[CAnet - news] Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures

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[Although largely focused on eBusiness applications as opposed to the larger
SOA market of devices, instruments, stateful services, eScience etc , the
subjects covered in this workshop are still worthwhile and useful.  Thanks
to Dave Macneil for this pointer -- BSA]


Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop
(mda4soa'06)
http://events.deri.at/mda4soa2006/

co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services
Computing (SCC 2006) and Web Services (ICWS 2006)

September 18, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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GENERAL OVERVIEW

A new paradigm - service-orientation - is currently emerging for distributed
computing and e-business processing; it has evolved from object-oriented and
component-based computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating
business applications distributed within and across organizational
boundaries. This new paradigm utilizes services (autonomous
platform-independent computational elements that can be described,
published, discovered and accessed over the Internet using standard
protocols) as 
fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions; services will be
important for customers and not the specific software or hardware component
that is used to implement the services. In this context, services become the
next level of abstraction in the process of creating systems that would
enable automation of e-businesses. This paradigm shift is changing the way
the computer software is developed and used (designed, architected,
delivered, consumed, and analysed), and this way of reorganizing software 
applications and infrastructure into a set of interacting services is
usually referred to as Service-oriented Architectures (SOA).  


In recent years, various forms of service-oriented architectures have
appeared; amongst them, Web services, Grid services, Semantic Web Services,
and e-Services are the most important. Although they share some of the
principles of service-oriented architectures, they differ in many other
aspects, which is an undesirable situation in the context of 
service-oriented architectures. Since standard protocols are a basic
principle of SOA, this undesirable situation is partly due also to the fact
that there are currently no mature methodologies and techniques to support
analysis for service-oriented architectures. Moreover, all these forms of
service-oriented architectures have developed different conceptual models,
resulting in different methodologies for modelling and designing
service-oriented architectures.  

In this context, this workshop aims to tackle the research problems (as well
as practical experiences) around methods, concepts, models, languages and
technology that enable computing in service-oriented environments. Of
particular interest are the architectural, technical, and developmental
foundations of service-oriented architectures, and showing 
how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the
scale required by today´s Internet-connected enterprise.  

This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry
practitioners (e.g. leading modelers, architects, system vendors,
open-source projects, developers, and end-users) addressing many of these
issues (including recent developments in tools and techniques, and
real-world implementations of service-oriented distributed applications), 
and promote and foster a greater understanding of how service-oriented
architectures can assist business to business and enterprise application
integration, thus helping people develop and manage business processes more
efficiently and effectively.  


TOPICS

The following indicates the general focus of the workshop. However, related
contributions are welcome as well.

* case studies for service-oriented architectures and systems
* analysis methodologies for service-oriented architectures and systems
* languages and methods for service-oriented architectures
* specification of service-oriented architectures
* modeling and simulation of service-oriented architectures
* verification and validation of service-oriented architectures
* evaluation of service-oriented architectures
* analysis and design of mobile service-oriented architectures
* patterns in modelling, design, and analysis for service-oriented
architectures
* guidelines for developing service-oriented applications
* techniques for integrating service-oriented architectures
* semantic aspects and ontologies for service-oriented architectures
* formal models for service-oriented architectures; reasoning with
service-oriented architectures
* service-oriented architectures and service application design and
integration using MDA
* quality of services (QoS) analysis and modelling in service-oriented
architectures
* services level agreements (SLAs) modelling and negotiation in
service-oriented
* analysis and modelling of security, privacy, and trust in service-oriented
architectures
* policy-based service-oriented architectures
* methods for migrating legacy systems to service-oriented architectures
* discovery, composition, execution, monitoring, and mediation in
service-oriented architectures
* adaptability and recovery strategies in service-oriented architectures
* governance in service-oriented architectures
* technologies for service-oriented architectures: Web services, Grid
services, Semantic Web Services, and e-Services
* middleware in SOA
* standards for service-oriented architectures
* tool for modelling, designing, and analysing service-oriented
architectures


WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE

The program will occupy a full day, and will include presentations of papers
selected from the full papers category (see 'submissions' below).

Please note that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend
the 
workshop. The ICWS/SCC 2006 conference formalities are applied for fees and
respective 
organizational aspects. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance
at the 
workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate all who
would like 
to participate, those who have submitted a paper (in any category) will be
given priority 
for registration.  


SUBMISSIONS

The workshop invites different types of contributions:

* Papers
* Demos
* Posters / Position papers

Papers:The papers should not exceed 8 pages and should have the IEEE layout.

Demos: Detailed description plus sufficient number of screenshots or a video
of the demo are required. For paper-based submissions, please follow the
IEEE layout. Please note that at the workshop itself no technical support is
provided except possibly Internet connection and power (to be confirmed).

Posters/Position papers: The posters/position papers should not exceed 4
pages and should have the IEEE layout.

All contributions will be peer reviewed by a program committee that will
incorporate well recognized experts in the area of service-oriented
architectures.

All submissions should be formatted in the IEEE layout, and should be
submitted in electronic format using the link:
http://www.easychair.org/mda4soa2006/.

All accepted full papers and all position papers of attendees will be
published in the proceedings of the workshop. Workshop proceedings will be
published with IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the
workshop.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions: May 15, 2006
Acceptance: June 1, 2006
Final copy: June 10, 2006
Workshops day: September 18, 2006


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA),
Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria),
Simon Shim (San Jose State University, USA),
Jian Yang (Macquaire University, Australia)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
Ali Arsanjani, IBM, USA
Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria
Pautasso Cesare, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Erl, SOA Systems Inc., Canada
Roy Grønmo, SINTEF, Norway
Sung-Kook Han, Wonkwang University, South Korea
Martin Henkel, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Martin Hepp, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Rania Khalaf, IBM, USA
Yen-Jen Lee, Google, USA
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Barry Norton, Open University, UK
Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Extremadura, Spain
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI, Ireland
Junho Shim, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea
Ioan Toma, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Jari Veijalainen, University of Potsdam, Germany
Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA
Andrea Zisman, City University, UK




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