ACT4SOC 2010 - 4th International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing (ACT4SOC 2010)

4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - ACT4SOC 2010

23 July, 2010 - Athens, Greece

In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - ICSOFT 2010

Co-chairs

Marten van Sinderen
University of Twente
The Netherlands
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Brahmananda Sapkota
University of Twente
The Netherlands
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Introduction
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has emerged as a new computing paradigm for designing, building and using software applications to support business processes in heterogeneous, distributed and continuously changing environments. The architectural foundation for SOC is provided by the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which states that applications expose their functionality as services in a uniform and technology-independent way such that they can be discovered and invoked over the network. Claimed benefits of SOC include cheaper and faster development of business applications through repeated aggregation of services, better reuse of software artifacts and legacy applications through service wrappings, and easier adaptation to changes in the business environment through replacement and reconfiguration of services.

In order to realize these benefits routinely with SOC, for realistic business settings with complex IT environments, many challenges still need to be addressed. For example, supporting business processes and collaborations in an open service-oriented world requires a better understanding of integration problems along different dimensions. First of all, alignment between business demands and application functions has to be achieved. This requirement for vertical integration should drive the aggregation of services, from basic IT services to rich business services, to achieve the desired or given business processes. Secondly, horizontal integration has to be considered if business collaborations span multiple organizations. In such cases, interoperability between the services has to be ensured at different levels (syntactic, semantic and pragmatic) and on different aspects (information and behavior). Thirdly, we have to assume that business demands as well as IT capabilities will change over time. This evolution will impact existing solutions, and thus require the adaptation, management and maintenance (e.g., versioning, replacing, updating) of services and service compositions. Moreover, changes that occur at one level or on one aspect have to be propagated to other levels and aspects in order to keep the consistency of the integration solution. And finally, all of the above challenges not only exist at design-time, but at run-time as well. Service composition may be on-demand, driven by an end-user service creation activity, and running instances of composite services are subject to changes concerning, for instance, the availability of resources. This implies that service level agreements and associated quality-of-service need to be negotiated, monitored, and controlled in multi-party and heterogeneous environments.

Goal and Topics
The goal of the workshop is to focus on the fundamental and practical challenges related to SOC, to discuss what theoretical, architectural or technology foundation is needed, and how this foundation can be supported or realized by new or enhanced infrastructures, standards and/or technologies. The workshop aims at contributing to the dissemination of research results, establishment of a better understanding, and identification of new challenges related to SOC/SOA, by bringing together interested academic and industrial researchers.

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Service foundation and design issues
principles of SOC/SOA, service science
service modelling approaches
formal specification and analysis
reasoning approaches
model-driven development, platform-independence
service interoperability (semantic, pragmatic), matching and (dynamic) composition
ontology-centered design
requirements-functionality (business-IT) alignment
Web 2.0, social networking, mash-ups
REST vs WS
repeated aggregation of services into composite applications and business processes

Service technology and infrastructure issues
architectural patterns
service registry management
requirements management, service evolution
quality-of-service management
cross-domain service delivery
specific technology platform solutions
language-specific solutions
tool support
applicability and performance experiences
service level agreements

Service usage issues and applications of SOC/SOA
service registration, update, de-registration
service discovery, matching, selection, replacement
service invocation, interaction, monitoring
service choreography, mediation, orchestration
traceability of technology changes in requirements and vice versa
mobile and ubiquitous applications
health and homecare applications
supply chain management applications
e-commerce applications

Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010

Workshop Program Committee

Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Sami Bhiri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Barrett Bryant, Univ. of Alabama at Birmington, U.S.A.
Christoph Bussler, Saba Software, Inc., U.S.A.
Kuo-Ming. Chao, Coventry University, U.K.
Remco Dijkman, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Clever de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Walid Gaaloul, Institut Telecom, France
Armin Haller, CSRIO, Australian National University, Australia
Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
Juan Miguel Gomez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, U.S.A.
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Haklae Kim, Samsung, Korea
Adrian Mocan, SAP, Germany
Michael Parkin, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
Dick Quartel, Novay, The Netherlands
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway
Tony Shan, Keane Inc., U.S.A.
Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ken Turner, University of Stirling, U.K.
Tomas Vitvar, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michal Zaremba, Seekda, Austria

Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support.
The proceedings will be indexed by DBLP. The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a book edited and published by Springer-Verlag.

Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by May 19, 2010, the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.

Secretariat Contacts
ICSOFT Workshops - ACT4SOC 2010
e-mail: icsoft.workshops.secretariat-AT-insticc.org