services Cup Contest Chairs

Min Luo, Ph.D., IBM Global Services, USA.

Yuhong Yan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada

Sujoy Basu, Ph.D., HP Labs - Palo Alto, USA

Sushil Prasad, Ph.D., Professor, Georgia State University, USA

 

Body of Knowledge Chairs

Michael Goul, Ph.D., Professor, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State
University, USA

Yanchun Zhang, Ph.D., Director, Centre for Applied Informatics Research
School of Computer Science & Mathematics, Victoria University, Australia

 

Services Education Methodology Summit Chairs

Hemant Jain, Ph.D., Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Management
Information Systems, Tata Consulting Services Professor, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The
Netherlands

Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information
Science, Mercy College, USA

 

Job Fair Chair

Anup Kumar, Ph.D., Professor, University of Louisville, USA

 

Innovation Show Case Chairs

Atilla Elci, Ph.D., Eatern Mediterranean University, Turkey

Wing-Kwong Chan, Ph.D., City of University of Hong Kong, China

 

Registration Chair

Thomas Kwok, Sc.D., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

 

Technical Steering Committee

Carl K. Chang, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor, Iowa State University,
USA

Ephraim Feig, Ph.D., President, Innovations-to-Market, USA

Hemant Jain, Ph.D., Professor, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee , USA

Frank Leymann, Ph.D., Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Calton Pu, Ph.D., Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software,
Georgia Tech, USA

Jeffrey Tsai, Ph.D., Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D., Institute of Computing Technology, China

Liang-Jie Zhang, Ph.D. (Chair), Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of
Services Computing Professional Interest Community, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, USA

 

Program Committee

To be published.

 

Review Policy

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of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to
others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper
under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge that
access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program
committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same
manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere
to this practice.

 

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program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute
arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for
the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission
of the final manuscript.

 

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Please join us at: IEEE Services Computing Community

 

To join, please visit https://www.ieeecommunities.org/services and follow
instructions to apply for free membership. As a member, you will be
permitted to login and participate in the community, including accessing
IEEE Body of Knowledge on Services Computing (servicescomputing.tv).

 

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*** For any paper submission enquiries, please e-mail to the Program
Committee Vice Chair Jia Zhang: jiazhang AT cs.niu.edu; 

For any community, sponsorship and other professional activities, please
contact the Steering Committee Chair LJ Zhang: zhanglj AT ieee.org.  ***

 

Received on Monday, 29 December 2008 13:57:11 UTC