EMPSOS 2016 - 4th International Workshop on Engineering Mobile and Pervasive Service Oriented Systems (EMPSOS)

Mobile systems are characterized with autonomous, dynamically adaptable, and heterogeneous components collaborating in open intra-organizational environments to provide solutions. Next generation phones, mobile networks, mobile cloud computing are a few examples of mobile applications where code, users and their devices continuously move. Evolving requirements, such as reliability, security, scalability, performance and privacy, from fixed to mobile settings, has revealed new and important challenges. This is due to the behavioural constraints that mobility poses, and that were not faced in traditional distributed settings. Examples include: dynamic network topology, changes in location, constrained resource availability, communication protocols heterogeneity, unstable connectivity, and so forth. The service-oriented paradigm is a promising approach for engineering open, dynamic and distributed systems. There are a plethora of research issues on how mobile systems can make use of service oriented engineering techniques.
The EMPSOS Visionary Track aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry, as well as practitioners in the area of engineering services in mobile environments in order to provide a forum where recent research results can be presented and discussed. The aim is to understand open issues in the software engineering area of services applied in mobile environments, and to build a community of researchers and practitioners willing to collaborate on these issues.
The EMPSOS Workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry, as well as practitioners in the area of engineering services in mobile and pervasive environments in order to provide a forum where recent research results can be presented and discussed. The aim is to understand open issues in the software engineering area of services in mobile and pervasive environments, and to build a community of researchers and practitioners willing to collaborate on these issues.
Important Dates
Visionary Track chairs can grant extension to individuals under special circumstances provided that the hard deadline for the camera-ready version is respected.)
Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 25, 2016
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2016
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 25, 2016
List of Topics
Topics of interests to EMPSOS 2016 include, but are not limited to:
* Mobile services in the cloud;
* Business Process Modelling and Requirements of services for mobility;
* Model-Driven Service Engineering for mobile systems;
* Software Product Line and mobility;
* Aspect-Oriented and Service Oriented Engineering for mobile environments;
* Service-Oriented Architectures and mobility
* Modelling, developing, deploying, configuring and maintaining mobile services,
* Semantics and Formal methods for mobile service oriented systems;
* Enterprise Service Buses and Middleware-induced service oriented architectures for mobile environments;
* Security, trust and privacy issues in service oriented systems for mobile environments;;
* Dependability issues in service-oriented mobile systems;
* Service Discovery and publication in mobile systems;
* Service Level Agreements for mobility;
* Composing and orchestrating services in mobile environments;
* Testing for mobility;
* Context-Aware and Autonomic Computing in Service Oriented mobile environments;
* Maintenance and evolution of mobile systems using service oriented engineering;
* Economics of developing and evolving mobile services;
* Tool Support;
* Empirical, experience and industrial studies;
* Applying Service Oriented Engineering in mobile domains such as wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, mobile telephony energy saving, climate change, healthcare, etc.