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Call for Papers: 2nd International
Workshop
on
Service Oriented Computing in
Logistics
(SOC-LOG 2010)
In conjunction with the 8th
International
Conference
on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC
2010)
December 7-10, San Francisco, CA, USA
Workshop website: http://soclog10.wifa.uni-leipzig.de
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Workshop Theme
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Logistics is of paramount importance
for many industries: It plans
and realizes the flow of goods from
sources to destinations by
means of transformations in space,
time,
and quantity. Coordinating
logistics activities faces
organizational
and technical boundaries
of the participating firms as well as
must resolve conflicting
goals and strategies of such firms.
Information plays a crucial
role in logistics, in particular in
today’s business environment,
which is changing significantly due
to, e.g., globalization of
supply chains, stronger customer
orientation
and individualization,
all increasing the need for more
adaptive
logistics systems. IT is
the key enabler for managing these
challenges,
supporting supply
chain collaboration, and managing
increasing
economic dynamics.
Advanced IT support allows supply
chains
to advance their
efficiency significantly, to better
fulfill customer needs, and
handle the growing organizational
complexity
and the associated
supply chain risks.
While existing logistics IT systems
provide solid support for
static, self-contained logistics
systems,
research on managing the
logistics in supply chains that are
dynamically changing, is still
less advanced. Service-oriented
Computing
(SOC) is a promising
paradigm, which automates
inter-organizational
processes by
loosely coupled software-based
services.
The focus of this workshop
is the study and exploration of SOC’s
potential to solve
coordination problems in logistics
systems
and supply chains.
Key research questions are:
(1) How to represent logistics systems
in service-based computing
systems by employing and adopting
constructs,
models, and methods
of the SOC technology stack,
(2) how to describe software-based
logistics
services with service
description languages,
(3) how to coordinate software-based
logistics services, by
employing and adopting approaches for
service discovery and service
composition,
(4) how to negotiate and agree about
the delivery of software-based
logistics services with approaches for
SLA representation, SLA
management, and SLA negotiation, and
(5) how to control the delivery and
how to measure the efficiency
and effectiveness of software-based
logistics services?
With the set of design principles,
architectural
models and concepts
and last but not least with its
existing
and growing set of
standards, SOC promotes adaptiveness
of logistics systems and supply
chains, a flexible and re-configurable
provisioning along multiple
supply chains, and their efficiency.
The purpose of the workshop is to
present
and discuss recent
significant developments at the
intersection
of service-oriented
computing and logistics systems/supply
chain management, and to
promote cross-fertilization and
exchange
of ideas and techniques
between these fields. The relation to
ICSOC 2010 is that, on one
hand, the conference addresses the
core
concepts such as interacting
business processes, service
composition,
service operations, and
quality of services, and on the other
hand, would receive feedback,
experiences, and requirements from a
highly relevant application
domain to validate and advance its
current
approaches.
Topics
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In particular, we are inviting papers
on the following topics:
1) Logistics services representation
- Servicetization of logistics systems
- Logistics service models
- Reference models for logistics
services
- Semantic models for logistics
services
- Repositories and dictionaries for
logistics services
2) Logistics services description
- Syntactical description of logistics
services
- Semantic description of logistics
services
- Logistics ontologies / ontologies
for logistics services
- QoS attributes of logistics services
3) 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
4) SLA Management of logistics services
- Domain-specific SLA models
- Semantic annotation of SLAs for
logistics
services
- SLA negotiation protocols for
logistics
services
- Pricing of logistics services
- Integrating logistics services into
SLA management infrastructures
5) 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
Paper Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit
original,
previously unpublished research papers, as
- Full papers (up to 15 pages
including
all references and figures) or
- Position papers (up to 5 pages
including
all references and figures)
on the listed or related topics.
Please, submit papers (in PDF format)
via our electronic submission system which is
available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soclog10.
All workshop papers will be included
in the joint workshop proceedings of ICSOC 2010.
These proceedings will be published
in Springer’s LNCS Services Science Subline.
This subline is an integrated part of
the LNCS.
Thus, papers should be written in
English
and must be prepared in the Springer LNCS
style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
for more information).
All submissions will be peer-reviewed
by members of the international program committee.
Paper acceptance will be based on
originality,
significance, technical soundness, and
clarity of presentation. For short
position
papers, clarity of exposition and the degree
of innovation will be sufficient,
while
for full papers, a clear technical contribution
is expected.
At least one author of an accepted
paper
must attend the workshop and present the work.
Attendance of the workshop requires
registration to the main ICSOC 2010 conference.
Key Dates
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14 September 2010: Submissions due
30 September 2010: Notification of
acceptance
07 December 2010: Workshop (1 day)
10 January 2011: Camera-ready
Submission
Program Chairs
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Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim,
Germany
André Ludwig, University of Leipzig,
Germany
Alex Norta, University of Helsinki,
Finland
Program Committee
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Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University
of Economics, Poland
Samuil Angelov, Eindhoven University
of Technology, Netherlands
Marcelo Cataldo, Carnegie Mellon
University,
USA
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of
Technology, Netherlands
Diogo Ferreira, Technical University
of Lisbon, Portugal
Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of
Technology, Netherlands
Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Netherlands,
University
of Twente
Axel Korthaus, Queensland University
of Technology, Australia
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research,
Australia
Carlos Müller, Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain
Manuel Resinas, Universidad de
Sevilla,
Spain
Toni Ruokolainen, University of
Helsinki,
Finland
Jun Shen, University of Wollongong,
Australia
Ingo Weber, University of New South
Wales, Australia
Supported by
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- D-GRID Project InterLogGrid (http://www.interloggrid.org)
- FMER Project Logistics Service Bus
(http://www.lsb-plattform.de)
Contact
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Joerg Leukel
Department of Information Systems 2
University of Hohenheim
Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 459-23968
E-Mail: joerg.leukel@uni-hohenheim.de
URI: http://www.joerg-leukel.net
André Ludwig
Information Systems Institute
University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 9733732
E-Mail: ludwig@wifa.uni-leipzig.de
URI: http://www.andre-ludwig.info
Alex Norta
Department of Computer Science
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358 44 0303720
E-Mail: alexander.norta@cs.helsinki.fi
URI: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/anorta/