International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)

Special Issue on "Engineering Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing"

Contact: em4soc@dedisys.org

Objectives of the Special Issue

Service Oriented Computing (SOC) plays a key role in today's middleware technology. Although the immediate need of middleware support for SOC is evident, current approaches and solutions still fall short of providing sufficient support for various issues, among others service discovery, re-use, re-purpose, multi-channel delivery, composition and aggregation, quality of service guarantees, dependability and security, management and monitoring.

Moreover, dramatic increases in the availability of mobile devices and embedded/networked sensors, and the rapid emergence of cloud computing and server virtualization (such as Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service) raise new challenges for the field.

Consequently, the goal of this special issue is to report on significant new developments within the field of middleware for Service Oriented Computing. We seek original research papers that report mature results and advances in this area. We also invite analytical review or survey articles that present in-depth views on the state-of-the-art middleware for SOC concepts, systems, trends and challenges.

Topics

Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Architectures and platforms for middleware for SOC
• Aspect-orientation in Web services middleware
• Autonomic computing solutions for Web services
• Best practices and patterns for Web services middleware
• Middleware for Cloud Computing, Grid/Utility Computing
• Middleware for discovery and/or selection of Web services
• Middleware for Web Service choreography/orchestration
• Middleware for Semantic Web-services
• Middleware for Web services in mobile, embedded, and ubiquitous/pervasive environments
• Monitoring and management middleware for Web services
• Negotiation middleware for Web services
• Policy-based middleware for Web services
• Quality of service middleware for Web services
• SLA and technical policy support through middleware
• Reputation and/or trust middleware for Web services
• Reliability, dependability, and fault-tolerance middleware for Web services
• Security and/or privacy middleware for Web services
• Service-oriented middleware

Important Dates

• Full manuscript due: Submission closed
• Notification of the review results: March 19, 2010
• Final manuscript due: April 9, 2010
• Publication date (tentative): 4th quarter of 2010

Guest Editors

• Karl Michael Göschka, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Helen Hye-young Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia (also associated with the University of New South Wales, Australia and the University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Review Board

• Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
• Mark Baker, Research in Motion, Canada
• Sami Bhiri, DERI, Ireland
• Siddhartha Bose, Motorola, India
• Paul Brebner, NICTA, Australia
• Babara Carminati, U. dell’Insubria - Como, Italy
• David Ruiz Cortés, U. de Sevilla, Spain
• Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Walid Gaaloul, Institut Telecom, France
• Harald C. Gall, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
• Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
• Chirine Ghedira, Univ. of Lyon I, France
• Xiaofeng Gong, Glasgow Caledonian U., UK
• Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
• Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF, Norway
• Yanbo Han, ICT Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Valérie Issarny, INRIA, France
• Marin Litoiu, IBM Toronto, Canada
• Mark Little, JBoss, USA
• Hanan Lutfiyya, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
• E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Research, USA
• Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, HP Labs, USA
• Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research, India
• Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Cesare Pautasso, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
• Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
• Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Claudia Raibulet, U. of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Florian Rosenberg, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
• Giovanni Russello, Create-Net, Italy
• Riccardo Scandariato, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Bruno Schulze, National Lab for Scientific Computing, Brazil
• Halvard Skogsrud, Thoughtworks, UK
• Yazhe Tang, Xi’an Jiaotong U., China
• Farouk Toumani, U. Blaise Pascal, France
• Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, UK
• Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway
• Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada
• George Yee, National Research Council of Canada/Carleton U., Canada
• Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State U., USA
• Liming Zhu, NICTA, Australia

Submission Guidelines

For the final submissions, please adhere closely to the IGI Global Journal Development Resources in particular to the "IGI Journal Final Submission Guidelines", your final version should be 5500 to 8000 words long.

For questions and further information about this special journal issue, please contact the editors at em4soc@dedisys.org

International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Published by: IGI Global, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
New in 2010; Published: Quarterly