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CALL
FOR PAPERS
2008 Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2008) Workshop
Sponsored by NICTA (http://www.nicta.com.au)
Held at the EDOC 2008
conference in Munich,
Germany
Extended paper submission deadline: 27 June 2008
PAPER SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED.
AUTHORS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT TO THE RELATED WORKSHOP:
3rd Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2008)
MWS 2008 Call for Papers in: PDF and DOC; shorter version in: TXT
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About the
Workshop
During the past several years, Web services technologies have become
very prominent in both the research community and the industry. Web
services are distributed computing application components that use a number
of Extensible Markup Language (XML) based technologies to implement the
service-oriented architecture (SOA). Implementation-independence of Web
services technologies allows different businesses to collaborate and
achieve common business goals despite the fact that the collaborating Web
services can be distributed over the Internet, run on different platforms,
and implemented in different programming languages. Web services
technologies are already embedded in various products and services of all
major computing companies and used for diverse purposes. An important
application area is e-business process integration in business-to-business
(B2B) and/or enterprise application integration (EAI) scenarios.
Additionally, Web service technologies became the basis for several other
recent distributed computing technologies, such as Grid services and
Semantic Web services.
Middleware plays an important role for Web services technologies.
Reusable Web services technologies are implemented in middleware, so
appropriate middleware is a prerequisite for the growing acceptance of
these technologies. For example, implementation independence of Web
services is achieved using middleware, such as application servers and/or
SOAP engines (software that analyzes, processes, and generates SOAP messages).
In addition, middleware solutions have been proposed to provide, monitor,
and manage quality of service (QoS) aspects, such as response time,
throughput, availability, reliability, security, and privacy. The goal of
this workshop is to bring together industrial, academic, and government
researchers and developers interested in Web services and/or middleware
technologies. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop
will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results
about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification
and analysis of remaining open research issues.
Middleware is traditionally one of the main topics in the EDOC
(Enterprise Distributed Object Computing) community, while Web services are
quickly becoming a key technology within enterprise computing and thus also
one of the central topics of EDOC conferences. Therefore, we have organized
the Middleware
for Web Services (MWS) 2005 workshop at EDOC 2005, the Middleware
for Web Services (MWS) 2006 workshop at EDOC 2006, and the Middleware
for Web Services (MWS) 2007 workshop at EDOC 2007. The workshops
were successful, as they gathered academic, industrial, and government
researchers and developers interested in Web services and/or middleware
technology, many of whom have not attended previous EDOC conferences.
Several regular EDOC attendees, some of whom have extensive experience with
middleware for other distributed computing technologies, but not yet Web
services, also attended the workshops. The keynote speakers (Dr. Heiko
Ludwig from IBM Research at MWS 2005, Professor Lionel M. Ni from Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology at MWS 2006, and Dr. Patrick C.K. Hung
from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology at MWS 2007) and the
panelists were praised for the insights they passed to the audience. This
all lead to useful exchanges of ideas, improvement of understanding of wider
research issues, and clearer identification of important open research
issues and possible approaches towards their solution. Another group of
successful recent workshop in this area were Middleware for Service Oriented
Computing (MW4SOC) 2006 held at Middleware 2006 and Middleware for Service Oriented
Computing (MW4SOC) 2007 held at Middleware 2007. We have now
established close collaboration and coordination between the MWS workshops at
EDOC conferences and the MW4SOC workshops at Middleware conferences. To
further the achievements of all these past workshops and to facilitate
scientific growth of this important area, we now organize the Middleware
for Web Services (MWS) 2008 workshop at EDOC 2008.
Papers presenting and analyzing completed projects are
particularly welcome. Papers about on-going research projects are also
welcome, especially if they contain critical analysis of already
achieved results and remaining open research issues. In addition, we
invite papers about experiences and comparative analysis of
middleware-related issues for Web services. We especially encourage
submissions from industry. While the focus of the workshop is
middleware for Web services, we are also interested in papers
discussing the use of Web services as a middleware technology for
utility computing, telecommunications, e-business, e-government,
peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, distributed artificial intelligence,
spontaneous networks, and other application areas, including
"middleware as service" offerings from the open source community.
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Topics of
Interest (include, but are not limited to)
- Application servers for
Web services
- Aspect-oriented Web
services middleware
- Autonomic computing
solutions for Web services and/or using Web services
- Best practices and
patterns for Web services middleware
- Comparative analysis of
middleware issues for Web services and other technologies (e.g.,
CORBA)
- Enterprise service bus architectures
- Industrial experiences
with Web services middleware
- Middleware for Grid
services and utility computing
- Middleware for discovery
and/or selection of Web services
- Middleware for
choreography and/or orchestration of Web services
- Middleware for
Web-services based Semantic Web
- Middleware for Web services-based
workflows
- Middleware for Web
services executing in mobile, embedded, and ubiquitous/pervasive
environments
- Monitoring and management
middleware for Web services
- Negotiation middleware
for Web services
- Policy-based middleware
for Web services
- Quality of service
middleware for Web services
- Query middleware for Web
services
- Reputation and/or trust
middleware for Web services
- Reliability,
dependability, and fault-tolerance middleware for Web services
- Security and/or privacy
middleware for Web services
- Service-oriented middleware
- SOAP (Simple Object
Access Protocol) engines
- Web services as a
middleware technology
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Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished, high-quality
papers before 13 June 2008 27 June 2008. Papers
published or submitted elsewhere will be automatically rejected. The
submissions should be e-mailed to Dr. Vladimir
Tosic (vladat at server: computer.org) and include
"MWS2008" in the Subject line. Two types of submissions are
solicited:
* Full papers – describing mature research or industrial case
studies – up to 8 pages long
* Short papers – describing work in progress or position statements
– up to 4 pages long
Submissions should be in the IEEE Computer Society
conference paper format. Guidelines and templates for this format are
available here.
All submissions should include the author's name, affiliation and contact
details. The preferred format is Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), but
Postscript (PS) and Microsoft Word (DOC) formats can be accepted in
exceptional cases. Inquiries about paper submission should be e-mailed to
Dr. Vladimir Tosic (vladat at
server: computer.org) and include "MWS2008" in the Subject line.
All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at least
3 Program Committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance
around 18 July 2008. At least one author of every accepted paper MUST
register for the Workshop and present the paper. The workshop
proceedings will be published on the conference CD-ROM and all accepted
papers (both full and short) will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.
Analogously to MWS 2005, MWS 2006, and MWS 2007, authors of the
best paper(s) at MWS 2008 will be awarded by NICTA. MWS 2005 was followed in 2007 by a
special International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) journal
issue on middleware for Web services. Another IJBPIM special
issue with extended versions of selected outstanding papers from
recent MWS workshops (including MWS 2008) and related workshops (e.g.,
MW4SOC) is scheduled for publication in 2009.
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Important Dates
- Paper submission
deadline: 13 June 2008 27 June 2008
- Paper
acceptance notification: 18 July 2008
- Camera ready of papers:
28 July 2008
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Workshop Chairs
- Dr. Vladimir Tosic, Managing Complexity,
NICTA, Australia; Department of Computer Science, The University of
Western Ontario, Canada; and School of Computer Science &
Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia, e-mail:
vladat (server: computer.org)
- Dr. Karl Michael Göschka, Distributed Systems
Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria, e-mail: Karl.Goeschka (server: tuwien.ac.at)
- Dr. Aad van Moorsel, School of Computing
Science, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom,
e-mail: aad.vanmoorsel (server: ncl.ac.uk)
- Dr. Raymond Wong, School of Computer
Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales,
Australia; NICTA, Australia; and Green Pea Software, Australia,
e-mail: wong (server: cse.unsw.edu.au) or raymond (server:
greenpea.net)
- Dr. Ian Warren, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, e-mail: ian-w (server: cs.auckland.ac.nz)
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Workshop
Program Committee
- Sergio Andreozzi, INFN, Italy
- Danilo Ardagna , Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
- Djamal Benslimane, U.
of Lyon
1, France
- Paul
Brebner, NICTA, Australia
- Christoph Bussler, Merced
Systems, USA
- Barbara Carminati, U. dell’Insubria - Como,
Italy
- Dickson
K.W. Chiu, Dickson System, Hong Kong
- Nick Cook, U. of Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna
U. of Technology, Austria
- Abdelkarim Erradi, Readify, Australia
- Babak Esfandiari, Carleton U., Canada
- Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, U.
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Chirine Ghedira, U.
of Lyon
1, France
- Xiaofeng Gong, Glasgow Caledonian U., UK
- Patrick C.K. Hung, U. of Ontario Institute of
Technology,
Canada
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology
Services, USA
- Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash U., Australia
- Franky Lam, Microsoft, USA
- Frank Leymann, U. of Stuttgart, Germany
- Ying CR Li, IBM Research,
China
- Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada
- Yan Jenny Liu, NICTA, Australia
- Panagiotis Louridas, GRNET, Greece
- Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
- Hanan Lutfiyya, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
- Zakaria
Maamar, Zayed
U.,
UAE
- Piyush Maheshwari, Perot Systems, India
- E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Research,
USA
- Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, U. of New South Wales,
Australia
- Coral Calero Muñoz, U. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue U.,
USA
- Hye-young Helen Paik, U.
of New South Wales,
Australia
- Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
- Aiko Pras, U.
of Twente,
The Netherlands
- Dick A.C. Quartel, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
- Claudia Raibulet, U.
of Milano-Bicocca,
Italy
- Omer F. Rana, Cardiff U.,
UK
- Dumitru Roman, STI / University
of Innsbruck, Austria
- David Ruiz Cortés, U. de Sevilla, Spain
- Akhil Sahai, VMware,
USA
- Regis
Saint-Paul, CREATE-NET,
Italy
- Stefan Tai, KIT and U. of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Yazhe Tang, Xi’an Jiaotong U., China
- Farouk
Toumani, U. Blaise Pascal,
France
- Kunal Verma, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
- Chunyang Ye, HKUST, Hong
Kong
- George Yee, National Research Council of Canada
and Carleton U., Canada
- Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks,
UK
- Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State U., USA
- Liming
Zhu, NICTA, Australia
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