- From: Welf Löwe <wlo@msi.vxu.se>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:34:08 +0200
- To: <public-sws-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: "Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin" <jp.martin-flatin@ieee.org>
CALL FOR PAPERS ECOWS 2005 Third European Conference on Web Services http://wscc.info/ecows2005/research/ Vaxjo, Sweden, 14-16 November 2005 *** NEW DEADLINE: 30 June 2005 *** Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Services Computing (approval pending). Scope: The design of distributed applications and users' expectations for software evolution have changed dramatically in the last 15 years. An important milestone was set when distributed object environments (e.g., CORBA) made it possible to program distributed applications as if remote objects were local. This gave birth to a thriving middleware market and popularized the use of open APIs in the software industry. This approach led to object-oriented software components, whereby a group of objects that collectively fulfill a given task provide a single interface to remote applications; examples include CCM and J2EE. Over a decade of experience has taught the community (researchers and practitioners alike) that distributed object computing has inherent problems, because of the tight coupling that is requires between distant systems. First, guaranteeing interoperability and openness among all objects and components in a distributed application is difficult when these objects are developed by competing commercial entities. Software vendors prefer to segment markets, because niche markets are more lucrative than commodity markets. Second, most customers need to integrate large application chunks (as opposed to fine-grained objects) written by different vendors, so having object-level interoperability is often unnecessary in practice. The success encountered by the Web has convinced most of the community that tightly coupled software systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems (be they legacy or not) that share very little with it. At the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems lies service-oriented computing, which appears to many as the next important step in distributed computing. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures, they can evolve during their lifespans more easily and better adapt to changing or unpredictable environments. When properly implemented, services can be discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms, while each service can still be implemented in a black-box manner. This is important from a business perspective: there is no need for customers to "choose their sides" anymore. Each service can be implemented using any technology, independently of the others. What matters is that everybody agrees on the integration technology, and there is a consensus about this in today's middleware market: customers want to use Web technologies, notably XML. ECOWS 2005 will cover all aspects of Web Services, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and computing. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate exchanges between researchers and practitioners and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Topics of interest to the Research Track include, but are not limited to, the following: - Modeling of Web Services - Design of Web Services - Software Architectures for Web Services - Testing of Web Services - Composition of Web Services - Interoperability of Web Services - Orchestration and Choreography of Web Services - Management of Web Services - Scalability and Performance of Web Services - Security Aspects of Web Services - Trusting and Negotiating with Web Services - Web Service Discovery and Selection: Beyond UDDI - Business Process Integration and Management using Web Services - Web Services for e-Business - Web Services for Workflow Systems - Web Services and Mobility - Web Services for Grids - Web Services for P2P - Economics of Web Services, Pricing Models - Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications - Comparison of Web Services and Grid Services - Formal Methods for Web Services - Semantic Web Services - Ontology Languages for Web Services - Quality of Service-Aware Web Services - Service-Oriented Architectures - Service-Oriented Computing - Life Cycle of Web Services - Integration of Web Services and Legacy Systems General Chairs: Welf Loewe, Vaxjo University, Sweden Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, Consultant, Switzerland Steering Committee: Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Welf Loewe, Vaxjo University, Sweden Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, Consultant, Switzerland Program Committee: Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Nikos Anerousis, IBM Research, USA Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Djamal Benslimane, University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France David Breitgand, IBM Research, Israel Christoph Bussler, DERI, Ireland Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Theo Dimitrakos, BT, UK Wolfgang Dostal, IBM, Germany Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine David Eyers, University of Cambridge, UK Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck and DERI, Austria Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany Martin Gerdes, Ericsson, Germany Christian Geuer-Pollmann, Microsoft, Germany Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand Thomas Gschwind, IBM Research, Switzerland Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Alexander Keller, IBM Research, USA Birgitta Koenig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA Zongwei Luo, University of Hong-Kong, China Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany Rainer Neumann, PTV, Germany Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Akhil Sahai, HP Labs, USA Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden Michael Stal, Siemens, Germany Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, National & Kapodistrian Uni. of Athens, Greece Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Wim Vanderperren, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, UK Do van Thanh, NTNU and Telenor, Norway Thanos Vasilakos, University of Thessaly, Greece Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks, Australia Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA Wolf Zimmermann, Martin-Luther Uni. of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Important Dates: Submission deadline: 30 June 2005 Notification of acceptance: 29 July 2005 Final paper due: 19 August 2005 Details about the submission procedure are available on the website. The proceedings will be published (to be announced soon). The authors shortlisted for the best-paper award will be invited to submit enhanced versions of their papers to the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) for fast-track publication. Business Sponsors: Please contact Lars Hornborg <lars.hornborg@wscc.info>. -- See you at ECOWS 2005, http://wscc.info/ecows2005, in Växjö, 14-16 November 2005. Dr. Welf Löwe, Professor in Computer Science School of Mathematics and System Engineering (MSI) Växjö University, Sweden Phone: +46(470)70 8495 Fax: +46(470)84004
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