European Conf. on Web Services ECOWS 07

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****** NEW: EXTENDED DEADLINE! Abstracts Due: June 22, 2007! *****


Call for Papers

ECOWS 2007: The 5th European Conference on Web Services
November 26-28,2007 in Halle (Saale), Germany

http://www.ecows2007.uni-halle.de


The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier
conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest
advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services.

The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange
between researchers and practitioners and to foster future
collaborations in Europe and beyond. The success encountered by the Web
has shown that tightly coupled software systems are only good for niche
markets, whereas loosely  coupled software systems can be more flexible,
more adaptive and often more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling
makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems,
possibly legacy  systems that share very little with it. Web services
are at the crossing of distributed computing and  loosely coupled
systems. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures, they
can evolve during their lifespan more easily and better adapt to
changing or unpredictable environments. When properly implemented,
services can be discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary
mechanisms, while each service can still be implemented in a black-box
manner. This is important!
   from a business perspective since customers no longer need to
"choose their side."  Each service can be implemented using any
technology, independently of the others. What matters is that everybody
agrees on the integration technology, and there is a consensus about
this in today's middleware market: customers want to use Web
technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators,
developers, and providers need to create methods tools and techniques to
support cost-effective development and the use of dependable services and
service-oriented applications.

Topics of Interest:

The ECOWS 2007 program committee seeks high quality papers related to
all aspects of Web Services, which constitute the current main
technology available for implementing service-oriented architectures and
computing. Topics of interest to the Research Track include, but are not
limited to, the following:

    * Life-Cycle of Web Services Implementations
    * Dynamic Web Services
    * Semantic Web Services
    * Economics and Web Services
    * Quality Requirements for Web Services
    * Web Services for Grids
    * Web Services in a Service-Oriented Environment
    * Web Services and Mobility
    * Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications
    * Formal Methods for Web Services


Research Paper Submission Guidelines:

We solicit papers with a maximum of 10 pages, containing new material.
Submissions must be in English, must be original, and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. There will be an award for the best
paper and best student paper. Submissions should be made through the
website.

As in the previous years, we plan to publish the ECOWS 2007 Proceedings
with IEEE Computer Society Press. Technical papers must be conform to
the IEEE paper guidelines. Submit your paper in PDF or Postscript format
via the electronic submission system which will be made available via
the ECOWS 2007 web site.


Deadlines:

NEW: Abstract Submission          June 22, 2007
NEW: Electronic Paper Submission      June 29, 2007
Acceptance Notification          July 28, 2007
Camera Ready Version              August 11, 2007


Organisation:

General Chair
    * Wolf Zimmermann, Universität Halle, Germany

Programme Co-Chairs
    * Birgitta König-Ries, Universität Jena, Germany
    * Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland

Workshop Chair
    * Ronald Maier, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

Business Chair
    * Rainer Neumann, PTV AG, Germany

Local Chair
    * Ramona Vahrenhold, Universität Halle, Germany

Web Chair
    * Andreas Both, Universität Halle, Germany

Steering Committee

    * Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA
    * Abraham Bernstein, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
    * Thomas Gschwind, IBM Research Switzerland


PC Members:

     *  Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
     *  Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     *  Steven Battle, Hewlett-Packard Labs
     *  Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
     *  Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
     *  David Breitgand, IBM Research, Israel
     *  Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, USA
     *  Anis Charfi, SAP Research, Germany
     *  Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
     *  Theo Dimitrakos, BT, UK
     *  Jürgen Dunkel, FH Hannover, Germany
     *  Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
     *  Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
     *  David Eyers, University of Cambridge, UK
     *  Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck and DERI, Austria
     *  Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany
     *  Chris Giblin, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
     *  John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
     *  Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
     *  Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway
     *  Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
     *  Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
     *  Alexander Keller, IBM, USA
     *  Christoph Kiefer, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
     *  Nik Klever, FH Augsburg, Germany
     *  Ernö Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany
     *  Jochen Küster, IBM Research, Switzerland
     *  Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
     *  Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
     *  Welf Löwe, Växjö Universitet, Sweden
     *  Ronald Maier, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
     *  Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland
     *  Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany
     *  Olivire Nano, Microsoft, USA
     *  Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
     *  Johann Oberleitner, Technical University Vienna, Austria
     *  Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs Europe, Germany
     *  Cesare Pautasso, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
     *  Gerald Reif, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
     *  Wolfgang Reisig, Humbold-Universität Berlin, Germany
     *  Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     *  Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research, Australia
     *  Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
     *  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
     *  Wim Vanderperren, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
     *  Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, UK
     *  Do van Thanh, NTNU and Telenor, Norway
     *  Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks, Australia
     *  Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
     *  Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA
     *  Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research, Switzerland   

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Birgitta König-Ries
Heinz-Nixdorf-Stiftungsprofessur für Praktische Informatik
Institut für Informatik
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
hnsp.inf-bb.uni-jena.de
koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de

Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2007 15:24:23 UTC