SEASS 2012 - The 6th IEEE International Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Service-oriented Systems (SEASS'12)

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The 6th IEEE International Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Service-oriented Systems (SEASS’12)
Workshop Theme: Engineering Adaptive Service Oriented Solutions for Domain Specific Systems
One day between June 24-29 2012, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
within IEEE SERVICES 2012
Description
Service computing has become the principle of building Internet-based programmable applications. The feature of services using standard interface descriptions makes services universally available via uniform communication protocol. Disparate applications and systems can be integrated as services. This significantly promotes service computing widely adopted by variety of domains such as health cares, government services, and scientific systems.
The complexity and scale of composite service oriented systems is increasing rapidly and often involve not only a large number of parties but also intensive data sets communicated between services. The computing and data intensity of services leads to increasing adoption of cloud platforms as the infrastructure to deploy services. For example, service oriented architecture has been applied to compose scientific workflows running on extremely large datasets on cloud platforms. The In the cloud environment, a service can elastically scale up and down its demands on computing resources and pay for its meter-based usage. In such an environment, services are becoming commodities. Meeting users’ expectation on reliability, availability and fast service responsiveness is key to gain the values of services. Adaptation is an enabling mechanism to achieve this goal. For example, detecting and even predict abnormal behaviours at runtime can certainly help to prevent degrading quality of services.
These impose challenges for adaptive service systems at their design, development and deployment stage. In the previous series of this workshop, the papers have broadly addressed the issues from the aspects of individual adaptive software architectures, adaptive service level agreement and versioning, development and testing processes for adaptive systems.
In the 6th edition of this workshop we aim to deeply identify the future research challenges in engineering adaptation into ever evolving service systems in different domains. The aim of SEASS 2012 is to encourage academic researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss all adaptability-related research and experiences in a very broad spectrum of service oriented computing. Special interests are on papers addressing adaptive solutions to bridge service oriented computing and domain specific systems.
Selected top papers will be invited to a special issue of International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE).
List of topics
Engineering adaptation in domain specific applications, such as scientific workflows, control systems, mobile applications and mission critical systems
Adaptation in computing environments of cloud computing, grid computing and mobile networks

Frameworks for compose adaptive solutions

Adaptive software ecosystems

Software architecture support for enhancing SOA adaptability, including standards and protocols proposal or extension for dynamic collaborations among services

Accountability of services, including mechanisms, algorithms and methods to monitoring, analysing and reporting service status and usage profile.

Capacity planning of services in multi-tenancy service hosting environment

Security and trustworthy in multi-tenancy service hosting environment

Web services for data intensive computing

Patterns, best practices and experience report adaptive cloud applications

Automated deployment and configuration of services (on cloud)

Adaptive business process, service deployment process,

Negotiation protocols for SLA and dynamic service binding

Testing, configuration and deployment for adaptive service management

Business process analysis and design for adaptation
Connections to other conferences
Building adaptability into SOAs is under the grand vision of autonomic computing, which is now being covered in more and more top international conferences on software engineering and systems, including:
ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware)
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)
The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
The IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC)
International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC)
International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA)
This workshop complements the above conferences with the focus on exploring the connections between SOAs and adaptive software systems research.
Important dates
(Workshop chairs can grant extension to individuals under special circumstances provided that the hard deadline for the camera-ready version is respected.)
Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 15, 2012
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 20, 2012
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2012
Paper submission
Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). All papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system
First time users need to register with the system first. All the accepted papers by the workshops will be included in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE 2012 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2012) which will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
Workshop chairs
Jenny Yan Liu, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , USA. Yan.liu-AT-pnnl.gov
Shiping Chen, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, Shiping.chen-AT-csiro.au
Liming Zhu, Senior Researcher, NICTA (National ICT Australia) and University of New South Wales, liming.zhu-AT-nicta.com.au
Ian Gorton, Associate Division Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , USA, Ian.gorton-AT-pnnl.gov
Program committee (TBD)
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Lorenz Froihofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs, USA
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
Pat Martin, Queens University, Canada
Chen Wang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China
Liangzhao Zeng, IBM Research, USA
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Hong-Mei Chen, University of Hawaii , USA
Xiaoying Bai, Tshinghua Univeristy, China
Suronapee Phoomvuthisarn, Mahanakorn University of Technology,Thailand
Hossein Siadat, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Short Bio of Workshop Organizers
Jenny Yan Liu is a senior research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She has been leading architecture design of large scale scientific workflows leveraging service oriented architecture and cloud computing. Her research involves software architecture, adaptive systems, service oriented computing, and software performance engineering. She has published over fifty international journal and conference papers in these areas. She served on many conference program committees (e.g. WICSA, QoSA, ICPE, CBSE) and organizing workshops (e.g. at ICWS, COMPSAC, HICSS, Middleware, and ICSE). Yan received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Sydney, Australia. Before moving to PNNL, she was a senior researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA) in Sydney Australia.
Shiping Chen is a senior research scientist of CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of New South Wales. From 1985 to 1999, he worked on real-time control, parallel computing and CORBA-based Internet gaming systems in research institutes and IT industry. Since joining in CSIRO in 1999, he has worked on a number of middleware-related research and consultant projects. He has published extensively in these areas, ranging from academic research papers to in-depth industry reports, and served a number of international conferences on web and SOA including WWW, ICSOC, ICWS, SCC. His research interests include SOA, secure data storage and trust computing.
Ian Gorton is a Laboratory Fellow in the Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He leads projects in various scientific domains that are building tools to process and manage complex, massive, distributed data collections for modeling and simulation. Gorton has published two books and 120 conference and journal papers, mostly in the areas of software architectures and component technologies. He is Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and has been General Chair and PC Chair of several international conferences (e.g. WICSA, COMPARCH, CBSE).
Liming Zhu is a senior researcher at NICTA. His current research mainly involves model and architecture driven development, software ecosystems and service engineering. He has published in international journals and conferences such as ICSE, OOPSLA and WICSA. He has successfully organised more than ten international workshops in the areas of e-Government, model driven development, development processes and service-oriented systems.
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