CFP: WWW2007 Web Services Track

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference 
Web Services Track
Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://www2007.org
May 8-12, 2007

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The Web Services track of WWW2007 seeks original papers describing research in
all areas of Web Services. Topics include, but are not limited to:

*	Service contract and metadata
*	Orchestration, choreography and composition of services
*	Large scale XML data integration
*	Dependability
*	Security and privacy
*	Tools and technologies for Web Services development, deployment and
management
*	Software methodologies for Service-Oriented Systems
*	The impact of Web Services on enterprise systems
*	Web Services performance
*	Architectural styles for Web Services computing
*	Application of Web Services technologies in areas including e-commerce,
e-science and grid computing
*	Impact of formal methods on Web Services

IMPORTANT DATES

Refereed Paper submissions due: November 20, 2006 (HARD deadline; no extensions)

Acceptance Notification: January 29, 2007 
Conference dates: Tuesday-Saturday, May 8-12, 2007

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and can be
up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the
field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the
work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at
the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or
accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. In addition to
regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position papers articulating
high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or
critiquing current design wisdom. Queries regarding WWW2007 Web Services track
submissions can be sent to Paul.Watson@ncl.ac.uk or Jim@Webber.name.

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an
International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference
proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will
also be accessible to the general public via the conference Web site. Authors
will be required to sign a copyright transfer form. Detailed formatting and
submission requirements are available at http://www2007.org/.

Authors of top-ranked papers from the overall conference will be invited to
submit enhanced versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of
the ACM Transactions on the Web.

TRACK CHAIRS

*	Paul Watson, Newcastle University (UK)
*	Jim Webber, Thoughtworks (Australia)

PROGRAM CHAIRS

*	Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research (USA)
*	Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts (USA)

TRACK PC

*	Boualem Benatallah, University NSW, Australia
*	Sanjay Chaudhary, DA-IICT, India
*	Thomas Erl, SOA Systems, Canada
*	Alan Fekete, University of Sydney, Australia
*	Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China
*	Hiro Kishimoto, Fujitsu, Japan
*	Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
*	Mark Little, RedHat, UK
*	Jimmy Nilson, JNSK, Sweden
*	Dare Obasanjo, Microsoft, USA
*	Savas Parastatidis, Microsoft, USA
*	Greg Pavlik, Oracle Corporation, USA
*	Denis Sosnoski, Sosnoski Software Solutions, New Zealand
*	Tony Storey, IBM, UK
*	Japjit Tulsi, Google, USA
*	William Vambenepe, Hewlett-Packard, USA
*	Steve Vinoski, IONA Technologies, USA
*	Stuart Wheater, Arjuna Technologies, UK
*	Michal Zaremba, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland