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Fwd: Call For Papers in IJWSR (Web Service Composition) - Deadline in 12 Days
by Ewa Deelman 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Call for Papers Special Issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) On Web Services Discovery and Composition Systems Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005 Using service-oriented computing approaches (i.e. web services), the capabilities of organizations can be openly exposed, easily searched and discovered, and made readily-accessible to humans and particularly to machines. Artificial intelligence and software engineering researchers alike are intrigued by the promise of ubiquitously discovering and incorporating services into their own business processes (i.e. composition and orchestration). With growing acceptance of service-oriented computing, an emerging area of research is the investigation of technologies that will enable the discovery and composition of web services. This proposed special issue solicits high-quality papers on software components and/or intelligent agents that can discover pertinent web services and compose them to create higher-level functionality. For this special issue, all the submitted manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-reviewing process and the selection criteria include both the system design's elegancy as well as its practicability. Each manuscript should include the evaluation section on the effectiveness of the proposed approach based on a given Web services repository. Repositories and example software are available at http://ws-challenge.georgetown.edu/ . Alternatively, authors may submit the repository used in their evaluation. This will provide a uniform section in each paper that will allow readers to understand the benefits and limitations of the variety of approaches that were implemented. The readers of this special issue will get an understanding of the benefits and limitations of various approaches for composing web services using Web Service Description Language (WSDL) files. Paper submissions should be full research papers, typically between 17-27 journal pages. Important Dates: November 30, 2005 -- Full Paper Submission Due December 30, 2005 -- Paper Acceptance Notice Sent to Authors Guest Editors: M. Brian Blake, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Georgetown University E-mail: blakeb(a)cs.georgetown.edu William K. Cheung, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University E-mail:william@comp.hkbu.edu.hk Kwok Ching Tsui, Ph.D. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) E-mail: kwokchingtsui(a)hsbc.com.hk Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D. Information Systems Group Department of Computer Science University of Twente E-mail: a.wombacher(a)utwente.nl All submissions must be original. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: M. Brian Blake (blakeb(a)cs.georgetown.edu) or William Cheung (william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk) ------------------------- Michael Fitzgerald Nowlan Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 mfn3(a)georgetown.edu

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FW: Important news to ICCS-WSES PC
by Ewa Deelman 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

(Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this CFP.) *********************************************************************** Submission deadline was extended to December. 17 (Saturday.), 17:00 CET. *********************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Workflow systems in e-Science (WSES 06) in conjunction with International Conference on Computational Science 2006 (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/iccs-wses/ http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006) May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE Grid environments enable collaborations involving large numbers of people and large scale resources, and promote the emergence of a new paradigm for scientific research: e-Science. Different layers of middleware, e.g., for managing Grid resources, computing tasks, data, and information, form the basic framework for realising an e-Science environment. By automating the management of experiment routines, a scientific workflow management system hides the underlying integration details of the e-Science resources and allows a scientist to focus on the high level domain specific aspects of the experiments. The support for scientific workflows is being recognised a crucial feature for introducing an e-Science environment to application scientists from different domains. The WSES workshop focuses on practical aspects of scientific workflow management systems: design, implementation, applications in all fields of computational science, interoperability among workflows and the e-Science infrastructure, e.g., knowledge framework, for workflow management. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and developers in the field of e-Science to exchange the latest experience and research ideas on scientific workflow management and e-Science. Live demons of workflow systems and workflow application are welcome. TOPICS Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of scientific workflow management in e-Science. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware * Workflow API and graphical user interface * Workflow modelling techniques * Workflow specification language * Workflow execution engine * Dynamic workflow control * Workflow verification and validation * Workflow system performance analysis * Support tools for managing workflows * AI techniques in workflow management, e.g., planning, runtime control and user support; * Security control in managing workflow * Real-world applications of scientific workflow * Different levels of interoperability among workflow systems; * Automatic composition of scientific workflow; * Knowledge infrastructure in workflow management; PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors should submit electronically a full (8-page) paper in PDF format to (zhiming(a)science.uva.nl) The papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer-Verlag. Selected best papers, after extension, will be published in a suitable international journal as a special issue. IMPORTANT DATES * December 17, 2005 Full paper due * January 31, 2006 Notification * February 10, 2006 Camera-ready paper due PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Marian Bubak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland). * Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia). * Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, USA). * Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria). * Bob Hertzberger(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands). * Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China). * Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). * Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK). * Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, UK). * Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China). ORGANIZERS Dr. Zhiming Zhao email: zhiming(a)science.uva.nl Tel: +31 20 5257530 Fax: +31 20 5257490 www: staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Dr. Adam Belloum email: adam(a)science.uva.nl www: staff.science.uva.nl/~adam Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands -- Zhiming Zhao Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam Kurislaan 403, 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands eMail: zhiming(a)science.uva.nl WWW: staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming Office: +31 20 5257530 Mobile: +31 641265121 Fax: +31 20 7773080

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1st International Workshop on Workflow systems in e-Science
by Ewa Deelman 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

1st International Workshop on Workflow systems in e-Science (WSES 06) in conjunction with International Conference on Computational Science 2006 (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/iccs-wses/, http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006) May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK Call for paper (PDF <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/iccs-wses/wsescfp.pdf> | TXT <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/iccs-wses/wsescfp.txt> ) Aims and scope Grid environments enable collaborations involving large numbers of people and large scale resources, and promote the emergence of a new paradigm for scientific research: e-Science. Different layers of middleware, e.g., for managing Grid resources, computing tasks, data, and information, form the basic framework for realising an e-Science environment. By automating the management of experiment routines, a scientific workflow management system hides the underlying integration details of the e-Science resources and allows a scientist to focus on the high level domain specific aspects of the experiments. The support for scientific workflows is being recognised a crucial feature for introducing an e-Science environment to application scientists from different domains. The WSES workshop focuses on practical aspects of scientific workflow management systems: design, implementation, applications in all fields of computational science, interoperability among workflows and the e-Science infrastructure, e.g., knowledge framework, for workflow management. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and developers in the field of e-Science to exchange the latest experience and research ideas on scientific workflow management and e-Science. Live demos of workflow systems and workflow application are welcome. Topics Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of scientific workflow management in e-Science. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware * Workflow API and graphical user interface * Workflow modelling techniques * Workflow specification language * Workflow execution engine * Dynamic workflow control * Workflow verification and validation * Workflow system performance analysis * Support tools for managing workflows * AI techniques in workflow management, e.g., planning, runtime control and user support; * Security control in managing workflow * Real-world applications of scientific workflow * Different levels of interoperability among workflow systems; * Automatic composition of scientific workflow; * Knowledge infrastructure in workflow management; Paper submission and publication Authors should submit electronically a full (8-page) paper in PDF format to (zhiming(a)science.uva.nl) The papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer-Verlag. Selected best papers, after extension, will be published in a suitable international journal as a special issue. Important Dates * December 2, 2005 Full paper due * January 17, 2006 Referee reports and unofficial notification * January 31, 2006 Notification * February 10, 2006 Camera-ready paper due Programme committee * Marian Bubak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland). * Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia). * Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, USA). * Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria). * Bob Hertzberger(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands). * Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China). * Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). * Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK). * Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, UK). * Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China). Organizers * Dr. Zhiming Zhao Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Dr. Adam Belloum Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Contact Dr. Zhiming Zhao email: zhiming(a)science.uva.nl Tel: +31 20 5257530 Fax: +31 20 5257490 www: staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Dr. Adam Belloum email: adam(a)science.uva.nl www: staff.science.uva.nl/~adam Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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