[Fwd: European Conference on Web Services --- Call for Papers / Workshops / Business Papers]

    Forth European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2006)
          http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ecows06/
       4-6 December 2006, Zurich, Switzerland

       Call for Papers --- Call for Workshops

The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier
conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the
latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web
Services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the
exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future
collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The success encountered by the Web has shown 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, possibly legacy systems
that share very little with it.

Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely
coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented
architectures, they can evolve during their lifespan 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 since customers no longer need to "choose their side."
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. Despite these
promises, service integrators, developers, and providers need to
create methods tools and techniques to support the cost-effective
development and use of dependable services and service-oriented
applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

The ECOWS 2006 program committee seeks high quality papers related to
all aspects of Web Services, which constitute the main technology
available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and
computing. Topics of interest to the Research Track include, but are
not limited to, the following:
* Life-Cycle of Web Services Implementations * Dynamic Web Services * 
Semantic Web Services * Economics and Web Services * Quality 
Requirements for Web Services * Web Services for Grids * Web Services in 
a Service-Oriented Environment * Web Services and Mobility * Frameworks 
for Building Web Service-Based Applications * Formal Methods for Web 
Services

RESEARCH PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit papers with a maximum of 10 pages, containing new
material. Submissions must be in English, must be original, and must
not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. There will be an
award for the best paper and best student paper. Submissions should be
made through the website.

IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the ECOWS 2006
Proceedings. Technical papers must conform to the IEEE paper
guidelines which are available here. Submit your paper in PDF or
Postscript format via the electronic submission system available via
the ECOWS 2006 web site.

Deadlines:
Abstract submission             16 June 2006
Electronic paper submission     23 June 2006
Acceptance notification         11 August 2006
Camera ready version            15 September 2006


WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The ECOWS 2006 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one and two
day workshops that will complement the main conference. The workshops
should fall within the scope of ECOWS. Researchers and practitioners
wishing to organize workshops should submit proposals in plain text or
PDF-format. Proposals should include a workshop name and acronym, a
technical description of the workshop topic area, a short description
of the intended length and format of the workshop, a brief statement
of the relevance of the workshop to ECOWS 2006, the names and
e-mail addresses of the organizing committee, a list of proposed
program committee members, and tentative dates for submission and
notification of acceptance.

The proposals will be evaluated by the ECOWS organizing committee. The
titles and brief information about accepted workshops will be included
in the ECOWS 2006 web site as well as links to the call for papers and
call for participation.

Deadlines
Proposal submission              9 June 2006
Acceptance notification         30 June 2006


BUSINESS PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit papers with a maximum of 5 pages, containing new material,
work in progress, or position papers. Submissions must be in English
and should focus on how concepts and technologies have been adopted to
fit real-life requirements with currently available tools.

We welcome case studies from a broad range of application areas,
e.g. from automobile, banking, insurance, telecommunications
sectors. Practitioners should submit proposals in PDF-format.

When preparing the submissions please use a 2-column format and submit
the paper in PDF format.

Deadlines
Submission deadline             19 June 2006
Acceptance notification         29 July 2006
Camera ready version            29 September 2006


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Abraham Bernstein, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Programme Co-Chairs
Thomas Gschwind, IBM Research, Switzerland
Wolf Zimmermann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Workshop Chair
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Business Chair
Wolfgang Dostal, IBM, Germany

Local Chair
Eveline Suter, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Web Chair
Christoph Kiefer, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Steering Committee
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA
Welf Löwe, Växjö Universitet, Sweden
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Steven Battle, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
David Breitgand, IBM Research, Israel
Christoph Bussler, DERI, Ireland
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Theo Dimitrakos, BT, UK
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
David Eyers, University of Cambridge, UK
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck and DERI, Austria
Ioannis Fikouras, Ericsson, Germany
Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany
Christian Geuer-Pollmann, Microsoft, Germany
Paul Grefen, Eindhofen University of Technology, The Netherlands
John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
Rick Hull, Lucent, USA
Alexander Keller, IBM Research, USA
Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany
Ernö Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Welf Löwe, Växjö Universitet, Sweden
Ronald Maier, Universitt Halle, Germany
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany
Rainer Neumann, PTV, Germany
Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Bijan Parisa, University of Maryland
Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs Europe, Germany
Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt Universitt Berlin, Germany
Akhil Sahai, HP Labs, USA
Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
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
Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks, Australia
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA
Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research, Switzerland




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|  University of Zürich, Department of Informatics
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