EXTENDED DEADLINE: 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005)

["Patrick Hung" <Patrick.Hung@UOIT.CA>]

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Call for Papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED

2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005)
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July 12-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005
Theme: Bridge the Gap between Business Services and IT Services

The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) is the THIRD year of ICWS focusing on Web Services. The long-term goal of ICWS is to build up a reputable and respectable conference for the international community. ICWS is a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of Web Services, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of Web Services computing. ICWS 2005 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Steering Committee (a.k.a. Technical Community) for Services Computing (TSC-SC) and will be co-located with the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005). The theme of this joint IEEE conference on SERVICES is "Bridge the Gap between Business Services and IT Services".

ICWS 2004 was held in San Diego, California, July 6-9, 2004. A total of 230 papers were submitted to ICWS in 2004, 66 were accepted as full research papers. ICWS 2004 had 14 research sessions, 4 industry sessions, 5 tutorials, 4 panels, and 3 poster paper sessions. ICWS 2004 had attracted about 250 registered participants from 22 countries and regions. ICWS 2003 and ICWS 2004 have proven to be an excellent catalyst for research & collaboration, and we fully expect that ICWS 2005 will continue this trend.
The program of ICWS 2005 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on difference aspects of IT services. Some of the topics include Web Services specifications and enhancements, Web Services discovery, Web Services security, Web Services based applications, Web Services standards and technologies, Web Services applications and solutions, Web Services realizations, semantic Web Services, and other emerging technologies or solutions.  All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in hardcopy and on-line version by the IEEE Computer Society. The full version of the selected best papers published in the ICWS 2005 will be invited to publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) (by Idea Group) and possibly other related journals. The ICWS 2005 Proceedings and JWSR have both been selected to be included in EI Compendex.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 
- Mathematical foundations of Web Services
- Data management issues in Web Services
- Frameworks for building Web Service applications 
- Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures (e.g., workflow technology) 
- Web Service composition, orchestration, and choreography 
- Web Services modeling & design 
- Web Services discovery & selection 
- Semantic Web, ontologies, and Web Services 
- Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services 
- Contractual issues between provider and consumer of Web Services 
- Version management in Web Services 
- Customization of Web Services 
- Web Services architecture 
- Web Services negotiation & agreement 
- UDDI and SOAP enhancements 
- Web Services and process management
- Trust, security & privacy in Web Services 
- Scalability and performance of Web Services 
- Web Services standards and technologies 
- Automatic computing for Web Services infrastructure 
- Wireless web, mobility, and Web Services 
- Web Service based Grid Computing and peer to peer computing 
- Web Services based applications for e-commerce 
- Quality of service for Web Services 
- Multimedia applications using Web Services 
- Economics and pricing models of utility computing and Web Services 
- Resource management of Web Services 
- Solution management for Web Services 
- Adoption of Web Services by organizations 
- Case studies on Web Services based applications 
- Analysis, testing, and verification of Web Services

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 8-10 (IEEE Proceeding style) pages and be printed on 10 or 12 size font. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed Instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005/ . The length of the camera-ready of an accepted paper will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The IEEE ICWS 2005 Proceedings will be collected in EI Compendex. The detailed submission instructions can be found at ICWS 2005 web site.  Some speakers of the keynotes, panels, and tutorials will be invited to submit articles to extend their presentations for IEEE IT Professional Magazine. 

EVALUATION PROCESS: 
All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least two to three researchers in the topical area.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: 
One Best Paper award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by ICWS 2005. The first author of the best student papers should be full-time students.

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb. 7, 2005 (Monday) - NEW!
Paper Submission due date: Feb. 14, 2005 (Monday) - NEW!
Decision Notification (electronic): April 11, 2005 (Monday) - NEW!
Camera-Ready copy due date & Pre-registration due: April 29, 2005 (Friday) - NEW!


General Chairs:
Carl K. Chang (Iowa State University)
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Program Committee Chairs:
Jianwen Su (U C Santa Barbara)
Malu G. Castellanos (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

Industrial Track Chairs: 
Ali Arsanjani (IBM Global Services, USA)
Wu Chou (Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Joseph Williams (Microsoft), USA

Panel Chairs: 
Frank Ferrante (Editor in Chief,IEEE IT Professional Magazine)
Dejan S. Milojicic (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) 
J. Leon Zhao (University of Arizona)

Publicity Chairs: 
Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Anup Kumar (University of Louisville)
Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria at Como, Italy)

Tutorial Chair: 
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Job Fair Chair:
Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Finance Chair:
Johnny Wong (Iowa State University)

Publication Chair:
Simanta Mitra (Iowa State University)

Awards Chair:
Rong N Chang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Poster Chairs:
Graciela Gonzalez (Sam Houston State University) 
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University)

Web Chair:
Jinchun Xia (Iowa State University)

Registration Chair:
Dingding Lu  (Iowa State University)

Technical Program Committee:
Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, France)
Divyakant Agrawal (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH, Greece)
Mikio Aoyama (Nanzan University, Japan)
Steve Battle (Hewlett-Packard, UK)
Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM T. J. Watson, USA)
Athman Boughettaya (Virginia Tech, USA)
Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Christoph Bussler (Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland)
Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira, Portugal)
Michael Carey (BEA Systems, USA)
Fabio Casati (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA)
David Cheung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dickson K.W. Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong)
Vassilis Christophides (Institute of Computer Science, Greece)
Alin Deutsch (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Jean Jacques Dubray (Attachmate, USA)
Marlon Dumas (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
David Edmond (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Peter Fankhauser (IPSI, Germany)
Dieter Fensel (Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland)
Geofrrey Fox (Indiana University, USA)
Piero Fraternali (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy)
Xiang Fu (Georgia South Western State University, USA)
Casey K. Fung (Boeing Phantom Works, USA)
Martin Gaedke (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Alex Galis (University College London, UK)
Manolo Garcia-Solaco (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Telcordia, USA)
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA)
Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK)
Richard Goodwin (IBM T. J. Watson, USA)
Paul Grefen (Univ. of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Michael Gruninger (National Institute of Standards & Tech, USA)
Manfred Hauswirth (EPFL, Switzerland)
Meichun Hsu (Commerce One , USA)
Richard Hull (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)
Gail Kaiser (Columbia University, USA)
Michael Kifer (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA)
Jiajin Le (Donghua University, China)
Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Frank Leyman (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
David Lomet (Microsoft Research, USA)
David Martin (SRI International, USA)
Hiroshi Maruyama (IBM, Japan)
John Miller (University of Georgia, USA)
Erich J. Neuhold (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Massimo Paolucci (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Cesare Pautasso (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Barbara Pernici (Politecnico of Milano, Italy)
Hans-J. Schek (ETH Zentrum, Switzerland)
Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, USA)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Wil van der Aalst (Eidhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle, England)
Steve Vinoski (Iona, USA)
Werner Vogels (Amazon.com, USA)
Gotfried Vossen (Universitat Munster, Germany)
Jianmin Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Zhaohui Wu (Zhejiang University, China)
Masatoshi Yoshikawa (University of Nagoya, Japan)
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Xiaodong Zhang (College of William and Mary, USA)
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
J. Leon Zhao (University of Arizona, USA)