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2nd CFP: Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007)
by Jyotishman Pathak 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007) http://www.cild.iastate.edu/wsca Affiliated with 5th IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2007 (http://www.icws.org) July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and autonomously developed Web services. The W3C Web Services Architecture defines ``Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine processible format (specifically WSDL) and other systems can interact with it in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards''. Correspondingly, the construction and deployment of composite services by combining and reusing independently developed component services is an important capability in the emerging Web-based computing infrastructure. Processes offer key IT capabilities in businesses as well as in scientific research, and key enabler of broad variety of applications including e-Enterprise, e-Business, e-Government, and e-Science. Since many processes need to change to adjust with respect to changing computing and business environments, adaptability of processes is also a key requirement. The workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Web Services. ICWS is 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, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web services.'' The workshop will complement this theme of the conference and aims to conduct a focused discussion on one of the main topics of interest in Web service research: service composition. The discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in Web service composition but also provide valuable insights for future research avenues and for work-in progress in the domain of Web service composition. Specific topics of interest include: - Model-based service composition - Static and dynamic service composition - Reuse in service composition: compatibility and substitutability - Adaptation and Evolution of services and processes - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Fault tolerant service composition - Optimization in service composition and service/process adaptation - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Secure service composition - Elicitation and modeling of functional and non-functional requirements in service composition - Comparing and ranking of alternative solutions in service composition - Software infrastructure for service composition - Case studies, and applications (e.g., in e-science and scientific workflows) Submission guidelines: Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers must be limited to double-column 8 pages and follow the formatting of the IEEE CS Proceedings template ( ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system (http://www.easychair.org/WSCA2007) At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with ICWS-2007) will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Important Dates: Paper submission: March 16th, 2007 (11:59 pm Central Standard Time) Notification: April 23rd, 2007 Camera-Ready due: May 1st, 2007 Workshop date: July 9th, 2007 Organizing Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) Program Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA) * Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) * Athman Bouguettaya (Virginia Tech University, USA) * Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA) * Karthik Gomadam (University of Georgia, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Dimka Karastoyanova (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) * Robyn Lutz (Iowa State University & NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/CalTech, USA) * Ashok Mallya (Veraz Networks, USA) * Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies, India) * Jyotishman Pathak (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Ajith Ranabahu (Apache Software Foundation, USA) * Tony Shan (Wachovia Bank, USA) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) * Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Labs, India) * Hongbing Wang (Southeast University, China) -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak

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[CFP]2nd Call for Paper - AAAI'07 Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS'07)
by Yimin Wang 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

[apologize for cross-posting] AAAI2007's Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS07) 23 July, 2007, Vancouver, Canada, co-located with AAAI'07 Call for Papers ------------------------------ Semantic technologies have been gaining momentum in various e-Science areas. For example, W3C has established a new interest group for semantic web health care and life science. Hence, there is an urgent need for semantics-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate scientific knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and data analyzing for different e-Science applications. Partially influenced by the Artificial Intelligence community, the Semantic Web researchers have largely focused on formal aspects of semantic representation languages or general-purpose semantic application development, with inadequate consideration of requirements from specific science areas. On the other hand, general science researchers are growing ever more dependent on the web, but they have no coherent agenda for exploring the emerging trends on the semantic web technologies. Advances in e-science infrastructure and e-science applications based on the semantic technologies and related knowledge-based approaches calls for increased interaction among these disparate communities. Following the success of SeS2006 ( http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/) SeS2007 aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from both the Semantic Web community, and general science communities including the life science community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Semantic e-Science Foundations: - Knowledge Representation for e-Science - Ontology Engineering for e-Science - Knowledge Integration for e-Science - Knowledge Management for e-Science - Semantic Data Integration - Semantic Web Services - e-Science Process Management - Semantic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science - Semantic Grid Middleware - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Semantic Web Applications and Ontologies for: - Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science - Semantic Web for Biomedical informatics - Semantic Web for System and Integrated Biology - Semantic Web for Translational Medicine - Semantic Web for Materials Informatics - Semantic Web for Geography, Environment and Climate - Semantic Web for Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics - Semantic Web and Digital Libraries and Scientific Publication Submission and Proceedings We invite academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in length including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be submitted by using the paper submission system at http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/ no later than March 27,2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit final camera-ready copy to the organizers on May 15,2007. The workshop proceeding will be published and distributed by AAAI. All accepted papers will be included in the AAAI Digital Library, as in the case of SeS2006, we are organizing journal special issues for extended versions of selected high-quality work. Important Dates - Submission deadline: March 27, 2007 - Notification date: April 25, 2007 - Author accepted paper submission deadline: May 15, 2007 - Workshop date: July 23,2007 (to be settled) Workshop Organizing Committee Huajun Chen College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA huajunsir(a)zju.edu.cn Yimin Wang Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany ywa(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Kei Cheung Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA kei.cheung(a)yale.edu Zhaohui Wu College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN wzh(a)zju.edu.cn Workshop Program Committee Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), Singapore Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK Li Ding, Stanford University, USA Helen Chen, Agfa Healthcare, USA William Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, CN HK George M. Garrity, Michigan State University Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Volker Haarselv, Concordia University, Canada Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Marta Iglesias, FAO, United Nations Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., USA Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland Joanne Luciano, Harvard University, USA Natalia Maltsev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA John F. Madden, Duke University Medical Cente, USA Peter Mork, MITRE Corporation, USA Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Young-Tack Park, Soongsil University, Korea Alan Ruttenburg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hai Wang, University of Southampton, UK Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Sumi Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan

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WSCA 2007: Accepting paper submissions now
by Jyotishman Pathak 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2007) http://www.cild.iastate.edu/wsca Affiliated with 5th IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2007 (http://www.icws.org) July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and autonomously developed Web services. The W3C Web Services Architecture defines ``Web service as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine processible format (specifically WSDL) and other systems can interact with it in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards''. Correspondingly, the construction and deployment of composite services by combining and reusing independently developed component services is an important capability in the emerging Web-based computing infrastructure. Processes offer key IT capabilities in businesses as well as in scientific research, and key enabler of broad variety of applications including e-Enterprise, e-Business, e-Government, and e-Science. Since many processes need to change to adjust with respect to changing computing and business environments, adaptability of processes is also a key requirement. The workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Web Services. ICWS is 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, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web services.'' The workshop will complement this theme of the conference and aims to conduct a focused discussion on one of the main topics of interest in Web service research: service composition. The discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in Web service composition but also provide valuable insights for future research avenues and for work-in progress in the domain of Web service composition. Specific topics of interest include: - Model-based service composition - Static and dynamic service composition - Reuse in service composition: compatibility and substitutability - Adaptation and Evolution of services and processes - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Fault tolerant service composition - Optimization in service composition and service/process adaptation - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Secure service composition - Elicitation and modeling of functional and non-functional requirements in service composition - Comparing and ranking of alternative solutions in service composition - Software infrastructure for service composition - Case studies, and applications (e.g., in e-science and scientific workflows) Submission guidelines: Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers must be limited to double-column 6 pages and follow the formatting of the IEEE CS Proceedings template (ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system (http://www.easychair.org/WSCA2007) At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with ICWS-2007) will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Important Dates: Paper submission: March 16th, 2007 (11:59 pm Central Standard Time) Notification: April 23rd, 2007 Camera-Ready due: May 1st, 2007 Workshop date: July 9th, 2007 Organizing Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) Program Committee: * Samik Basu (Iowa State University, USA) * Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA) * Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) * Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA) * Dimka Karastoyanova (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) * Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) * Robyn Lutz (Iowa State University & NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/CalTech, USA) * Ashok Mallya (Veraz Networks, USA) * Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies, India) * Jyotishman Pathak (Iowa State University, USA) * Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy) * Tony Shan (Wachovia Bank, USA) * Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA) * Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Labs, India) * Hongbing Wang (Southeast University, China) -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak

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