Call for Participation
in the
2008 Web Services Challenge
in conjunction with
The IEEE International Conference on e-Technology,
e-Commerce, and e-
Services (EEE'08) and the IEEE International Conference on
Electronic
Commerce (CEC'08)
21-24 July 2008, Crystal City, Washington, DC USA
http://cec200
8.cs.georgetown.edu/wsc08/
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About CEC'08/EEE'08
The IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC '08) and
the IEEE
Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and
E-Services (EEE
'08) will be held as a joint event geared toward E-Commerce
and
Enterprise Computing. It will focus on new technologies and
methods
that enable business processes to smoothly transcend
organizational
boundaries. This includes solutions to dynamically
establish business
relationships, provide services across organizational
boundaries - in
a Mashup and Web 2.0 environment as well as from mobile
devices - and
exercise governance.
This CEC'08/EEE'08 program will consist of invited talks,
paper
presentations, and panel discussions. For more information,
please
visit http://cec2008.cs.g
eorgetown.edu.
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About the Competition
The Web Services Challenge (WS-Challenge) is a venue where
researchers
can collaborate on web service composition tools and
techniques. The
competition solicits industry and academic researchers that
develop
software components and/or intelligent agents that have the
ability to
discover pertinent web services and also compose them to
create higher-
level functionality.
The 2008 Web Services Challenge is the 4th challenge and
will be co-
located with the 2008 Conference on Electronic Commerce and
the
Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and
E-Services (CEC/EEE
2008). This fourth competition is more narrowly defined than
that of
the last year, which included both syntactic and semantic
matching of
WSDL part names. This year, the competition will focus
exclusively on
semantic composition of web service chains. Additionally,
the
challenge will incorporate use of OWL ontologies rather than
XML
Schema to define services and their relationships to each
other. The
participants will be required to determine relations between
different
types during the process of service composition.
The WS-Challenge invites the participation of students and
researchers
addressing the composition challenge stated above, with
details posted
on the Web Services Challenge website. The competition
entails the
submission of a four-page description of the approach to be
submitted
in early 2008. Papers should be formatted according to the
IEEE
Conference Publishing Services guidelines, in an 8.5” x 11”
two-column
layout. After a peer-review process, the technical
descriptions will
be included in the conference proceedings of the joint
conference. As
a next step later in the spring of 2008, the participants
will be
required to provide a preliminary version of their software
for a pre-
competition evaluation stage. The pre-competition evaluation
is
required in order for teams to participate in the challenge
taking
place during the conference.
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Schedule & Deadlines
March 31, 2008
Submission of Technical Description (four pages, formatting
conforming
to IEEE CS Press Proceedings)
April 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance of Technical Description
May 1, 2008
Final, Camera-Ready Version of Technical Description
June 4, 2008
Pre-Evaluation of Composition Software
July 21-24, 2008
Competition on Conference Site: Crystal City, Washington,
DC.
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Contact Information
WSC Co-Chairs:
M. Brian Blake
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University
E-mail: blakeb cs.georgetown.edu
Steffen Bleul
Distributed Systems Group
University of Kassel
Thomas Weise
Distributed Systems Group
University of Kassel
Andreas Wombacher
Distributed Information Systems Laboratory
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
E-mail: andreas.wombacherepfl.ch
Michael C. Jaeger
Faculty of EE and CS
Berlin University of Technology
E-mail: mcjcs.tu-berlin.de
William K. Cheung
Centre of e-Transformation Research
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
E-mail: williamcomp.hkbu.edu.hk
Submissions and inquiries should be sent to:
Brian Miller
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University
E-mail: wscdc08gmail.com
For more information, including Competition Rules and
Technical
Details, please visit:
http://cec200
8.cs.georgetown.edu/wsc08/
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