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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>. Named Executive Chairman<br />

<strong>of</strong> 2008 ICWS in Beijing<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2008—09--30<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=223312256<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Sep. 30. 2008: The 6th Institute <strong>of</strong> Electrical and Electronics<br />

Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), which was<br />

also the 2008 Congress on Services, was held on September 23-26 at the Beijing<br />

Friendship Hotel. About three hundred related experts, renown college pr<strong>of</strong>essors<br />

and business leaders from all over the world gathered in Beijing to attend the<br />

conference which was also its first time to be held outside the US.<br />

The <strong>PKU</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware <strong>of</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Electronics Engineering and Computer<br />

Science (SEECS) undertook the conference, and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Mei Hong from SEECS<br />

assumed the Executive Chairman position for the Conference. This year, ICWS<br />

received 270 manuscripts and there were at least three program committee<br />

members to review them in order to ensure the high academic standard. Finally, only<br />

43 papers were accepted, about 16%, which is the lowest percentage for acceptance<br />

to date for the conference.<br />

In the conference, there were 4 theme reports, 42 technical seminars, 4 technology<br />

trainings, a lot <strong>of</strong> technical discussions and 4 technological innovation forums<br />

(including Cloud Computing) facing industry practitioners, developers and<br />

technology researchers in correlated fields as well to discuss the development <strong>of</strong><br />

Web services and service computing.<br />

Service computing is a new cross-discipline that covers the science and technology<br />

needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. The goal <strong>of</strong><br />

services computing is to develop new computing technology and thereby enable<br />

more advanced IT services to support business services more efficiently and<br />

effectively. Web services are S<strong>of</strong>tware Components to cross Internet based on XML<br />

and HTTP/HTTPS by using standard interface description languages and universally<br />

available via uniform communication protocols. Currently, Web services have set up<br />

technology systems based on Web Services Description Language (WASDL),<br />

Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP)and Universal Description Discovery and<br />

Integration(UDDI).At the same time, related Web services protocols (including<br />

WS-Security, WS-Transaction) also have been constituted and improved constantly.<br />

As a prime international forum in Web services, ICWS <strong>of</strong>fered opportunities for both<br />

researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances<br />

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