The 6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services
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Call for Research Paper
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 Research Track include, but are not limited to, the following:
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 2008 Proceedings with IEEE Computer Society Press. Technical papers must conform to the IEEE paper guidelines which will be made available at the ECOWS 2008 web page. Submit your paper in PDF or Postscript format via the electronic submission system which will be made available via the ECOWS 2008 web site.
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