Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not exceed 12 pages,  strictly following Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Please, submit papers via the WESOA conference management tool in PDF format.

For submission, authors are encouraged to register with the WESOA conference management tool and create an entry of their intended full paper submission including authors, classification, keywords and abstract until abstract submission deadline (Oct. 1st, 2008). Later registration is however possible. To finish submission, authors need to complete the entry by uploading their paper until paper submission deadline (Oct. 13th, 2008).

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, and circulated to participants prior to the event. Workshop proceedings will be published in a Springer LNCS volume.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the ICSOC conference to be found on their website http://www.icsoc.org/.