-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - Special Issue on Context-Aware Web Services Datum: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:41:46 +0400 Von: Zakaria Maamar Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae Firma: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

Call for Papers ---------------

Special Issue on Context-Aware Web Services

Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal

Submission deadline: March 15, 2006. -------------------

SCOPE ----- Web services are nowadays 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 the community of 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. Composition primarily addresses the situation of a user's request that cannot be satisfied by any available Web service, whereas a composite service obtained by combining available services may be used. Several questions arise during Web services composition and execution including which businesses have the capacity to provision Web services, when and where the provisioning of Web services occurs, and how Web services from independent parties coordinate their activities during execution so conflicts are avoided. To address some of these questions, it is recommended using the context in which the composition and execution of Web services occur. Context is generally perceived as the information that characterizes the interaction between humans, applications, and the surrounding environment. From a Web services perspective, it is expected that context should define a set of common data about the current status of a Web service and its capability of collaborating with peers, possibly enacted by distinct providers. For example before a Web service agrees to participate in a composite service its status in term of current participation is assessed. Moreover, before a back-up strategy is deployed an assessment of the exception that a Web service has arisen is needed.

By organizing this special issue, we aim at presenting recent and significant developments in the general area of context-aware Web services. We seek original and high quality submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following topics:

- Ontologies and context for Web services. - Context-based semantic matching for Web services composition. - Context-based Web services deployment. - Software agent-based approaches for context-based Web services interaction. - Context-aware Web services in a mobile configuration. - Context and security for Web services - Security of context during Web services interactions. - Software agents and context for Web services personalization - Composition of context-aware Web services. - Description, organization, and discovery of context-aware Web services. - Context-aware Web services and semantic issues. - Technologies and infrastructures for context-aware Web services.

SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original papers using the journal Web site (https://www.editorialmanager.com/dapd/). Submissions length should not exceed 30 pages and must adhere to the manuscript style of the journal. Acceptance will be based on relevance, technical soundness, originality, and clarity of presentation. For further information on submission, please contact the guest editors.

IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2006 Acceptance/Rejection notification: June 30, 2006 Revised versions due: September 15, 2006 Final papers due: October 29, 2006 Publication: March 2007

GUEST EDITORS ------------- - Djamal Benslimane LIRIS Laboratory, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France. djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr.

- Zakaria Maamar Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. zakaria.maamar@zu.ac.ae.

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