Call for Papers
The 2nd UAE Symposium on Web Services
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
April 15-16, 2009
(www.zu.ac.ae/wss)
Web services are emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards support this deployment including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of Web services, their advertisement to potential users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes. In general, composing Web services rather than accessing a single Web service is essential and provides better benefits to users.
The 2008 edition of the symposium (http://www.zu.ac.ae/wss2008/index.html) attracted a good number of participants from both communities academia and industry. The program in 2008 was based on five keynote presentations (Dr. M. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Dr. H. Maya (SAP, Germany), D. Martin (SRI, USA), Dr. L. D. Martino (Purdue University, USA), and A. Shehada (IBM, UAE)) by panel sessions. The 2009 edition will feature this time keynote presentations, paper presentations, and demonstrations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Standards for Web services
- Semantic Web services
- Context-aware Web services
- Composition approaches for Web services
- Security of Web services
- Software agents for Web services composition
- Policies and Web services
- Supporting SWS Deployment
- Architectures for SWS Deployment
- Tools and Infrastructure
- Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government
- Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS
- Policies for Semantic Web Services
- Advertising, Discovery, Matchmaking
- SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography
- Ontologies and Languages for Service Description
- Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling
- Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes
- Contracts and Commitments
- Composition of Semantic Web Services
- Execution and Lifecycle Management of Web Services
- Monitoring and Recovery Strategies for Web Services
- Relationship of Semantic Web Services with Workflow Technologies
- Security and Privacy for Semantic Web Services
- Relationships between SWS, Grid Service, and Commercial WS Technologies
INTENDED AUDIENCE
The intended audience includes researchers working on Web services, Grid services, and related technologies; 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 work 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. 4 to 5 pages). The papers should be sent no later than March 1, 2009 to
fahim.akhter@zu.ac.ae. All papers will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, clarity and technical quality.
Submission Deadline: March 2, 2009
Author Notification: March 16, 2009
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: March 18, 2009
Registration for paper presentation and inclusion in the proceedings: April 3, 2009
The symposium will be followed by a special issue in the International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR, http://www.igi-pub.com/ijebr)
CONFERENCE OFFICERS
Dr. Fahim Akhter, Symposium Chair
College of Information Technology
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
Email: fahim.akhter@zu.ac.ae
Dr. Emad Bataineh, Symposium Co-Chair
College of Information Technology
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
Email: emad.bataineh@zu.ac.ae
Dr. Leon Jololian
College of Information Technology
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
Email: leon.jololian@zu.ac.ae
Dr. Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
Email: zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae