CFP - IEEE Granular Computing Conference Special Session - Semantic Web Services: Theory and Applications

  *IEEE Granular Computing Conference Special
Session*<http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~grc/index.php>
*Semantic Web Services: Theory and Applications
**Atlanta**, **USA**, **May 10-12, 2006*
*Call For Papers:*
The semantic Web is seen as an extension of the WWW that focuses on adding
semantics to descriptions of the resources on the Web. Semantic Web services
extend the semantic Web by considering not only static resources but also
Web services. Lately, in addition to the fundamental research in this area,
there has been a growing focus on applying semantic Web services to diverse
application domains such as biological and health informatics, grid, and
mobile computing. In this special session, we invite original contributions
in all areas of semantic Web services including their applications.
Semantic Web services are in early phases of standardization. A number of
specifications  – OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S, and FLOWS have been submitted to W3C
and two charters are currently being formed to investigate issues in this
area. We are interested in papers which focus on these standardizations,
suggesting improvements and extensions. Additionally, papers that provide
insights into application of any of these specifications to real world
problems are also solicited. In addition to these areas, we are interested
in research around the different phases of the Web service and process
lifecycle – annotation/representation, discovery, composition and execution
using above mentioned specifications or other models, with the focus on
solving real world problems.
In addition, we solicit papers that focus on application of the semantic Web
services to different domains. These domains include but are not limited to
bioinformatics, health informatics, mobile computing, grid computing, and
autonomic computing. We invite academic and industrial researchers and
practitioners to submit original research papers as well as reports on work
in progress in these areas. Suggested topics include but are not restricted
to:
·        Formalisms for semantic Web services including description logics
·        Web service and process lifecycle:
o       annotation
o       representation
o       discovery
o       composition
o       execution
·        Semantic Web services architectures and standards
·        Applications of Semantic Web services
o       Bioinformatics
o       Health informatics
o       Grid computing
o       Mobile computing
o       Autonomic computing
·        Real World Use cases
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 *Organizers: *

Prashant Doshi, LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia
Kunal Verma, LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia

*Important Dates:*
Paper Submission: Jan 25, 2006
Author Notification: Jan 31, 2006
Camera Ready: Feb 4, 2006

*Submission Instructions: *
 Please submit a full-length paper in PDF (the maximum number of pages is 6)
with the standard two-column IEEE Transactions
format<http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=pubs/transactions&file=stylesheets.xml&xsl=generic.xsl>via
Online
Paper Submission<http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~grc06/SUBMISSIONS/index.php?authorsInstructions=1>system
(please choose
 *Semantic Web Services: Theory and Applications* as major topic when
submitting a paper to the special session). Alternatively, you can submit
your papers by sending an email to Prashant Doshi:  pdoshi@cs.uga.edu

The accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Grc2006 conference
proceedings. Information about the special session will be available via a
link to the main conference site. The presentation slides will be posted on
the web. At least one of authors of accepted papers must present their paper
at the conference.