- From: Shonali Krishnaswamy <Shonali.Krishnaswamy@infotech.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:00:41 +1100 (EST)
- To: www-ws@w3.org
Dear colleague, we encourage you to send your contributions and participate to ICSOC'05.
As you will notice from the CFP and the Web site, this year we have planned several innovations
in the ongoing effort to further improve the quality and attractiveness of what was already a
very stimulating conference.
The main goal of ICSOC'05 is to foster integration among scientific communities working in
the service-oriented computing area.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
ICSOC'05
3rd International Conference on
Service-Oriented Computing
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
December 12-16, 2005
http://www.icsoc.org/
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Service-oriented computing is the new emerging cross-disciplinary paradigm for distributed
computing that is changing the way software applications are designed, architected, delivered
and consumed. Services are autonomous, platform-independent computational elements that can be
described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using standard protocols for the
purpose of building networks of collaborating applications distributed within and across
organizational boundaries.
Web Services are the current most promising technology based on the idea of service oriented
computing. Web services provide the basis for the development and execution of business
processes that are distributed over the network and available via standard interfaces and
protocols.
Combined with recent developments in the area of distributed systems, workflow management
systems, business protocols and languages, services can provide the automated support needed for
e-business collaboration and integration both at the data and business logic level. They also
provide a sound support framework for developing complex business transaction sequences and
business collaboration applications.
The 3rd International Conference of Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'05) follows on the success
of two previous editions in New York City, USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003), and aims at
consolidating as the main reference conference for service oriented computing and web services,
by covering the entire spectrum from theoretical and foundational results to empirical
evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences. ICSOC'05 proposes several
innovations to achieve this goal.
== The ICSOC'05 Challenge: fostering "cross-communities" scientific excellence ==
Service oriented computing poses a number of research challenges that are intrinsically
"transversal" to more established and traditional research fields. Main
research challenges such as the composition, discovery, integration, monitoring, of services,
their quality and security, methodologies supporting their development, evolution, adaptation,
as well as their life-cycle management, are attracting the interest of researchers in very
diverse communities, such as databases, software engineering, artificial intelligence,
distributed and information systems just to name a few. ICSOC'05 has been thought with two goals
in mind:
* Crossing the boundaries of the existing communities by attracting top level scientific
contributions from different scientific communities, thus creating a scientific venue where
participants can share ideas and compare their approaches to tackling the many still open common
research challenges.
* Establishing a link between research and industry. Due to the industrial relevance of many
research challenges and service oriented technologies, ICSOC'05 inherits from previous editions
a strong industrial presence, both in the conference organization and in the program.
This year we have taken concrete steps to achieve these goals. We have introduced area
coordinators, who have the key role of reaching out to the different scientific communities and
to support the evaluation and selection of papers related to the diverse communities. Scientific
communities of interest for ICSOC'05 include (but are not limited to) the following:
Middleware
Security and Privacy
Databases
Software Engineering
Pervasive, Mobile, and P2P Systems
Information Systems
Automated Planning
Semantic Web Services
Software Agents
Formal Methods
WS management/Grid Computing
In addition, a vision program will provide presentations on ideas and projects that are very
innovative and promising, but are still in their initial phase, and therefore did not yet
develop solid results.
A Demo program will act as a link between theory and practical applications, showing how
research results can be put into practice. Finally, a renewed review
process will include a rebuttal phase to let authors provide feedback on the reviews and help
achieve a fair and thorough evaluation of all papers.
SUBMISSIONS:
ICSOC'05 seeks original papers in the field of web services and service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
Service Description
Service Discovery
Service Composition
Service Monitoring
Service Deployment
Service Middleware
Service Oriented Architectures
Service Development and Maintenance
Programming models for Service Oriented Applications
Methodologies for Service Oriented Applications
Novel business models for service-oriented applications
Economical implications of Web services and SOAs
Formal Methods for Service Oriented Architectures
Service Testing and Validation
Service Lifecycle Management
Service Metadata
Semantic Web services
Grid Services
Mobile and Pervasive Services
Quality of Services
Business Process Management and Services
Agents and Services
Security and Privacy Issues
Exception Handling
Service dependability
SLA modeling-management
Service Oriented Architectures
One of the goals of the conference is to bring the academic and industrial research communities
closer. To this end the conference solicits three kinds of submissions: research papers,
industrial papers, and demo proposals. In addition, we solicit submission of workshops and
tutorials.
* Research Papers: The conference is soliciting original research papers on all aspects of web
services and service-oriented computing. The submissions should contain results which advance
the state of the art in service oriented systems, either through theoretical analysis or
experimental analysis. They should clearly establish the research contribution, the relevance to
service-oriented computing and the relation to prior research. For papers reporting experimental
results, authors are encouraged to make the systems and the data available on the Web, and a
system demo at the conference. Submitted papers will be judged according to their scientific
merits and evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Note that
we encourage both computer science-oriented papers as well as business oriented papers. See
below for submission details.
* Industrial and Application Papers: ICSOC'05 places a strong emphasis on its industrial program
and encourages submissions covering the application of service-oriented computing in practice,
including papers describing innovative service-based implementations, novel applications of
service oriented technology, and major improvements to the state-of-practice. Actual case
studies from practitioners emphasizing applications, service technology, system deployment,
organizational ramifications, or business impact are especially welcomed. Industrial and
application papers should give sufficient details on the application domain, on the service
oriented techniques that have been used, on the issues surrounding actual implementations and
applications, and on the lessons learned in developing service oriented applications. Because of
the different evaluation criteria, authors must clearly indicate that their submissions are
intended for the industrial track.
* Vision papers: this year ICSOC includes a vision track, which includes papers describing
innovative, visionary, and "bold" research even if it is not at a level of maturity typical of
ICSOC research track papers. In ICSOC'05 this track will only include invited papers.
Beyond research and application papers, ICSOC'05 strongly encourages the submissions of
proposals for presentations of demos.
* Demonstration Program: We invite submissions for Demos to be included in the ICSOC'05
Demonstration Program. This program is intended to showcase innovative service oriented related
implementations and technologies. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation,
relevance, scientific contribution, industrial and application relevance. A short paper
describing the demo should be submitted in electronic form to the Demonstrations Chair.
The abstract should describe the technical content to be demonstrated as well as the
architecture and the availability of the software.
All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF and in Springer/LNCS format. Research and
industrial papers are not to exceed 12 pages. Abstracts for research and application papers -
not exceeding 200 words - need to be submitted one week prior to the paper submission deadline.
Demo papers should not exceed 6 pages. All submissions should include title, authors, full
contact information, and references. Submissions should indicate at least two main topics and
the scientific area (or areas) that best fit the paper. Authors will be given the opportunity to
submit a one-page reply, within one week, to answer to the reviewers' concerns. This is done in
the effort to improve the paper selection process and make sure that papers are not rejected
based on some misunderstanding or erroneous interpretation by the reviewers that is easy to
correct in preparing the final version. All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC'05 archival
proceedings, published by Springer, and must! be formally presented at the
conference, through oral presentations, and possibly through demonstrations.
ICSOC'05 solicits the submissions of proposals for Workshops and Tutorials:
* Workshop Proposal Submissions: ICSOC'05 solicits the submission of workshop proposals on any
of the conference topics. We strongly encourage workshops on key research challenges that can
contribute to the main two goals of ICSOC'05: 'cross the boundaries among different scientific
communities and cross the boundaries among industry and research', by opening the possibility to
participants to discuss and compare their approaches to problems of common interest. Workshop
proposals should not exceed five pages, and should include a description of the workshop topic
and the issues on which the workshop will focus, the motivation of why the workshop is of
interest at this time, a description of the workshop format, the workshop duration, brief bios
of the organizers, and a list of potential attendees. A one page abstract of the workshop must
also be included, to be incorporated into the conference proceedings. Proposals should be
submitted electronically to the Workshop Chair. Workshop proceedings will be made available to
the participants attending the workshops.
* Tutorial Proposal Submissions: The ICSOC conference solicits the submission of high quality
tutorial proposals on any of the conference topics. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages,
and should include enough material to describe what is being covered and at which level of
depth, as well as a description of the teaching methodology (lectures, hands-on sessions, ...).
Proposals should also indicate the required background knowledge of the intended audience, the
tutorial length (1.5 hours or 3 hours), as well as the name, contact information, and short bios
of the speakers. A one page abstract of the tutorial must also be included, to be incorporated
into the conference proceedings. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Tutorial
Chair. Tutorial notes will be made available to the tutorial participants.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
The ICSCOC'05 proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop proposal submission: May 15, 2005
Paper abstract submission: June 24, 2005
Tutorial and panel submission: July 1, 2005
Full paper submission: July 1, 2005
Demo Proposals: July 30, 2005
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2005
Final manuscript due: October 3, 2005
Workshops and Tutorials: December 12-13 2005
Main conference: December 14-16, 2005
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Conference Web-site: http://www.icsoc.org/
For more information please send e-mail to: pc-chairs@pcicsoc.org
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
General Chairs: Paco Curbera, IBM Research (USA)
Mike Papazoglou, Univ. of Tilburg (Netherlands)
Program Chairs: Fabio Casati, Hewlett-Packard (USA)
Paolo Traverso, ITC-IRST (Italy)
Boualem Benatallah, UNSW (Australia)
Local Organization Chairs: Willem Jan van den Heuvel and
Kees Leune, Univ. of Tilburg (Netherlands)
Industrial Track Chairs: Jean Jacques Dubray, Attachmate (USA)
Demo Chairs: Steve Vinoski, Iona (USA) and
Panel Chairs: TBD
Tutorial Chairs: Asit Dan, IBM Research (USA) and
Vincenzo D'andrea, Univ. of Trento (Italy)
Workshop chairs: Frank Leymann, Univ. of Stuttgart (Germany)
Financial Chair: Maurizio Marchese, Univ. of Trento (Italy)
Publicity Chairs: Helen Paik, QUT, Brisbane (Australia),
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash Univ (Australia),
Michael Sheng, UNSW (Australia)
AREA COORDINATORS:
Roger Barga, Microsoft (Middleware)
Elisa Bertino, Purdue (Security and Privacy)
Jim Blythe, ISI/USC (Automated Planning)
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano (Databases)
Boi Faltings, EPFL (Software Agents)
Ian Foster - ANL & U. Chicago (WS management/Grid Computing)
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano (Software Engineering)
Richard Hull, Lucent Tech. (Semantic Web Services)
Hui Lei, IBM (Pervasive, Mobile, and P2P Systems)
Ugo Montanari, Univ. Pisa (Formal Methods)
John Mylopolous, University of Toronto (Requirements Eng - Methodologies)
Colette Roland, University of Paris (Information Systems)
Received on Monday, 7 March 2005 00:11:00 UTC