4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
Chicago, USA, December 4-7, 2006
Themes and Objectives
Service oriented computing is an
emerging cross-disciplinary paradigm for distributed computing that is
changing the way software applications are designed, architected,
delivered and consumed. Services are autonomous, platform-independent
computational elements that can be described, published, discovered,
orchestrated and programmed using standard protocols to build networks of
collaborating applications distributed within and across organizational
boundaries. Web Services are the current most promising technology based
on the idea of service oriented computing. Web services provide the basis
for the development and execution of business processes that are
distributed over the network and available via standard interfaces and
protocols.
The 4th International Conference of Service Oriented
Computing (ICSOC'06) follows on the success of three previous editions in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2005), New York City, USA
(2004) and Trento, Italy (2003). ICSOC is
recognized as the main conference for service oriented computing
research, by covering the entire spectrum from theoretical and
foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and
industrial experiences. ICSOC'06 proposes several innovations to achieve
this goal.
The ICSOC '06 Challenge:
building new bridges to relevant communities and fostering
“cross-communities” scientific excellence: Service oriented computing brings
together ideas and technologies from many different fields in an evolutionary manner to address
research challenges such as
service composition, discovery, integration, monitoring and
management of services, service quality and security, methodologies for
supporting service development, governances in their evolution, as well
as their overall life-cycle management. ICSOC'06 is strengthening the
linkages to two important communities, Software Engineering and Grid Computing, with well known
thought leaders from these communities serving in important organizing
roles such as general chairs in shaping the conference. For many years, Software Engineering
has developed methodologies and technologies for managing life-cycle of
software components: requirement analysis, development, discovery,
version control, testing and deployment.
These methodologies are now being adopted in service life-cycle
management.
Similarly, Grid Computing is a vibrant community addressing
management of infrastructural resources by using a set of “Grid
Services” following the principles of service oriented
computing. Many of these services
are being standardized in the Global Grid Forum (GGF). ICSOC06 will serve
as a forum to exchange ideas and experiences with the Grid Community and
the SOA community at large in using service oriented computing.
Providing a more
Comprehensive Coverage of the research topics across the entire Service
Life-Cycle: With
the maturity of this conference, ICSOC06 will attempt to provide a
broader coverage of the research issues across the entire service
life-cycle. In order to provide a balanced coverage and equal emphasis on
all SOC topics, the topics are divided into six major areas. The area coordinators have the key role
of defining topics, reaching out to the scientific communities and
supporting the evaluation and selection of papers related to the diverse
communities
The four primary service life-cycle phases, modeling,
assembly, deployment, and management are represented by the following
three areas: Business Service Modeling, Service Assembly, Service
Deployment and Management. Additionally, the runtime architectural
issues will be covered by SOA Runtime, and Quality of Service
issues spanning all life-cycle stages, i.e., specification to autonomic
management will be covered by the Quality of Service area. Finally, the Grid Services area covers
application of service oriented computing in managing infrastructural
resources.
An Enhanced and Independent
Industrial Track with Participation from Key Industry Leaders: Service Oriented Computing is very
much a cross-disciplinary and applied science. Therefore, one of the main
goals of ICSOC is to bring the
academic and industrial research communities closer. This year we
introduce an independent track for industrial papers sharing valuable
hands-on experiences gathered by the
industrial community. The papers will highlight lessons learned,
analysis of technology gaps and outstanding technical issues, methodology
used in practice, noteworthy and innovative application scenarios, need
for new standardization and approaches to governance, and major improvements to the
state-of-practice.
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)
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