THIRD CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Book: Demand-Driven Web Services: Theory, Technologies
and Applications
Edited by Zhaohao Sun and John Yearwood
To be published by IGI Global, USA
Theme
Web services are playing a pivotal role both in business,
service computing and social networking services, and cloud
computing. This is also the case in the traditional FREG
(foods, resources, energy and goods) services, because
almost all traditional services are replaced fully or
partially by web services. Demand-driven web services (DDWS)
as a tri-paradigm, a computing paradigm, a service paradigm,
and a management paradigm, is becoming important for web
services,
service computing, cloud computing, and social networking
computing. However, many fundamental issues in developing
DDWS remain open. For example, what is the demand theory of
web services? What is a demand-driven architecture of web
services? How should real world demands be classified? How
should web services be classified? How can an ontology of
web services be developed? This book will address these
issues by exploring the cutting-edge theory, technologies,
and methodologies of demand driven web services based on
the novel classification of demands and web services
emphasizing cloud services, mobile services, social
networking services and e-business services from a
perspective of computing, service and management. This book
also provides applications of the proposed theory,
technologies and methodologies to successful demand-driven
web services in the real world. The proposed approaches will
facilitate research and development of web services,
e-business, service computing, mobile computing, cloud
computing, and social computing.
Aims and Scope
This book aims at a broad audience of researchers and
practitioners, and provides the reader with an updated
understanding of demand-driven web services, cloud services,
mobile services, and social networking services by
attracting high quality manuscripts from academic
researchers, policy makers and practitioners in this area.
Papers of all theoretical and technological approaches and
applications are welcome.
Submissions that cross multiple disciplines such as
service, business, management, industry, information
systems, and intelligent systems to develop theory and
provide technologies and applications that could move theory
and practice forward in demand-driven web services, cloud
services, mobile services, e-business services, and social
networking services are especially encouraged.
Topics
Topics of contributions include, but are not limited to,
the following
Part I. Theory of demand-driven web services
* Topics: fundamental concepts, models, architectures,
frameworks, schemes or theories for planning, designing,
building, operating or evaluating, managing
demand-driven web services.
Part II. Technologies for demand-driven web services
* Topics: AI-based technologies as such: rule-based
systems, ontology-development
systems, machine learning techniques, multi-agent
systems techniques,
neural networks systems, fuzzy logic systems, cased-based
reasoning systems, genetic algorithms techniques, data
mining algorithms, intelligent agents, user intelligent
interfaces; and emergent AI-based technologies, Web
technologies, service technologies, social networking
technologies, decision making technologies, DSS technologies
are welcome
Part III. Applications for demand-driven web services
* Topics: case studies and applications in using
technologies and fundamental theory in Part I, II in the
representative service domains such as: e-business services,
mobile services, social networking services, cloud services,
financial services, legal services, healthcare services,
logistics services, educational services, e- FREG services,
and military services taking into account demands from
government, organization, enterprise, community,
individual,
customer, and citizen.
Part IV. Trends and Challenges on demand-driven web
services
* Topics: emergent AI-based technologies, technologies of
Big data, social networking services, integrations of these
technologies, and the implications, challenges for
demand-driven web services.
Part V. Emerging demands and emerging demand-driven web
services.
* Topics: Emerging demands, emerging technologies
including human computation and big data management,
methodologies for demand-driven web services.
Submission Procedure
Please submit a brief summary, consisting of about 150
words, of the proposed chapter clearly identifying the main
objectives of your contribution by May 10, 2013. Authors of
the accepted proposals will be notified and provided with
detailed guidelines. Full chapters are to be submitted by
June 30, 2013.
Submission Format and Evaluation
Every book chapter submission should consist of
8,000-12,000 words, and be structured into sections
including Abstract, Introduction, background (or related
work), main sections, future research directions,
conclusion, references.
Every book chapter must be submitted in Microsoft® Word,
and be typewritten in English in APA style based on “manage
source” function.
Every book chapter submission is original. Only ORIGINAL
articles will be accepted for publication by IGI-Global.
Upon acceptance of your article, you will be required to
sign a warranty that your article is original and has NOT
been
submitted for publication or published elsewhere.
Each chapter will be evaluated by at least two academic
peers on related themes in a blind mode. Conditioned
chapters will have an additional opportunity for being
improved and evaluated. In the second evaluation, a
definitive editorial decision among: accepted or rejected
will be reported. All of the accepted chapters must be
submitted according to the Editorial publishing format rules
timely. Instructions for authors can be downloaded at:
Important Dates
* May 10, 2013: Submission of Abstract of the proposed
chapter to the editors
* June 30, 2013: submission deadline of first version of
full chapters.
* August 15, 2013: notification deadline of editorial
results (definitively accepted chapter, conditioned chapter,
or definitively rejected chapter).
* Early 2014: the book is scheduled for release.
Dr. Zhaohao Sun, PhD, ACS (Snr), CP, MIEEE, MAIS
Editor of Demand-Driven Web Services: Theory,
Technologies, and Applications
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering
(SITE)
University of Ballarat
University Drive Mt Helen, Po Box 663,
Ballarat VIC 3353, Australia