Because of numerous requests the paper submission deadline has been extended to
April 30, 2010.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for
Service Oriented Computing - ACT4SOC
http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm
23 July, 2010 - Athens, Greece
Held in conjunction with Fifth International Conference on Software and Data
Technologies - ICSOFT 2010
In cooperation with IICREST and SEEKDA
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 30 April 2010 [EXTENDED]
INTRODUCTION
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has emerged as a new computing paradigm for
designing, building and using software applications to support business
processes in heterogeneous, distributed and continuously changing environments.
The architectural foundation for SOC is provided by the Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA), which states that applications expose their functionality
as services in a uniform and technology-independent way such that they can be
discovered and invoked over the network. Claimed benefits of SOC include
cheaper and faster development of business applications through repeated
aggregation of services, better reuse of software artifacts and legacy
applications through service wrappings, and easier adaptation to changes in the
business environment through replacement and reconfiguration of services.
In order to realize these benefits routinely with SOC, for realistic business
settings with complex IT environments, many challenges still need to be
addressed. For example, supporting business processes and collaborations in an
open service-oriented world requires a better understanding of integration
problems along different dimensions. First of all, alignment between business
demands and application functions has to be achieved. This requirement for
vertical integration should drive the aggregation of services, from basic IT
services to rich business services, to achieve the desired or given business
processes. Secondly, horizontal integration has to be considered if business
collaborations span multiple organizations. In such cases, interoperability
between the services has to be ensured at different levels (syntactic, semantic
and pragmatic) and on different aspects (information and behavior). Thirdly, we
have to assume that business demands as well
as IT capabilities will change over time. This evolution will impact existing
solutions, and thus require the adaptation, management and maintenance (e.g.,
versioning, replacing, updating) of services and service compositions.
Moreover, changes that occur at one level or on one aspect have to be
propagated to other levels and aspects in order to keep the consistency of the
integration solution. And finally, all of the above challenges not only exist
at design-time, but at run-time as well. Service composition may be on-demand,
driven by an end-user service creation activity, and running instances of
composite services are subject to changes concerning, for instance, the
availability of resources. This implies that service level agreements and
associated quality-of-service need to be negotiated, monitored, and controlled
in multi-party and heterogeneous environments.
GOAL AND TOPICS
The goal of the workshop is to focus on the fundamental and practical
challenges related to SOC, to discuss what theoretical, architectural or
technology foundation is needed, and how this foundation can be supported or
realized by new or enhanced infrastructures, standards and/or technologies. The
workshop aims at contributing to the dissemination of research results,
establishment of a better understanding, and identification of new challenges
related to SOC/SOA, by bringing together interested academic and industrial
researchers.
Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Service foundation and design issues
- principles of SOC/SOA, service science
- service modelling approaches
- formal specification and analysis
- reasoning approaches
- model-driven development, platform-independence
- service interoperability (semantic, pragmatic), matching and (dynamic)
composition
- ontology-centered design
- requirements-functionality (business-IT) alignment
- Web 2.0, social networking, mash-ups
- REST vs WS
- repeated aggregation of services into composite applications and business
processes
Service technology and infrastructure issues
- architectural patterns
- service registry management
- requirements management, service evolution
- quality-of-service management
- cross-domain service delivery
- specific technology platform solutions
- language-specific solutions
- tool support
- applicability and performance experiences
- service level agreements
Service usage issues and applications of SOC/SOA
- service registration, update, de-registration
- service discovery, matching, selection, replacement
- service invocation, interaction, monitoring
- service choreography, mediation, orchestration
- traceability of technology changes in requirements and vice versa
- mobile and ubiquitous applications
- health and homecare applications
- supply chain management applications
- e-commerce applications
- experiences regarding SOC in industrial and real-world applications
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book, under an
ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be indexed by DBLP.
Best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a book edited
and published by Springer.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed
above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)
are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the
web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system
at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the
registration fees are not received by May 19, 2010, the paper will not be
published in the workshop proceedings book.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions due: April 6, 2010
Notification to authors: May 4, 2010
Camera ready due and registration: May 19, 2010
CHAIRS
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Brahmananda Sapkota, University of Twente, Netherlands
PROGRAM COMMITEE
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Sami Bhiri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Barrett Bryant, Univ. of Alabama at Birmington, USA
Kuo-Ming. Chao, Coventry University, UK
Remco Dijkman, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Clever de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Walid Gaaloul, Institut Telecom, France
Armin Haller, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Juan Miguel Gomez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Adrian Mocan, SAP, Germany
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Haklae Kim, Samsung, Korea
Michael Parkin, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
Dick Quartel, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway
Tony Shan, Keane Inc., USA
Boris Shishkov, INSTICC / University of Delft, Netherlands
Ken Turner, University of Stirling, UK
Tomas Vitvar, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michal Zaremba, Seekda, Austria
SECRETARIAT CONTACTS
ICSOFT Workshops - ACT4SOC 2010
e-mail: [email protected]
