[AISWorld] EUD4Services 2011 - Call for papers

[Florian Daniel]

EUD4Services 2011
2nd International Workshop on End User Development for Services -
Methodologies, Tools, and Evaluations

www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011

will be held in Torre Canne (Brindisi), Italy
on June 7, 2011

in conjunction with

IS-EUD’2011
Third International Symposium on End-User Development
http://www.iseud.net


The establishment of the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm in
professional software development is opening new challenging
environments for the End-User Development (EUD) community. SOA has
produced a large number of reusable software components, which can be
linked and organised into new applications to satisfy specific
business and personal needs. If, on the one hand, SOA provides
promising tools for the EUD agenda, so far the SOA approach has been
characterised by a very technical attitude with little interest to the
final user of the resulting applications.
Services have been designed to perform software functionalities which
can be connected to each other to perform complex tasks, yet the
responsibility for composition and deployment was delegated to expert
programmers, who are also assumed to be in charge of
designing the interface between services and their users. The uptake
of EUD within the SOA paradigm is hampered by a set of emerging
issues, including intrinsic difficulties stemming from the complexity
of technology and distributed nature of computations.
The 2nd International Workshop on End User Development for Services
focuses on the issues encountered when people who are not software
developers attempt to create and compose software services, and on
approaches and theories aiming to support such activities. The aim is
to establish a community of academics and practitioners working in
various fields, including software services, human-computer
interaction, software engineering, artificial intelligence,
computer-supported cooperative work and innovation management, and
facilitate the production of a coherent body of work related to this
area. We expect to generate a debate on the potential of SOA for
non-technical developers in both professional and personal lives by
exploring the challenges of opening up SOA technologies to end-users
and ideas on how to facilitate their usage and dissemination.


WORKSHOP TOPICS

The first workshop devised a number of interesting research topics
which foster and guide the focus of the second workshop.
The resultant topics for the second workshop include:

(1)  Studies of organisational and societal practices involving the
development of service-based software systems;
(2)  Cognitive and behavioural studies aimed at establishing theories
and models related to people attempting to design software services
and service-based applications;
(3)  Model-informed approaches or tools aiming to facilitate end-user
development and design of software services;
(4)  Evaluation and comparative studies of tools, approaches and
theoretical models in the area of end user development for services.

A subset of the larger questions and issues we want to address during
the workshop are the following:

*  What are the drivers and obstacles to SOA based EUD?
*  Is EUD for services a specific branch of EUD or just an application?
*  What is different about software services compared to conventional
software, component-based software and distributed software?
*  To what extend are existing methods and tools for supporting end
user developers of conventional software applicable to software
services?
*  Which cognitive models of design are applicable to the design of
software services?
*  Which methods are appropriate for studying the practices of
developing software services?
*  What are the suitable engineering principles and approaches for
understanding, designing, developing, and evolving software services
by people who are not software professionals?
*  How can we facilitate uptake of EUD4Services?


PAPER SUBMISSION

The workshop welcomes position papers from researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry working in the fields of EUD
and Software Services. The position papers must not exceed 6 pages
following the Springer format guidelines and be submitted in PDF
format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of two
members of the international programme committee. The proceedings and
a report of the workshop will be published on the workshop website.
Editing a special issue of a journal will be considered depending on
the coherence and quality of the submitted materials and workshop
proceedings.

Please submit papers to:

workshop at eud4services.org


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: Feb 28, 2011
Paper submission: March 15, 2011
Decision to authors: March 24, 2011
Camera ready: March 31, 2011 (Strict deadline)
2nd EUD4Services Workshop: 7th June 2011


ORGANISERS

Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento, Italy
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alexander Brändle, FHDW, Germany
Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Christian Zirpins, KIT, Germany
Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Jill Cao, Oregon State University, USA
Joëlle Coutaz, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Neil Maiden, City University , UK
Scott Fleming, Oregon State University, USA
Steffen Goebel, SAP Research, Germany
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany


SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT

Abdallah Namoun, University of Manchester, UK
Usman Wajid, University of Manchester, UK
Alberto Battocchi, University of Trento, Italy

CONTACTS

e-mail:  workshop at eud4services.org
website: www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011
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