Middleware for Service Oriented Computing5th MW4SOC Workshop of the11th International Middleware Conference 2010 Previous years: | 4th MW4SOC 2009 3rd MW4SOC 2008 2nd MW4SOC 2007 1st MW4SOC 2006 | |||
http://2010.middleware-conference.org/ November 29 – December 3, 2010 Bangalore, India |
The initial visionary promise of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) was a world of cooperating services being loosely coupled to flexibly create dynamic business processes and agile applications that may span organisations and heterogeneous computing platforms but can nevertheless adapt quickly and autonomously to changes of requirements or context. Today, the influence of SOC goes far beyond the initial concepts of the original disciplines that spawned it. Many would argue that areas like business process modelling and management, Web2.0-style applications, data as a service, and even cloud computing emerge mainly due to the shift in paradigm towards SOC. Nevertheless, there is still a strong need to merge technology with an understanding of business processes and organizational structures.
While the immediate need of middleware support for SOC is evident, current approaches and solutions still fall short by primarily providing support for only the intra-enterprise aspect of SOC and do not sufficiently address issues such as service discovery, re-use, re-purpose, composition and aggregation support, service management, monitoring, and deployment and maintenance of large-scale heterogeneous infrastructures and applications. Moreover, quality properties (in particular dependability and security) need to be addressed not only by interfacing and communication standards, but also in terms of actual architectures, mechanisms, protocols, and algorithms. Challenges are the administrative heterogeneity, the loose coupling between coarse-grained operations and long-running interactions, high dynamicity, and the required flexibility during run-time. Recently, massive-scale and mobility were added to the challenges for Middleware for SOC.
These considerations also lead to the question to what extent service-orientation at the middleware layer itself is beneficial (or not). Recently emerging "Infrastructure as a Service" and "Platform as a Service" offerings, from providers like Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, or from the open source community, support this trend towards cloud computing which provides corresponding services that can be purchased and consumed over the Internet. However, providing end-to-end properties and addressing cross-cutting concerns like dependability, security, and performance in cross-organizational SOC is a particular challenge and the limits and benefits thereof have still to be investigated.
The workshop consequently welcomes contributions on how specifically service oriented middleware can address the above challenges, to what extent it has to be service oriented by itself, and in particular how quality properties are supported.
The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress, problem statements, and visionary papers! The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
Karl M. Göschka (chair)Topics of Interest
Workshop Co-chairs
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 664 180 6946
Fax: +43 664 188 6275
Karl dot Goeschka (at) tuwien dot ac dot at
Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 58801 18414
Fax: +43 58801 18491
Dustdar (at) infosys dot tuwien dot ac dot at
Frank Leymann
University of Stuttgart
Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Universitätsstraße 38
D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 7816-470
Fax: +49 711 7816-472
Frank dot Leymann (at) informatik dot uni-stuttgart dot de
Helen Paik
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Services Engineering Group
University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 Australia
hpaik (at) cse.unsw.edu.au
NICTA, Managing Complexity Research Group
Locked Bag 9013, Alexandria
NSW 1435, Australia
vladat (at) computer.org
Lorenz Froihofer
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Information Systems
Distributed Systems Group
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 58801 18417
fax: +43 1 58801 18491
mw4soc@dedisys.org
This workshop has its own ISBN and will be included in the ACM digital library.
The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Alternate Style.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to
facilitate a double-blind review. For your convenience, we have defined a \selfcite{myref} Latex command for self-references.
Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than six pages.
Please apply the ACM Computing Classification categories and terms.
The template provides space for this indexing. The ACM Computing Classification scheme can be found at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/#.
The author kit containing the Latex templates for the required style can be found here:
mw4soc10_author_kit.zip.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the submission site.
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: mw4soc@dedisys.org
