SOC-LOG 2016 - 4th International Workshop on Service Orientation in Computing and Logistics (SOC-LOG 2016)

Service orientation has become a prevalent paradigm for engineering and managing new forms of smart, highly integrative, usage-based business ecosystems. Its significance is being increasingly recognized by research communities that study new approaches for establishing smart service offerings in different domains. Logistics is a service domain that has a particularly high potential of benefiting from service orientation and service-based systems. The objective of logistics is to service individual firms, supply chains and entire industries with flexible means for realizing flows of goods from the point of origin to the point of destination. Logistics relies essentially on the ability to: (1) share resources of different organizations, (2) provide complex services based on configurations of elementary services, (3) coordinate service delivery across organizations, and (4) maintain an agreed quality of service. These requirements match closely to the key characteristics of service-based systems. While recent advances in the engineering and management of such systems have been made, still many questions regarding the design of the models and methods to be used as well as their efficacy and usefulness remain to be answered.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different, though overlapping areas: services computing, information systems, and logistics/supply chain management. The objective is to to discuss the state of the art, on-going projects and open research questions at the intersection of services computing and logistics/supply chain management. The workshop intends to provide a forum for discussing research approaches that will (1) enhance the understanding of the problem domain, (2) provide ideas to solving important problems either in the domain or the models and methods, or (3) evaluate models and methods of services computing by reporting their use through, e.g., case study, experimentation, simulation. The workshop is not restricted to particular research methods and we will consider both conceptual, theoretical and empirical research, as well as novel applications.
Topics of interest
Logistics services representation
Servitization of logistics systems
Modularization of services
Logistics service models
Reference models for logistics services
Semantic models for logistics services
Repositories and dictionaries for logistics services
Logistics services description
Syntactical description of logistics services
Semantic description of logistics services
Logistics ontologies / ontologies for logistics services
QoS attributes of logistics services
Contextual and mobility aspects of logistics services
Coordination of logistics services
Discovery of logistics services
Composition of logistics services
Orchestration and choreography of logistics services
Market-based coordination of logistics services, i.e., auctions, exchanges
Data-driven logistics service coordination
Management of logistics services
Logistics service lifecycle management
Logistics service governance, risk and compliance
Logistics service portfolio management
Logistics service level management
Logistics service privacy and security management
Domain-specific SLA models and semantic annotation of SLAs for logistics services
SLA negotiation protocols for logistics services
Accounting, pricing, monitoring of logistics services
Integrating logistics services into service management infrastructures
Delivery of logistics services
Logistics service runtime management and monitoring
Verification of logistics services
Simulation and optimization of logistics services
Transactional safeguarding of logistics services
Service-oriented architectures for the setup and enactment of logistics services
Technologies for service deliveries