PAASC 2013 - 3rd International Workshop on Performance Assessment and Auditing in Service Computing (PAASC 2013)

The PAASC Workshop addresses broad issues on business modeling, auditing, monitoring and performance assessment in SOA, aiming at gathering researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, present and discuss their most recent achievements and lessons learned addressing these challenges related to business aspects, performance assessment and monitoring in SOA.
Services represent a major part of the IT industry. Service computing leverages computing to model, create, and manage business services. Cloud computing has become a services delivery platform in the area of Services Computing, an increasing number of companies being attracted of the 'pay-as-you-go' use of services. While extensive research is being pursued on technical aspects related to SOA (and cloud computing), business modeling and management in SOA, economic fundamentals of services, assessment and monitoring in SOA and services analytic modeling continue to receive little attention. So far, relatively scarce research has been pursued on services/SOA analytic modeling, audit analysis and performance measurements. Although several benefits of service computing and SOA are claimed, a generally accepted reference model, framework or analytical approach reflecting quantification of SOA economic benefits is not yet available. Several questions are still unanswered, e.g., How to quantify the economic benefits of SOA? How to predict performance in SOA? Which are the business models for SOA? Which are the main decision criteria for service selection in services environments? Which are the most relevant (economic) theories to support the formal definition and economic performance in SOA? How can SOA be assessed?
The main goal of the PAASC Workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners and industry representatives, providing them the opportunity to present recent research and development results, discuss lessons learned, and present novel ideas on topics in the area of performance assessment, business mdelling and auditing in SOA.
The submission of papers describing research and development work on technical, business and economic related aspects on SOA is encouraged, e.g., new concepts and approaches related to business modeling and performance assessment, auditing techniques, tools and systems providing practical implementations supporting such models and approaches. In addition, we are also interested in application papers discussing the power and applicability of these methods and techniques to real-world problems. This Workshop encourages papers presenting novel research and developments, and particularly values the practical experience gained from designing, building and using services. Submissions of original and unpublished works are invited, including research, theory, and applications.
TOPICS of interested include, but are not limited to:
Service computing supporting (economic) performance assessment in different domains or industry sectors (e.g., healthcare, financial).
Economics of service computing/ SOA (e.g., cost models, cost-benefit analysis).
Business modeling in SOA (e.g., operational business processes, policies, value configuration, cost modeling, formal modeling for core aspects on business in SOA).
Audit in SOA.
Quality of services.
Monitoring and evaluation of services/ SOA.
Audit of services in the cloud.
Strategies and strategic decisions for services (e.g., concerning optimal resource utilization; service selection criteria).
Analytics of services.
Methods, frameworks and methodologies synthesized for services' performance assessment (e.g., performance indicators, benchmarking methods, frameworks).
Life-cycle management aspects on service computing.
Self-management aspects for services (e.g., instant management of assigned resources).
Theories and approaches synthesized for services' representation and formal modeling, and their economics.
Performance predictability in SOA.