2008 Second IEEE International Workshop on Web X.o (WebX 2008)

 Co-located with IEEE 2008 Services Congress
(http://conferences.computer.org/services/2008)
July 8-11, 2008, Hawaii, USA

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc)

The Web 2.0 phenomena have become very popular and attractive in recent years. Accompanying Web 2.0 phenomena there’re both technology challenges as well as business challenges.

 The word “Web X.o” represents “Web eXpandoo” which is derived from “Web” and a misspelled word “Expandnoon”. “noon” is interpreted as “the highest, brightest, or finest point or part” or “the highest point”. (Source: Liang-Jie Zhang , Hong Cai, Service HyperChain Architecture of Web X.o and A Case Study, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), July 2007, pp. 968-975 )

 The goal of the Web X.o Workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas on how to expand the current Web to the “highest and brightest” point. As an example, the key concept of Services HyperChain in the Web eXpandoo framework was introduced to provide an enabling technology architecture that supports the future Web, which coordinates multimedia presentations, human interactions, business processes, computing resources, and business applications in a uniform fashion.

 We would rather call the next generation of services environment as Web X.o (“o” represent open, not “0” from version point of view). There are some significant aspects of Web X.o.

• First, from architecture perspective, Web eXpandoon needs an extensible and configurable architecture so the community efforts can be applied to the growth of the Web.
• Second, eXpandoon provides presentation technologies that support flexible and seamless view constructing and communication with back servers.
• With the extension in the third dimension, we can expect stronger support to build flexible service value chain, and provide better value-added services within the dynamic service ecosystem.

 IEEE WebX 2008 is co-located with the 2008 IEEE Service Congress in Hawaii. WebX 2008 will help us explore a natural evolution of Web Services/SOA over Internet in a broadened sense.

The following topics concerning Web X.o are of interest, but not limited to:

* Web 2.0 Technology Practices
    - e.g., AJAX, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), ATOM
    - Ruby on Rail, Php for Web X.0, etc.
    - Application mash-up over Web 2.0

* Web 2.0 Applications
- Web 2.0 in mobile communications (e.g., 3G)
- Web 2.0 for knowledge sharing
- Web 2.0 desktop applications
- Web 2.0 based Podcast and Videocast solutions

* Open source and open community for Web X.o

* Virtual and visual business (V-business) in 3D Web X.o
- E.g., application of 3-D/virtual worlds technologies in business, learning, and other domains

* Social network analysis and complex network theory applied to digital community
- E.g., how opinions are formed and propagated in a digital community

 * Innovative business models and economic models of Web X.o
- E.g., the foundation underneath FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, etc.

* Challenges and practices of integrating of Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

* Web X.o and the future technologies

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). You can download the paper template in word format.

Authors should submit a Word or PDF files using the online submission and review system (http://confhub.com/SubmitAbstract.php?cid=14).  The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2008) by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

SPECIAL ISSUE

The best papers from the workshop will be selected for journal length extension and their publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr), which has been included in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) since the first issue of 2006.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Due Date: March 15, 2008
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 1, 2008
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 18, 2008

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Workshop Co-chairs:
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Hong Cai, IBM China Research Lab, China
Thomas Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

CONTACT
If you have any questions on this workshop, please feel free to send email to Thomas Kwok at kwok AT us.ibm.com.