• Mathematical Foundations for Web Services Computing
• Web Services-based Service Oriented Architecture
• Web Services Modeling
• Web Services Standards and Implementation Technologies
• Web Services Specifications and Enhancements (e.g., UDDI, SOAP, WSDL)
• Web Services Discovery
• Web Services Composition and Integration
• Web Services Invocation
• QoS for Web Services (e.g., security, privacy, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, etc.)
• Web Services Assessment (i.e., validation & verification)
• Web Services-based Testing Methodologies
• Web Services-based Software Engineering
• Web Services-based Project Management
• Semantic Web Services
• IT Infrastructure Management for Web Services
• Solution Management for Web Services
• Multimedia Web Services
• Web Services-driven Business Process Management
• Web Services-based Mobile Computing
• Web Services-based Grid Applications
• Domain Specific Web Services Applications and Solutions

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should not be submitted to ICWS 2006 and SCC 2006 simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from both conferences without review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings in both hardcopy and on-line version published by the IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of selected best papers published in the ICWS 2006 will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), and the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC). Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed Instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2006/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and between one to three Best Student Paper Awards will be granted at ICWS 2006. The first author of the best student papers must be full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to ICWS 2006 Industry Track via its dedicated online submission and review system. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution descriptions may be recommended to the Industry Track for further considerations. Submitted papers with novel ideas but not accepted by the Research Track and Industry Track may also be recommended to the Work-in-Progress Track.

Review Policy

IEEE Policy and professional ethics requires that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.

Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2006 February 15, 2006
Paper Submission Due Date: January 31, 2006 February 15, 2006
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 24, 2006 May 24, 2006(Updated on 2/17/2006)
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 31, 2006
June 24, 2006

Program Chairs:
Ephraim Feig, Ph.D., Kintera, Inc., USA, efeig AT kintera.com
Anup Kumar, Professor, CECS Department, University of Louisville, USA, ak AT louisville.edu

Program Vice Chair:
Jia Zhang, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, jiazhang AT cs.niu.edu

General Chairs:
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany, frank.leymann AT informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, zhanglj AT ieee.org