SOC-LOG 2011 - 3rd International Workshop on Service Orientation in Computing and Logistics (SOC-LOG 2011)

Call for Papers: 3rd International Workshop on
Service Orientation in Computing and Logistics (SOC-LOG 2011)

In conjunction with the 9th International Conference
on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2011)

December 5-8, 2011, Paphos, Cyprus

Workshop website: http://soclog11.wifa.uni-leipzig.de


Workshop Theme

Service orientation is one of the most important paradigms of
nowadays computing. Service orientation is also important for
logistics: The objective of logistics is to service individual firms,
supply chains, and entire industries with flexible means for realizing
flows of goods from the point of origin to the point of destination.
Logistics relies therefore essentially on the ability to sharing
resources of different organizations, providing complex services based
on existing services, coordinating service delivery across organizations,
and maintaining an agreed quality of service. These requirements match
closely to the characteristics of service orientation in computing.

This workshop aims at studying, grounding, and finally exploiting the
potentials of service oriented computing to solving integration and
coordination problems in logistics as a key enabler of flexible supply
chains. Key research questions are:
(1) How to represent logistics systems in service-based computing
systems by employing and adopting constructs, models, and methods of
the SOC technology stack,
(2) how to describe software-based logistics services, (3) how to
coordinate software-based logistics services, by employing and adopting
approaches for service discovery and service composition,
(4) how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of software-based
logistics services with approaches for SLA representation, SLA
management, and SLA negotiation, and
(5) how to control the delivery of software-based logistics services
by measuring their efficiency and effectiveness?

Topics

In particular, we are inviting papers on the following topics:
1) Logistics services representation
- Servicetization of logistics systems
- Logistics service models
- Reference models for logistics services
- Semantic models for logistics services
2) Logistics services description
- Semantic description of logistics services
- Logistics ontologies / ontologies for logistics services
- QoS attributes of logistics services
3) Management and coordination of logistics services
- Discovery of logistics services
- Composition of logistics services
- Orchestration and choreography of logistics services
- Market-based coordination of logistics services, i.e., auctions
4) SLA Management of logistics services
- Domain-specific SLA models
- Semantic annotation of SLAs for logistics services
- SLA negotiation protocols for logistics services
- Integrating logistics services into SLA management infrastructures
5) Delivery of logistics services
- Logistics service runtime management and monitoring
- Verification of logistics services
- Simulation and optimization of logistics services
- Transactional safeguarding of logistics services
- SOA for the setup and enactment of logistics services

Paper Submission and Publication

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished
research papers, as

- Full papers (up to 15 pages including all references and figures) or
- Position papers (up to 5 pages including all references and figures)

on the listed or related topics.

Please submit papers via our electronic submission system which is
available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soclog1....

All workshop papers will be included in the combined workshop post-
proceedings of ICSOC 2011, which are planned to be published in
Springer’s LNCS Services Science Subline. Thus, papers must be
prepared in the Springer LNCS style. All submissions will be peer-
reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper
acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of presentation. For short position papers,
clarity of exposition and the degree of innovation will be sufficient,
whereas for full papers, a clear technical contribution is expected.

At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop
and present the work. Attendance of the workshop requires registration
to the main ICSOC 2010 conference.

Key Dates

15 September 2011: Submissions due
23 October 2011: Notification of acceptance
07 November 2011: Camera-ready submission
05 December 2011: Workshop (1 day)

Program Chairs

Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim, Germany
André Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany
Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland

Program Committee

see Webpage

Supported by

- D-GRID Project InterLogGrid (http://www.interloggrid.org)
- FMER Project Logistics Service Bus (http://www.lsb-plattform.de)

Contact

Joerg Leukel
Department of Information Systems 2
University of Hohenheim
Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 459-23968
E-Mail: joerg.leukel-AT-uni-hohenheim.de
URI: http://www.joerg-leukel.net

André Ludwig
Information Systems Institute
University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9733732
E-Mail: ludwig-AT-wifa.uni-leipzig.de
URI: http://www.andre-ludwig.info

Alex Norta
Department of Computer Science
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358 44 0303720
E-Mail: alexander.norta-AT-cs.helsinki.fi
URI: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/anorta/