[ecoop-info] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Working Session on Maintenance and Evolution of SOA-Based Systems - MESOA 2007

[John Morley]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Working Session on Maintenance and Evolution of SOA-Based Systems - 
MESOA 2007
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/isis/workshops/ws-mesoa-2007
October 4 , 2007 - Full Day Working Session

Co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software 
Maintenance (ICSM 2007) - Paris, France

OVERVIEW
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is having a significant impact on 
the way software systems are developed, maintained, and evolved over 
time. Organizations as diverse as banks, health care providers, and 
government organizations are focusing on SOA as a way to reach a 
previously unachievable level of interoperability among systems and 
agility within business practices.
As SOA-based systems are deployed, a main concern is now their 
maintenance and evolution. The main goal of this working session is to 
identify open research issues, present a draft version of a research 
agenda, and obtain feedback from researchers and practitioners who do 
work and research in the area of maintenance and evolution of SOA-based 
systems. Potential research topics of relevance to software maintenance 
and evolution include the following:
 * Tools, techniques and environments to support maintenance activities
 * Multilanguage system analysis and maintenance
 * Monitoring of service level agreements (SLA)
 * Organizational change when moving to SOA
 * ROI issues in an SOA migration decision process
 * Changes to evolution and maintenance processes (e.g., SOA change 
management, SOA testing, SOA release management)
 * Roles for SOA systems maintenance and evolution
 * Evolution patterns
 * Reengineering processes
 * Round-trip engineering in SOA environments
 * Strategic reuse of legacy components as services
 * Service adaptation in response to changes in business processes

SUBMISSIONS
Contributors are requested to submit their position papers through 
EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/MESOA-2007/. All submissions are 
due no later than August 31, 2007 . They should be in the standard IEEE 
double column format and have a minimum length of 2 and a maximum length 
of 10 pages. They should be submitted as pdf files. The contributions to 
the working session will be consolidated into an SEI-published summary 
report and used to help evolve the SOA research agenda.
All contributors and participants of the working session will be granted 
access to the Wiki site where the research agenda is maintained.

ORGANIZERS
Grace A. Lewis, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Dennis B. Smith, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of 
Technology, Sweden
Ned Chapin, InfoSci Inc., USA