First Call for Research Papers and PhD Symposium Papers
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The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.
The ECOWS 2010 conference will include invited speakers, presentations of contributed research papers and an industrial track with the participation of top researchers in industry.
There has been continuous extensive air travel disruption across large parts of Europe since the second eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano on 14 April 2010, stranding millions of travellers.
The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.
The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through four Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
While beginning in the United States the late 2000s recession spread to Europe rapidly and has affected much of the region which several countries already in recession as of February 2009, and most others suffering marked economic set backs.