- From: Cesare Pautasso <cesare.pautasso@usi.ch>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:35:28 +0200
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================================================================ ECOWS 2011: The 9th IEEE European Conference on Web Services 14-16 September 2011 Lugano, Switzerland http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------- * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * Early registration deadline: 15 July 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference series for both researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web services and to foster cross-European collaboration and exchange. The 9th edition of the ECOWS series will be held on September 14-16 at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. The ECOWS2011 conference includes prestigious invited speakers, in-depth presentations of contributed research papers and an industrial track with the participation of top industry researchers, experts and practitioners. Together with its satellite workshops on focused topics, ECOWS 2011 will also feature a doctoral symposium for PhD students. ------------------ Program Highlights ------------------ Keynote speakers: * Wil van der Aalst, Technische Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Stephan Murer, Credit Suisse AG, Switzerland * Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Co-Located Workshops: * WEWST'11 6th International Workshop on Enhanced Web Service Technologies http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/binder/wewst11/ * Mashups 2011 5th International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups http://mashups2011.aifb.kit.edu/ * DATAVIEW'11 2nd International Workshop on DATA Visualization and Integration on data-centric Web Services http://dataview.como.polimi.it/ * CMSC 2011 Workshop on Challenges in Mobile Service Computing http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/CMSC-2011/ * QASBA 2011 1st International Workshop on Quality Assurance for Service-based Applications http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/bianculli/qasba2011/ Tutorial: Smart Work Roadmap Tutorial for Business and IT * Peter Utzinger, IBM * Hans-Peter Hoidn, IBM Research and Industry Track Papers: http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/program/accepted ----- Venue ----- ECOWS 2011 will be hosted by the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Lugano, the largest town in the holiday region of Ticino, is not only Switzerland's third most important financial centre and a conference, banking and business city, but also a town of parks and flowers, villas and sacred buildings. With Mediterranean flair, Lugano offers all the advantages of a world-class city, combined with the cachet of a small town. The Ceresio lake has numerous activities to offer to sports lovers, to those wanting to visit corners that are unreachable by land or simply who want to discover enchanting spots or get a taste of the excellent seafood that is served in the various restaurants and grottos situated along its shores. Mountain enthusiast will also find plenty of routes and excursions to explore the beautiful landscape of the region. Lugano is conveniently located in the center of Europe. In addition to the proximity with a major international airport (MXP), Lugano also features its own small airport (LUG) with frequent connections to three major European hubs (ZRH, GVA, FCO). The Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano (USI) was founded in 2004 and stands out as a centre of excellence in software and service engineering research. In a matter of very few years, it has become one of Switzerland’s major poles for teaching and research, hosting 22 faculty members and more than one hundred Post-doctoral and Pre-doctoral researchers. The Faculty aims to train informatics experts that are interdisciplinary in approach, with abstract thinking and problem solving skills, a sound knowledge in the application fields of information technologies, as well as teamwork, interpersonal communication and project-management abilities. Get more information and watch a video about the University of Lugano on http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/venue --------------- Important Dates --------------- Advance Program * Workshops: 14 September 2011 * Tutorial: 15 September 2011 * Research Track: 15-16 September 2011 * Industry Track: 16 September 2011 * PhD Symposium: 16 September 2011 Registration deadlines * Early registration by: 15 July 2011 * Regular registration by: 15 August 2011 * Late registration until: 6 September 2011 Students, IEEE Members, ATED Members and S-I Student Members benefit from reduced registration fees. http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/registration ------------ Organization ------------ General Chair: * Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Chairs: * Ulf Schreier, Univ. of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Industry Track Chair: * Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Workshop Chair: * Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy PhD Symposium Chair: * Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany ECOWS 2011 Program Committee: * Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, the Netherlands * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Sami Bhiri, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland * Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA * Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy * Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Juergen Dunkel, FH Hannover, Germany * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand * Christopher Giblin, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland * Claude Godart, Universiy of Lorraine, France * Paul Grefen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland * Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK * Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden * Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Universitaet Jena, Germany * Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany * Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Peep Kungas, University of Tartu, Estonia * Frank Leymann, University Stuttgart, Germany * Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Radu Mateescu, INRIA, France * Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany * Dirk Neumann, University Freiburg, Germany * Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany * Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cadiz, Spain * Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland * George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain * Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany * Wolfgang Reisig, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland * Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, the Netherlands * Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Jim Webber, Neo Technology, UK * Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA * Umit Yalcinalp, Adobe Systems, USA * Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland * Wolf Zimmermann, University Halle, Germany ECOWS Steering Committee: * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Paul Grefen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland * George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee Research, China -------- Sponsors -------- * Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano (USI) * IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing * City of Lugano * Swiss Informatics Society (S-I) * Doodle AG * Associazione Ticinese Elaborazione Dati (ATED) * IBM ------- Contact ------- Conference Website: http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/ecows2011 For any inquiries please contact the local organizers at: chair@nospam.ecows2011.inf.usi.ch or the program chairs at: program@nospam.ecows2011.inf.usi.ch ================================================================
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