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- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:04:07 -0400
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Call for Participation in the 2008 Web Services Challenge in conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce, and e- Services (EEE'08) and the IEEE International Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC'08) 21-24 July 2008, Crystal City, Washington, DC USA http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/wsc08/ ====================== About CEC'08/EEE'08 The IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC '08) and the IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE '08) will be held as a joint event geared toward E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing. It will focus on new technologies and methods that enable business processes to smoothly transcend organizational boundaries. This includes solutions to dynamically establish business relationships, provide services across organizational boundaries - in a Mashup and Web 2.0 environment as well as from mobile devices - and exercise governance. This CEC'08/EEE'08 program will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. For more information, please visit http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu. ======================= About the Competition The Web Services Challenge (WS-Challenge) is a venue where researchers can collaborate on web service composition tools and techniques. The competition solicits industry and academic researchers that develop software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to discover pertinent web services and also compose them to create higher- level functionality. The 2008 Web Services Challenge is the 4th challenge and will be co- located with the 2008 Conference on Electronic Commerce and the Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC/EEE 2008). This fourth competition is more narrowly defined than that of the last year, which included both syntactic and semantic matching of WSDL part names. This year, the competition will focus exclusively on semantic composition of web service chains. Additionally, the challenge will incorporate use of OWL ontologies rather than XML Schema to define services and their relationships to each other. The participants will be required to determine relations between different types during the process of service composition. The WS-Challenge invites the participation of students and researchers addressing the composition challenge stated above, with details posted on the Web Services Challenge website. The competition entails the submission of a four-page description of the approach to be submitted in early 2008. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services guidelines, in an 8.5” x 11” two-column layout. After a peer-review process, the technical descriptions will be included in the conference proceedings of the joint conference. As a next step later in the spring of 2008, the participants will be required to provide a preliminary version of their software for a pre- competition evaluation stage. The pre-competition evaluation is required in order for teams to participate in the challenge taking place during the conference. ======================= Schedule & Deadlines March 31, 2008 Submission of Technical Description (four pages, formatting conforming to IEEE CS Press Proceedings) April 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance of Technical Description May 1, 2008 Final, Camera-Ready Version of Technical Description June 4, 2008 Pre-Evaluation of Composition Software July 21-24, 2008 Competition on Conference Site: Crystal City, Washington, DC. ======================= Contact Information WSC Co-Chairs: M. Brian Blake Department of Computer Science Georgetown University E-mail: blakeb@cs.georgetown.edu Steffen Bleul Distributed Systems Group University of Kassel Thomas Weise Distributed Systems Group University of Kassel Andreas Wombacher Distributed Information Systems Laboratory Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne E-mail: andreas.wombacher@epfl.ch Michael C. Jaeger Faculty of EE and CS Berlin University of Technology E-mail: mcj@cs.tu-berlin.de William K. Cheung Centre of e-Transformation Research Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University E-mail: william@comp.hkbu.edu.hk Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Brian Miller Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Georgetown University E-mail: wscdc08@gmail.com For more information, including Competition Rules and Technical Details, please visit: http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/wsc08/
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