Call for Papers: Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop (mda4soa'08)

[Ilona Zaremba]

***Apologies for multiple postings***

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Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures 
Workshop; 3rd edition (mda4soa'08)
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==== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 13 June 2008 ====


http://events.deri.at/mda4soa2008/

co-located with the 12th Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2008)

17 September 2008, München , Germany


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 Architecture s (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.

The focus of the workshop is broader than, but includes, the OMG MDA 
(Model Driven Architecture)
approach for service oriented architectures. MDA was for the first 
international workshop,
mda4soa'06, used as short for Modeling, Design and Analysis.

The 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 architecture
    * MDA (OMG Model Driven Architecture) for service-oriented architectures
    * DSL (Domain Specific Languages) for 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
    * quality of services (QoS) analysis and modelling in 
service-oriented architectures
    * services level agreements (SLAs) modelling and negotiation in 
service-oriented architectures
    * 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
    * models for governance in service-oriented architectures
    * specifications and models for service-oriented architectures: Web 
services, Grid services, Semantic Web Services, and e-Services
    * standards for modeling, specification, design and analysis of 
service-oriented architectures
    * tools, environments and factories for modelling, design and 
analysis of 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 EDOC 2008 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/conferences/?conf=MDA4SOA2007.

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
    * Paper submission deadline: 13 June 2008
    * Paper acceptance notification: 18 July 2008
    * Camera ready of papers: 28 July 2008
    * Workshops day: 17 September 2008

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jim Amsden, IBM, USA
Michael Bell, Methodologies Corporation, USA
Arne J. Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Dumitru Roman, Semantic Technologies Institute, Austria

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
Ali Arsanjani, IBM, USA
Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria
Thomas Erl, SOA Systems Inc., Canada
Jeffrey A. Estefan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Juan Miguel Gómez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Roy Grønmo, SINTEF, Norway
Sung-Kook Han, Wonkwang University, South Korea
Martin Henkel, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Martin Hepp, STI Innsbruck, Austria
Rania Khalaf, IBM, USA
Jacek Kopecký, STI Innsbruck, Austria
Ken Laskey, MITRE, USA
Yen-Jen Lee, Google, USA
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Francis McCabe, Fujitsu Laboratories of America Limited, USA
Barry Norton, Open University, UK
Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Extremadura, Spain
Stefano de Panfilis, Engineering, Italy
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI, Ireland
Anne-Marie Sassen, EU Commission, Belgium
Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck, Austria
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, NKUA, Greece
Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA
Andrea Zisman, City University, UK