PESOS 2010 - 2nd International Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems

Call for Papers (PDF)

Motivation

Service-oriented systems represent a new class of software systems, in which software is being used and integrated as temporary services rather than being ‘physically’ integrated and owned permanently by the software user. Those services are loosely-coupled, autonomous software entities owned by third parties and representing different functionality, which can be combined to support dynamic business processes. Thereby, service oriented systems provide a more flexible approach to software development, provisioning and maintenance, allowing addressing the dynamics of a system’s environment and continuously evolving requirements.

Workshop Goals

PESOS 2010 is intended to provide a forum for presenting and discussing a wide range of topics related to service oriented systems. The aim of PESOS is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, as well as practitioners working in the areas of software engineering and service oriented systems to discuss research challenges, recent developments, novel applications, as well as methods, techniques, experiences, and tools to support the engineering and use of service oriented systems. The workshop seeks contributions that address theoretical foundations, practical techniques, empirical studies, experience, and lessons learned related to service oriented systems.

Topics - Special Theme: User-Centric Aspects

PESOS 2010 wants to explore user-centric aspects, i.e., all the aspects related to the participation of human actors during the specification, design, implementation, verification, validation, deployment, and operation of service-oriented systems. This includes contributions that discuss what activities can be automated (e.g., replacing human intervention) and for which activities user interaction and involvement will remain key.

The workshop seeks contributions related to user-centric aspects, but also invites submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

•   Service-oriented software system life cycle
•   Specification of service-oriented systems
•   Requirements for service-oriented systems
•   Design and architecture of service-oriented systems
•   Verification, validation, and testing of services and service-oriented systems
•   Evolution and maintenance of service-oriented systems
•   Adaptation of service-oriented systems
•   Service description, discovery, and composition
•   Service semantics and interoperability
•   Service deployment, binding, and monitoring
•   Resource organization and management in service-oriented systems
•   Service-oriented business process integration and management
•   Service personalization and context-aware provisioning
•   Service dependability, survivability, and reliability
•   Trust, security, and privacy in service-oriented systems
•   Quality of service in service-oriented environments
•   Service visualization and re-factorization

Paper Submission and Publication

All contributions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality and relevance to the workshop theme. Besides research papers, experience papers and practical reports on industrial case studies are particularly welcome.

Papers must be no longer than seven pages and follow the ICSE 2010 Submission Formats and Guidelines.

The submission process for the workshop will be managed using EasyChair. The link for submissions is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pesos2010.

The workshop proceedings will be published together with the ICSE proceedings on the ACM digital library. Authors of accepted papers must register for the workshop.

Organizing Committee

• Grace A. Lewis, CMU Software Engineering Institute, USA
• Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Dennis Smith, CMU Software Engineering Institute, USA
• Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK

Steering Committee

• Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Domenico Laforenza, IIT‐CNR & ISTI CNR, Italy
• Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg‐Essen, Germany

Program Committee

• Mikio Aoyama, NISE, Japan
• Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Tevfik Bultan, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
• Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
• Manuel Carro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Schahram Dustdar, University of Vienna, Austria
• Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Robert Hall, AT&T Labs Research, USA
• Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium
• Robert Johnson, IBM Software Group, USA
• Roger Kilian‐Kehr, SAP, Germany
• Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
• Anna Liu, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Nicolás López, University of Los Andes, Colombia
• Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Liam O'Brien, NICTA, Australia
• Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Anne-Marie Sassen, European Commission, Belgium
• Roberto Silva Filho, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
• George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK
• Alistair Sutcliffe, University of Manchester, UK
• Tarja Systa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Ladan Tahvildari, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Janet Wesson, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Zaire