-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue of JVLC on Representations and Environments for User-Driven Development of Service Applications Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:13:01 -0000 From: Nikolay Mehandjiev mehandjiev@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

CALL for PAPERS Special Issue of Journal of Visual Languages and Computing Representations and Environments for User-Driven Development of Service Applications

Guest Editors: Nikolay Mehandjiev and Antonella De Angeli Full Manuscript due: February 28th, 2013

Service-oriented software (SoS) is focused on delivering software on demand – the software gets assembled into service applications at the point of need, delivered, executed and then discarded. Two simplified manifestations of this idea are quite popular today: the mobile phone apps which offer focused functionality and are delivered to the mobile phones on request, and service-based software, which researches dynamic composition of distributed services, without focusing on the actual delivery of the assembled software.

The engagement of end users in the process of developing service-based applications is a key enabler of the vision of SoS with its dynamic nature and focus on the needs of their users. This highlights an immediate problem with the existing environment and tools for assembling services into service applications – they are still too focused on the underlying technology such as event processing or data flow, and are thus often incomprehensible for people without formal training in software development which are the majority of the target users of the system. This is confirmed by our studies, which highlight the difficulties users have with the concepts of data passing between services and the need for this data to be aligned for better processing.

The proposed special issue will consolidate the work done in the intersection of service development and End User Development, an area of research which aims to empower users who are not professional programmers to develop or modify software. This intersection has been the subject of three international workshops (www.eud4services.org) which helped us build an international community working in the area. The proposed special issue will build on the work presented in the workshops, soliciting archival-quality contributions from that community but also encouraging further submissions from the wider EUD and Services Communities.

This first of its kind special issue will focus on the intersection of interaction design, end user development and services computing. Papers will be solicited in the following areas (the list is indicative rather than exclusive):

• Design or evaluations of graphical tools to support end-user development of service-based applications;

• Studies of mental models used by users for service development;

• Cognitive or behavioural theories and models of users’ problem-solving when developing service-driven applications;

• Proposals for simpler and user-centric interfaces or environments;

• The place of domain-specific tools for user-driven composition of service applications;

• The role of personalisation in delivering effective user-oriented environments;

• Impact of context-customisation on the simplification of tools and representations;

• The role of service semantics for providing better support within EUD4Services environments;

• The place of collaborative development within user-driven assembly of services.

Key Dates:

Please send an email with a short abstract or statement of intent to Nikolay Mehandjiev (mailto:mehandjiev@gmail.com), by January 15, 2012. Complete manuscripts should be emailed before February 28, 2013. Every paper will be blind reviewed for rigour, contribution and relevance by three experts. First round results will be sent to authors by June 1 2013. Revisions will be due August 1 2013. Final publication decisions will be made by October 15 2013. Publication: February 2014

The Journal of Visual Languages and Computing is a forum for researchers, practitioners, and developers to exchange ideas and results for the advancement of visual languages and its implication to the art of computing. The journal publishes research papers, state-of-the-art surveys, and review articles in all aspects of visual languages.

For complete details on submission guidelines, please see the JVLC website: http://ees.elsevier.com/jvlc/ Editors: S.-K. Chang, S. Levialdi

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