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                            CALL FOR PAPERS
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                   4th International Workshop on
             Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for 
               Service Oriented Computing - ACT4SOC
                http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm

23 July, 2010 - Athens, Greece  

Held in conjunction with Fifth International Conference on Software and
Data Technologies - ICSOFT 2010

In cooperation with IICREST and SEEKDA

Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 6 April 2010

INTRODUCTION
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.

GOAL AND TOPICS
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 of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

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
	- experiences regarding SOC in industrial and real-world
applications

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book,
under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be
indexed by DBLP. Best papers of the workshop will be considered for
inclusion in a book edited and published by Springer.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and
Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page.
Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission
system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop.
If the registration fees are not received by May 19, 2010, the paper
will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions due: April 6, 2010
Notification to authors: May 4, 2010
Camera ready due and registration: May 19, 2010

CHAIRS
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands Brahmananda
Sapkota, University of Twente, Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITEE
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research, Germany 
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany 
Sami Bhiri, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland 
Barrett Bryant, Univ. of Alabama at Birmington, USA 
Kuo-Ming. Chao, Coventry University, UK 
Remco Dijkman, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands 
Clever de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Walid Gaaloul, Institut Telecom, France 
Armin Haller, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia
Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland 
Juan Miguel Gomez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain 
Adrian Mocan, SAP, Germany 
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA 
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria 
Haklae Kim, Samsung, Korea 
Michael Parkin, University of Tilburg, Netherlands 
Dick Quartel, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands 
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway 
Tony Shan, Keane Inc., USA 
Boris Shishkov, INSTICC / University of Delft, Netherlands 
Ken Turner, University of Stirling, UK 
Tomas Vitvar, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
Michal Zaremba, Seekda, Austria

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS
ICSOFT Workshops - ACT4SOC 2010
e-mail: icsoft.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org

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