[ecoop-info] Call for Papers: ACM Published Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing

[Johannes Osrael]

Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing

at the 8th Int. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conf. 2007

 

Published by ACM

 

November 26, 2007

Newport Beach, CA, USA

http://www.dedisys.org/mw4soc07/

 

Submission Deadline: July 26, 2007

Author Notification: September 14, 2007

 

 

Call for Papers:

 

Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a computing paradigm 

broadly pushed by vendors, utilizing services to support 

the rapid development of distributed applications in 

heterogeneous environments. The visionary promise of SOC 

is a world of cooperating services being loosely coupled 

to flexibly create dynamic business processes and agile 

applications that may span organisations and computing 

platforms and can nevertheless adapt quickly and 

autonomously to changes of requirements or context. 

Consequently, the subject of Service Oriented Computing 

is vast and enormously complex, spanning many concepts 

and technologies that find their origins in diverse 

disciplines like Workflow Management Systems, Component 

Based Computing, "classical" Web applications, and 

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) including 

Message Oriented Middleware. In addition, there is a 

strong need to merge technology with an understanding 

of business processes and organizational structures, 

a combination of recognizing an enterprise's pain points 

and the potential solutions that can be applied to 

correct them.

 

Middleware, on the other hand, is defined as the software 

layer in a distributed computing system that lies between 

the operating system and the applications on each site of 

the system (ObjectWeb consortium). Middleware is the 

enabling technology of system and enterprise application 

integration (EAI) and therefore it clearly and evidently 

plays a key role for SOC.  

 

While the immediate need of middleware support for 

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is evident, current 

approaches and solutions mostly fall short by primarily 

providing support for the EAI aspect of SOC only and do 

not sufficiently address composition support, service 

management and monitoring. Moreover, quality properties 

(in particular dependability and security) need to be 

addressed not only by interfacing and communication 

standards, but also in terms of integrated middleware 

support.

 

Thus, thetopics of particular interest for our workshop 

include, but are not limited to:

 

* Architectures for Middleware for SOC.

  - Novel middleware architectures and platforms for SOC.

  - Infrastructure services and new/adapted middleware 

    protocols for service oriented middleware, e.g.:

    - Transaction services reflecting different 

      types of atomicity needs.

    - Reliable multicast and complex communication 

      patterns.

    - Service replication. 

  - Middleware support for data and resource integration, 

    access to data services, interaction of distributed 

    databases with service oriented systems (SOS), 

    interaction with the GRID layer.

  - Middleware support for dynamic and flexible service 

    re-configuration, re-composition, and re-engineering 

    during run-time in accordance with an extensible set 

    of QoS properties and policies. Support for composability 

    analysis of replaceability, compatibility, and conformance. 

* Integration of SLA (service level agreement) support 

  through middleware.

  - Middleware support for QoS negotiation and agreement, 

    QoS contracts, composability of QoS requirements, 

    QoS-aware service discovery and composition.

  - Middleware support for end-to-end dependability and 

    security of service oriented systems.

  - Fault-tolerance support for SOS, highly available 

    services, mission-critical composed SOS.

  - Middleware support for balancing of properties, 

    composability of non-functional requirements. 

* Middleware support for service management and monitoring.

  - Group membership services, service groups, failure detection.

  - SLA monitoring and management, SLA violation/repair functions.

  - Self-configuring, self-adapting, self-healing, 

    self-optimizing and self-protecting, as well as necessary 

    measures and metrics.

  - Middleware support for service governance across 

    organizational boundaries. 

* Middleware support for flexible and dynamic integration of 

  business functions and organizational structures into 

  Service oriented Systems (SOS).

  - Representation of business policies and rules during run-time.

  - Middleware support for adaptive workflows 

    (including aspect-oriented BPEL).

  - Middleware support for adaptiveness and context-awareness 

    of SOS including policies and decision making, active 

    middleware capabilities including corrective action support. 

* Evaluation and experience reports of middleware for SOC and 

  service oriented middleware.

  - Experience reports from various application areas such 

    as e-government, e-health, e-learning, context-aware 

    pervasive computing, mobile computing, but also 

    mission-critical systems and embedded systems.

  - Application of middleware techniques to support 

    re-configurability and/or adaptability, re-composability, 

    QoS negotiation and agreement, explicit trading of 

    non-functional properties, including commercial and 

    open-source products. 

 

 

Workshop Co-Chairs: 

 

Karl M. Goeschka (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)

Schahram Dustdar (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)

Frank Leymann (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)

Vladimir Tosic (NICTA, Australia)

 

 

Detailed information can be found at 

http://www.dedisys.org/mw4soc07/

 

______________________________________

Johannes Osrael

Distributed Systems Group

Institute of Information Systems

Vienna University of Technology

Argentinierstraße 8/184-1

1040 Wien, Austria

Tel.:+43 (1) 58801 584 09

Mail:  <mailto:j.osrael at infosys.tuwien.ac.at> j.osrael at infosys.tuwien.ac.at

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