Submissions
ICSOC’06 seeks original papers in the field of service
oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to
empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences,
with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open
research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service
oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the
following:
Business
Service Modeling: Methods and tools for
capturing business goals and requirements, Decomposition into business services, Business processes, Business policies, Modeling, analysis, and simulation, Specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements;
Service Assembly: Development and Discovery: Model-driven development, Service composition
architectures, Service registries, Service discovery mechanisms,
Semantic matching, Methods and tools for service
development, Governance, Verification and validation, Deployment strategies;
Service
Management: Instrumentation and
service related data aggregation, end-to-end Measurement, Analysis, Modeling and Capacity planning, Definition
of deployment topology,
Infrastructure configuration, Problem determination for SOAs, ITIL
processes, Change management in live systems.
SOA Runtime: Service Bus for mediation, transformation and routing, Runtime registry, Integration of legacy applications, Information
services for data access and data integration, Scalability, Topology and Optimization, Service oriented middleware, Policy based configuration &
Workload management
Quality of Service: Reliable Service-Oriented Computing, Security
and Privacy in Service-Oriented Computing, SLA and Policy specification,
QoS Negotiation, Autonomic management of service levels, Empirical Studies and Benchmarking of QoS, Performance and Dependability prediction in SOA;
Grid
Services: Services and
architecture for management of infrastructural resources, Data and
Compute intensive applications, Execution and resource allocation
services for job scheduling, Protocols for coordination across multiple
resource managers, Business value based allocation, Innovative Strategies for Creation
and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations, Prototype systems and Toolkits.
Research and Industry Tracks
There will be two independent tracks for
Research and Industrial papers, each managed by a different program
committee and with a different set of evaluation criteria. The authors
must clearly indicate the track to which the paper is being submitted.
·
Research Papers: The conference is soliciting
original research papers on all aspects of web services and
service-oriented computing. The submissions should contain results which
advance the state of the art in service oriented systems, either through
theoretical analysis or experimental analysis. They should clearly
establish the research contribution, the relevance to service-oriented
computing and the relation to prior research. Submitted papers will be
judged according to their scientific merits and evaluated on
significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. See below
for submission details.
·
Industrial and Application Papers: ICSOC’06 places a strong emphasis
on its industrial program and
encourages submissions covering the application of service-oriented
computing in practice, including papers describing innovative
service-based implementations, novel applications of service oriented
technology, and major improvements to the state-of-practice. Actual case
studies from practitioners emphasizing applications, service technology,
system deployment, organizational ramifications, or business impact are
especially welcomed. Industrial and application papers should give
sufficient details on the application domain, on the service oriented
techniques that have been used, on the issues surrounding actual
implementations and applications, and on the lessons learned in
developing service oriented applications.
The papers submitted to this track can range from a few page
extended abstract to a full paper. The track will also include a small
number of invited visionary papers.
Formatting requirements: All papers should be submitted
electronically in PDF and in Springer/LNCS format. Research and
industrial papers are not to exceed 12 pages. Abstracts for research and
application papers - not exceeding 200 words - need to be submitted one
week prior to the paper submission deadline. All submissions should
include title, authors, full contact information, and references.
Submissions should indicate at least two main topics and the scientific
area (or areas) that best fit the paper. For
selected papers, authors will be given the opportunity to submit a one-page
reply, within one week, to answer to the reviewers' concerns. This is done in the effort to
improve the paper selection process and make sure that papers are not
rejected based on some misunderstanding or erroneous interpretation by
the reviewers that is easy to correct in preparing the final version. All
accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC’06 archival proceedings,
published by Springer, and must be formally presented at the conference,
through oral presentations, and possibly through demonstrations.
ICSOC’06 solicits the
submissions of proposals for Workshops and Tutorials:
Workshop Proposal Submissions: ICSOC’06 solicits the
submission of workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. We
strongly encourage workshops on key research challenges that can
contribute to the main two goals of ICSOC’06: “cross the
boundaries among different scientific communities and cross the
boundaries among industry and research”, by opening the possibility
to participants to discuss and compare their approaches to problems of
common interest. Workshop proposals should not exceed five pages, and
should include a description of the workshop topic and the issues on
which the workshop will focus, the motivation of why the workshop is of
interest at this time, a description of the workshop format, the workshop
duration, brief bios of the organizers, and a list of potential
attendees. A one page abstract of the workshop must also be included, to
be incorporated into the conference proceedings. Proposals should be
submitted electronically to the Workshop Chair. Workshop proceedings will
be made available to the participants attending the workshops.
Tutorial Proposal Submissions: The ICSOC conference solicits the submission of high
quality tutorial proposals on any of the conference topics. Tutorial
proposals should not exceed 5 pages, and should include enough material
to describe the subjects being covered, the level of depth, as well as a
description of the teaching methodology (lectures, hands-on sessions,
etc.). Since the accepted tutorials will be part of the main conference,
topics of interest to a wider audience, covering Standardization, SOA
methodology and Comprehensive application of SOA to an important problem
area will be given a preference. Proposals should also indicate the
required background knowledge of the intended audience, the tutorial
length (1 hour 45 minutes), as well as the name, contact information, and
short bios of the speakers. A one page abstract of the tutorial must also
be included, to be incorporated into the conference proceedings.
Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Tutorial Chair.
Tutorial notes will be made available to the tutorial participants.
Conference Proceedings: The ICSCOC'06 proceedings will be
published by Springer Verlag in its LNCS series.
Journal publication for best papers:
Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be considered for publication (after additional refereeing). There will be three special issues in high-profile scientific journals:
- Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (World Scientific)
- Journal of Digital Libraries (Springer Verlag)
- ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM)
