EUD4Services 2012 - The 3rd International Workshop on End User Development for Services (EUD4Services2012)

3rd International Workshop on EUD4Services’2012 ? Methodologies, Tools, and Evaluations
May 21, 2012
Antonella de Angeli (deangeli-AT-disi.unitn.it), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (http://disi.unitn.it/)University of Trento, Italy
Nikolay Mehandjiev (n.mehandjiev-AT-manchester.ac.uk), Manchester Business School (http://www.mbs.ac.uk/), University of Manchester
The establishment of the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm in professional software development is opening new challenging environments for the EUD community. SOA has created and disseminated a large number of reusable software components which can be linked and organised into new and evolving applications to satisfy specific business and personal needs. If, on the one hand, SOA provides promising tools for the EUD agenda, so far the SOA approach has been characterised by a very technical attitude with little, if any, interest to the final user of the resulting applications. Services have been designed to perform software functionalities which can be linked to each other to perform complex tasks, yet the responsibility for composition and deployment was left to expert programmers, who are also assumed to be in charge of designing the interface between services and their users. The uptake of EUD within the SOA paradigm is hampered by a number of emerging issues, including intrinsic difficulties stemming from the complexity of technology and distributed nature of computations.
The 3rd International Workshop on End User Development for Services (EUD4Services’2012) focuses on the issues encountered when people who are not educated as software developers attempt to create and compose software services, and on approaches and theories aiming to support such activities. The aim is to establish a community of academics and practitioners and facilitate the production of a coherent body of work related to this area.