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I am organizing a Workshop on Service Oriented Techniques at ICEC06 with Dr. Liangjie Zhang from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Below is CFP:

Call for Papers

Service oriented techniques are used for building software applications that use services available in a network such as the Web. The driving forces come from both the software engineering community and the e-business community. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promotes loose coupling between software components so that interoperability across programming languages and platforms can be achieved. Extending the classic middleware functions, SOA techniques incorporate the demands of e-business by adding process modelling and management functions. The description of services covers not only software interfaces but also semantic business information. Services can be dynamically discovered and composite services can be built from aggregates of other services.

The aim of the SOT workshop is to present recent research findings on service oriented techniques. We welcome papers from both academia and industry. We especially invite submissions based on theoretical foundations or innovative industrial projects. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

* Formal methods for service modelling and computing
* Dynamic selection and composition of services/applications
* Dynamic coordination of services/applications
* Managing and monitoring services/applications
* QoS-enabled services/applications
* Data integration of distributed services
* Selection and interaction among services
* Context-aware services/applications
* Performance evaluation of middleware for service-oriented computing
* Semantic Issues in service integration
* Combinations of Semantic Web technology with Web Services
* Innovative applications

Submission Guidelines
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Papers must be submitted in either Word or PDF, according to the ACM Proceedings Format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Maximum length is 8 pages. Submissions by
email to Yuhong.yan@nrc.gc.ca. Papers will be reviewed by qualified reviewers from the program
committee as below. The proceedings will be published by the Press of Canadian National Research
Council. The selected paper will be published by the Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management and/or the Journal of Computational Intelligence.

Important Dates
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Electronic paper Submission deadline: April 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2006
Workshop Date: August 13, 2006
Main Conference Dates: August 14-16, 2006

Location
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Delta Hotel, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Links
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Workshop website: http://icec06.net/WorkshopsAndTutorials/SOT/SOT-Web.htm
ICEC06 http://icec06.net/

Organizers
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Dr. Yuhong Yan (National Research Council, Canada)
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Program Committee
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Lilina Ardissono (University of Torino, Italy)
Virendra Bhavsar (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Hong Cai (IBM Research, China)
Luba Cherbakov (IBM Global Service, USA)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China)
Weichang Du (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc., USA)
Chiara Francalanci (Politechnique of Miliano, Italy)
Ali Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Anna Goy (University of Torino, Italy)
Patrick Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Mihhail Matskin (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Yannick Pencole (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Claudia Picardi (University of Torino, Italy)
Jinghai Rao (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Weiming Shen (NRC-IMTI, Canada)
Michael Sintek (DFKI, Germany)
Andy Ju An Wang (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Leon Zhao (University Of Arizona, USA)