Dear Colleagues, Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Workshop on Semantics in Virtual Organizations and Web Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Workshop on Semantics in Virtual Organizations and Web Services In conjunction with The IEEE/ACM/WIC International conference on Web Intelligence 18-22 December 2006, Hong Kong Convention Center, Hong Kong, China Aims: Virtual organizations and web services have caught enormous research efforts over the last few years and become a new research field. It has been increasingly recognized that semantic issues and semantic description frameworks play an essential and crucial role in the semantic grid and the semantic web. Focusing on the research and applications in the fields of virtual organizations (the semantic grid) and web services, this workshop is intended to provide researchers an idea-exchange forum for their initial studies and practices in semantic and conceptual modeling based approaches to VO and WS constructions and development. http://www.dur.ac.uk/w.w.song/SVO&WS2006-main.html Important date: Paper submission deadline: July 30, 2006 Notification of paper acceptance: September 5, 2006 Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 29, 2006 Workshop day: December 18, 2006 Submission: All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, elevance, significance, and clarity. Note that ONLY on-line submissions are acceptable. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 4 pages + 1 extra page in the IEEE two columns format, see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'06 website to submit your paper. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI, will be available at the workshops. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Conceptual modeling approach to virtual organizations Semantic description framework for web services Intelligent agent technology in virtual organizations Semantic service modeling Semantic modeling for resource management and share in grid Service oriented design and analysis Grid intelligence and semantic grid Semantic models for knowledge grid and information grid Semantic in business processes and workflows Workshop Organizers: Dr. William Song Prof. Remigijus Gustas Prof. Xiaoming Li Durham University Karlstad University Peking University International Program Committee (incomplete): Chen, Deren, Zhejiang University, China Johannesson, Paul, Stockholm University, Sweden Huang, Joshua, ETI, Hongkong University, China Löwe, Welf, Växjö University, Sweden Naeve, Ambjörn, Royal Insitute of Technology, Sweden Vasilecas, Olegas, Vilnius Technical University, Lithuania Wangler, Benkt, Skölvde University, Sweden Watson, Paul, Newcastle University, UK Wu, Zhaohui, Zhejiang University, China Yang, Hongji, De Mont Fort University, UK Zhang Jia, Northern Illinois University, USA