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 2008 program committee seeks high quality papers related to all aspects of Web Services, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and computing. Topics of interest to the Business Track include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Topics of interest
  • 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
  • Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications
  • Formal Methods for Web Services

Business Track Paper Submission Guidelines
We solicit papers with a maximum of 5 pages, containing new material, work in progress, or position papers. Submissions must be in English and should focus on how concepts and technologies have been adopted to fit real-life requirements with currently available tools.

We welcome case studies from a broad range of application areas, e.g. from automobile, banking, insurance, telecommunications sectors. Practitioners should submit proposals in pdf-format.

When preparing the submissions please use a two column format.  If possible, follow the IEEE Computer Society's 2-column conference proceedings format (Instructions, LaTex, Doc). 

Please email to Claus-DOT-Pahl-AT-dcu-DOT-ie.