IARIA Workgroup on Web Services

Workgoup Meeting, May 27, 2009 - Venice/Mestre, Italy
17:30 - 19:00

Attendance: 43

Everyone was impressed by the Expert panel:

Future Internet: Challenges in Virtualization and Federation

Agenda: no particular presentations were scheduled for this meeting, however two tutorials were preesnted at WebTel 2009:

From Software Radio to Cognitive Radio: the technical challenges
Automatic Generation of Web Interfaces from Discourse Models

as well as two keynore speeches:

Technology and World Culture
e-Infrastructures for data and compute intensive applications [Networks, Grids, Clouds, P2P, and applications: how do they come together?]

See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgramICIW09.html

Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html

Keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

Discussions:

ICIW, apart the Internet and web-based applications and web services-based systems figures special tracks on P2P, Entertainment systems, Online systems, and two specialized embedded workshops
- VEWAeL, on Virtual environments and Web Applications for eLearning, initiated and sustained by Guadeloupe Ortiz and Matthias Ehmann, both present in Venice
- SLAECE, on Social and Legal Aspects in Internet computing, initiated and sustained by Hideyasu Sasaki, present in Venice
There were discussions on re-structuring the topics for these two special tracks and identify the right target lists for potential contributors; the number of selected papers was not at the expected level this year, even thought VEWAeL posted 4 sessions, and SLAECE 2 sessions
Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination of the Call for Papers, avoiding spamming
The promotion of young researchers was appreciated
More work for preparing ICIW 2010 will be done offline, with volunteers: Guadeloupe Ortiz, Hideyasu Sasaki, Mathias Ehmann, Vladimir Stancev, Jason Nurse, Eugene Myakotnykn, etc.
An open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics for ICIW was launched
Please have a look at: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICIW09.html
Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org
The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated.
See: www.iariajournals.org

Suggestions:

Continue with ‘Poster’ and ‘Work in Progress’ tracks
Definitively, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process.

Special topics for further consideration:

It is the IARIA Board position that everybody should benefit the same access and service during the conference; some suggested to have partial services and reduced registration fees for students. A detailed discussion went on the structure of the registration fees, simply sharing with the audience where each penny goes.
A particular suggestion will be implemented from the next event: Student Consortium.
Another suggestion was to have many POPs; while feasible, the drawback is that this will split the community. A try will be prepared for the next event.

Proceeding publications:

The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication.
This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board to careful attention.
It was suggested that some national research Centers encourage scientist to rather publish in openly searchable digital libraries.

Next steps:

Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges
Extend invitations for ICIW committee membership
Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas

ICIW 2010:

Announce the new topics with the CfP for ICIW 2010
The plan is to update it accordingly for ICIW 2010
Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Barcelona or Valencia (Spain), or Aveiro (Portugal)
ICIW 2010 will be organized under WebTel 2010, most probably in May 2010



	Workgoup Meeting, May 27, 2009 - Venice/Mestre, Italy 17:30 - 19:00 Attendance: 43 Everyone was impressed by the Expert panel: Future Internet: Challenges in Virtualization and Federation Agenda: no particular presentations were scheduled for this meeting, however two tutorials were preesnted at WebTel 2009: From Software Radio to Cognitive Radio: the technical challenges Automatic Generation of Web Interfaces from Discourse Models as well as two keynore speeches: Technology and World Culture e-Infrastructures for data and compute intensive applications [Networks, Grids, Clouds, P2P, and applications: how do they come together?] See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgramICIW09.html Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html Keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html Discussions: ICIW, apart the Internet and web-based applications and web services-based systems figures special tracks on P2P, Entertainment systems, Online systems, and two specialized embedded workshops VEWAeL, on Virtual environments and Web Applications for eLearning, initiated and sustained by Guadeloupe Ortiz and Matthias Ehmann, both present in Venice SLAECE, on Social and Legal Aspects in Internet computing, initiated and sustained by Hideyasu Sasaki, present in Venice There were discussions on re-structuring the topics for these two special tracks and identify the right target lists for potential contributors; the number of selected papers was not at the expected level this year, even thought VEWAeL posted 4 sessions, and SLAECE 2 sessions Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination of the Call for Papers, avoiding spamming The promotion of young researchers was appreciated More work for preparing ICIW 2010 will be done offline, with volunteers: Guadeloupe Ortiz, Hideyasu Sasaki, Mathias Ehmann, Vladimir Stancev, Jason Nurse, Eugene Myakotnykn, etc. An open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics for ICIW was launched Please have a look at: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICIW09.html Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated. See: www.iariajournals.org Suggestions: Continue with ‘Poster’ and ‘Work in Progress’ tracks Definitively, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process. Special topics for further consideration: It is the IARIA Board position that everybody should benefit the same access and service during the conference; some suggested to have partial services and reduced registration fees for students. A detailed discussion went on the structure of the registration fees, simply sharing with the audience where each penny goes. A particular suggestion will be implemented from the next event: Student Consortium. Another suggestion was to have many POPs; while feasible, the drawback is that this will split the community. A try will be prepared for the next event. Proceeding publications: The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication. This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board to careful attention. It was suggested that some national research Centers encourage scientist to rather publish in openly searchable digital libraries. Next steps: Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges Extend invitations for ICIW committee membership Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas ICIW 2010: Announce the new topics with the CfP for ICIW 2010 The plan is to update it accordingly for ICIW 2010 Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Barcelona or Valencia (Spain), or Aveiro (Portugal) ICIW 2010 will be organized under WebTel 2010, most probably in May 2010