[agents] CFP ICEIS International Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Web Services

[S.Kouadri]

The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Web Services (AT4WS 2009)
http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/at4ws/at4ws2009-cfp.htm

6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy


In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009)

 

Scope and Topics
Web services (WSs) are nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards back this deployment including WSDL (Web Services Definition Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). These standards respectively support the definition of WSs, their advertisement to the community of potential users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes.

Despite the tremendous potential of WSs to address complex problems, they still lack some capabilities that would propel them a higher level of acceptance and make them compete with traditional integration middleware like CORBA and DCOM. For instance, WSs adoption continues to be slowed down due to various recurrent issues such as the complexity of WSs discovery. To address these issues, solutions could be built upon different advanced techniques like recommender systems, case-based reasoning, fuzzy logic, business process mining, complex data matching, etc.

By organizing this workshop, we aim at shedding the light on the latest techniques that could be coupled to Web services. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

    * Recommendation systems and Web services;
    * Web services discovery and composition using recommendation;
    * Semantic matching for Web services during recommendation;
    * Semantic Web paradigm for WS description, discovery, and composition;
    * Coordination techniques for WS transactions, agreement, etc.;
    * Network techniques for WS security, performance evaluation and quality of service;
    * Multi-agent techniques for WS description, mediation, and discovery;
    * Business process modeling for WS composition, orchestration, and coordination;
    * Business process mining for WS discovery, composition, and  coordination;
    * Complex data matching for WS discovery and composition.


Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2009
Authors Notification: March 6, 2009
Final Paper Submission and Registration: March 17, 2009


Keynote Speaker and Panel Discussion
A keynote speaker and a discussion panel are planned. The objective of the discussion panel is to discuss the ways of boosting the acceptance of Web services by the IT community and make them the technology of choice for the development of modern systems. The panel will be open to all ICEIS workshop's and conference's participants.


Workshop Program Committee
Karim Baina, ENSIAS, Morocco
Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Djamel Belaid, Institut TELECOM, France
Nejib Ben Hadj-Alouane, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Sami Bhiri, DERI, Ireland
Frederique Biennier, INSA Lyon, France
Francois Charoy, University of Nancy, France
Salim Ferraz, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Ouahiba Fouial, ESRGroups, France
Lizandro Z. Granville, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse, France
Yu Jian, University of Adelaide, Australia
Fabiana Lorenzi, Lutheran University of Brazil (ULBRA), Brazil
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Machester, UK
Samir Moalla, Tunis Science College, Tunisia
Michael Mrissa, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France
Ingo Mueller, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Vincenzo Pallotta, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Kokou Yetongnon, Bourgogne University, France


Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
Special issue in an international journal will be dedicated to selected papers from the workshop.


Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support.


Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by March 17, 2009 the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.


Co-chairs
Zakaria Maamar
Zayed University
United Arab Emirates

Samir Tata
TELECOM & Management SudParis
France

Leandro Krug Wives
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil

Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui
The Open University
U.K.

Secretariat Contacts
ICEIS Workshops - AT4WS 2009
e-mail: workshops at iceis.org 

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