ECOWS 2006 - The 4th IEEE European Conference on Web Services

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Zurich, Switzerland, 4-6 December 2006
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Services Computing (approval pending).

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.

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.

Service-oriented computing is 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.

ECOWS 2005 will cover all aspects of Web Services, which constitute the main technology available to date 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
  • Design and Modeling of Web Services
  • Software Architecture of Web Services
  • Web Services for P2P
  • Management of Web Services
  • Governance of Web Services
  • Testing of Web Services
•   Dynamic Web Services
  • Composition of Web Services
  • Orchestration and Choreography of Web Services
  • Web Services for Workflow Systems
  • Web Service Discovery and Selection: Beyond UDDI
•   Semantic Web Services
  • Ontology Languages for Web Services
  • validation and verification for (semantic) Web services
  • advertising, discovery, matchmaking, selection, and brokering of (semantic) Web services
  • data/process/protocol mediation in (semantic) Web services
  • composition, planning, and re-planning with (semantic) Web services
  • execution and lifecycle management of (semantic) Web services
  • monitoring, adaptability, and recovery strategies for (semantic) Web services
• Economics and Web Services
  • Business Process Integration and Management using Web Services
  • Integration of Web Services and Legacy Systems
  • Web Services for e-Business
  • Pricing Models
• Quality Requirements for Web Services
  • Scalability and Performance of Web Services
  • Security Aspects of Web Services
  • Trusting and Negotiating with Web Services
  • Quality of Service-Aware Web Services
•  Web Services for Grids
  • Comparison of Web Services and Grid Services
•  Web Services in a Service-Oriented Environment
  • Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Service-Oriented Computing
• Web Services and Mobility
  
  
• Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications
  
  
• Formal Methods for Web Services

PAPER SUBMISSIONS FOR BUSINESS TRACK

We solicit papers with a maximum of 5 pages, containing new material, work in progress, or position papers. Submissions must be in English and should focus on how concepts and technologies have been adopted to fit real-life requirements with currently available tools.

We welcome case studies from a broad range of application areas, e.g. from automobile, banking, insurance, telecommunications sectors. Practitioners should submit proposals in pdf-format.

When preparing the submissions please use a two column format.  If possible, follow the IEEE Computer Society's 2-column conference proceedings format (instructions, LaTex, Doc).  Please send your final paper in PDF format to the business chair at business-chair@ecows2006.open-soa.net

The authors shortlisted for the best-industry-paper award will be invited to submit enhanced versions of their papers to the JavaSpektrum Magazine (www.javaspektrum.de)

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 19 July, 2006
Notification of acceptance: 11 August, 2006
Final paper due: 29 September, 2006