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First Call for Submissions (Submissions deadline: April 2, 2007) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop; 2nd edition (mda4soa'07) http://events.deri.at/mda4soa2007/ co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2007) and Web Services (ICWS 2007) July 13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL OVERVIEW A new paradigm service-orientation is currently emerging for distributed computing and e-business processing; it has evolved from object-oriented and component-based computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. This new paradigm utilizes services (autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered and accessed over the Internet using standard protocols) as fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions; services will be important for customers and not the specific software or hardware component that is used to implement the services. In this context, services become the next level of abstraction in the process of creating systems that would enable automation of e-businesses. This paradigm shift is changing the way the computer software is developed and used (designed, architected, delivered, consumed, and analysed), and this way of reorganizing software applications and infrastructure into a set of interacting services is usually referred to as Service-oriented Architectures (SOA). In recent years, various forms of service-oriented architectures have appeared; amongst them, Web services, Grid services, Semantic Web Services, and e-Services are the most important. Although they share some of the principles of service-oriented architectures, they differ in many other aspects, which is an undesirable situation in the context of service-oriented architectures. Since standard protocols are a basic principle of SOA, this undesirable situation is partly due also to the fact that there are currently no mature methodologies and techniques to support analysis for service-oriented architectures. Moreover, all these forms of service-oriented architectures have developed different conceptual models, resulting in different methodologies for modelling and designing service-oriented architectures. In this context, this workshop aims to tackle the research problems (as well as practical experiences) around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable computing in service-oriented environments. Of particular interest are the architectural, technical, and developmental foundations of service-oriented architectures, and showing how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the scale required by today's Internet-connected enterprise. The focus of the workshop is broader than, but includes, the OMG MDA (Model Driven Architecture) approach for service oriented architectures. MDA was for the first international workshop, mda4soa'06, used as short for Modeling, Design and Analysis. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners (e.g. leading modelers, architects, system vendors, open-source projects, developers, and end-users) addressing many of these issues (including recent developments in tools and techniques, and real-world implementations of service-oriented distributed applications), and promote and foster a greater understanding of how service-oriented architectures can assist business to business and enterprise application integration, thus helping people develop and manage business processes more efficiently and effectively. TOPICS The following indicates the general focus of the workshop. However, related contributions are welcome as well. * case studies for service-oriented architectures and systems * analysis methodologies for service-oriented architectures and systems * languages and methods for service-oriented architectures * specification of service-oriented architecture * MDA (OMG Model Driven Architecture) for service-oriented architectures * DSL (Domain Specific Languages) for service-oriented architectures * modeling and simulation of service-oriented architectures * verification and validation of service-oriented architectures * evaluation of service-oriented architectures * analysis and design of mobile service-oriented architectures * patterns in modelling, design, and analysis for service-oriented architectures * guidelines for developing service-oriented applications * techniques for integrating service-oriented architectures * semantic aspects and ontologies for service-oriented architectures * formal models for service-oriented architectures; reasoning with service-oriented architectures * quality of services (QoS) analysis and modelling in service-oriented architectures * services level agreements (SLAs) modelling and negotiation in service-oriented architectures * analysis and modelling of security, privacy, and trust in service-oriented architectures * policy-based service-oriented architectures * methods for migrating legacy systems to service-oriented architectures * discovery, composition, execution, monitoring, and mediation in service-oriented architectures * adaptability and recovery strategies in service-oriented architectures * models for governance in service-oriented architectures * specifications and models for service-oriented architectures: Web services, Grid services, Semantic Web Services, and e-Services * standards for modeling, specification, design and analysis of service-oriented architectures * tools, environments and factories for modelling, design and analysis of service-oriented architectures WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE The program will occupy a full day, and will include presentations of papers selected from the full papers category (see 'submissions' below). Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. The ICWS/SCC 2007 conference formalities are applied for fees and respective organizational aspects. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be given priority for registration. SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites different types of contributions: * Papers * Demos * Posters / Position papers Papers:The papers should not exceed 8 pages and should have the IEEE layout. Demos: Detailed description plus sufficient number of screenshots or a video of the demo are required. For paper-based submissions, please follow the IEEE layout. Please note that at the workshop itself no technical support is provided except possibly Internet connection and power (to be confirmed). Posters/Position papers: The posters/position papers should not exceed 4 pages and should have the IEEE layout. All contributions will be peer reviewed by a program committee that will incorporate well recognized experts in the area of service-oriented architectures. All submissions should be formatted in the IEEE layout, and should be submitted in electronic format using the link: http://www.easychair.org/MDA4SOA2007/. All accepted full papers and all position papers of attendees will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. Workshop proceedings will be published with IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions: April 2, 2007 Acceptance: April 22, 2007 Final copy: May 1, 2007 Workshops day: July 13, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Arne J. Berre (SINTEF, Norway) Cory Casanave (Model Driven Solutions, USA) Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) Jian Yang (Macquaire University, Australia) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan Ali Arsanjani, IBM, USA Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria Pautasso Cesare, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Thomas Erl, SOA Systems Inc., Canada Roy Grønmo, SINTEF, Norway Sung-Kook Han, Wonkwang University, South Korea Martin Henkel, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Martin Hepp, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Rania Khalaf, IBM, USA Yen-Jen Lee, Google, USA Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Barry Norton, Open University, UK Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Extremadura, Spain Stefano de Panfilis, Engineering, Italy Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI, Ireland Anne-Marie Sassen, EU Commission, Belgium Ioan Toma, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, NKUA, Greece Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA Andrea Zisman, City University, UK to be extended...
