MW4SOC 2011 - 6th International Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC'2011)

The initial promise of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) was a world of globally cooperating services being loosely coupled to flexibly create dynamic business processes and agile applications that may span organisations and heterogeneous computing platforms but can nevertheless adapt quickly and autonomously to changes of requirements or context. Business process modelling and management, Web2.0-style applications, human computing, context-aware systems, and even cloud computing emerged mainly due to the paradigm shift towards SOC. Nevertheless, there is still a strong need to merge technology with an understanding of business processes and organizational structures.

While the immediate need of middleware support for SOC is evident, current approaches and solutions still do not sufficiently address issues such as service discovery, re-use, re-purpose, composition and aggregation support, service management, monitoring, and deployment and maintenance of large-scale, heterogeneous, and possibly dynamic infrastructures and applications. Moreover, quality properties (in particular dependability, security, and performance) need to be addressed not only by interfacing and communication standards, but also in terms of actual mechanisms, protocols, and algorithms. Challenges are the administrative heterogeneity, the loose coupling between coarse-grained operations and long-running interactions, high dynamicity, and the required flexibility during run-time. Recently, massive-scale and mobility were added to the challenges for SOC middleware.

The proposed workshop consequently welcomes contributions on how specifically service oriented middleware can address the above challenges, to what extent it has to be service oriented itself, and in particular how quality properties are supported appropriately.

Topics of Interest

The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress, problem statements, and visionary papers!

The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Architectures and platforms for Middleware for SOC
Core Middleware support for deployment, composition, and interaction
Integration of SLA (service level agreement) and/or technical policy support through middleware
Middleware support for service management, maintenance, monitoring, and control
Middleware support for integration of business functions and organizational structures into Service oriented Systems (SOS)
Evaluation of and experience reports about middleware for SOC and service oriented middleware

Workshop Co-chairs

Karl M. Göschka (chair)
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 664 180 6946
Fax: +43 664 188 6275
mw4soc-AT-dedisys.org

Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 58801 18414
Fax: +43 58801 18491

Vladimir Tosic
NICTA, Managing Complexity Research Group
Locked Bag 9013, Alexandria
NSW 1435, Australia
mw4soc-AT-dedisys.org

Program Committee

Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India)
Sami Bhiri, DERI (Ireland)
Paul Brebner, NICTA (Australia)
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Walid Gaaloul, Institut Telecom (France)
Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria)
Harald C. Gall, Universität Zürich (Switzerland)
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
Chirine Ghedira, Univ. of Lyon I (France)
Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF (Norway)
Peng Han, Congqing Academy of Science (China)
Yanbo Han, ICT Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Valérie Issarny, INRIA (France)
Arno Jacobsen, Univ. Toronto (Canada)
Mehdi Jazayeri, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Frank Leymann, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany)
Mark Little, JBoss (USA)
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research (USA)
Piyush Maheshwari, Pitney Bowes Software (India)
Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP (Brazil)
Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, HP Labs (USA)
Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research (India)
Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Helen Paik, School of Computer Science and Engineering (Australia)
Cesare Pautasso, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Florian Rosenberg, IBM (USA)
Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France)
Giovanni Russello, Create-Net (Italy)
Regis Saint-Paul, CREATE-NET (Italy)
Dietmar Schreiner, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
Bruno Schulze, National Lab for Scientific Computing (Brazil)
Stefan Tai, Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren - AIFB, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Francois Taiani, Lancaster University (UK)
Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway)
Hiroshi Wada, NICTA (Australia)
Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Liming Zhu, NICTA (Australia)

Important Dates

Paper submission: Aug 29, 2011
Author notification: September 29, 2011
Camera-ready copies: October 10, 2011
Workshop date: December 12, 2011

Proceedings

This workshop has its own ISBN and will be included in the ACM digital library.

Submission Guidelines

The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Alternate Style. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate a double-blind review. For your convenience, we have defined a selfcite{myref} Latex command for self-references. Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than six pages. Please apply the ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The template provides space for this indexing. The ACM Computing Classification scheme can be found at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/#. The author kit containing the Latex templates for the required style can be found here: mw4soc11_author_kit.zip.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the submission site.

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: mw4soc-AT-dedisys.org