The Ninth European Conference on Web Services, Lugano, Switzerland
As opposed to tightly coupled software systems, loosely coupled software systems can be more flexible, adaptive and focused. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems, possibly legacy systems that share very little with it.
Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. When applications are developed with service-oriented architectures, they can evolve easily during their lifespan and adapt to changing or even unpredictable environments.
When properly implemented, services can be employed dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms; at the same time each service can still be implemented in a black-box manner. This is important from a business perspective since each service can be implemented using any technology, independently of the others.
The conference is designed for researchers and practitioners, with the aim of being a place to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of web services.For further information, please visit: http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/(opens in new window)