3RD 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 8, 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 8, 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