Open Standards Forum | Call for Presentations | Deadline 13 July

Open Standards Forum

“Enabling Transitional
Government through Web Services and SOA”

Organized by OASIS <www.oasis-open.org> 

 

29-30 October 2007

London,
 United Kingdom

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/

 

Call for Presentations Deadline – 13 July 2007

 

At the core of many practical implementations that aim to deliver on
the vision of "transformational government" are open standards and
interoperability specifications. Open standards for information exchange allow
government agencies to integrate systems provided by different vendors, built
over many years, based on evolving technologies, architectural concepts,
business processes and requirements. Standards also permit governments to
connect more easily to their citizens, to businesses, as well as
internationally to other governments.  

 

The international open standards consortium, OASIS, delivers the widest
range of open standards for Web services in use today. Recent OASIS work on Web
services standardisation extends SOAP-based messaging to provide message
security, reliable messaging, transaction, choreography and orchestration. 

 

While there is a great level of interest in these standards, many
industries are just beginning to implement them and some are still struggling
to fully understand the benefits and potential. OASIS invites proposals for
presentations and panel sessions that present these new standards and
demonstrate their added value to a wide audience.

 

In addition to presentations focused on specific OASIS Standards, we're
also looking for case studies that explain how these OASIS Standards address
real-life issues and requirements. We're particularly interested in case
studies of solution implementations in the public sector.

 

The Programme Committee would also welcome OASIS members interested in
demonstrating multi-vendor interoperability of software implementations,
commercial and/or open source that implement open Web services standards. 

 

Topics include, but are not limited to:

 

Web Services Standards and Interoperability

*     Overview of the landscape of OASIS Web
services specifications and standards

*     Related work in industries, other standards
organizations

 

Secure Web Services

*     Introductory overviews of Web services and
security issues

*     OASIS Standards: WS-Security,
WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust 

*     Open source software and other
implementations of secure Web services 

*     Case studies of solution implementations for
secure Web services 

*     Deployment considerations 

*     Role of Digital Certificates and Public Key
Infrastructures (PKI)

 

Web Services and Messaging

*     WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Reliability, and
ebXML Messaging

*     Open source software and other
implementations of reliable Web services 

*     Case studies of solution implementations for
Web services and messaging 

 

Transactional Web Services 

*     Introductory overview of Web services and
transactions 

*     WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction,
WS-BusinessActivity, WS-Context

*     Open source software and other
implementations of transactional Web services

*     Case studies of solution implementations for
transactional Web services

 

Orchestration and Choreography

*     WS-Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)

*     ebXML Business Process

 

Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures

*     SOA Reference Model, Framework for Web
Services Implementation 

*     Discussion of methods and functional
components for broad, multi-platform, vendor-neutral cross-industry
implementation of Web services 

*     Case studies of solution implementations for
Web services in an SOA environment

 

Web Services Interoperability

*     Web services profiles and interoperability 

*     Interoperability initiatives, testing,
conformance 

 

Interop Demonstrations

*     Featuring one or more of the above mentioned
OASIS Standards

 

Case Studies

*     E-Government applications 

*     E-Health applications 

*     Government Interoperability frameworks

 

PROPOSAL INFORMATION

 

Submissions will be judged not only on the quality and originality of
the material, but also on how well they draw valuable lessons and contribute to
a better understanding of the current status and future prospects of Web
services, and/or the role and relevance of emerging technologies.

Submissions should relate either to existing Web services standards in
some way or to requirements for new standards.

 

The Programme Committee reserves the right to adapt or restructure
proposals submitted to ensure an interesting and technically compelling
conference.

 

*       Presentations should be roughly
30-45 minutes in length, including a question-and-answer period. All
presentations will be chaired.

 

*       Panel sessions should be roughly
45-60 minutes in length, including a question and answer period. Proposals for
panels should include the topic, three to four potential panelists (name and
role) and proposed format (e.g. Q&A, short presentations or both). All
panel sessions will be moderated.

 

Proceedings for the Open Standards Forum will be published online.
Authors/presenters should arrange for any necessary releases for publication
prior to submission of their proposals.

 

Additional submission guidelines may be found at:
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/guidelines

 

TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

 

Please send the following information using the online abstract
submission form found at:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/2007_Adoption_Forum_CfP/register_contact.php

 

*       Full contact details of the
presenter, acting as the primary contact

*       Full list of authors and/or
additional presenters, if any 

*       Brief biography (one paragraph)
for all presenters/authors 

*       A short characterization of the
presentation

*       An extended abstract no more than
2000 words 

 

Deadline for submission is 13 July 2007.  All submissions will be
acknowledged.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Proposals due:         
      13 July 2007

Notification
by:             
1 August 2007

Final materials deadline:     To Be Announced in
Confirmation Letter

Event
dates:                 
29-30 October 2007

 

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