Call for Paper IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA'09) December 14-15, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/soca09 PURPOSE AND SCOPE With the ever-increasing complexity in today's computing systems and their complex interactions with the physical environments, service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered as a key technology to combat the complexity for developing robust and high quality applications. The extensive research and development in the past few years have pushed the SOC technology into business process, high performance computing, web-based services, embedded systems, and many other important areas. With more and more services moved into the "cloud" and ubiquitous end devices that interface with physical environments becoming prevalent, it is time that we reexamine the directions of SOC research and identify new research opportunities and challenges to advance the technology. SOCA'09 provides an international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of service-oriented computing. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of SOCA 2009 and be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Best papers from the proceedings will be selected for publication in the Springer Journal on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA) as well as special issues in international journals to be announced. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Service-oriented architecture Service-oriented software engineering Service system technology Service-oriented semantic computing SOC for cyber-physical systems Embedded and real-time services Grid and cloud services Service-oriented applications IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: August 1, 2009 -- extended to midnight August 12, pacific time Author notification: September 15, 2009 Final manuscript: October 15, 2009 PAPER SUBMISSION Papers presenting original and unpublished work are invited and will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Submitted papers should be formatted in a two-column IEEE Computer Society format (URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) and should not exceed eight pages including figures and references. Submissions will be via the conference web site: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/soca09. For further information of the conference, please contact Prof. Chung-Ta King at king@cs.nthu.edu.tw. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Co-chairs Pen-Chung Yew, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ming-Syan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan General Co-chairs Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Program Co-chairs Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Program Vice Chairs 1. Service-oriented Architecture and System Technology Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK 2. Service-oriented Applications Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia 3. Embedded Services Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 4. SOC for Cyber-physical Systems Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan 5. Grid and Cloud Services Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 6. Business Services and Technology Fu-ren Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Industry Chair Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research, USA Publication Chair Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Finance Chair Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Publicity Chair Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Panel Chair Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Local Organization Co-chairs Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Sheng-Wei Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Web Chair Chiou-Feng Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Service-oriented Architecture and System Technology Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK Emerson Cabrera Paraiso, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brasil Paavo Kotinurmi, SAP Basis and Integration Services, Wartsila, Finland, Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Amy J.C. Trappey, National Taipei University of Technology, TAIWAN Nathan Griffiths, Warwick University, UK Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Christian Glasner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Germany Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK Richard Anthony, Greenwich University, UK M. Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China David Parker, Oxford University, UK Chun-Lung Huang, ITRI, Taiwan Service-oriented Applications Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA Ying Chen, IBM Research, China Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP research, Australia Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Scott Langevin, University of South Carolina, USA Althea Liang, Singapore Management University, Singapore Andre Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Tony Shan, CTS Inc., USA Kunal Verma, Accenture, USA Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, USA Mathias Weske, Potsdam University, Germany Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, the Netherlands Yuhong Yan, Concordia University, Canada Runfang Zhou, Microsoft, USA Embedded Services Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Vandy Berten, University of Brussels, Belgium Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, USA Chin-Fu Kuo, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Qixin Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong David Chang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan Jiman Hong, Soongsil University, Korea Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Nicolas Navet, LORIA, France Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Thomas Nolte, Malardalen University, Sweden SOC for Cyber-physical Systems Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Cheng-Chung Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Don-Lin Yang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Masahiro Tanaka, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA Artem Chebotko, University of Texas, Pan American, USA Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Keqin Li, SAP Research, France Masahiro Tanaka, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, Jeff Jenness, Arkansas State University, USA Vipin Chaudhary, SUNY Buffalo, USA Grid and Cloud Services Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada Ge Yu, Northeast University, China Guiling Wang, Institute of Computing Technology, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Jun Han, Swinburne University, Australia Jun Wei, Institute of Software, China Liming Zhu, National ICT, Australia Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Roland Wagner, BHT Berlin, Germany Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Wien, Austria Zhi Jin, Peking University, China Zhuofeng Zhao, Institute of Computing Technology, China Business Services and Technology Fu-ren Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan San-yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Frank S.C. Tseng, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales (UNSW) , Australia Yue-Sun Kuo, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan Xinfeng Ye, Auckland University, New Zealand Wanita Sherchan, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Jonathan Lee, National Central University, Taiwan Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Zakaria Maamar, Laval University, Canada Robert A. van Engelen, Florida State University, USA Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Incheon Paik, The University of Aizu , Japan