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

PDF-Call for workshops

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

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, service integrators, developers, and provid­ers need to create methods tools and tech­niques to support the cost-effective de­velopment and use of dependable ser­vices and service-oriented applications.

Topics of Interest

The ECOWS 2006 program committee seeks high quality papers related to 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
• 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

Workshop Proposal Submission Guidelines

The ECOWS 2006 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one and two day work­shops that will complement the main confer­ence. The workshops should fall within the scope of ECOWS. Researchers and practi­tioners wishing to organize workshops should submit proposals in plain text or pdf-format. Proposals should include a workshop name and acronym, a technical description of the workshop topic area, a short descrip­tion of the intended length and format of the workshop, a brief statement of the relevance of the workshop to ECOWS 2006, the names and e-mail addresses of the organizing committee, a list of proposed program com­mittee members, and tentative dates for submission and notification of acceptance. The proposals will be evaluated by the ECOWS organizing committee. The titles and brief information about accepted work­shops will be included in the ECOWS 2006 web site as well as links to the call for papers and call for participation. Please submit your proposals to the workshop chair at workshop-chair@ecows2006.open-soa.net

Important Dates

Proposal submission: 9 June, 2006
Acceptance notification: 30 June, 2006