cfp: Web Service-based Systems and Applications (WEBSA) track at ICIW 2006

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Second Call for Submissions

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Special Track on: WEB SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (WEBSA)

at the International Conference on Internet and Web Services (ICIW 2006)
(http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html)

February 19-25, 2006, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean
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We inaugurate a series of co-located events that covers complementary 
aspects related to
designing and deploying of applications based on "Internet&Web 
techniques and mechanisms".
The umbrella conference (ICIW 2006, International Conference on 
Internet&Web) consists of
several mini conferences concerning Web technologies, design and 
development of
Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with 
other types of systems.
Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on 
specialized domains
are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on 
different aspects are part
of the expected agenda.

The mini conferences under this event are:

ICIWA 2006, IP-Web Based Applications and Services
ENSYS 2006, Entertainment Systems
P2PSA 2006, P2P Systems and Applications
WEBSA 2006, Web Service-based Systems and Applications
ONLINE 2006, Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social 
Networks

Proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Industry is also welcome with special contributions (see the web site 
mentioned below.)

The conference will take place in Guadeloupe, French Caribbean.

The submissions deadlines are:

Submission deadline: September 30, 2005
Notification: October 28, 2005
Camera ready: November 15, 2005
Conference: February 23-25, 2006

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR WEBSA 2006 TRACK
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The Call for Submissions for the Web Service-based Systems and Applications
(WEBSA 2006) track covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under 
review
in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited 
topic areas.
Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials 
on specific
related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

Topics that are expected to be covered, but not limited to are:

Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages
Web services architecture and business continuity
Special Web services mechanisms
Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services
Web service applications
Data Management aspects in Web Services
Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration
Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing
Web services based applications for e-Commerce
Multimedia applications using Web Services
Automatic computing for Web services
Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability
Enterprise Web services
Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management
Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies
Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits

WEBSA 2006 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Kamel Adi, Université of Outaouais, Canada
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Benjamin, ISOCO, Spain
Djamal Benslimane, Universté Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
Fabio Casati, HP, USA
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ewa Deelman, Information Science Institute, USA
John Domingue, Open University, UK
Jean-Jacques Dubray, Attachmate, USA
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Abdelkarim Erradi, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Rik Eshuis, TUE, Netherlands
Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Geoffrey Fox, University of Indiana, USA
Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA
Chirine Ghedira, Universté Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Roy Grřnmo, SINTEF, Norway
Sung-Kook Han, Won Kwang University, Korea
Laurent Henocque, LISIS, France
Martin Hepp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria
Andy Hospodor, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Adriana Iamnitchi, Duke University, USA
Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
Ryszard Kowalczyk, SWIN, Australia
Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
Welf Löwe, Växjö University, Sweeden
Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Axel Martens, IBM Research, Hawthorn, USA
Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, England
Josef Noll, Telenor Research, Norway
Savas Parastatidis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Cesare Pautaso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Charles Petrie, Stanford University, USA
Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria
Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Matei Ripeanu, University of Chicago, USA
Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, [Chair]
Steve Ross-Talbot, Enigmatec Corporation, UK
Thomas Strang, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria
Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
Ioan Toma, DERI, Austria
Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada
Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, Austria
Alexander Wahler, Niwa Web Solutions, Austria
Jim Webber, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales / Green Pea Software Pty / 
NICTA, Australia
Michal Zaremba, DERI, Austria


INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
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The ICIW 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Conference deadlines are as follows:

- Submission deadline: September 30th, 2005
- Notification: October 28th, 2005
- Camera ready: November 15th, 2005
- Conference: February 19-25, 2006

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All 
received papers will be
acknowledged via the EDAS system. The files should be sent via
http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), 
not exceeding 6
pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting 
instructions can be
found via anonymous FTP site at:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be 
provided by the IEEE
CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to 
follow to submit the
final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of 
acceptance.

TECHNICAL MARKETING/BUSINESS/POSITIONING PRESENTATIONS
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The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and 
positioning
presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide 
deck presentations
with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format 
(.pdf-ed). The slide deck
will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the 
regular papers. Please
send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

TUTORIALS
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Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals 
can be for half or full day
tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

PANELS
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The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize 
dedicated panels dealing
with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel 
moderators are asked to identify
their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely 
reach our deadlines.
Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating 
their background, panelist
names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short 
biographies.
For more information, petre@iaria.org

ICIW ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
Karim El Guemhioui, Université du Québec en Outaouais , Canada
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France
Varol Yaakov, University of Nevada – Reno, USA


Looking forward for your contributions,

WEBSA 2006 Chair
Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, 
dumitru.roman@deri.org

ICIW 2006 Chair
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA, pdini@cisco.com

Received on Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:40:44 UTC