Because of numerous requests the paper submission deadline has been extended to April 30, 2010. =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =================================================================== 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: [Extended] April 30, 2010 Notification to authors: [Extended] May 12, 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 Ioan Toma, STI-Innsbruck, Austria 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]
