ECOWS 2009: The 7th European Conference on Web Services

November 9-11, 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

http://is.ieis.tue.nl/ecows09


The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference
for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in
the state of the art and practices of Web Services. The main objectives of
this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and
practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The success encountered by the Web has shown that tightly coupled software
systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software
systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often more appropriate in
practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact
with other systems, possibly legacy systems that share very little with it.

Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely
coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures,
they can evolve during their lifespan more easily and better adapt to
changing or unpredictable environments. When properly implemented, services
can be discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms,
while each service can still be implemented in a black-box manner. This is
important from a business perspective since each service can be implemented
using any technology, independently of the others. What matters is that
everybody agrees on the integration technology, and there is a consensus
about this in today's middleware market: customers want to use Web
technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators,
developers, and providers need to create methods tools and techniques to
support cost-effective development and the use of dependable services and
service-oriented applications.


Topics of Interest:

The ECOWS 2009 Program Committee seeks high quality papers related to all
aspects of Web Services, which constitute the current main technology
available for implementing service-oriented architectures and computing.
Topics of interest to the Research Track include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Life-Cycle of Web Services Implementations
* Dynamic Web Services
* Semantic Web Services
* Economics and Web Services
* Quality Requirements for Web Services
* Web Services for Grids
* Web Services in a Service-Oriented Environment
* Web Services and Mobility
* Web Services and Business Process Management
* Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications
* Formal Methods for Web Services


Research Paper Submission Guidelines:

We solicit papers with a maximum of 10 pages, containing new material.
Submissions must be in English, must be original, and must not have been
submitted for publication elsewhere. There will be an award for the best
paper and best student paper. Submissions should be made through the
website.

As in the previous years, we plan to publish the ECOWS 2009 Proceedings
with IEEE Computer Society Press. Technical papers must be conform to the
IEEE paper guidelines which will be made available at the ECOWS 2009 web
page. Submit your paper in PDF or Postscript format via the electronic
submission system which will be made available via the ECOWS 2009 web site.


Deadlines:

Abstract Submission May 25, 2009
Electronic Paper Submission June 1, 2009
Acceptance Notification July 7, 2009
Camera Ready Version August 4, 2009


Organisation:

General Chair
* Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Programme Co-Chairs
* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Workshop Chair
* Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK

Business Chair
* Mark Lankhorst, Novay, The Netherlands

Local Chair
* Annemarie van der Aa, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Jochem Vonk, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Web Chair
* Ricardo Seguel, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Steering Committee

* Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Birgitta Koenig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany
* Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany
* Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
* Thomas Gschwind, IBM Research, Switzerland
* Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA

PC Members (to be completed)
* Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
* Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Steve Battle, Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK
* Walter Binder, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
* David Breitgand, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel
* Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA
* Anis Charfi, SAP Research, Germany
* Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Remco Dijkman, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
* Juergen Dunkel, FH Hannover, Germany
* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
* Dave Eyers, University of Cambridge, UK
* Chris Giblin, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
* Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
* Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway
* Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
* Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
* Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA
* Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Universitaet Jena, Germany
* Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany
* Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Welf Loewe, Vaxjo Universitet, Sweden
* Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
* Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
* Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs Europe, Germany
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Dick Quartel, Novay, the Netherlands
* Wolfgang Reisig, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin, Germany
* Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
* Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, UK