-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Workshop Proposals to Accompany ECOWS 2009: the 7th European Conference on Web Services Datum: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:13:51 +0100 Von: Nikolay Mehandjiev nikolay.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk Antwort an: Nikolay Mehandjiev nikolay.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

Call for Workshop Proposals

to accompany

ECOWS 2009: The 7th European Conference on Web Services

November 9-11, 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ecows09/workshops.html

The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The success encountered by the Web has shown that tightly coupled software systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems, possibly legacy systems that share very little with it.

Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures, they can evolve during their lifespan more easily and better adapt to changing or unpredictable environments. When properly implemented, services can be discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms, while each service can still be implemented in a black-box manner. This is important from a business perspective since each service can be implemented using any technology, independently of the others. What matters is that everybody agrees on the integration technology, and there is a consensus about this in today's middleware market: customers want to use Web technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators, developers, and providers need to create methods tools and techniques to support cost-effective development and the use of dependable services and service-oriented applications.

Workshop Proposal Submission Guidelines:

The ECOWS 2009 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one day or half day workshops that will complement the main conference (see http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ecows09/). The workshops will be held on Nov 9th.

Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize workshops should submit proposals in plain text or pdf-format. Proposals should include a workshop name and acronym, a technical description of the workshop topic area, a short description of the intended length and format of the workshop, a brief statement of the relevance of the workshop to ECOWS 2009, the names and e-mail addresses of the organizing committee, a list of proposed program committee members, and tentative dates for submission and notification of acceptance.

Please email your workshop proposal or preliminary enquiries to

n.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk

Workshop proposals will be acknowledged within 48 hours, please contact us if you do not receive such an acknowledgement.

The proposals will be evaluated by the ECOWS Organizing Committee. The titles and brief information about accepted workshops will be included in the ECOWS 2009 web site as well as links to the call for papers and call for participation.

Deadlines:

Proposal submission: May 27, 2009 (extended deadline) Acceptance notification: June 4, 2009

Organisation:

General Chair * Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Programme Co-Chairs * Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Workshop Chair * Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK

Business Chair * Mark Lankhorst, Novay, The Netherlands

Local Chair * Annemarie van der Aa, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Jochem Vonk, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Web Chair * Ricardo Seguel, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Steering Committee

* Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland * Siobh‡n Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Birgitta Kšnig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany * Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany * Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Thomas Gschwind, IBM Research, Switzerland * Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA

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