The Fourth International Workshop on

XML Technology and Applications (XMLTech’06)

June 26-29, 2006
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

(In the conjunction with The 2006 International Multiconference in Computing Science)

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

You are invited to submit your paper(s) of about 6 (IEEE-style) pages and/or a proposed to organise a technique session (see below for submission information). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Computing Science Research, Education and Application Press (CSREA). Outstanding paper(s) will be selected to be published in a special issue of an international Journal after conference.

Scope: XML technology had a tremendous development in recent years in both languages itself and its applications in number of subject areas. This conference aims to cover the following topics but not limited to the following research subjects and/or technique areas.

Subject Areas: XML standards and protocols XML technology in E-commerce XML technology in E-education XML technology in E-publishing XML technology in E-business XML technology in E-science XML technology in Medical Science XML technology in E-engineering Other XML technology related applications XML technology in Grid computing XML technology in Web applications XML technology in Web services XML technology in software development XML technology in enterprise solutions XML technology in client/server distributed computing Etc.

Technique Issues: Data access/retrieve Security Data storage/content issues Information strategies Web-based programming Mobile computing Client-server systems Agent systems Middleware issues Service Oriented Architectures Portal issues Protocol and standards Parsers Validation tools Editors for coding or composite document Language translators Etc.

Paper Submission and Publications:

Contributions will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from both program committee members and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents on basis of papers. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages.

Electronically submit the original papers of up to 6 pages, single space, font size of 10 to 12 to Dr. Joan Lu or Dr. Jun Ni. The detail can be fund at http://scom.hud.ac.uk/scomzl/conference/xmltech/.

Important Dates:

March 7, 2006: Submission deadline March 21, 2006: notification of acceptance

April 21, 2006: Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration June 26-29, 2006: XML Tech’06 Workshop

Conference Contacts

General Chair: Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA, hra@cs.uga.edu

Program Chair: Dr. Joan Lu at j.lu@hud.ac.uk; Co-Chair: Dr. Jun Ni at jun-ni@uiowa.edu

Sponsors: sponsored by World Academy of Science (WAS) and CSREA