C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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* SOCCER 2011 *
Service-Oriented
Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements
Workshop
co-located with the 19th IEEE International
Requirements Engineering Conference
Trento,
Italy, 29th August 2011
EXTENDED
DEADLINE, papers due * Tuesday 14th June 2011*
NB If you are interested in
contributing we are also looking for short papers
of approximately 2,000 words
Objective
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The objective
of this workshop is to host significant and
high-quality contributions in all topics related to
requirements engineering for service-oriented
software, with the goal of letting participants gain
insights into the current state of the art and
future challenges, create synergies through
integration, and foster cross-cooperation. Besides
building a community, the main result will be the
continued development of a research agenda to guide
and support researchers in the field.
Topic
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Software-based
systems are changing. There is increasing interest
in autonomic and self-* systems that are dynamic and
flexibility based on new capabilities to
self-reconfigure and self-resolve anomalous
situations. Currently these capabilities are
delivered using services, and in particular web
services, using a service-oriented approach. Web
services are the natural evolution of conventional
middleware technologies to support Web-based and
enterprise-level integration, but the paradigm can
also serve as basis for other classes of systems.
For example, it can be applied to support all
systems which require a high degree of flexibility
and dynamism to discover available functionality at
run-time and to negotiate its quality parameters
dynamically. This is the case, for example, for
ambient computing and automotive applications that
need to cope with changing (evolving)
configurations. The dynamic nature of these systems
precludes the a-priori identification of the
components that define the system and demands for
the run-time discovery and composition of such
services.
To realize a
service-oriented architecture we need techniques to
identify and specify requirements on services in a
machine-interpretable way to enable the dynamic
composition and deployment of systems that meet the
expectations of the different stakeholders. We need
new capabilities to monitor the behavior of deployed
systems and reasoning on partial matches,
deviations, and corrective actions. We need to be
able to exploit the availability of services to
discover new opportunities that improve existing
requirements processes and techniques. And finally,
we need to be able to configure systems from
different types of services, including web services,
software components and hybrid services that include
human intervention.
The workshop
will enable communities that work on requirements
and service-oriented applications to meet together
and share their knowledge to set appropriate
theoretical foundations, define special-purpose
methodologies for requirements elicitation, and
develop supporting technology. The workshop also
aims at promoting research directions on
requirements engineering for the class of
applications that require autonomic and
self-managing systems.
Contributions
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Authors are
expected to submit full papers of approximately
5,000 words and position papers of approximately
2,000 words. Submissions must be sent by email
attachment (PDF format) to baresi@elet.polimi.it. Full papers will
be reviewed by 3 PC members and position papers by 2
PC members. Proceedings will be available on a
workshop web-site available to delegates prior to
the workshop, then published in the IEEE Digital
Library. All submissions should be submitted using
IEEE Conference Proceedings format. We will explore
the possibility of having a special issue on some
indexed journal if we receive a sufficient number of
high-quality workshop submissions.
Covered
Topics
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A
non-exclusive list of topics of interest is:
* Discovering
services that comply with requirements
specifications
* Languages,
models and methodologies for requirements
elicitation and specification
* New
service-based requirements processes and techniques
in systems engineering processes
* Quality
aspects of self-adapting systems
* Run-time
monitoring of system requirements and QoS
*
Requirements based service composition
*
Requirements based services monitoring
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Requirements for context-aware systems
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Requirements for adaptivity and adaptability
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Requirements for ambient computing
*
Requirements for QoS
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Requirements for multi-channel applications
* Security
requirements
*
Service-level agreement
* Service
outsourcing
* Specifying
systems with dynamically changing boundaries
* Autonomous,
self-managing systems
Important
Dates
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* Submission
of papers: Tuesday 14th June 2011,
*
Notification: Friday 24th June 2011
*
Camera-ready versions: Monday 18th July 2011
* Workshop
date: Monday 29th August 2011
Organizing
Committee
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* Luciano
Baresi - Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
* Liliana
Pasquale - Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
* Neil Maiden
- City University London, United Kingdom
* James
Lockerbie - City University London, United Kingdom
Program
Committee
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* Xavi Franch
- UPC Barcelona, Spain
* Paolo
Giorgini - Information Engineering and Computer
Science Department (DISI), University of Trento,
Trento, Italy
* Andreas
Metzger - Paluno, University of Duisberg-Essen,
Germany
* Ita
Richardson - LERO - the Irish Software Engineering
Research Centre, Limerick, Ireland
* Camille
Salenisi - Universite de Paris 1 Sorbonne, Paris,
France
* Angelo Susi
- IRST - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
* Kos Zachos
- City University London, United Kingdom