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CALL FOR PAPERS 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) =================================================================== http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007 July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Theme: all aspects of Web services from Computer Science and Engineering perspectives Celebrating the 2007 IEEE Congress on Services!

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc)

ICWS 2007 organizing committee invites you to participate in the fifth year of ICWS in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on July 9-13, 2007.

ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services. ICWS also aims to identify emerging research topics and define the future of Web services. Over the past five years, ICWS has grown steadily, attracting over 200 participants on a regular basis. ICWS 2006 was held on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; ICWS 2005 was held on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA; ICWS 2004 was held on July 6-9, 2004 in San Diego, California, USA; ICWS 2003 was held on June 23-26, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

ICWS 2007 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit and IEEE International Services Computing Contest will again be featured at this joint event.

The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, panels, and work-in-progress sessions in both research and industry tracks. Workshops and tutorials will run before and throughout the conference. ICWS 2007 research track seeks original, unpublished research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Web services from Computer Science perspective. Research papers must properly cite related work and clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Web services. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations for Web Services Computing * Web Services-based Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure * Web Services Modeling * Web Services Standards and Implementation Technologies * Web Services Specifications and Enhancements (e.g., UDDI, SOAP, WSDL) * Web Services Discovery * Web Services Composition and Integration * Web Services Invocation * QoS for Web Services (e.g., security, privacy, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, etc.) * Web Services Assessment (i.e., validation & verification) * Web Services-based Testing Methodologies * Web Services-based Software Engineering * Web Services-based Project Management * Semantic Web Services * IT Infrastructure Management for Web Services * Solution Management for Web Services * Multimedia Web Services * Web Services-driven Business Process Management * Web Services-based Mobile Computing * Web Services-based Grid Applications * Domain-specific Web Services Applications and Solutions

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should not be submitted to ICWS 2007 and SCC 2007 simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from both conferences without review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers published in the ICWS 2007 will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) , the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) , and the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC) . Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICWS 2007. The first author of the best student papers must be full-time student.

Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 Paper Submission Due Date: February 12, 2007 Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2007

General Chairs of SCC 2007: Frank Leymann, Ph.D. Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Ming-Chien Shan, Ph.D. Director, SAP Research, USA

Program Committee Chairs: Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Ph.D. Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Kenneth P. Birman, Ph.D. Professor, Cornell University, USA

Program Committee Vice-Chair: Jia Zhang, Ph.D. Assiatant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA

Technical Steering Committee: Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA) Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc, USA) Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee , USA) Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA) Ming-Chien Shan (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

For any enquires, please e-mail to the Program Committee Vice-Chair Jia Zhang via jiazhang AT cs DOT edu