The 6th IEEE International Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Service-oriented Systems (SEASS'12)

Workshop Theme: Engineering Adaptive Service Oriented Solutions for Domain Specific Systems

One day between June 24-29 2012, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, within IEEE SERVICES 2012

Description

Service computing has become the principle of building Internet-based programmable applications. The feature of services using standard interface descriptions makes services universally available via uniform communication protocol. Disparate applications and systems can be integrated as services. This significantly promotes service computing widely adopted by variety of domains such as health cares, government services, and scientific systems.
The complexity and scale of composite service oriented systems is increasing rapidly and often involve not only a large number of parties but also intensive data sets communicated between services. The computing and data intensity of services leads to increasing adoption of cloud platforms as the infrastructure to deploy services. For example, service oriented architecture has been applied to compose scientific workflows running on extremely large datasets on cloud platforms. The In the cloud environment, a service can elastically scale up and down its demands on computing resources and pay for its meter-based usage. In such an environment, services are becoming commodities. Meeting users' expectation on reliability, availability and fast service responsiveness is key to gain the values of services. Adaptation is an enabling mechanism to achieve this goal. For example, detecting and even predict abnormal behaviours at runtime can certainly help to prevent degrading quality of services.

These impose challenges for adaptive service systems at their design, development and deployment stage. In the previous series of this workshop, the papers have broadly addressed the issues from the aspects of individual adaptive software architectures, adaptive service level agreement and versioning, development and testing processes for adaptive systems.

In the 6th edition of this workshop we aim to deeply identify the future research challenges in engineering adaptation into ever evolving service systems in different domains. The aim of SEASS 2012 is to encourage academic researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss all adaptability-related research and experiences in a very broad spectrum of service oriented computing. Special interests are on papers addressing adaptive solutions to bridge service oriented computing and domain specific systems.

Selected top papers will be invited to a special issue of International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE).

List of topics

Engineering adaptation in domain specific applications, such as scientific workflows, control systems, mobile applications and mission critical systems
Adaptation in computing environments of cloud computing, grid computing and mobile networks
Frameworks for compose adaptive solutions
Adaptive software ecosystems
Software architecture support for enhancing SOA adaptability, including standards and protocols proposal or extension for dynamic collaborations among services
Accountability of services, including mechanisms, algorithms and methods to monitoring, analysing and reporting service status and usage profile
Capacity planning of services in multi-tenancy service hosting environment
Security and trustworthy in multi-tenancy service hosting environment
Web services for data intensive computing
Patterns, best practices and experience report adaptive cloud applications
Automated deployment and configuration of services (on cloud)
Adaptive business process, service deployment process
Testing, configuration and deployment for adaptive service management
Business process analysis and design for adaptation

Important dates
Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 15, 2012
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 20, 2012
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2012

Paper submission
Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). All papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system
First time users need to register with the system first. All the accepted papers by the workshops will be included in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE 2012 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2012) which will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
Workshop chairs
Jenny Yan Liu, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , USA. Yan.liu@pnnl.gov
Shiping Chen, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, Shiping.chen@csiro.au
Liming Zhu, Senior Researcher, NICTA (National ICT Australia) and University of New South Wales, liming.zhu@nicta.com.au
Ian Gorton, Associate Division Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , USA, Ian.gorton@pnnl.gov

Program committee (TBD)
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Lorenz Froihofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs, USA
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
Pat Martin, Queens University, Canada
Chen Wang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China
Liangzhao Zeng, IBM Research, USA
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Hong-Mei Chen, University of Hawaii , USA
Xiaoying Bai, Tshinghua Univeristy, China
Suronapee Phoomvuthisarn, Mahanakorn University of Technology,Thailand
Hossein Siadat, Politecnico di Milano, Italy