[ecoop-info] CfP: IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Service Mashups

[Schahram Dustdar]

IEEE Internet Computing

Special Issue on " Service Mashups"

Submission deadline:  Januray 15, 2008


Guest Editors:

Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS Lab, University of Lyon, France

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University, USA


Overview:
The topic of this special issue concerns the design and the development 
of novel and modern Web applications based on easy to accomplish 
end-user composition of services. Combining Web service technologies 
(WSDL, UDDI, SOAP) with fresh content, collaborative approaches (e.g., 
Web 2.0), and possibly including semantic technologies (RSS, RDFa, 
SPARQL ) is an exciting challenge for both, academic and industrial 
researchers.

This special issue seeks original articles on service mashups in the 
context of service oriented (Web services) applications. The Internet 
and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in 
which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed 
collaboratively, communities of users with similar interests can be 
formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance. In this context, 
service mashups which is an information sharing and aggregation to 
support content publishing for new modern Web application become an 
important issue. New technologies were recently developed to provide 
powerful ways to represent fresh contents such as Really Simple 
Syndication (RSS), microformats, RDFa, and possibly including semantic 
technology standards (e.g., RDF, RDFS, OWL, SWRL, and SPARQL). Web 
services are also nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying 
automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous 
applications. Various standards support this deployment including WSDL, 
UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of 
Web services, their advertisement to the community of potential users, 
and finally their binding for invocation purposes.

Papers describing advanced research and experience on service mashups 
based on Web services technologies are being solicited. This special 
issue will include, but is not limited to:
     - Mashups examples and experience (design, architecture, 
implementation, usability and user-experience)
     - (Dynamic) Languages, frameworks, and (runtime) platforms for the 
design, implementation, testing and maintenance of Web APIs and services 
mashups
     - Analysis of and experience with services mashups (creation, 
deployment, and usage) from social and economical perspectives
     - Web 2.0 based mashups
     - Case studies on service-based semantic mashups
     - Quality of services mashups: reliability, security, and other 
non-functional aspects
     - Data Integration for the service mashups
     - Service mediation for the Semantic Web application
     - Web 2.0, semantics and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
     - Mashups in mobile applications

Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit original papers using the journal Web 
site. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or 
currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you 
are responsible  for understanding and adhering to IEEE Internet 
Computing submission guidelines.

All submissions must be 5,000 words or less, including full text, 
abstract,  keywords, bibliography, biographies, table text, and 250 
words for each figure.
Overlength manuscripts will be rejected without review, pending 
resubmission. Acceptance will be based on relevance, technical 
soundness, originality,
and clarity of presentation. For further information on submission, 
please contact the guest editors.


Important Dates:
     - Paper submission deadline:                     Januray 15, 2008
     - First decision from GEs:                       March 3, 2008
     - Revised versions due from authors:             April 7, 2008
     - Final decisions due:                           June 2, 2008
     - Articles due into pubs office for editing:     June 16, 2008
     - Publication date:                              August 14, 2008





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Schahram Dustdar
Full Professor
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Distributed Systems Group (DSG),
Information Systems Institute

A-1040 Wien, Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
Tel +43-1-58801-18414   Fax +43-1-58801-18491
URL: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd/
http://www.VitaLab.tuwien.ac.at
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