[AISWorld] cfp: ACT4SOC 2011, 18-21 July, Saville, Spain

Tue Mar 1 09:35:11 EST 2011

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                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

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                     Fifth International Workshop on 

             Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for

              Service Oriented Computing - ACT4SOC 2011 

                        in conjunction with the 

                Sixth International Conference on 

             Software and Data Technologies - ICSOFT 2011

                  18-21 July, 2011 - Seville, Spain

                    http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.asp

Scope

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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. 

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

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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

Important Dates

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Regular Paper Submission: April 5, 2011

Authors Notification: April 29, 2011

Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 12, 2011 

Paper Submission

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Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)

are available at: http://www.icsoft.org/paper_templates.asp. Please also

check the submission guidelines at:

http://www.icsoft.org/submission_guidelines.asp. Papers should be

submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at:

http://www.insticc.org/Primoris.

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book,

under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the

SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a

book edited and published by Springer-Verlag. 

Workshop Co-chairs

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Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Brahmananda Sapkota (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Secretariat Contacts

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ICSOFT Workshops - ACT4SOC 2011

e-mail: icsoft.secretariat at insticc.org

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