Arriving in Zurich We are looking forward to seeing you all in Zurich this coming week. Detailed instructions on how to find the main conference venue can be found at the following places: On the venue page of the conference web site. At the maps.search.ch interactive map provider. At live.com. Registration When you arrive at the Technopark conference venue registration will be signposted. Registration/Information will be open at the following times: Monday, Dec 4: 7:30 - 19:30 Tuesday, Dec 5: 7:30 - 17:00 Wednesday, Dec 6: 8:00 - 15:30 Final Program The final program can be found here.

Web Services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures, they can evolve during their lifespans 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.

The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference for both researchers and practicioners 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.

Following IEEE ECOWS 2005 in Växjö an and twice in Erfurt, Germany, ECOWS 2006 will turn the Technopark incubator in Zurich, Switzerland, into the European epicenter for research and practitioners working on Web Services and Service Oriented Computing.

ECOWS 2006 is supported by the IEEE Computer Society, the Swiss Informatics Society (SI), and various sponsors.

Extended deadlines:

Abstract submission deadline: 3 July, 2006
Electronic paper submission deadline: 10 July, 2006

Acceptance and Rejectance Notifications:
Due to the extension of the paper submission deadline, we have not yet been able to finish the review process. We expect, however, to be able to send out the acceptance and rejectance notifications by August 25.

The ECOWS'06 - Call for Submissions Poster can be downloaded here (6.4 MB).