WMCS 2012 - International Workshop on Web, Mobile, and Cloud Services (WMCS)

With the rapid advances in Web and mobile technologies, access to online services has become ubiquitous.
This ubiquity has even become a common practice with the deployment of cloud technologies where users
and enterprises access a variety of resources including software, platform, and infrastructure exposed as
services.
The service paradigm comes nowadays in different forms ranging from Web to mobile and now cloud. Are
these forms different or complementary? What are the requirements and particularities of each? And could
they be combined together? These are some of the questions that academics and industry people are
examining. It is worth noting that Web, mobile, and cloud services are complementary and thus, do not
compete. For instance, mobile services need to be deployed on the cloud to resolve issues related of the
mobile device limited processing power, battery life, and data storage. Web services also should be deployed
on the cloud to benefit from the abundance of processing and storage resources, reduce the cost, and to scale
with larger number of clients. Also, cloud services might be leveraged and exploited using the main features
of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): publish, register, and discover. Therefore, there is a strong and
complementary relationship between these technologies to achieve high level of effectiveness.
In this workshop, we aim to explore and discuss the research issues related to the usage, and the management
of web, mobile, and cloud services and their convergence. We will discuss the main issues, solutions, and
recommendations. These might include a wide spectrum of research questions such as: how data privacy is
maintained by these services? What mechanisms could be used to discover the right services that respond to
varying business needs? How services might be composed and managed? How QoS and SLA agreements is
managed?.
WMCS provides a premier forum for researchers to present innovative research and development
progresses in all areas related to Web, Mobile, and Cloud services.
Areas of Interest
The workshop program invites papers on various topics of interest to this Workshop including (but are not
limited to):
a. Service Discovery and Composition
b. Semantic description of Services
c. Costing and pricing of Services
d. Mobile Services
e. Cloud Services
f. Web Services
g. Agent-based Service architecture
h. Social computing
i. Cloud Service discovery j. Privacy and security of Services
k. Cloud Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
l. Cloud services & architectures
m. Service federations and communities
n. QoS driven selection and composition
o. QoS management
p. Internet of Services
q. Internet of things
r. Utility Computing
s. Other related topics to this theme.
Cross topics between the above areas are welcome