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JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS
BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06
2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks
2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative
Organizations
June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA
http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co
in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology
(CEC-06) and
on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06)
http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/
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Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of
cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different
enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service
represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business
functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish,
discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards.
However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the
interoperability between cooperative organizations is being
applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects.
This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of
service-oriented solutions supporting inter-enterprise collaboration,
throughout the entire collaboration life-cycle. This includes the
consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with
cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as
well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the
requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by
discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the
composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research
from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical
(e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of
organizations.
We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from
various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs,
design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage
contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:
BSN Strategy
* Business models
* Integration alliances and interoperability
* Value added for BSN vendors and adopters
* Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing
BSN Design
* Service-Oriented solutions
* Requirements engineering for BSN
* Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc.
* Match-making of choreographies of different cooperative
organizations
* Match-making of semantic service descriptions
* Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes and workflows
* Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI
* Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation
* Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN
BSN Management & Execution
* SOA-Enablement of software vendors
* Service Level Agreements (SLA)
* International provisioning and adoption barriers
* Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software
* Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS)
* Distributed stateless and stateful transactions
* Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN
* Auditing of service evolution
Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions
in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the
members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF,
and PS format. Submit papers via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. It is
planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further
details will be announced soon.
Registration:
Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For
accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop
in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in
the workshop program.
Important Dates:
Paper submission: February 1, 2006
Paper notification: March 31, 2006
Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2006
Workshop: June 26, 2006
Enquiries:
Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>.
Co-Chairs:
Stephane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia
Program Committee:
Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany
Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada
William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria
Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia
Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France
Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA
William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia
Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA
Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia
Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada
Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany
Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
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Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
In conjunction with HPDC 2006, June 19-23, Paris, France
www.isi.edu/works06
Call for Papers
In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that
enables large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows
enable scientists to design complex applications that are composed of
individual application components or services. Often times these
components and services are designed, developed, and tested
collaboratively. Because of the size of the data and the complexity of
the analysis, large amounts of shared resources such as clusters and
storage systems are being used to store the data sets and execute the
workflows. The process of workflow design and execution in a distributed
environment can be very complex and involve mapping high-level workflow
descriptions onto the available resources, as well as monitoring and
debugging of the subsequent execution. Because computations and data
access operations are performed on shared resources, there is an
increased interest in managing the fair allocation and management of
those resources at the workflow level.
Adequate workflow descriptions are needed to support the complex
workflow management process which includes workflow creation, workflow
reuse, and modifications made to the workflow over time-for example
modifications to the individual workflow components. Additional workflow
annotations may provide guidelines and requirements for resource mapping
and execution.
Large-scale scientific applications pose several requirements on
the workflow systems. Besides the magnitude of data processed by the
workflow components, the resulting and intermediate data need to be
annotated with provenance information and any other information needed
to evaluate the quality of the data and support the repeatability of the
analysis.
The Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
focuses on the entire workflow lifecycle including the workflow
composition, mapping, and robust execution. The workshop also welcomes
contributions in the applications area, where the requirements on the
workflow management systems can be derived. The topics of the workshop
include but are not limited to:
* Workflow applications and their requirements
* Workflow representations, including semantic workflow
descriptions
* Applying business workflows to the scientific domain
* Workflow composition, tools and languages
* Workflow user environments, including portals
* Workflow refinement tools that can manage the workflow mapping
process
* Workflow execution in distributed environments
* Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques
* Data-driven workflow processing
* Adaptive workflows
* Workflow monitoring
* Workflow optimizations
* Performance analysis of workflows
* Workflow debugging
* Workflow provenance
* Interleaving workflow creation and execution
* Interactive workflows
Papers submitted to this workshop should be in IEEE format
(ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/) and no longer
than 10 pages. The papers should be original and not previously
published. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop topics. Papers presented
at the workshop will be included in the HPDC 2006 proceedings CD
(pending final decision by HPDC). To submit the papers, please email a
PDF or Postscript to deelman(a)isi.edu by February 10, 2006.
Selected authors will be invited to submit an extended version of the
paper to a special issue of the Scientific Programming Journal.
Important dates:
Paper submission: February 10, 2006
Acceptance notification: March 17, 2006
Final papers due: April 7, 2006
Program Committee
Chair: Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute
Marian Bubak AGH Univ. of Science and Tech.
Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne
Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck
Ian Foster U. of Chicago and Argonne National
Laboratory
Geoffrey Fox Indiana University
Dennis Gannon Indiana University
Yolanda Gil USC/Information Sciences Institute
Carole Goble University of Manchester
Andreas Hoheisel Fraunhofer Institute
Peter Kacsuk MTA Sztaki Research Institute
Tevfik Kosar Louisiana State University
Miron Livny University of Wisconsin Madison
Bertram Ludaescher UC Davis
Jarek Nabrzyski Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Johan Montagnat CNRS
Cesare Pautasso ETH Zurich
Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester
Matt Shields Cardiff University
Ian Taylor Cardiff University
Edward Walker University of Texas Austin
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06)
"Integration For Everyone"
Annual Meeting of the Integration Consortium
Fairmont Copley Plaza
Boston, May 22-24, 2006
http://www.globalintegrationsummit.comhttp://www.integrationconsortium.org
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--- OVERVIEW ---
The Global Integration Summit (GIS) is the annual meeting of the
Integration Consortium (IC), the non-profit, user-driven association
of IT professionals focused on application, information, process,
service, and system integration technologies.
The GIS differs from other industry events as it is truly user-driven
and vendor-neutral. With an attendance hovering above 200 every year,
and involving senior integration executives from leading Global 2000
corporations, the event offers a personal atmosphere for networking.
--- THEME ---
For our 3rd edition, the theme "Integration For Everyone" seeks to
build a unified view of the Integration Discipline. One outcome of the
Summit should be to develop a new Integration Body of Knowledge (I-BOK)
As such, we welcome IT thought leaders from industry, vendors, analysts,
and academia to expose the "State of the Art" in integration solutions.
--- TOPICS ---
Topics can range from business drivers for integration such as
Governance and Regulatory Compliance, to integration approaches and
platforms such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business
Process Management (BPM), to technical infrastructure issues such as
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Open Source Middleware.
Papers can take the form of conceptual frameworks, research in progress,
best practice reports, case studies, and executive viewpoints.
We welcome papers that contribute to enriching the I-BOK. Please see
below for an outline, with a detailed list of 50 topics available at:
http://www.integrationconsortium.org/docs/ibok-v1.pdf
Part A - Business Perspective
1. Business Trends and Integration Drivers
2. Industry-Specific Integration Drivers
Part B - Application Requirements
3. Application-Specific Integration Solutions
4. User-Centric Integration Solutions
Part C - Development Capabilities
5. Strategic Management of the Integration Function
6. Integration Development Methods and Standards
7. Integration Development Tools and Best Practices
Part D - Technologies and Standards
8. Integration Platforms and System Architecture
9. Core Integration Technologies and Standards
10. Integration Runtime Infrastructure
--- IMPORTANT DATES ---
* Papers Submission Deadline >>> January 31, 2006
* Notification of Paper Selection >>> February 20, 2006
* Confirmation by Author to present at GIS 2006 >>> February 28, 2006
* Early Bird Registration Deadline >>> April 1, 2006
* Upload Final Paper and Presentation >>> May 1, 2006
* Global Integration Summit >>> May 22-24, 2006
--- SUBMISSION ---
* Instructions: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/callforpapers.htm
* Paper Template: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/docs/template.doc
* Submission System: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/submit
--- CO-CHAIRS ---
John Schmidt
President, Integration Consortium
Senior Vice President, Integration, Bank of America
Peter Anadranistakis
IC Board Member, Integration Consortium
Chief Partnership Officer, Online Business Systems
Dr. Stephane Gagnon
VP Research and Standards, Integration Consortium
Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
--- CONTACT ---
Please send all enquiries by email to: info(a)globalintegrationsummit.com
Hello,
I will not be able to travel to Athens for the next GGF. However, if
anyone would like to lead a session there, please let me know and I can
help coordinate things.
Happy Holidays!
-Ewa
Ewa Deelman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, USC Computer Science Department
Research Team Leader, Center for Grid Technologies
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, suite 1001
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 448-8408 http://www.isi.edu/~deelman
