[wfm-rg] Fwd: Call For Papers in IJWSR (Web Service Composition) - Deadline in 12 Days

[Ewa Deelman]

Call for Papers 

Special Issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research
(IJWSR) 

On 

Web Services Discovery and Composition Systems 

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005

Using service-oriented computing approaches (i.e. web services), the
capabilities of organizations can be openly exposed, easily searched and
discovered, and made readily-accessible to humans and particularly to
machines. Artificial intelligence and software engineering researchers
alike are intrigued by the promise of ubiquitously discovering and
incorporating services into their own business processes (i.e.
composition and orchestration). With growing acceptance of
service-oriented computing, an emerging area of research is the
investigation of technologies that will enable the discovery and
composition of web services. 

This proposed special issue solicits high-quality papers on software
components and/or intelligent agents that can discover pertinent web
services and compose them to create higher-level functionality. For this
special issue, all the submitted manuscripts will undergo a rigorous
peer-reviewing process and the selection criteria include both the
system design's elegancy as well as its practicability. Each manuscript
should include the evaluation section on the effectiveness of the
proposed approach based on a given Web services repository. Repositories
and example software are available at
http://ws-challenge.georgetown.edu/ . Alternatively, authors may submit
the repository used in their evaluation. This will provide a uniform
section in each paper that will allow readers to understand the benefits
and limitations of the variety of approaches that were implemented.  

The readers of this special issue will get an understanding of the
benefits and limitations of various approaches for composing web
services using Web Service Description Language (WSDL) files. Paper
submissions should be full research papers, typically between 17-27
journal pages.

Important Dates: 
November 30, 2005 -- Full Paper Submission Due
December 30, 2005 -- Paper Acceptance Notice Sent to Authors 

Guest Editors: 

M. Brian Blake, Ph.D. 
Department of Computer Science 
Georgetown University 
E-mail: blakeb at cs.georgetown.edu 

William K. Cheung, Ph.D. 
Department of Computer Science 
Hong Kong Baptist University 
E-mail:william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk 

Kwok Ching Tsui, Ph.D. 
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) 
E-mail: kwokchingtsui at hsbc.com.hk 

Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D. 
Information Systems Group 
Department of Computer Science 
University of Twente 
E-mail: a.wombacher at utwente.nl 

All submissions must be original.  Submissions and inquiries should be
sent to: 
  
M. Brian Blake (blakeb at cs.georgetown.edu) or William Cheung
(william at comp.hkbu.edu.hk) 



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Michael Fitzgerald Nowlan
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
mfn3 at georgetown.edu