IEEE SOPOSE'08 Workshop (Call for Papers)
3rd International Workshop on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering (SOPOSE-08) http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose/index.php?l1=sopose08&l2=cfp SOPOSE'08 is held in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), July 8-11, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2008/) Theme of the Workshop: It is now widely recognized that service-oriented computing will be the dominant computing paradigm for at least the next decade. Businesses are also increasingly committing to a process-oriented approach in Business Process Management (BPM), which requires careful modelling, documentation and management, as well as continual improvement of, business processes. The software engineering questions relating to service-oriented systems, as well as those relating to process-oriented systems have not been adequately explored. Of prime interest is the interplay between the service-oriented way of delivering software, and BPM way of looking at business processes, as a result of which we are witnessing a confluence of the service-oriented and process- oriented approaches, as key elements of business processes get executed by external (and often remote) services. The software engineering questions relating to such integrated process- and service-oriented need to fulfil the promise of making the software development process flexible, agile, and understandable for business people. There are a plethora of research issues on how such systems might be modelled, designed, implemented and how their lifecycles might be managed. This workshop seeks to systematize our understanding of these issues, and build a community of like-minded researchers and practitioners willing to collaborate on these issues. Innovations in SOPOSE-08: We propose to adopt a model (common in social science conferences) where each paper has a nominated "discussant" who critiques the paper for approximately 5 minutes at the end of the presentation of the paper. Each paper would thus have 20 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for critique by the discussant and 5 minutes of general questions from the audience. We offer a case study (available at http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose/content/files/main/SOPOSE- CaseStudy.pdf ) that submissions will be asked to address (if relevant). The case study involves a realistic process lifecycle management scenario for a National Revenue Agency (The NRA). Papers making conceptual, technical or methodological contributions to process lifecycle management will be encouraged to use the case study as a motivating example. Distinct from these case studies, the workshop will actively encourage case study-style papers, particularly from industry participants. Workshop Topics: Topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to): Process/Service: - Modelling - Description (including Standards) - Identification - Design Methodologies (Granularity) - Composition - Semantics - Publication - Discovery - Dynamic Service Binding - Evolution and Versioning - Realization from Legacy - Relation to Middleware and EAI - Compliance Management - Project Management - Cost Estimation - Testing - Lifecycle Management - Portfolio Management - Software Reuse - Relation to Component Models Software Engineering Topics for Interplay of SOA and BPM: - Service Interfaces for BPM models - Composite Applications - Service Orchestration - Adaptation in Business Processes - Adaptive Services - Process and Service Level QoS - BPM/SOA in Relation to Enterprise Architecture - Role of Rules in BPM/SOA - Adoption of SOA/BPM Approaches in Legacy Environments Relation to Existing Software Engineering Approaches: - SOA and MDA - SOA and CORBA - SOA, BPM and Agile methodologies - BPM and Requirements Gathering The Implications of Current and Future Standardization Efforts. Tool Support. Other Service/Process Governance Issues. Workshop Outcomes: A preliminary attempt at systematizing and collating the body of knowledge in this area. Improving alignment between industry concerns and academic research agendas in this area. The development of a research community consisting of academics and practitioners willing to collaborate on these questions. Workshop Chairs: Prof. Aditya Ghose Director, Decision Systems Lab School of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni Web Services Centre of Excellence Infosys SETLabs Bangalore, India Workshop Organization and Publicity Chairs: Dr. Sudeep Mallick Web Services Centre of Excellence Infosys SETLabs Bangalore, India Mr. George Koliadis Researcher, Decision Systems Lab School of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia Workshop Committee: Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan Alistair Barros, SAP Research, Australia Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Marlon Dumas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia (Workshop Co-chair) Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia Tim Hibberd, CRC for Smart Services, Australia Narendra Nanjangud, IBM Research, India Srinivas Padmanabhuni, SOA Centre of Excellence, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Ltd, India (Workshop Co-Chair) Jayakrishna Rao, Head CoE, Emerging Technologies, Wipro Technologies, India Michael Rosemann, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Submission Process: Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 page (full papers), 4 page (short papers), and 2 page (position papers) of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). Industry case studies in the form of two and four page papers are encouraged. You can download the paper template in word format or IEEE Latex Style. Authors should submit a Word or PDF files using the online submission and review system (available at http://confhub.com/conf.php?id=29). The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2008) by the IEEE Computer Socity Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Dates: Last date for submission of research, short, and position papers: April 4, 2008 Notification for acceptance: April 14, 2008 Deadline for camera-ready versions: April 18, 2008
