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7th Int. Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA11)

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7th INT. WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE ORIENTED APPLICATIONS

WESOA 2011

Associated with ICSOC 2011

Dec. 5th 2011, Paphos, Cyprus

http://www.wesoa.org/

OBJECTIVES

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Many of today's large-scale software projects in the area of distributed systems and especially enterprise IT adopt service-oriented software architecture design patterns and enabling technologies. For these projects, availability of sound software engineering principles, methodology and tool support is of utmost importance. However, traditional software engineering approaches are not fully appropriate for the development of service-oriented applications. The limitations of traditional methods in the context of service-oriented computing have led to the emergence of Software Service Engineering (SSE) as a specialist discipline, but research in this area is still ongoing and many open issues remain. There is a need for research community and industry practitioners to develop comprehensive engineering principles, methodologies and tool support for the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) for service-oriented applications. The WESOA 2011 workshop is the seventh in a series of workshops that focus on the specific aspects of SSE.

The theme of this edition of the WESOA workshop, aligned with the ICSOC 2011 focus on Cloud Computing, is exploration of the synergies between SSE, Cloud Computing and Service Mashups. In particular, with the lack of concrete SSE methodologies and approaches the future focus of combining SSE, Cloud Computing and Service Mashups is as exciting as it is potentially dangerous. There are risks of providing end-users with powerful compositional tools to create new service-based applications without rigorous engineering control mechanisms. This area provides a strong candidate for future research for quality assurance in SSE. We especially encourage papers that address the combination of these topic areas.

Our aim is to facilitate exchange and evolution of ideas on SSE topics across multiple disciplines as well as to encourage participation of both researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In particular, such collaboration shall be fostered by means of a highly interactive and fast-paced workshop format with invited speakers. We also intend to hold a discussion panel on the theme of the workshop to encourage ideas for future research.


GENERAL TOPICS

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WESOA 2011 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address general or domain-specific challenges of SSE. Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- Software service development lifecycle methodologies & processes

- Distributed & collaborative software service development

- Service-oriented reference models & frameworks

- Architectural styles & standards for software service systems

- Management & governance of SSE projects

- Models, languages, methods for service-oriented analysis & design

- Costing, valuation & quality metrics of software service design

- Requirements-engineering for software service systems

- Service-oriented business process modeling & management

- SSE for cloud computing environments (incl. IaaS, PaaS & SaaS)

- Validation, verification & testing of software service systems

- Service assembly, composition and aggregation models & languages

- Model-driven SOA & service systems development

- Reverse engineering of software service systems

- Tool support for software service engineering

- Case studies & best practices of service-oriented development

- SEE for context-awareness & mobile devices

IMPORTANT DATES

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- Paper Submission Due: September 15th, 2011

- Notification of Acceptance: October 23th, 2011

- Camera-Ready Copy Due: about November 7th, 2011

- Workshop Date: December 5th, 2011

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages, strictly following Springer LNCS style including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Please, submit papers via the WESOA conference management tool (see WESOA website) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Springer Web page:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, and circulated to participants prior to the event. Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (under negotiation).

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ICSOC conference to be found on their website:

http://www.icsoc.org/


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

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- George Feuerlicht, Prague University of Economics, CZ

- Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, DE

- Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Extremadura, ES

- Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE

- Invited PC Chair: Howard Foster, City University London, GB