IWCBE 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Capability based Engineering

The concept of capability, that is the semantics of an action or specific functionality, is a cornerstone in modern Information Systems especially those service or process aware. Dedicated techniques for capability management and engineering can be applied and reused in a large number of areas such as SOA, BPM, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things and will certainly boost several related research efforts in these areas.
Many key techniques for service and process engineering involve capability-based engineering at first. However, despite the importance of this concept, it has not been treated as a first-class citizen and has always been hidden behind other encompassing concepts such as the notions of service and business process. Capability management and engineering techniques need to deal with several research problems that arise in different contexts. These problems include, among others, capability complexity, different levels of abstraction and granularity, and capability configurability and dynamicity.
The workshop aims at shading the light on the importance of capability engineering as well as at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in capability engineering.
Workshop Topics
Topics of interest include:
Capability Engineering
Capability description: formal specification, semantically-enabled description, lexical-based description
Capability modelling: methodology for capability modelling, capability mining and extraction from other related artefacts, statistical methods for capability modelling
Capability matching
Capability composition
Capability catalogues/repositories: organisation, navigation and visualisation
Handling dynamicity in capability engineering
Handling configurability in capability engineering
Non Functional properties of capabilities
Capability Engineering applied to related domains
Capability-based information systems management
Capability-based service engineering
Capability-based business process management
Capability-based cloud computing management
Capability-based IoT management
Capability-based application classification and indexing
Capability Engineering in practice
Ontologies and vocabularies for domain-specific capabilities
Surveys and empirical studies
Industrial and real use-cases
Important Dates
Abstract submission: 27th of August
Paper submission: 3rd of September
Notification of acceptance: 8th of October
Camera ready: 22nd of October
Workshop: 28th of November