2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004)

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2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004)
Theme: Convergence of Web Services, Grid Computing, e-Business and Autonomic
Computing
July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA
http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2004/
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

Call for Papers


ICWS is a forum for researchers and industry practitioner to exchange
information regarding advancements in the state of art research and practice
of Web Services, to identify emerging research topics, and to define the
future directions of Web Services computing. ICWS 2004 has special interest
in papers that contribute to the convergence of Web Services, Grid
Computing, e-Business and Autonomic Computing, or those that apply
techniques from one area to another. 

Web services are network-based application components with services-oriented
architecture using standard interface description languages and uniform
communication protocols. Typical industry solution areas of Web services are
business-to-business integration, business process integration and
management, content management, e-sourcing, composite Web services creation,
design collaboration for computer engineering, multimedia communication,
digital TV, and interactive Web solutions. Currently, Grid computing has
also started to leverage Web services to define standard interfaces for
Business Grid services and generic reusable Grid resources.

As the first academic conference in the field of Web services, the 2003
First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03) was held at the
Monte Carlo Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 23 - 26, 2003, attracting
hundreds of participants from 25 countries (USA, India, France, China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, The
Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Italy, Korea, Thailand, Finland, Austria, New
Zealand, Poland, and Turkey). The second one is the 2003 International
Conference on Web Services - Europe (ICWS-Europe'03), held in Erfurt,
Germany, September 23 - 24, 2003. ICWS'03 and ICWS-Europe'03 have proven to
be an excellent catalyst for research and collaboration. With the growing
interests of Web Services in both business and scientific information
management practice, we fully expect that ICWS 2004 will continue this
success.

The program of ICWS'04 will feature a variety of papers on fundamentals,
infrastructure, technology support, and business management for Web
Services. 

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Mathematical Foundations of Web Services
- Data Management Issues in Web Services
- Web Services Architecture
- Frameworks for building Web Service Applications 
- Composite Web Service Creation and Enabling Infrastructures  (e.g.,
workflow technology)
- Web Services Modeling and Design
- Web Services Discovery and Selection
- Semantic Web, Ontologies, and Web Services
- Dynamic Invocation Mechanisms for Web Services 
- Quality of Service for Web Services 
- UDDI and SOAP enhancements  
- Web Services and Process Management
- Trust, Security and Privacy in Web Services
- Web Services Negotiation and Agreement
- Scalability and Performance of Web Services
- Web Services Standards and Technologies,
- Autonomic Computing for Web Services Infrastructure
- Autonomic Middleware and Toolkits for Monitoring and Management
- Autonomic e-Business Integration and Collaboration
- Wireless Web, Mobility, and Web Services
- Web Service Based Grid Computing and Peer to Peer Computing 
- Business Grid Solution Architecture
- Grid Architectures, Middleware and Toolkits
- Grid Services Integration and Management 
- Economics and Pricing Models of Utility Computing
- Web Services based Applications for e-Commerce
- Multimedia Applications using Web Services
- Economics of Web Services & Pricing Models
- Resource management of Web Services
- Solution Management for Web Services 
- Adoption of Web Services by Organizations
- Case studies on Web Services-based Applications
- Web Services Industrial
- Business Process Integration and Management using Web Services 
- Impact of Web Services Architecture on Business Continuity
- Changing Role of Information Technology Departments in Organizations
- Contractual Issues between Provider and Consumer of Web Services
- Version Management in Web services
- Customization of Web Services
- Software Reusability 


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper of about 8-10 pages
in IEEE Proceeding style (single space, two columns, font size of 10 to 12)
in PDF or Word format via the Microsoft's CMT system for on-line submission
(to be announced in ICWS 2004 website). The length of the Camera-Ready
papers (if accepted) will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must
not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. Each submission should add an additional cover page including:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address,
telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The cover page should also
include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if
accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords, and whether the paper is submitted as
a student paper. 
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in
hardcopy and on-line version by IEEE Computer Society. The best papers
presented at ICWS'2004 will be invited to submit to the International
Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), International Journal of Grid and
Utility Computing, International Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management, and International Journal of Autonomic Computing. 
EVALUATION PROCESS:

All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least three PC members in
the topical area. 
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS:

One Best Paper award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by
ICWS'2004. The first author of the best student papers should be full-time
students. 


IMPORTANT DATES:

January 26, 2004 (Monday): Abstract Submission (optional) 
Feb. 2, 2004 (Monday): Submission Due
March 19, 2004 (Friday): Notification of acceptance
April 16, 2004 (Friday): Camera-Ready copy & Author Pre-registration due
July 6 - July 9, 2004: ICWS'04 International Conference on Web Services
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Prof. Dr. Hemant Jain
Wisconsin Distinguished & 
Tata Consultancy Services Professor 
School of Business Administration 
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee 
Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Phone: (414)-229-4832
Fax: (414)-229-6957 
jain@uwm.edu

Prof. Dr. Ling Liu
College of Computing 
Georgia Institute of Technology 
801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta 
Georgia 30332-0280, USA 
Phone: (404) 3851139 
Fax: (404) 8949846
lingliu@cc.gatech.edu 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Incomplete)

Karl Aberer
EPFL, Switzerland
karl.aberer@epfl.ch

Roger S. Barga
Microsoft Research, USA
barga@microsoft.com

Athman Bouguettaya        
Virginia Tech, USA
athman@cs.vt.edu

Elisa Bertino
University of Milano, Italy
bertino@dico.unimi.it

David Buttler
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
buttler1@llnl.gov

Fabio Casati
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
fabio.casati@hp.com

Ugur Cetintemel
Brown University, USA
ugur@cs.brown.edu

Michael Champion
Software AG and W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group, USA
mike.champion@softwareag-usa.com

Brian F. Cooper
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
cooperb@cc.gatech.edu

Isabel Cruz 
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
ifc@cs.uic.edu

Alok Choudhary 
Northwestern University, USA
choudhar@ece.northwestern.edu

Jen-Yao Chung 
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
jychung@us.ibm.com

Asuman Dogac
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr

David W Embley
Birmingham Young University, USA
embley@cs.byu.edu

Opher Etzion
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel 
opher@il.ibm.com 

Peter Fankhauser
Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
fankhaus@ipsi.fraunhofer.de

Avigdor Gal 
Technion, Israel
avigal@ie.technion.ac.il

Wolfgang Gentzsch 
Sun Microsystems, USA
wolfgang.gentzsch@sun.com

Amarnath Gupta
University of California, San Diego, USA
gupta@sdsc.edu

Marc N. Haines
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
mhaines@uwm.edu

Sumi Helal
University of Florida, USA
helal@cise.ufl.edu

Michael N. Huhns
University of South Carolina, USA
huhns@sc.edu

Patrick C. K. Hung
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),
Australia
patrick.hung@csiro.au

Kyu-Young Whang
KAIST, Korea
kywhang@mozart.kaist.ac.kr

Mario Jeckle
University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
jeckle@fh-furtwangen.de
  
Vipul Kashyap
National Library of Medicine, USA
kashyap@nlm.nih.gov 

Daniel S. Katz
California Institute of Technology, USA
Daniel.S.Katz@jpl.nasa.gov

Martin Kersten
CWI, The Netherlands
martin.kersten@cwi.nl

Michael Kifer
Stony Brook University, USA
kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu

Roger King
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
roger@cs.colorado.edu

Hiro Kishimoto
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., USA
hiro.kishimoto@jp.fujitsu.com

Manolis Koubarakis
TUC, Greece
manolis@intelligence.tuc.gr

Ee-Peng Lim
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
aseplim@ntu.edu.sg

Bertram Ludaescher 
UCSD Super Computing Center, USA
ludaesch@sdsc.edu

Dennis McLeod
University of Southern California, USA
mcleod@usc.edu

Sanjay Madria
University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
madrias@umr.edu

Leo Mark
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
leomark@cc.gatech.edu

Erich J. Neuhold
Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
neuhold@ipsi.fhg.de

Beng Chin Ooi 
National University of Singapore, Singapore 
ooibc@comp.nus.edu.sg

Yannis Papakonstantinou
University of California, San Diego, USA
yannis@cs.ucsd.edu

Thomas E. Potok
Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), USA
potokte@ornl.gov

Calton Pu
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
calton@cc.gatech.edu

Arnon Rosenthal
The MITRE Corporation, USA
arnie@mitre.org

Marcus A. Rothenberger
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
rothenb@uwm.edu

Akhil Sahai 
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
asahai@hpl.hp.com

Ming-Chien Shan
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA
ming-chien.shan@hp.com

Amit Sheth 
University of Georgia, USA
amit@cs.uga.edu

Munindar P. Singh
North Carolina State University, USA
mpsingh@csc.ncsu.edu

Katia P. Sycara
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
katia@cs.cmu.edu

Il-Yeol Song.
Drexel University, USA
song@drexel.edu

Rudi Studer 
University Karlsruhe, Germany
studer@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, 
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
tsai@cs.uic.edu

George K. Thiruvathukal
Loyola University of Chicago, USA
gkt@cs.luc.edu

Werner Vogels
Cornell University, USA
vogels@cs.cornell.edu

Kaladhar Voruganti
IBM Almaden Research Lab, USA
kaladhar@us.ibm.com

Clement Yu
U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
yu@cs.uic.edu

Carlo Zaniolo 
University of California in Los Angeles, USA
zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu

Xiaodong Zhang 
William and Mary College, USA
zhang@cs.wm.edu

Yanchun Zhang
Victoria University, Australia
yzhang@csm.vu.edu.au

Yanqing Zhang
Georgia State University, USA
yzhang@cs.gsu.edu

Huimin Zhao  	
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
hzhao@uwm.edu


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

General Chair

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang (Ph.D.) 
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
zhanglj@us.ibm.com


Industrial Track Co-Chairs: 

Sinisa Zimek 
SAP Labs, Inc., USA
sinisa.zimek@sap.com 

Roger Barga 
Microsoft Research, USA
barga@microsoft.com 


Panels Chair: 

Calton Pu	
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
calton@cc.gatech.edu

Tutorials Chairs: 
Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal
University of Florida, USA
helal@cise.ufl.edu


Poster Chair: 

Mario Jeckle 
University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
jeckle@fh-furtwangen.de
      
Graciela Gonzalez 
Sam Houston State University, USA
csc_ghg@shsu.edu


Demo & Exhibits Chair: 

Simanta Mitra
Iowa State University, USA
smitra@iastate.edu


Publication Chair: 

Jen-Yao Chung
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
jychung@us.ibm.com 


Sponsor Chair:

David B. Flaxer 
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
flaxer@us.ibm.com


Local Arrangement Chair: 

Kwei-Jay Lin 
University of California, Irvine, USA
klin@uci.edu


Publicity Chairs: 

Patrick C. K. Hung
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),
Australia
patrick.hung@csiro.au

Haifei Li
Nyack College, USA
haifei.li@nyack.edu

Minglu Li
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
li-ml@cs.sjtu.edu.cn


Communication Chair: 

Carolyn McGregor
University of Western Sydney, Australia
carolyn@cit.uws.edu.au


ICWS STEERING COMMITTEE

Ephraim Feig
Kintera Inc, USA
efeig@kintera.com 

Hemant Jain
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA
jain@uwm.edu

Mario Jeckle
U. of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany 
mario@jeckle.de 

Frank Leymann
IBM Software Group, Germany
ley1@de.ibm.com

Stanley Su
University of Florida, USA
su@cise.ufl.edu

Jeffrey Tsai
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
tsai@cs.uic.edu 
 
Liang-Jie Zhang 
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
zhanglj@us.ibm.com 

J. Leon Zhao
University of Arizona, USA
lzhao@bpa.arizona.edu

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