From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 09:11:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8B016A417 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de) Received: from mailsmtp1.rz.uni-jena.de (smtp.uni-jena.de [141.35.1.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7040D13C455 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de) Received: from [192.168.2.13] (chello080108047121.34.11.vie.surfer.at [80.108.47.121]) (authenticated id=m6kobi2 bits=0) by mailsmtp1.rz.uni-jena.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8Q8BRkD012013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:11:28 +0200 Message-ID: <46FA1430.8020509@informatik.uni-jena.de> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:11:28 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Birgitta_K=F6nig-Ries?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Verborgene_Empfaenger:; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:54:26 +0000 Subject: Call for Participation: European Conf. on Web Services ECOWS 2007 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:11:37 -0000 [Apologies for multiple copies] *** Apologies for multiple copies! *** Call for Participation Fifth IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2007) http://www.ecows2007.uni-halle.de Halle (Saale), Germany November 26-28, 2007 ATTENTION: Registration is now open Conference Fees: IEEE Member EUR 300 (EUR 360 after October 15) Academics EUR 350 (EUR 420 after October 15) Student (IEEE Member) EUR 200 (EUR 240 after October 15) Student (Non-Members) EUR 250 (EUR 300 after October 15) Other EUR 400 (EUR 480 after October 15) For registration visit our Web Page http://www.ecows2007.uni-halle.de The IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. In addition to the main conference, a seminar on "Buildung Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services" and the second edition of the Workshop on Emerging Web Services Technology will take place. The success encountered by the Web has shown that tightly coupled software systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems, possibly legacy systems that share very little with it. Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented architectures, they can evolve during their lifespan more easily and adapt better to changing or unpredictable environments. When properly implemented, services can be discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms, while each service can still be implemented in a black-box manner. This is important from a business perspective since customers no longer need to "choose their side". Each service can be implemented using any technology, independently from the others. What matters is that everybody agrees on the integration technology, and there is a consensus about this in today's middleware market: customers want to use Web technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators, developers, and providers need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective development and the use of dependable services and service-oriented applications. -- Birgitta König-Ries Heinz-Nixdorf-Stiftungsprofessur für Praktische Informatik Institut für Informatik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena hnsp.inf-bb.uni-jena.de koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de