ICEIS 2009 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, CFP available

The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Web Services (AT4WS 2009)

6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy

In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009)

Scope and Topics
Web services (WSs) are nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards back this deployment including WSDL (Web Services Definition Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). These standards respectively support the definition of WSs, their advertisement to the community of potential users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes.

Despite the tremendous potential of WSs to address complex problems, they still lack some capabilities that would propel them a higher level of acceptance and make them compete with traditional integration middleware like CORBA and DCOM. For instance, WSs adoption continues to be slowed down due to various recurrent issues such as the complexity of WSs discovery. To address these issues, solutions could be built upon different advanced techniques like recommender systems, case-based reasoning, fuzzy logic, business process mining, complex data matching, etc.

By organizing this workshop, we aim at shedding the light on the latest techniques that could be coupled to Web services. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Recommendation systems and Web services;
Web services discovery and composition using recommendation;
Semantic matching for Web services during recommendation;
Semantic Web paradigm for WS description, discovery, and composition;
Coordination techniques for WS transactions, agreement, etc.;
Network techniques for WS security, performance evaluation and quality of service;
Multi-agent techniques for WS description, mediation, and discovery;
Business process modeling for WS composition, orchestration, and coordination;
Business process mining for WS discovery, composition, and coordination;
Complex data matching for WS discovery and composition.

Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: deadline expired
Authors Notification: deadline expired
Final Paper Submission and Registration: deadline expired

Keynote Speaker and Panel Discussion
A keynote speaker and a discussion panel are planned. The objective of the discussion panel is to discuss the ways of boosting the acceptance of Web services by the IT community and make them the technology of choice for the development of modern systems. The panel will be open to all ICEIS workshop’s and conference’s participants.

Workshop Program Committee
Karim Baina, ENSIAS, Morocco
Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Djamel Belaid, Institut TELECOM, France
Nejib Ben Hadj-Alouane, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Sami Bhiri, DERI, Ireland
Frederique Biennier, INSA Lyon, France
Francois Charoy, University of Nancy, France
Noura Faci, LIRIS, University of Lyon, France
Salim Ferraz, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Ouahiba Fouial, ESRGroups, France
Lizandro Z. Granville, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse, France
Yu Jian, University of Adelaide, Australia
Fabiana Lorenzi, Lutheran University of Brazil (ULBRA), Brazil
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Machester, UK
Samir Moalla, Tunis Science College, Tunisia
Michael Mrissa, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France
Ingo Mueller, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Vincenzo Pallotta, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Yahya Slimani, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Kokou Yetongnon, Bourgogne University, France

Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
Special issue in an international journal will be dedicated to selected papers from the workshop.

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by March 17, 2009 the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.