-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP - Workshop on Web Services and Geographic Information Systems Datum: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:25:24 +0400 Von: Zakaria Maamar Zakaria.Maamar@zu.ac.ae Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

Call For Papers Workshop on Web Services and Geographic Information Systems To be held in conjunction with The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM’2007) October 29-31, 2007 - Lyon, FRANCE - http://www.icdim.org

Description. The wide spread of Internet technologies is having an important impact on the way businesses deal with their partners and customers. To remain competitive, traditional businesses are under pressure to take advantage of the information revolution the Internet and the Web have brought about.

The rapidly expanding Web services are one of the technologies that could help businesses be more Web-oriented. A Web service is an operation typically addressed via a URL, declaratively described using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent XML-based messages. The development of industry standards, products, and tools for supporting Web service system development is proceeding at a very rapid rate. Standards exist for service discovery (UDDI), description (WSDL), coordination (BPML, BPEL4WS, WSCI), and communication (SOAP). In parallel with the development of these general-purpose Web services, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has successfully executed efforts for GIS interoperability. For example, the OGC Web Services (OWS) initiative has undergone multiple phases including the Web Map Server (WMS), Web Feature Server (WFS), Web Coverage Server (WCS), and OGC Web Service Architecture. For the GIS community, Web services are a suitable technology for providing and sharing the huge amount of data currently available thanks to satellites, sensors, etc. These services enable users to perform geo-processing tasks, such as spatial searches, mapping, and geo-coding.

Despite all the efforts that are put into Web services research and development, many businesses, particularly GIS-oriented, are still struggling with how to put their core business competences on the Internet as a collection of Web services. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the recent and significant developments in the areas of Web Services and GISs and to provide a forum for articles that bring the challenges in the their combination, and the opportunity for all involved to debate new issues and directions for research and development work in the future. Pssible topics include but are not limited to: * Geographic Web services * Web services standards for GISs * Geographical search engines and web services * Development environment for GIS Web services * Frameworks for building geographic Web services * GIS Web service modelling, design, and architecture * Web map services * Geographic Web services personalization * Context Management for GIS Web services. * Software Agent Architecture for GIS Web services.

Timetable: * Submission deadline: August 10th, 2007 * Acceptance notification: September 10th, 2007 * Final paper deadline: September 25th, 2007 * Workshop held: October 29th-31st, 2007

Submissions. Authors are requested to submit full papers in pdf format, in English using the submission portal at http://www.easychair.org/. The length of the paper is limited to up to 8 pages using 2 columns. For formatting, please refer to the information for authors by IEEE. Workshop papers are equivalent to ICDIM 2007 full conference papers in all respects. Workshop papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.

All papers submitted to WSGIS must be previously unpublished and may not be considered for publication elsewhere at any time during WSGIS's review period. Papers describing research-in-progress may be submitted provided they include sufficient results to validate the research. The Program Committee will evaluate the papers based on scientific significance, relevance to the conference, novelty, relation to previously published literature, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present . Wathiq Mansoor (American University in Dubai, U.A.E), Nafaâ Jabeur (Windsor University, Canada), Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, U.A.E), Michael Sheng (The University of Adelaide, Australia), and Said Elnaffar (UAE University, U.A.E)

Program Committee (some confirmations still pending): Anne H.H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA Andrew L. Wendelborn, University of Adelaide, Australia Thierry Badard, University of Laval, Canada Frederic Hubert, University of Laval, Canada Pedro Jose Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Aris M. Ouksel, University of Chicago, USA. Sylvain Giroux, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Alex Alexandropoulos, American University in Dubai, UAE Elarbi Badidi, UAE University, UAE Hazem Alkhatib, UAE University, UAE

Further Information. Please address all correspondences about the workshop to: Dr. Wathiq Mansoor: wmansoor@aud.edu

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