[ecoop-info] SOPOSE'07 Call for Papers

[George K]

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SOPOSE'07 Call for Papers

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2nd International Workshop on Service- and Process-Oriented Software
Engineering (SOPOSE-07)

To be held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE Services Congress,
incoporating the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS
2007) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC
2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13,
2007(http://conferences.computer.org/services/2007/).

Proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

Deadline: April 4, 2007

WORKSHOP WEBPAGE: http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose
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THEME:
It is now widely recognized that service-oriented computing will be
the dominant computing paradigm for at least the next decade.
Businesses are also increasingly committing to a process-oriented
approach in Business Process Management (BPM), which requires careful
modelling, documentation and management, as well as continual
improvement of, business processes. The software engineering questions
relating to service-oriented systems, as well as those relating to
process-oriented systems have not been adequately explored. Of prime
interest is the interplay between the service-oriented perspective on
delivering software, and the BPM approach to looking at business
processes. We are witnessing a confluence of the service-oriented and
process-oriented approaches, as key elements of business processes get
executed by external (and often remote) services. The software
engineering questions relating to such integrated process- and
service-oriented need to fulfil the promise of making the software
development process flexible, agile, and understandable for business
people. There is a plethora of research issues on how such systems
might be modelled, designed, implemented and how their lifecycles
might be managed. This workshop seeks to systematize our understanding
of these issues, and build a community of like-minded researchers and
practitioners willing to collaborate on these issues.

TOPICS:

Process/Service:
*Modelling
*Description ( and standards thereof)
*Identification
*Design Methodologies (Granularity)
*Composition
*Semantics
*Publication
*Discovery
*Dynamic service binding
*Evolution and Versioning
*Realization from legacy systems
*Relation to Middleware and EAI
*Compliance management
*Project management
*Cost estimation
*Testing
*Lifecycle management
*Portfolio management
*Software Reuse
*Relation to Component Models

Software Engineering Topics for Interplay of SOA and BPM:
*Service Interfaces for BPM models
*Composite Applications
*Service Orchestration
*Adaptation in Business Processes
*Adaptive Services
*Process and Service Level QoS
*BPM/SOA and relation to EA formalisms
*Role of Rules in BPM/SOA
*Adoption of SOA/BPM approaches in legacy environments

Relation to existing software engineering approaches:
*SOA and MDA
*SOA and CORBA
*SOA, BPM and Agile methodologies
*BPM and Requirements Gathering

Implications of current and future standardization efforts.

Tool support.

Other service/process governance issues

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

Prof. Aditya Ghose
Director, Decision Systems Lab
School of IT and Computer Science
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522 Australia

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni
Web Services Centre of Excellence
Infosys SETLabs
Bangalore, India

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
*Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
*Alistair Barros, SAP Research, Australia
*Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
*Marlon Dumas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
*Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
*Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia (Workshop Co-chair)
*Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
*Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
*Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia
*Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys Technologies Ltd, India (Workshop Co-Chair)
*Jayakrishna Rao, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India
*Michael Rosemann, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia
*Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that
are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers
must be limited to double-column 6 pages and follow the formatting of
the IEEE CS Proceedings template
(ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip).
At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the
paper. A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops
(held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE Services Congress) will be
published by the IEEE Computer Society. Papers to be submitted by
email to srinivas_p at infosys.com or to aditya at uow.edu.au

DATES:
Deadline for submission of papers: April 4, 2007
Notification for acceptance: April 23, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready versions: May 1, 2007
Date of Workshop: July 9, 2007