- From: Knud Hinnerk Möller <knud.moeller@deri.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:14:02 +0100
- To: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
(apologies for multiple postings) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on User-generated Services (UGS 2009) co-located with the 7th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC2009) and ServiceWave2009 Stockholm, Sweden, November 23rd or 24th, 2009 (to be decided) Papers due: 6th September 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Goal: Service-oriented architectures (SOA) have transformed the way software systems are being developed. However, the development of services is still service-centric rather than user-centric. The reuse and combination of such services requires the assistance of a skilled developer. The workshop aims to explore research and development which will empower end-users to participate in the generation, combination and adaption of services to create functionality and solve problems in their work - what we user-generated services. Background: User-generated content (UGC) has become a major source of information on the World-Wide Web. Wikis, blogs, web-based user forums and social networks have empowered end-users to collaboratively create content and share it. UGC is not only a phenomenon in the private domain but has become a major source for technical solutions as exemplified by search results of technical problems in Google: solutions are increasingly found in sites providing UGC. Thus end-users have become a major source of knowledge, similarly leveraging the “resources at the edge of the network” as P2P systems have done on a technical level. The next logical step is that after supporting the creation and management of data, the same should be done at the level of services created and provided by end-users, i.e., “User-generated Services” (UGS). UGS can be cover a range of services, from ad-hoc, situational applications for personal use to more advanced enterprise mash-ups supporting a community of users. In order to facilitate UGS, tools and infrastructures to create, combine, reuse and execute possibly complex services in an easy manner are needed. There is a range of issues that have to be addressed in order to realise the vision of user-generated services: service front-ends that support new ways of visualising and interacting with services have to be explored; questions of modelling end-users, who can range from naive users to power users, come into play, as well as modelling user behaviour and user context; automatic and semi-automatic methods for service composition are relevant, in order to lower the learning curve and technological threshold that users need to overcome for the creation of services. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry, covering the different fields that are relevant for user-generated services, such as service oriented computing, semantics, human computer interaction and software design. The workshop will foster an exchange of ideas to further the state of the art in the field, share and define new ideas and practical experiences in designing, creating, deploying and using user- centric services, establishing new methodologies, techniques and graphical interfaces. The findings aim to facilitate and attract non- technical users to create and use electronic services, which architectural models would be the most adequate, and how for example semantics can play a role in designing and creating them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest (not limited to) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Methodology and Conceptualisation - Techniques to facilitate the creation of services by end-users - User-centric software development methodologies - Methodologies to accommodate different kinds of end-users (naive, power user, ...) - Architectures and Platforms - Platforms and middleware to facilitate the connection of back-end services and service front-ends - Architectures for service front-ends - Indexing and cataloguing of services - Deployment of services - Easy service composition - End-user Interfaces and Service Front-ends - Intuitive visual tools to manipulate and combine service components - Interface metaphors to hide and abstract service complexity from non-technical users - Different patterns for user-service interaction - Interfaces to enable service and resource mashups - Exposing existing back-end services to end-users - Studies dealing with usability of Service Front-ends - Context and Behaviour - Taxonomies and Ontologies describing user context - Context-based personalisation of services and tools - Context-based service search - Behaviour-aware service recommendation - Service design - Methods to dynamically reuse and personalise services - Integration and composition of services - Piping/wiring of services - Automisation - (semi-)automatic service oriented application development - (semi-)automatic composition of services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite full paper submissions, as well as posters and demos. Papers must consist of original, unpublished research and must not be under review by another conference, journal, or workshop. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to present their work at the workshop (in presentations of ca. 20 minutes). The focus of UGS is user-centric, so we also encourage posters and demos of running applications. Posters and Demos should describe prototypical implementations of systems related to the workshop topics. Accepted submissions will be presented in a separate poster/demo session. Format requirements for the submission of papers are: Maximum 15 pages, including title page and bibliography for full papers. Maximum 5 pages, including title page and bibliography for short papers. Accepted full papers will be included in the workshop post- proceedings, which are planned to be published in the Springer Verlag Services Science book series. Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including all references and figures. All papers must be prepared in the Springer LNCS format. Metadata about all papers, including title, abstract, authors and author affilitions, will also be made available publicly at http://data.semanticweb.org Camera-ready copies will be required about 2 to 3 months after the conference. Authors will therefore have the possibility to improve and rework their papers on the basis of comments made during the workshop presentation. Complete submission instructions can be found on the workshop Web site at http://fast.morfeo-project.eu/workshops/ugs2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 06, 2009 Submission deadline September 27, 2009 Acceptance notification October 15, 2009 End of early-bird registration period for ICSOC November 23 or 24, 2009 Workshop (decision for exact date is pending) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organising Committee (alphabetically) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria Manfred Hauswirth, DERI/NUIG, Ireland Juan José (Juanjo) Hierro, Telefonica I+D, Spain Javier Soriano, UPM, Spain Florian Urmetzer, SAP, Switzerland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Administrative Chairs (alphabetically) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Knud Möller, DERI/NUIG, Ireland Ismael Rivera, DERI/NUIG, Ireland UGS2009 is supported by the European FAST Project (FP7 216048). ------------------------------------------------- Knud Möller, MA +353 - 91 - 495086 Smile Group: http://smile.deri.ie Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Institiúid Taighde na Fiontraíochta Digití Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh
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