The Fifteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on December 10–11, 2005, just prior to the International Conference on Information Systems. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in the cutting edge issues of information technology and systems. The theme for WITS’05 is "Service-Oriented Computing: Challenges and Solutions".

We solicit condensed research papers addressing issues concerning the theory, design, development, evaluation, and application of advanced information and communication technologies and systems. In addition, we also solicit research prototype demonstrations at the workshop. For a list of topics of interest and submission instructions, see Call for Papers (PDF).

For additional information about WITS'05, please contact:

WITS'05 CO-CHAIRS:
     Kar Yan Tam, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
     J. Leon Zhao, University of Arizona

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR:
     Taedong Han, University of Nevada Las Vegas

For prototype submissions, please contact:

PROTOTYPE COORDINATOR:
     Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona

PROGRAM LIAISONS:

Europe: Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology 
               Abraham Bernstein, University of Zürich
Asia:      Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
               Jay Kyu Lee, KAIST, Korea
               Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong
Latin America: Paulo Goes, University of Connecticut

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for abstract submissions: ..................... August 8, 2005
Deadline for paper submissions: ......................... August 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance: .................................. September 26, 2005
Camera-ready copy due: .................................... October 17, 2005