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                     Fifth International Workshop on

             Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for

              Service Oriented Computing - ACT4SOC 2011

 

                        in conjunction with the

                Sixth International Conference on

             Software and Data Technologies - ICSOFT 2011

 

                  18-21 July, 2011 - Seville, Spain

 

                    http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.asp

 

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline has been

extended to 9 May 2011.

 

 

Scope

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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.

 

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

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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

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Regular Paper Submission: April 5, 2011 [extended to May 9 2011]

Authors Notification: April 29, 2011 [extended to May 27 2011]

Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 12, 2011 [extended to

June 9 2011]

 

 

Paper Submission

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Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)

are available at: http://www.icsoft.org/paper_templates.asp. Please

also

check the submission guidelines at:

http://www.icsoft.org/submission_guidelines.asp. Papers should be

submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at:

http://www.insticc.org/Primoris.

 

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings

book,

under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the

SciTePress Digital Library

(http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

 

The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a

book edited and published by Springer-Verlag.

 

 

Workshop Co-chairs

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Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Brahmananda Sapkota (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

 

 

Secretariat Contacts

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ICSOFT Workshops - ACT4SOC 2011

e-mail: icsoft.secretariat@insticc.org