Call for paper

Service centric system engineering, in which software systems are constructed as compositions of services, has been recognised as an important approach for software system development. Recently, more and more software systems are being developed, deployed, and consumed in this way, shifting from the more traditional object-oriented and component computing approach. This new paradigm centres on the creation, discovery, and composition of autonomous services that can fulfil various functional and quality requirements. From a technological point of view, recent years have seen the emergence of important standards enabling the Service Centric vision; however, the engineering of complex and dependable service centric software still lacks powerful, effective methods and tools. The workshop encourages submissions on all topics related to service centric system engineering, including (but not limited to) the following:

Submission of proposals for live tool demonstrations are encouraged.

Workshop objectives

The workshop is intended to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of a wide range of topics related to the new paradigm of service centric software engineering. It will bring together researchers from projects funded by the FP6 EU research programme in the field of service oriented computing and other persons from academia and industry, as well as practitioners working in the areas of software system engineering and service-oriented computing to discuss future challenges, recent developments, applications, methods, techniques, experience reports, and tools to support the engineering and use of service centric systems.. The workshop will:

• enable a constructive interaction among EU projects on specific technical themes;
• provide an opportunity for EU projects to show the achieved results to a wider community;
• elicit the exchange of ideas between EU projects and other similar initiatives at the international level.

Paper submission

Participants are encouraged to submit demo descriptions or position papers on future challenges in the field. Both types of contributions will have to be 4-6 pages long in the two columns ACM format (MS Word and LaTeX templates are available at the URL http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), must be in PDF format, and submitted via the dedicated web-site (http://cyber.rcost.unisannio.it/~socinside/) All submitted contributions will be reviewed by three reviewers and will be evaluated based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Accepted contributions will be published in a European Commission report with ISBN number. The workshop proceedings will be distributed during the workshop.

Workshop format

The workshop will be organized around sessions each one focusing around a topic selected on the basis of the accepted contributions. Authors of accepted contributions will have 5 minutes each to present their position. The rest of the time will be used for discussion and identification of synergies/complementarities between the various approaches.

Important dates

• 07/07/2007 Submission deadline
• 06/08/2007 Notification of acceptance
• 17/08/2007 Camera ready copy

Organization

The workshop is promoted by the European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media, Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures unit, and by the SeCSE FP6 project.

Program chairs

Massimiliano Di Penta (Universita` del Sannio, Italy) 
Matteo Melideo (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy)

Organizing committee

Paolo Bresciani (European Commission, Belgium)
Vittorio Cortellessa (Universita` dell'Aquila, Italy)
Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Karl Goeschka (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Alessio Gugliotta (The Open University, United Kingdom)
Matteo Melideo (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy)
Anne-Marie Sassen (European Commission, Belgium)
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Program Committee

To be defined