CFP: Workshop on Service Oriented Techniques at ICEC06

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

                     Call for Papers
        Workshop on Service Oriented Techniques (SOT06)
  At the Eighth International Conference of E-Commerce (ICEC06)
          Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 13, 2006

Organizers: Dr. Yuhong Yan (Canada National Research Council)
            Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Service oriented techniques are used for building software applications
that use services available in a network such as the Web. The driving
forces come from both the software engineering community and the
e-business community. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promotes loose
coupling between software components so that interoperability across
programming languages and platforms can be achieved. Extending the
classic middleware functions, SOA techniques incorporate the demands of
e-business by adding process modelling and management functions. The
description of services covers not only software interfaces but also
semantic business information. Services can be dynamically discovered
and composite services can be built from aggregates of other services.

The aim of the SOT workshop is to present recent research findings on
service oriented techniques.  We welcome papers from both academia and
industry. We especially invite submissions based on theoretical
foundations or innovative industrial projects. Possible topics include,
but are not limited to the following:

* Formal methods for service modelling and computing
* Dynamic selection and composition of services/applications
* Dynamic coordination of services/applications
* Managing and monitoring services/applications
* QoS-enabled services/applications
* Data integration of distributed services
* Selection and interaction among services
* Context-aware services/applications
* Performance evaluation of middleware for service-oriented computing
* Semantic Issues in service integration
* Combinations of Semantic Web technology with Web Services
* Innovative applications

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be submitted in either Word or PDF, according to the ACM
Proceedings Format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template..html). Maximum length is
8 pages. Submissions by email to Yuhong.yan@xxxxxxxxxx Papers will be
reviewed by qualified reviewers from the program committee as below. The
proceedings will be published by the Press of Canadian National Research
Council. The selected paper will be published by the Journal of Business
Process Integration and Management and/or the Journal of Computational
Intelligence.

Important Dates

Electronic paper Submission deadline: June 1, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: June 14, 2006
Camera-ready paper due: June 28, 2006
Workshop: August 13, 2006
Main Conference: August 14-16, 2006

Location
Delta Hotel, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Workshop website:
http://icec06.net/WorkshopsAndTutorials/SOT/SOT-Web.htm
ICEC06=A0 http://icec06.net/

Organizers
Dr. Yuhong Yan (National Research Council, Canada)
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Program Committee

Lilina Ardissono (University of Torino, Italy)
Virendra Bhavsar (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Hong Cai (IBM Research, China)
Luba Cherbakov (IBM Global Service, USA)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China)
Weichang Du (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc., USA)
Chiara Francalanci (Politechnique of Miliano, Italy)
Ali Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Anna Goy (University of Torino, Italy)
Patrick Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Mihhail Matskin (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Yannick Pencole (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Claudia Picardi (University of Torino, Italy)
Jinghai Rao (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Weiming Shen (NRC-IMTI, Canada)
Michael Sintek (DFKI, Germany)
Andy Ju An Wang (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Leon Zhao (University Of Arizona, USA)

Dr. Yuhong Yan
Research Officer, Canada National Research Council
Adjuct Professor in CS, University of New Brunswick
46 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 9W4, Canada
Tel: +1- (506) 444-0388=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Fax: +1- (506) 444-6114
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