-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Academic reminder on CFP: Special Issue on Practical Design Methods for Software Architectures in the Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms: Challenging or Confirming Extant Scholastic Methods Datum: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:02:36 -0600 (CST) Von: mmora@securenym.net An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): roconnor@computing.dcu.ie, jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de, ftsui@kennesaw.edu

Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE) Special Issue on Practical Design Methods for Software Architectures in the Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms: Challenging or Confirming Extant Scholastic Methods

Guest Editors: Manuel Mora, Rory O’Connor, Frank Tsui, Jorge Marx-Gomez Edited by: Rajkumar Buyya and R. Nigel Horspool

*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The design of the architecture of system has been a critical relevant activity in the systems engineering discipline from several decades for the design of physical man-made systems. However, a reduced set of design methods and complementary decision-making techniques have been consistently used with successful results. In contrast, in the software engineering discipline, there has been a vast scholastic research on foundations, methods, and complementary techniques with a scarce accumulative knowledge. Every design stream on software architecture elaborates their own vocabulary and methods and usually ignores other design streams. Additionally, there are most proprietary than open access design methods, and a reduced set of well-accepted methods, techniques and practices are still missing. Thus, software architecture design methods are inconsistently or little used in the practice during the application of software development methodologies except by the large system and software development companies.

In particular software systems are widely demanded at present in two co-existing paradigms: Software-oriented Computing (SOC) and the Cloud Computing paradigms. SOC paradigm aims the development of medium-sized and large distributed inter-organizational systems by assembling it (ideally) as a system of service providers and consumers (called a Service-oriented Computing Application (SOCA)). Thus, the design of SOCAs inherently includes the challenges of high quality software architecture design, given its natural composition by services provided by some entities and consumed by others (independently of the self-services in the same SOCA). In turn, the Cloud Computing paradigm aims to provide a cost-effective, scalable and dynamic provision of IT resources (processing, storage, networking) for elastic demands. This convergence of SOC and this emergent paradigm, introduces new software architecture design challenges and trade-off problems for achieving functional and non-functional requirements of Software as Service (SaaS) as a whole entity assembled by other composed and atomic services in the cloud.

Hence, we consider that: 1) the SOC and Cloud Computing applications strongly dependently of their architectural designs; 2) practitioners demand well-structured and practically applicable software architecture design methods; 3) there are a scarcity of well-accepted software architecture design methods; and 4) there is a wide gap between theoretical recommendations and their daily utilization in the practice for software engineers working in small, medium-sized and large companies. Thus, a call for papers is required for high quality conceptual proposals or already applied software architecture design methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms. This special issue aims lately to improve our understanding and encourage the utilization of software architecture design methods by being perceived as useful, ease of use, ease of learn, compatible, and highly valued by practitioners. Accepted papers must demonstrate clearly how their contributions advance the current status of scholastic software architecture design methods. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: • Case studies of successful applied software architecture design methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms • Case studies of failed utilizations of software architecture design for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms • Usability studies on specific software architecture design methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms • Successful examples of inclusion of software architecture design methods into agile software development methodologies for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms from practitioners perspectives. • Software architecture design methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms based on ISO/IEC standards (e.g. ISO 42010, ISO 12207, ISO 15288, among others). • Comparative studies of most recognized software architecture design methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms. • Cases on the development of prototype tools for supporting the software architecture design tasks for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms.

IMPORTANT DATES: Open for manuscript submission in ScholarOne: July 1, 2016 Closed for submissions: August 1, 2016 Results of first round of reviews: October 1, 2016 Submission of revised manuscripts: November 1, 2016 Results of second round of reviews: February 1, 2017 Publication materials due: March 1, 2017

Major Guidelines The special issue requests original applied research papers that challenge or confirm the current status of scholastic software architecture design methods and complementary techniques through the report of usable well-structured software architecture design methods in the SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms.

Papers based on original ideas are expected. Papers elaborated as extended versions of previous published research must provide at least 50% of new material. For this case, authors must submit a cover letter/document with: 1) a comparative table of findings, contributions and limitations from extended and initial paper; and 2) a brief justification on the extended sections in the new paper.

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by two international reviewers at least. The editorial review committee will be conformed by academic and industry based people involved in the special issue themes.

Selection and Evaluation Criteria: - Evidences of advances on the current status of scholastic software architecture design methods - Practical relevance to use and apply the method or contributions of the paper - Scope and criticality of the application domain of the method or contributions of the paper - Correctness of the applied research method (problem definition, work hypothesis, materials and methods, application of materials and methods, discussion of results, contributions and limitations, and conclusions). - Clarity and readability of the paper Author Submission Guidelines Papers should be formatted according to the SPE Author Guidelines below: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X/homepage/ForA...

Manuscript length: Regular papers should not exceed the length of 15 pages including figures and tables (in SPE format). Please note, the special issue’s page limit is different from SPE regular paper submissions. Papers that exceed the length of 15 pages may not be considered for review and publication. In special cases, up to 20 pages will be allowed subject to approval from the Guest Editors. Authors desiring a 20 page limit should contact the Guest Editors in advance.

Submission Instructions The article will be submitted in the usual way via the online submission site (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe).

When submitting a manuscript for this special issue, authors should take care to select “Special Issue: Practical Design Methods for Software Architectures in the Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms: Challenging or Confirming Extant Scholastic Methods” as the Manuscript Type and to select Manuel Mora as the preferred editor.

GUEST EDITORS: Prof. Manuel Mora, – Corresponding Guest Editor Information Systems Department, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Ave. Universidad 940, Aguascalientes, AGS. Mexico 20131 Email: mmora@correo.uaa.mx

Prof. Rory O’Connor Dublin City University, Ireland

Prof. Frank Tsui Kennesaw University, USA

Prof. Jorge Marx-Gomez University of Oldenburg, Germany

_______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org