[DL] Call for Papers - International Workshop on Web Services:WSMAI'2003

[Denivaldo LOPES]

[apologies for multiple postings...]
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International Workshop on Web Services:
Modeling, Architecture and Infrastructure
(WSMAI 2003)
April 22, 2003 - Angers, France
(<http://www.iceis.org/workshops/wsi/wsi2003-cfp.html>)

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| First Announcement and Call for Papers |
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In conjunction with the Fifth International
Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
ICEIS 2003 (<http://www.iceis.org/>)

Chairs:
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- Jean Bezivin
University of Nantes - France
Jean.Bezivin at sciences.univ-nantes.fr
<mailto:Jean.Bezivin at sciences.univ-nantes.fr>
<http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/lrsg/Pages_perso/JB/HP_JB_2001.htm>

- Jiankun Hu
Royale Melbourne Institute of Technology - Australia
jiankun.hu at rmit.edu.au <mailto:jiankun.hu at rmit.edu.au>
<http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jiankun/>


- Zahir Tari
Royale Melbourne Institute of Technology - Australia
zahirt at cs.rmit.edu.au <mailto:zahirt at cs.rmit.edu.au>
<http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/eCDS/members/index.html>



Workshop Background and Goals:
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"A Web service is a software application identified by a URI,
whose interfaces and bindings are capable of being defined,
described, and discovered as XML artifacts. A Web service
supports direct interactions with other software agents using
XML based messages exchanged via internet-based protocols" [W3C].

Web Services is basically supported by four technologies XML,
SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is
utilized to normalize the exchange of business data among
trading partners by providing an excellent means for data
encoding and data formatting. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
defines a simple way to package information and send it across
system boundaries. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is
an XML language for describing Web Services, enabling one to
separate the description of the abstract functionality offered
by a service from concrete details of a service description.
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) enables
businesses to quickly, easily, and dynamically find and transact
with one another. These standards are backed by the major players
in the industries such as IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Sun and Oracle.
However, only this set of technologies is not sufficient to develop
real applications based on the Web. Development of real-life
applications relies heavily on the system model and architectures
through which this set of technologies are efficiently implemented.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers,
engineers and practitioners interested in Web Services to discuss
how to develop real applications on the Web.

This workshop covers the fields of modeling, architectures and
infrastructures for Web Services.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Web Services Modeling

- The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Web Services

- Web Services and Semantic Description

- Ontologies for Web Services

- Web Services Architecture

- Frameworks for Building Web Service Applications

- Composite Web Service Creation and Enabling Infrastructures

- Web Service Discovery

- Solution and Resource Management for Web Services

- Dynamic Invocation Mechanisms for Web Services

- Quality of Service for Web Services

- SOAP and UDDI Enhancements

- Case Studies for Web Services

- E-Commerce Applications Using Web Services

- Workflow and Web Services

- Transaction and Web Services

- Web Services Interoperability



Format of the Workshop:
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The workshop will consist of oral presentations. The proceedings of
the workshop will be published in the form of a book by ICEIS.



Submission of Papers:
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Perspective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas
listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length
of the paper should not exceed 4000 words or 8 pages. Instructions for
preparing the manuscript (in Word or Latex) are available at the ICEIS web
site.



Important Dates:
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Full paper submission: December 15, 2002
Author notification: January 15, 2003
Camera-ready: January 30, 2003
Workshop: April 22, 2003



Workshop Program Committee:
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- Albert Y. Zomaya, CISCO, USYD (Australia)

- Alex Delis, Polytec University (USA)

- Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales (Australia)

- Gerard Vandome, ObjectWeb Consortium (France)

- Henri Kim, York University (Canada)

- Jacques Philippe Sauve, UFPB (Brazil)

- Jean-Jacques Moreau, Canon (France)

- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM (USA)

- Jin Song DONG, NUS (Singapore)

- Jorge Cardoso, University of Georgia (USA)

- Mohamed Quafafou, IAAI - Ecole de l'Internet de Marseille (France)

- Steve Vinoski, IONA (USA)

- Sumi Helal, University of Florida (USA)

- Xavier Blanc, LIP6, Universite de Paris (France)

- Yetongnon Kokou, Universite de Bourgogne (France)

(list not yet complete)


Conference Location:
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The workshop will be held at the ecole Superieure d' electronique de
l' Ouest in Angers, France, which is 90 minutes from Paris by
the high-speed train (TGV).



Registration Information:
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To attend the workshop you need to register at <http://www.iceis.org/>



Secretariat:
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ICEIS-2003 Secretariat - The First International Workshop on
Web Services: Modeling, Architecture and Infrastructure

ESEO - ecole Superieure d' electronique de l' Ouest
4, rue Merlet de la Boulaye - BP926 - 49009
ANGERS CEDEX 01 - FRANCE
Fax: +33 2 41 87 99 27
Tel: +33 2 41 86 67 19

E-mail: w5-secretariat at iceis.org <mailto:w5-secretariat at iceis.org>
Web site: <http://www.iceis.org>