[AISWorld] Call4Chapters: Requirements Engineering for Service/Cloud Computing

[zaigham mahmood]

Call for Book Chapters - to be published by Springer in 2017Title
of the book:



Requirements Engineering for Service and
Cloud Computing




Editors:

§  Muthu
Ramachandran, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

§  Zaigham
Mahmood, University of Derby, UK & North West University, S Africa


Important
Dates:

•           Chapter proposals due date:                   10 June 2016

•           Notification of acceptance deadline:        20 June 2016

•           Full chapters due date:                           20 August 2016

•           Chapter reviews feedback due date:       1 November 2016

•           Revised chapters due date:                    1 December 2016

•           Manuscript delivery to publishers:            Feb 2017

 

Introduction


Requirements Engineering is
one of the key areas of software engineering research and practices which
identifies functional and non-functional requirements from user and other
stakeholders perspectives. However, with the emergence of cloud computing
paradigm, developments in social media, and service computing, this poses a
major challenge in our way of thinking about software itself. The current Software as a Service and SOA
paradigm have their main focus on meeting the increasing demands for
distributed software as a service and making the software more accessible,
scalable, configurable (over a distributed large scale global network) and
shareable. In this context, the notion of a software product has changed to
software which is being offered as a service. We have known software as
functions, objects, classes, components, and even frameworks. However, the
concept of service is new and different from software engineers’ perspective.
The current systems that are based on SOA and SaaS require understanding of
services and ordinary users (rather than traditional notion of stakeholders in
a company or in a business) and how we can represent them visually compared
with traditional notations such as use case diagrams. The current software
systems are beyond traditional stakeholder concept and are based on any types
of users and the data can be shared through social media and networks
technologies. Therefore, this book will be the first book on this topic. In
addition, how we capture security requirements and how we can integrate secure
development practices (Ramachandran 2012). Unfortunately, there is a distinct
lack of systematic approaches to identify, define, visualise, and specify
requirements for such services, although, there are some developments underway
by way of new products and methodologies to cater for the needs of the
industry. Some topics relevant to the proposed book include:


§  Requirements
Engineering (RE) methods for service and cloud computing

§  Non-functional
requirements & approaches for services development

§  Requirements
Engineering Models for capturing and visualising services

§  Requirements
Engineering methods for security, privacy, and trust

§  Validation
and verification approaches for service and cloud computing

§  Tools
and frameworks support for service requirements and cloud paradigm

§  Formal
approaches to service and cloud computing

§  Business
requirements for services development and deployment

§  Social
Modelling for service requirements for distributed computing

§  Software
Security requirements models and service security requirement models

§  Secure
service and software development practices

§  Other
topics on related research 

Book ObjectivesThe aim of the proposed book
is to report and discuss topics, as mentioned above, to benefit other
researchers and practitioners as well as to advance the existing body of
knowledge in this new subject area of services and cloud computing. The new
book will serve as a useful reference text for students and practitioners
alike. The objectives are:

•        To capture the state-of-the-art research/practice relating to requirements eng. for service/cloud computing

•              To discuss recent advances and trends in this
field

•             
To discuss the tools and techniques for
service requirements engineering

•             
To identify further research directions and
technologies in this area

•             
To discuss and establish best practices with
respect to service computing

•             
To present analyses and results of the latest
research in this field.
Potential authors should submit an abstract and a full
paper on the recommended topic areas but NOT LIMITED to the following themes: 

Suggested
Themed Areas:

•             
Section 1: Requirements Engineering Methods
for Service and cloud Computing

•             
Section 2: Non-Functional Requirements
Approaches for distributed Computing 

•             
Section 3: Tools Support for Service
Requirements and V&V Techniques

•             
Section 4: Business Process Models for
Services Requirements 

•             
Section 5: Future Developments and Research Directions

Development and Submission Process:

The proposed book will be an edited book. Researchers and practitioners are
invited to submit 1-2 page chapter proposals clearly stating the objective,
scope and structure of the proposed chapters - by the deadline mentioned above.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified within two weeks (in most cases)
and given guidelines for full chapter preparation. Completed chapters should be approximately 10,000
words or 20 pages in length – longer chapters will also be acceptable. Full chapters
will be reviewed following a double-blind peer review process to ensure relevance,
quality, originality and high information content. 
Proposals (and full chapters,
after the acceptance of the proposal), in the form of WORD files, should be
sent to: dr.z.mahmood at hotmail.co.uk

.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr Zaigham Mahmood, Univ of Derby, UK
Professor Extraordinaire, North West Univ, S Africa
Foreign Professor, NUST, Islamabad, PakistanTechnology Consultant, Debesis Education, Derby, UK
Editor-in-Chief, Book Series on E-Government, IGI Global.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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