-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] EUD4Services 2011 - Call for papers Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:40:50 +0100 From: Florian Daniel daniel@disi.unitn.it To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

EUD4Services 2011 2nd International Workshop on End User Development for Services - Methodologies, Tools, and Evaluations

www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011 http://www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011

will be held in Torre Canne (Brindisi), Italy on June 7, 2011

in conjunction with

IS-EUD’2011 Third International Symposium on End-User Development http://www.iseud.net http://www.iseud.net/

The establishment of the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm in professional software development is opening new challenging environments for the End-User Development (EUD) community. SOA has produced a large number of reusable software components, which can be linked and organised into new applications to satisfy specific business and personal needs. If, on the one hand, SOA provides promising tools for the EUD agenda, so far the SOA approach has been characterised by a very technical attitude with little interest to the final user of the resulting applications. Services have been designed to perform software functionalities which can be connected to each other to perform complex tasks, yet the responsibility for composition and deployment was delegated to expert programmers, who are also assumed to be in charge of designing the interface between services and their users. 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. The 2nd International Workshop on End User Development for Services focuses on the issues encountered when people who are not software developers attempt to create and compose software services, and on approaches and theories aiming to support such activities. The aim is to establish a community of academics and practitioners working in various fields, including software services, human-computer interaction, software engineering, artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative work and innovation management, and facilitate the production of a coherent body of work related to this area. We expect to generate a debate on the potential of SOA for non-technical developers in both professional and personal lives by exploring the challenges of opening up SOA technologies to end-users and ideas on how to facilitate their usage and dissemination.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

The first workshop devised a number of interesting research topics which foster and guide the focus of the second workshop. The resultant topics for the second workshop include:

(1) Studies of organisational and societal practices involving the development of service-based software systems; (2) Cognitive and behavioural studies aimed at establishing theories and models related to people attempting to design software services and service-based applications; (3) Model-informed approaches or tools aiming to facilitate end-user development and design of software services; (4) Evaluation and comparative studies of tools, approaches and theoretical models in the area of end user development for services.

A subset of the larger questions and issues we want to address during the workshop are the following:

* What are the drivers and obstacles to SOA based EUD? * Is EUD for services a specific branch of EUD or just an application? * What is different about software services compared to conventional software, component-based software and distributed software? * To what extend are existing methods and tools for supporting end user developers of conventional software applicable to software services? * Which cognitive models of design are applicable to the design of software services? * Which methods are appropriate for studying the practices of developing software services? * What are the suitable engineering principles and approaches for understanding, designing, developing, and evolving software services by people who are not software professionals? * How can we facilitate uptake of EUD4Services?

PAPER SUBMISSION

The workshop welcomes position papers from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working in the fields of EUD and Software Services. The position papers must not exceed 6 pages following the Springer format guidelines and be submitted in PDF format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of two members of the international programme committee. The proceedings and a report of the workshop will be published on the workshop website. Editing a special issue of a journal will be considered depending on the coherence and quality of the submitted materials and workshop proceedings.

Please submit papers to:

workshop@eud4services.org mailto:workshop@eud4services.org

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: Feb 28, 2011 Paper submission: March 15, 2011 Decision to authors: March 24, 2011 Camera ready: March 31, 2011 (Strict deadline) 2nd EUD4Services Workshop: 7th June 2011

ORGANISERS

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alexander Brändle, FHDW, Germany Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands Christian Zirpins, KIT, Germany Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy Jill Cao, Oregon State University, USA Joëlle Coutaz, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Neil Maiden, City University , UK Scott Fleming, Oregon State University, USA Steffen Goebel, SAP Research, Germany Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT

Abdallah Namoun, University of Manchester, UK Usman Wajid, University of Manchester, UK Alberto Battocchi, University of Trento, Italy

CONTACTS

e-mail: workshop@eud4services.org mailto:workshop@eud4services.org website: www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011 http://www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011