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Extended Deadline: 2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)
by Jyotishman Pathak 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008) Special Theme: Dynamic Services Composition and User Steering Website: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jfh/WSCA2008 July 8, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Affiliated with IEEE International Services Computing Conference 2008 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. 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. In particular, ongoing research in automatic and semi-automatic techniques of creating and managing service compositions is paving the way for business processes to continually evolve and be flexible--an important requirement in managing Information Technology (IT) complexity for big and small businesses. Typically, issues related to dynamic service compositions include developing approaches to handling service failures, changes in service functionalities, and changes to quality of service parameters. Other related topics include understanding external events, which are the sources of volatility in service compositions. In people-oriented service compositions, the element of human intervention further complicates the compositions and the manner in which compositions may be adapted. One example of this is user steering, which includes human involvement in interpreting dynamic compositions and making decisions on how the process will adapt to change. Exploring novel techniques such as mash-ups that support incremental and dynamic process evolution due to user steering is also an important topic of interest. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Services Computing Conference. SCC 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 services computing, which in essence, has emerged as a new cross discipline that shapes the thinking of performing services business more efficiently and effectively. The workshop truly complements this theme of the conference. Additionally, for this year, we are including a special theme for dynamic service composition and user steering---topics in SOC research that have been lately gaining a lot of momentum in both academia and industry. We believe that the workshop presentations and discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in service composition, adaptation and human involvement in constructing processes, but also provide valuable insights for future research and development avenues and for work-in progress in related areas. *Specific topics of interest include* - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Reuse in service composition: service compatibility and substitution - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Adaptation and evolution of services - Dynamic service selection and binding - Self aware, self-optimizing, and self-healing Web services and compositions - Modeling of change in functional, non-functional, and process semantics - Re-planning of service compositions - "People activities" and "People-initiated" processes - Service compositions in mash-ups - BPEL4PEOPLE - Human interaction workflow patterns - 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 8 pages and following the formatting of the IEEE Computer Science Proceedings template (http://www.computer.org/cspress+instruct.htm) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system. At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. *Workshop proceedings* A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with SCC/SERVICES-2008) will be published by IEEE Computer Society. *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 8, 2008 (EXTENDED DEADLINE!!) Notification: March 31, 2008 Camera-Ready due: April 7, 2008 Workshop date: July 8, 2008 *Organizing Committee* Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Samik Basu, Iowa State University Marco Pistore, University of Trento Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia Rama Akkiraju, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *Steering Committee* Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University Amit Sheth, Wright State University *Program Committee* (to be expanded) Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia Sanjay Chaudhary, DAIICT, India Nirmit Desai, North Carolina State University Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University Anca Ivan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Dearborn Nanjangud Narendra, IBM India Research Lab Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE Corportation Michael Sheng, CSIRO, Australia Biplav Srivastava, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Kunal Verma, Accenture Inc. Jian Yang, Macquarie University Haibo Zhao, University of Georgia *Publication Chair and Webmaster* John Harney, University of Georgia -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.jyotishman.org

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Call for workshop proposals for iswc 2008
by Daniel Olmedilla 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

--------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS FOR ISWC 2008 7th International Semantic Web Conference 26-30 October 2008 Karlsruhe, Germany http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/?page_id=21 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-located workshops at previous ISWC conferences have become an important meeting point for researchers willing to discuss and exchange ideas on topics related to the Semantic Web. ISWC 2008 plans to continue with this tradition and therefore invites proposals for the Workshop Program of ISWC 2008, to be held October 26-30, 2008, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Workshops will be held on 26-27 October. General Information -------------------------- * Co-located workshops must be on topics that are of interest to ISWC attendees. * Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day (October 26th and 27th only). * We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. * Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions. * The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of overall quality of the proposal as well as how it fits in with the conference. * The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website), and proceedings. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshops Chairs and the ISWC 2008 local organizers to finalize all details mentioned above. * Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2008 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. Important Dates --------------------- * Workshop proposals are due March 28, 2008. Proposals should be sent to iswc2008-workshops '-at-' L3S.de, '-at-'=@. * Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by April 11, 2008. The important dates for accepted workshops will be: - Workshop cfps out: 2 May - Submissions (suggested): 25 July - Acceptances (suggested): 5 Sept - Camera ready papers: 26 Sept - Camera ready proceedings: 03 Oct Submitting a proposal ----------------------------- Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, should be in text or PDF format and should contain the following information: - The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation. - A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. - A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants. - A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. - A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). - An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day meeting. - A description of past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and acceptance counts. - The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. Please send your proposals by March 28, 2008 and/or inquiries by e-mail to the e-mail iswc2008-workshops '-at-' L3S.de, '-at-'=@. Workshop co-chairs -------------------------- Melliyal Annamalai Oracle, USA Daniel Olmedilla L3S & University of Hannover, Germany -------------------------------------------------------

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Reminder: CFP Understanding Web Evolution - Web Science Workshop at WWW2008
by David De Roure 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Colleagues Just a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Web Evolution workshop is this week - we would be grateful if you could encourage submissions from your teams. We will be accepting submissions up to Feb 22nd (Friday). Thanks -- Dave Understanding Web Evolution: A Prerequisite for Web Science 22 April 2008, Beijing, China Web Science Workshop at WWW2008 17th International World Wide Web Conference http://webscience.org/events/www2008-ws.html Why is the Web the way it is? How will it evolve? What will it be like in 5 years time - or 20, or 100? This workshop invites you to present and explain your prediction of the future of the Web, discuss how this evolution can be observed and influenced, and to reflect on why the Web has evolved to its current state. Since its inception less than two decades ago, the World Wide Web has changed the ways we communicate, collaborate, and educate. In a very short-space of time we have come to live in a web-dependent society within a web-dependent world. There is a growing realization among many researchers that a clear research agenda aimed at understanding the current, evolving, and potential Web is needed. If we want to model the Web, if we want to understand the architectural principles that have provided for its growth, and if we want to be sure that it supports the basic social values of trustworthiness, privacy, and respect for social boundaries, then we must chart out a research agenda that targets the Web as a primary focus of attention. The Web is an engineered space created through formally specified languages and protocols. However, because humans are the creators of the content of Web pages and the links between them, their interactions form emergent patterns in the Web at a macroscopic scale. These human interactions are, in turn, governed by social conventions and laws. Web Science embraces the study of these phenomena. The outcomes of the workshop will contribute to the understanding of how we study the Web as both a technical and social phenomenon. We invite submission of full papers and position papers within this evolutionary perspective. Topics include: * Your predictions and explanations about the future of the Web! * Models for Web growth and evolution * Social Science aspects of web evolution * Techniques for observation and measurement * Architectural principles of the Web * The Web ecosystem * Comparison of Web and Semantic Web evolution * Comparison of the Web with other large scale distributed systems * Web as an instrument for measuring social behaviour * Influencing Web evolution * Historical evolution of the Web * Methodologies for Web Science * Impact of emerging technologies (e.g. Pervasive Computing, Grid) on Web evolution * Role of standards in Web evolution * Web economics Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and on the WSRI web site. Important Dates --------------- * Submission Deadline: Feb 18th, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: March 3rd, 2008 * Camera Ready Due: March 14th, 2008 * Workshop Date: April 22nd, 2008 Submission ---------- Papers should be submitted in the WWW2008 proceedings format - see http://www2008.org/submissions/ Position papers should be up to 4 pages in length and full papers up to 8 pages. Submissions will be handled by EasyChair using a link which will be provided on the workshop Web page http://webscience.org/events/www2008-ws.html Workshop Organisers ------------------- * David De Roure, University of Southampton * Wendy Hall, University of Southampton Program Committee ----------------- * Daniel Weitzner, W3C/MIT * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Rob Procter, University of Manchester and National Centre for e-Social Science * Les Carr, University of Southampton * Daniel Dajun Zeng, University of Arizona * Fei-Yue Wang, University of Arizona * Mark Weal, University of Southampton * Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology in Chinese Academy of Sciences Enquiries --------- If you have any queries about the workshop, please contact Susan Davies, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. Email info(a)webscience.org

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HPCNCS-08 Draft paper submission deadline is just few days from now
by John Edward 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Dear Colleagues and Friends Kindly share the announcement below with those who may be interested: thank you in advance. Sincerely John Edward HPCNCS-08 Draft paper submission deadline is just few days from now The 2008 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the deadline is extended until February 19 2008 due to several requests from the authors. The conference will be held at the same time and place where several major events (please see below) are taking place. The website contains more details. Sincerely John Edward · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) · International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08) · International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) · International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08) · International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08) · International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08) · International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08) --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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2nd CFP: International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)
by Jyotishman Pathak 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008) Special Theme: Dynamic Services Composition and User Steering Website: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jfh/WSCA2008 July 8, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Affiliated with IEEE International Services Computing Conference 2008 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. 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. In particular, ongoing research in automatic and semi-automatic techniques of creating and managing service compositions is paving the way for business processes to continually evolve and be flexible--an important requirement in managing Information Technology (IT) complexity for big and small businesses. Typically, issues related to dynamic service compositions include developing approaches to handling service failures, changes in service functionalities, and changes to quality of service parameters. Other related topics include understanding external events, which are the sources of volatility in service compositions. In people-oriented service compositions, the element of human intervention further complicates the compositions and the manner in which compositions may be adapted. One example of this is user steering, which includes human involvement in interpreting dynamic compositions and making decisions on how the process will adapt to change. Exploring novel techniques such as mash-ups that support incremental and dynamic process evolution due to user steering is also an important topic of interest. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Services Computing Conference. SCC 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 services computing, which in essence, has emerged as a new cross discipline that shapes the thinking of performing services business more efficiently and effectively. The workshop truly complements this theme of the conference. Additionally, for this year, we are including a special theme for dynamic service composition and user steering---topics in SOC research that have been lately gaining a lot of momentum in both academia and industry. We believe that the workshop presentations and discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in service composition, adaptation and human involvement in constructing processes, but also provide valuable insights for future research and development avenues and for work-in progress in related areas. *Specific topics of interest include* - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Reuse in service composition: service compatibility and substitution - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Adaptation and evolution of services - Dynamic service selection and binding - Self aware, self-optimizing, and self-healing Web services and compositions - Modeling of change in functional, non-functional, and process semantics - Re-planning of service compositions - "People activities" and "People-initiated" processes - Service compositions in mash-ups - BPEL4PEOPLE - Human interaction workflow patterns - 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 8 pages and following the formatting of the IEEE Computer Science Proceedings template (http://www.computer.org/cspress+instruct.htm) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system. At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. *Workshop proceedings* A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with SCC/SERVICES-2008) will be published by IEEE Computer Society. *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 1, 2008 Notification: March 31, 2008 Camera-Ready due: April 7, 2008 Workshop date: July 8, 2008 *Organizing Committee* Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Samik Basu, Iowa State University Marco Pistore, University of Trento Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia Rama Akkiraju, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *Steering Committee* Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University Amit Sheth, Wright State University *Program Committee* (to be expanded) Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia Sanjay Chaudhary, DAIICT, India Nirmit Desai, North Carolina State University Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University Anca Ivan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Dearborn Nanjangud Narendra, IBM India Research Lab Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE Corportation Michael Sheng, CSIRO, Australia Biplav Srivastava, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Kunal Verma, Accenture Inc. Jian Yang, Macquarie University Haibo Zhao, University of Georgia *Publication Chair and Webmaster* John Harney, University of Georgia -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.jyotishman.org

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Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-08
by John Edward 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Dear Professors, Colleagues and Friends Kindly share the announcement below with those who may be interested: thank you in advance. Sincerely John Edward BCBGC-08 Draft paper submission deadline is extended. The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. The draft paper submission deadline is extended until February 19 2008 due to several requests from the authors. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several major events (see below) will be taking place. BCBGC brings together both academic and industrial scientists and developers from a diverse range of disciplines including bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology, genomics, proteomics and chemoinformatics. One of the main goals of the conference is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers in different fields. Papers that demonstrate applications of existing techniques or developments of new methods are equally welcomed to the conference. Sincerely John Edward · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) · International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08) · International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) · International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08) · International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08) · International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08) · International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08) --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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1st Call for Papers: Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)
by Jyotishman Pathak 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008) Special Theme: Dynamic Services Composition and User Steering Website: (link to be provided) July 8, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Affiliated with IEEE International Services Computing Conference 2008 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. 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. In particular, ongoing research in automatic and semi-automatic techniques of creating and managing service compositions is paving the way for business processes to continually evolve and be flexible--an important requirement in managing Information Technology (IT) complexity for big and small businesses. Typically, issues related to dynamic service compositions include developing approaches to handling service failures, changes in service functionalities, and changes to quality of service parameters. Other related topics include understanding external events, which are the sources of volatility in service compositions. In people-oriented service compositions, the element of human intervention further complicates the compositions and the manner in which compositions may be adapted. One example of this is user steering, which includes human involvement in interpreting dynamic compositions and making decisions on how the process will adapt to change. Exploring novel techniques such as mash-ups that support incremental and dynamic process evolution due to user steering is also an important topic of interest. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Services Computing Conference. SCC 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 services computing, which in essence, has emerged as a new cross discipline that shapes the thinking of performing services business more efficiently and effectively. The workshop truly complements this theme of the conference. Additionally, for this year, we are including a special theme for dynamic service composition and user steering---topics in SOC research that have been lately gaining a lot of momentum in both academia and industry. We believe that the workshop presentations and discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in service composition, adaptation and human involvement in constructing processes, but also provide valuable insights for future research and development avenues and for work-in progress in related areas. *Specific topics of interest include* - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Reuse in service composition: service compatibility and substitution - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Adaptation and evolution of services - Dynamic service selection and binding - Self aware, self-optimizing, and self-healing Web services and compositions - Modeling of change in functional, non-functional, and process semantics - Re-planning of service compositions - "People activities" and "People-initiated" processes - Service compositions in mash-ups - BPEL4PEOPLE - Human interaction workflow patterns - 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 8 pages and following the formatting of the IEEE Computer Science Proceedings template (http://www.computer.org/cspress+instruct.htm) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system (link to be provided). At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. *Workshop proceedings* A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with SCC/SERVICES-2008) will be published by IEEE Computer Society. *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 1, 2008 Notification: March 31, 2008 Camera-Ready due: April 7, 2008 Workshop date: July 8, 2008 *Organizing Committee* Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Samik Basu, Iowa State University Marco Pistore, University of Trento Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia Rama Akkiraju, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *Steering Committee* Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University Amit Sheth, Wright State University *Program Committee* TBD *Publication Chair and Webmaster* John Harney, University of Georgia -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.jyotishman.org

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