SaaS 2012 - International Workshop on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Architecture and Engineering (SaaS 2012)

International Workshop on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Architecture and Engineering
(SaaS 2012)
Taipei, Taiwan, December 03-06, 2012
In conjunction with the 3th IEEE international conference on cloud computing technology and science (IEEE CloudCom 2012 -AT- http://2012.cloudcom.org/).
Download the pdf file of Call-For-Paper.
Scope and Topics
There are three major components of cloud computing: Service-as-a-S (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Usually a SaaS system runs on top of a PaaS and often it integrates fully a database. Well-known SaaS systems include Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies, SucessFactors, Workday, and Corenttech.com.
A SaaS system often supports Multi-Tenancy Architecture (MTA) where hundreds of thousands of tenant applications are developed using the same components stored in the database, and tenant applications are retrieved, composed, compiled, and executed at runtime. Thus a SaaS can achieve significant level of economics as one code base is used for numerous tenant applications. Furthermore, a SaaS system often uses metadata to control the operation and supports scalability via database partitioning and automated migration. Essentially, SaaS introduces a new software architecture framework where tenant applications are stored, retrieved, composed, compiled, and executed in a cloud environment with scalability. This new architecture also needs new engineering approach such as specification, analysis, reasoning, composition, simulation, and testing of tenant components and applications embedded in a SaaS architecture.
The workshop will provide an international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss various aspects of SaaS including but not limited to the following topics:
?SaaS architectures, their trade-offs with respect to customization, rapid ?development, security, scalability, and MTA.
?Big Data aspects of SaaS
?SaaS scalability including architecture and migration strategies
?SaaS and PaaS interaction
?Distributed and parallel execution in SaaS
?Database design for MTA
?SaaS redundancy and recovery management
?Modeling and simulation of multi-tenancy architecture
?Security modeling in SaaS
?Embedded testing in SaaS
?SaaS code generation, execution, and monitoring
?Distributed and collaborative SaaS
Besides research presentations and open forum, the workshop program will include tutorials and industrial demonstration, and introduce speech of keynote speakers.
Organization Committee
General Co-chairs:
William Cheng-chung Chu,
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Tunghai University
E-mail: cchu-AT-thu.edu.tw
Wei-Tek Tsai,
Professor
School of Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering,
Arizona State University
E-mail: wtsai36-AT-gmail.com
Feng-Jian Wang
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chao-Tung University
E-mail: fjwang-AT-cs.nctu.edu.tw
Program Co-Chairs:
Jerry Gao,
Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
San Jose State University
E-mail: jerrygao-AT-email.sjsu.edu
Gwan-Hwan Hwang,
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan Normal University
E-mail: ghhwang-AT-csie.ntnu.edu.tw
Program Committee Members: (tentative)
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University
F. B. Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas
Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center for High-performance Computing
Woei-Kae Chen, National Taipei University of Technology
Zhan Dechen, Harbin Institute of Technology
Mohamed Fayad, San Jose State University
Kuo-Chan Huang, National Taichung University of Education
Chung-Ta King, Tsinghua University
Fu-Ren Lin, Tsinghua University
Jiang Wu, Northwest University
Wenjun Wu, Beihang University
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University
Lian Yu, Peking University
Paper submission instructions
This workshop will accept original papers that have not been previously published. Papers should be formatted based on the IEEE conferences style; maximum allowed camera-ready paper length is six (6) pages.
Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, including text, figures and references. Please use the following submission site to submit your paper(s):
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saas20...
Accepted papers will be published in the Cloudom2011 proceedings (EI indexed), for further information see IEEE CloudCom 2012 web page http://2012.cloudcom.org.
Contact
mailto:saas2012-AT-easychair.org
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: August 17, 2012
Notification: September 11, 2012
Camera-ready: September 28, 2012
Author registration: September 28, 2012