CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

                        EUD4Services 2012

3rd International Workshop on End User Development for Services - Grand
Challenges For Research

                 www.eud4services.org/Workshop2012/

               to be held in Capri Island (Naples), Italy
                          on May 21, 2012

                        in conjunction with

                 AVI2012:  Advanced Visual Interfaces
                   http://www.avi2012.it/index.htm



The Third International Workshop on End User Development for Services
focuses on the grand challenges in applying End User Development ideas and
principles to the area of service-oriented software design and construction.
This follows from two previous workshops which charted the territory of
existing tools and research systems, and created a community of researchers
and practitioners working in the area. 
Service-oriented software promises to bring flexibility to organisational
support, allowing applications to be constructed "on demand" thus keeping
track with changing organisational needs. Constructing such software has so
far been the prerogative of software professionals, who are trained to
manage the complexity of software technology. Attempts to open up this
activity to non-programmers, such as "mashups" have been mostly driven by
details of the underlying technology such as event propagation and data
connections between services. 
Researchers from the End User Development community have created theoretical
and practical results which can be useful for opening up service software
construction to non-programmers. However, the uptake of EUD within the SOA
paradigm is hampered by a set of emerging issues, including intrinsic
difficulties stemming from the complexity of technology and distributed
nature of computations.
We have established a community of academics and practitioners interested in
the application of EUD for service design from different perspective such as
software services, human-computer interaction, software engineering,
artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative work and innovation
management. We welcome new members to this community, and we would also like
to invite existing workshop participants to join us again.


ORGANISATION OF WORKSHOP
The workhop will aim to explore a set of challenges to opening up service
development to end users, and fuse the most pertinent ones with an analysis
framework developed through the previous workshops to create a roadmap of
this emerging area of research.
The morning will start with a keynote presentation by Professor Gerhard
Fischer as outlined in the next section.
A number of challenges will then be presented and discussed by their
contributors.
In the afternoon, we will introduce the EUD4Services analysis framework and
will work together on validating the framework and on using it to create a
roadmap of EUD4Services.


KEY NOTE PRESENTATION
Professor Gerhard Fischer from the University of Colorado at Boulder will
deliver a keynote presentation on domain-oriented design and meta-design in
the context of user-driven software development. Gerhard is well known for
his work in design environments and meta-design.


AUDIENCE
The workshop aims to sketch a research agenda on the topic of EUD in
service-based computing which is likely to be of interest to several streams
of research in software engineering, human-computer interaction, services
computing. The purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring
together researchers and practitioners who have faced the problem of making
the SOA paradigm available to end-users, might have some ideas on how to
facilitate it, and have experimented with these ideas. We expect to generate
a debate on the potential of SOA for non-technical developers in both
professional and personal lives.


SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTION
Please submit what you believe are the top three grand challenges in the
design and development of service-oriented software by non-programmers (in a
statement less than 500 words) using the online form available at: 
www.eud4services.org/Workshop2012/files/2.htm

PROCEEDINGS
The papers and presentations will be available on the workshop website, as
well as a report of the main output from the workshop.  At present we are
applying to hold a special issue of a journal (details to be confirmed once
we have formal acceptance of our proposal) on the topic of end user
development for services. It is hoped that the discussions on the workshop
will form an important input into this special issue, and will help
participants shape reports on their existing research into papers fitting
the theme of the issue.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submit your contribution no later than 10th April, 2012
Decision to Authors: 14th April, 2012 
Early Registration Deadline: 16th April, 2012 
3rd EUD4Services Workshop: 21th May, 2012


ORGANISERS
Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento, Italy
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK


SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
Abdallah Namoun, University of Manchester, UK


CONTACTS
e-mail: eud4services@mbs.ac.uk
website: www.eud4services.org/Workshop2012/

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Dr Nikolay Mehandjiev, Professor of Enterprise Information Systems
Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
MBS East, Room D28, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, UK

e-mail: mehandjiev@acm.org, n.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk 
URL : http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/n.mehandjiev/
Phone : +44 161 306 3319             Fax : +44 870 288 7629






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