JWSR

CURRENT SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPER

Web Services Discovery and Composition Systems

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2005

Guest Editors: M. Brian Blake, William Cheung, Kwok Ching Tsui, Andreas Wombacher Objective:
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. Authors should contact the special issue editors to get the sample repository. 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.

Important Dates:
November 15, 2005 Full Paper Submission Due
December 30, 2005 Paper Acceptance Notice Sent to Authors
February 1, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due
October 2006 (Issue) Publication

Submission Procedure:
All submissions must be original and not be under review by another publication. Submissions and inquiries should be forwarded to M. Brian Blake (blakeb [AT] cs [DOT] georgetown [DOT] edu) or William Cheung (william [AT] comp [DOT] hkbu [DOT] edu [DOT] hk) .