Deadline extension: April 18 - mda4soa'07; 2nd edition

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==== EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 18, 2007 ====


Call for Submissions
(Submissions deadline : April 18, 2007)

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Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures
Workshop; 2nd edition
(mda4soa'07)
http://events.deri.at/mda4soa2007/

co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conferences on
Services Computing (SCC 2007) and Web Services (ICWS 2007)

July 13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, 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.

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 ICWS/SCC 2007 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/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

Submissions (extended): April 18, 2007
Acceptance: April 25, 2007
Final copy: May 1, 2007
Workshops day: July 13, 2007



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Arne J. Berre (SINTEF, Norway)
Cory Casanave (Model Driven Solutions, USA)
Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Jian Yang (Macquaire University, Australia)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan
Ali Arsanjani, IBM, USA
Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria
Pautasso Cesare, IBM Zurich Research Lab, 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
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Barry Norton, Open University, UK
Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Extremadura, Spain
Stefano de Panfilis, Engineering, Italy
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Brahmananda Sapkota, DERI, Ireland
Anne-Marie Sassen, EU Commission, Belgium
Ioan Toma, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, NKUA, Greece
Weider Yu, San Jose State University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA

Received on Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:52:36 UTC