IADIS International Workshop on Web Services and the Future of Internet Computing 2006 (WSFIC 2006)

* Workshop Theme

As the service oriented programming paradigm matures, web services have an accelerated pace of adoption by most leading web-based technology companies. Web services are a group of network-accessible operations that other systems can invoke through XML messages using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The technologies have fundamentally revolutionized ways to analyze, develop and manage the underlying Internet application systems. Unlike other technologies such as the common object request broker architecture (CORBA), using web services makes its easier to glue components together by exploiting existing web standards and protocols. While this technology is fast maturing, there are still fundamental challenges that need addressing. Thus, this workshop provides a platform for researchers and product developers to the body of knowledge on web services by sharing experiences, practices a shared vision for the evolution of web services and its impact on the future of Internet computing. The aim is to attract real world examples to illustrate the advanced practices and challenges of such technologies, as well as supporting technologies and infrastructure. Focus will be on issues relating to how web services directs the future of internet computing.

Authors are invited to submit theoretical and practical based research on this area. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Changing nature of Internet computing
Maturity of web services
Web service creation, development and management
Web services security, privacy and quality of service
Context-aware computing in Web 2.0
Grid based web services applications
The semantic web and web services
Multimedia applications using web services
Evolving applications using web services (e.g eBusiness, eLearning)
Grid based web services applications
Ontology integration of web services
Web agents and web services

* Submissions

You are invited to submit a paper (8 pages for a full paper and 4 pages for a short paper submission) by sending it to the workshop chair (T.Ishaya@hull.ac.uk). The following electronic formats for papers are acceptable: MS Word, PostScript, and PDF. The covering letter should indicate the names of the authors, their affiliations, and addresses, faxes and emails. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call) - 4 September 2006
- Notification to Authors (last call) - 14 September 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call) - Until 21 September 2006
- Late Registration (last call) - After 21 September 2006

* Workshop Location
The workshop will be held in Murcia, Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS WSFIC 2006 Workshop,
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: icwi_sec@iadis.org
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/WSFIC2006