-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - EUD4Services 2012 Capri, 21st May 2012 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:18:09 +0100 From: Nikolay Mehandjiev mehandjiev@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: 'Nikolay Mehandjiev' mehandjiev@gmail.com
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/
----- 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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