call for workshops @ ECOWS 2011

                                     ECOWS 2011
                     The 9th European Conference on Web Services
                                 September 14-16, 2011
                                  Lugano, Switzerland
http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch
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                 Call for Workshops - http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/cfw
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* deadline for workshop proposal submission: Friday, April 1st, 2011
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The ECOWS 2011 Organizing Committee is inviting submissions for workshop 
proposals. The preference is for one-day workshops, but other schedules 
(half-day, two days) will also be considered.

The purpose of the ECOWS workshops is to complement the main conference 
with focused Web services related events. We particularly encourage 
topic-focused workshops and those interested in collaboration between 
different stakeholders such us academia and industry. We also encourage 
submission of workshops centered on real-world experiences in Web 
services technology application settings.
Topics of Interest

The workshops should fall within the scope of ECOWS 2011. Topics of 
interest include but are not limited to:

     * Methodologies for Web Service Engineering
     * Model-Driven Web Service Engineering
     * Web Services Design and Modeling
     * Web Services Discovery, Composition and Execution
     * Web Services Mining and Business Intelligence
     * Quality of Web Services
     * Security, Privacy and Trust for Web Services
     * Semantic Web Services
     * RESTful Web Services and Mashups
     * Web Services and Business Process Management
     * Web Services and Cloud computing
     * Web Services for Grids
     * Web Services and Pervasive Computing
     * Web Services and Mobile Computing
     * Web Services and autonomic computing
     * Web Services and Web 2.0
     * Service-Oriented Business Collaboration
     * Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications
     * Next Generation Web Services Middleware
     * Self-Organizing Service Oriented Architectures

Workshop Submission Guidelines

Workshop proposals should not exceed 3 A4 pages and must include:

    1. The name and acronym of the workshop
    2. The URL of the workshop Web site
    3. The names and e-mail addresses of the organizers
    4. Brief bios of the organizers
    5. A technical description of the workshop scope and topics
    6. A motivation of why the workshop is of interest at this time and 
how is relevant to ECOWS 2011
    7. A short description of the intended length and format of the 
workshop
    8. Tentative dates for submission and notification of acceptance
    9. A tentative list of proposed program committee members
   10. If the workshop has been previously held, its location and the 
number of submissions it attracted and the number of participants that 
attended its last edition.

The titles and brief information about accepted workshops will be 
published on the ECOWS 2011 web site together with links to the 
workshops' Web sites

Proposals (in plain text or pdf format) should be submitted by email to 
workshop@ecows2011.inf.usi.ch
Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submission

     * Workshop proposal submission: Friday, April 1st, 2011
     * Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 15th, 2011

-- 
Flavio De Paoli
Università di Milano - Bicocca
Dip. Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione
Viale Sarca 336/14
20126 MILANO, ITALIA
Tel: +39-026448-7836
Fax: +39-026448-7839