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First Call for Submissions

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Track on: WEB SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (WEBSA)

at the International Conference on IP and Web Applications 2006 (ICIW 2006) (http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICIW06.html)

February 19-25, 2006, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean --------------------------------------------------------

We inaugurate a series of co-located events that covers complementary aspects related to designing and deploying of applications based on "IP&Web techniques and mechanisms". The umbrella conference (ICIW 2006, International Conference on IP&Web) consists of several mini conferences concerning Web technologies, design and development of Web-based applications, and interactions of these applications with other types of systems. Management aspects related to these applications and challenges on specialized domains are aided at too. Evaluation techniques and standard position on different aspects are part of the expected agenda.

The mini conferences under this event are:

ICIWA 2006, IP-Web Based Applications and Services ENSYS 2006, Entertainment Systems P2PSA 2006, P2P Systems and Applications WEBSA 2006, Web Service-based Systems and Applications ONLINE 2006, Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks

Proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Industry is also welcome with special contributions (see the web site mentioned below.)

The conference will take place in Guadeloupe, French Caribbean.

The submissions deadlines are:

Submission deadline: September 30, 2005 Notification: October 28, 2005 Camera ready: November 15, 2005 Conference: February 23-25, 2006

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR WEBSA 2006 TRACK ========================================= The Call for Submissions for the Web Service-based Systems and Applications (WEBSA 2006) track covers both theoretical and experimental topics. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas. Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

Topics that are expected to be covered, but not limited to are:

Web services foundation, architectures, frameworks, languages Web services architecture and business continuity Special Web services mechanisms Semantic Web, Ontology, and Web services Web service applications Data Management aspects in Web Services Autonomic e-Business integration and collaboration Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Web services based applications for e-Commerce Multimedia applications using Web Services Automatic computing for Web services Web services challenges on trust, security, performance, scalability Enterprise Web services Web services discovery, announcing, monitoring and management Platforms, technologies, mechanisms and case studies Grid architectures, middleware and toolkits

WEBSA 2006 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ======================================== Kamel Adi, Université of Outaouais, Canada Fabio Casati, HP, USA Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy John Domingue, Open University, UK Jean-Jacques Dubray, Attachmate, USA Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Rik Eshuis, TUE, Netherlands Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, USA Roy Grønmo, SINTEF, Norway Adriana Iamnitchi, Duke University, USA Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Ryszard Kowalczyk, SWIN, Australia Birgitta König-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany Welf Löwe, Växjö University, Sweeden Savas Parastatidis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Axel Martens, IBM Research, Hawthorn, USA Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, England Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, [Chair] Steve Ross-Talbot, Enigmatec Corporation, UK Alexander Wahler, Niwa Web Solutions, Austria Jim Webber, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands

Note: Check the conference website for frequent updates to the TPC members list.

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS ============================ The ICIW 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Conference deadlines are as follows:

- Submission deadline: September 30th, 2005 - Notification: October 28th, 2005 - Camera ready: November 15th, 2005 - Conference: February 19-25, 2006

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaICIW06.html Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

TECHNICAL MARKETING/BUSINESS/POSITIONING PRESENTATIONS ==================================================== The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

TUTORIALS ========= Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

PANELS ======= The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre@iaria.org

ICIW ADVISORY COMMITTEE ======================== Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Karim El Guemhioui, Université du Québec en Outaouais , Canada Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Mário Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France Varol Yaakov, University of Nevada – Reno, USA

Looking forward for your contributions,

WEBSA 2006 Chair Dumitru Roman, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria, dumitru.roman@deri.org

ICIW 2006 Chair Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA, pdini@cisco.com