The 3rd International Symposium on Web Services

Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
April 21-22, 2010
www.zu.ac.ae/wss

Web services are a major technology for deploying loosely-coupled, cross-enterprise business applications. Various standards support this deployment including WSDL, UDDI, and WS-*. In general, composing Web services rather than accessing a single Web service provides better benefits to users. The previous  edition of the symposium (http://www.zu.ac.ae/wss) attracted a good number of participants from both communities academia and industry. The 2010 edition will feature this time keynote presentations, and paper presentations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Semantic Web services
• Context-aware Web services
• Composition approaches for Web services
• Security of Web services
• Software agents for Web services composition
• Applications of Web services to E-business
• Ontologies and Languages for Service Description

INTENDED AUDIENCE

The intended audience includes researchers who are in the field of service-oriented computing along with its different technologies such as Web services and Grid services; students interested in these topics; developers of commercial Web services standards (such as those engaged in these activities at W3C and OASIS); and commercial software developers who are investigating how to achieve greater flexibility and automation in the delivery of Web services.

SUBMISSION, DATES, & REGISTRATION

Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going research works are solicited. Submitted papers should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings . Acceptance of a paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the symposium.  Submitted papers should be about 2500 words including references and figures (approx. 5 to 6 pages). The papers should be sent no later than February 19, 2010 to  Emad.bataineh@zu.ac.ae.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

In addition to the symposium regular agenda, there will be two special sessions. The first session is about OPEN SOURCE and will discuss the latest developments in this field and how universities could integrate it into their curricula. The session will feature a keynote presentation following by a panel discussion. The second session is about PHD research works. PHD students are invited to expose their projects and expect feedback from the audience.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline:  February 19, 2010 ( new deadline)
Author Notification: February 28, 2010
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: March 21, 2010
Registration for paper presentation and inclusion in the proceedings: April 3, 2010

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Emad Bataineh (symposium chair), Fahim Akhter, Zakaria Maamar, and Leon Jololian.