[agents] CFP - The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Web Services

[Zakaria Maamar]

The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Web Services 
(AT4WS 2009)
6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy
 
In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise 
Information Systems (ICEIS 2009)
 
Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 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.
 
 
Co-chairs
Zakaria Maamar
Zayed University
United Arab Emirates
Email
 
Samir Tata
TELECOM & Management SudParis
France
Email
 
Leandro Krug Wives
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
Email
 
Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui
The Open University
U.K.
Email

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.
 

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