[DistComp] call for chapters - Handbook on Web services (Springer)

[Schahram Dustdar]

Call for Book chapters

Title: Handbook on Web Services by Springer Verlag

Editors: Athman Bouguettaya and Schahram Dustdar

Dear Colleagues

We are editing a Handbook on Web Services which is intended to be the
primary source of information for researchers, practitioners, and
students. Therefore, we would like you to consider submitting a chapter
for this book.

The Web Services Handbook offers a comprehensive overview on the
scientific and technical progress in Web Services technologies, design,
performance, architectures and deployment. The book chapters will be
written by leading experts in the area. An in-depth discussion of all
relevant technical and scientific related issues and scientific and
practical advice on standards and theoretical work in this field will be
exhaustively covered.

Themes and topics include but are not limited to:

Foundations of Web Services

•             Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Evolutions
•             Models, methodologies, and tools (including analysis,
design, modeling, and composition)
•             Publishing, discovery, and selection
•             Management and governance
•             Formal methods

Web Service Standards

•             Service Registries
•             Service Composition
•             Service Discovery
•             Service Engineering
•             Service Transactions

Web Services Research and Trends

•             Composition
•             Query and discovery models
•             Trust and Security
•             Change management
•             Organization models
•             Web Service mining
•             M-services
•             Service governance

Web Service Applications

•             Web 2.0 and Web X.0
•             Cloud Computing (*aaS)
•             E-Science/E-Research
•             Business

Web Service Case Studies

•             Performance evaluation
•             Deployment
•             Experience

Open Issues and Future Directions

•             Service Web
•             Ubiquitous services


Submission guidelines

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-          Full paper submission deadline is February 29, 2012.

-          Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum
length of 25 pages preferred (using the LNCS template).

-          Submissions should include the title, authors, affiliations,
e-mail addresses, tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal addresses on the
first page.

-          You should submit your paper using the easychair.org
-          submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webserviceshandbook2

-          The attachment must be in PDF.



Tentative deadlines

Intention to Submit with Abstract:  15 January 2012 (via email to editors)

Submissions Due                      : 29 February 2012
Notification of Acceptance           : 30 March 2012
Revised version due                  : 30 April 2012
Final Notification of Acceptance     : 15 June 2012
Final camera-ready version           : 30 June 2012


Editors
Athman Bouguettaya
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
RMIT University
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Email: athman.bouguettaya at rmit.edu.au

Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology
Distributed Systems Group
Austria-Europe
Email: dustdar at infosys.tuwien.ac.at