CMSC 2012 - Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for the Next Generation of Services Computing (CMSC 2012)

Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for the Next Generation of Services Computing (CMSC 2012)
Workshop Website

http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/cmsc

Workshop Summary:

We now live in a growing service-based economy in which every product today has virtually a service component to it (e.g. IT infrastructure or data as a service, human-mediated services, contract as a service and vice versa). Services computing deal with not only issues in IT world but also problems of business world. The next generation of services computing should address the following topics: elasticity, compliance, resourcing, methodological issues, etc. The availability and diversity types of resources, including data, software, machines and people, offer a great chance for designing and developing flexible, elastic and scalable services and processes. While techniques enabling dynamic resources provisioning under different pricing and quality models continue to push for diverse and elastic large-scale cloud and socially-enhanced computing systems, current services and processes design techniques do not keep pace with the development and provisioning of elastic resources. The development of next generation of services and processes require novel techniques in order to work with such (future) dynamic underlying cloud and socially-enhanced computing systems. Furthermore, service and data contracts, requirements and compliance issues would come to our consideration when modeling socially-enhanced and data-intensive services at high levels, typically from business-oriented or operational level perspectives. In this workshop, we seek for novel techniques that enable the design of next generation of services and processes to be elastic in cloud and socially-enhanced computing systems. In particular, we focus on modeling techniques for services and processes that can consider multiple dimensions of elasticity, including resources (software services and human-provided services), quality (performance, availability, quality of data, etc.), and pricing/rewarding/incentive models. This workshop seeks offer such a forum. It aims to bring together researchers, PhD students and business practitioners together to develop a coherent body of knowledge that would underpin the application of conceptual modeling techniques in services computing.