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Co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2012. The event will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on June, 2011.
PESOS special session: "The quest for case studies"
Having good ideas is just half of the story for researchers; the other half is to validate them experimentally. In engineering service-oriented systems, however, validation is still challenged by the limited availability of case studies --- meant in the broadest sense to include reference examples, benchmarks and actual experimental data sets. As a result, potentially good ideas often cannot be fully evaluated and compared with other work, since validation would be too weak. As developing case studies and making them available in general involves significant effort, we think that this needs a community approach of developing and making available case studies and their related artefacts.
Objective
The PESOS special session "The quest for case studies" aims to serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners sharing this vision and willing to contribute with their effort and experience. The ultimate goal is to create the reference set of case studies for the research community in service-oriented systems, hosted on a publicly available repository (not unlike the PROMISE data repository). The session will be organized as a working session in which participants can present their experience and the lessons
learned.
Contributions
We solicit extended abstracts (two pages in the workshop format) featuring:
* Descriptions of a case study in the area of service-oriented systems, and its related artefacts (e.g., service interfaces, service-based process descriptions, service ontologies, formal specifications and models, QoS/SLA descriptions and data, service implementations, test suites, execution traces, monitoring data, etc).
* Reports on experiences in using case studies in research for service-oriented systems, including reports on negative experiences (e.g., case studies that showed to be not suitable though they initially looked very promising) and lessons learned from them.
Each extended abstract should include a link to a compressed archive file containing all the artefacts belonging to the case study, and a brief guide on how to use it.
The contributions will be evaluated with respect to the quality, the completeness, and the reusability of the artefacts. In case of
acceptance, authors commit to make the case study material publicly available (under a Creative Common license) by the date of the workshop (more details to follow).
Session organizers
Domenico Bianculli, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy