SAC 2009 SOAP

CALL FOR PAPERS

  SOAP: Service Oriented Architectures and Programming Track
  
   
       http://www.cs.unibo.it/acmsac2009-soap

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  24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009)
         Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa
           Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
                  March 8-12, 2009
        http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009

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For the past twenty-three years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by University of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu.

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                      SOAP Track

Service Oriented Systems were born with the aim of building large adaptive applications as compositions of loosely-coupled services. Nowadays, in the context of Services we have to cope with a challenge like in the early days of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) when, until key features like encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, and proper design methodologies were defined, consistency in the programming model definition was not achieved. The complex scenario of Service Oriented Programming needs to be clarified on many aspects, both from the engineering and from the foundational point of view.

>From the engineering point of view, there are open issues at many levels. Among the others, at the system design level, both traditional approaches based on UML and approaches taking inspiration from business process modelling, e.g. BPMN, are used. At the composition level, although WS-BPEL is a de-facto industrial standard, other approaches are appearing, and both the orchestration and choreography views have their supporters. At the description and discovery level there are two separate communities pushing respectively the semantic approach (e.g. OWL) and the syntactic one (e.g. WSDL). Especially, the role of discovery engines and protocols is not clear. In this respect we still lack adopted standards: a good candidate looked to be UDDI, but it is no longer pushed by the main corporations, and its wide adoption seems difficult. Furthermore, a new different implementation platform, the so-called REST services, is emerging and competing with classic Web Services. Finally, features like Quality of Service, security and dependability need to be taken seriously into account, and this investigation should lead to standard proposals.

>From the foundational point of view, formalists have discussed widely in the last years, and many attempts at using formal methods for specification and verification in this setting have been made. Session correlation, service types, contract theories and communication patterns are only few examples of the aspects that have been investigated. Moreover, several formal models based upon automata, Petri nets and algebraic approaches have been developed. However most of these approaches concentrated only on a few features of Service Oriented Systems in isolation, and a comprehensive approach is still far from being achieved.

Service Oriented Architectures and Programming track aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners having the common objective of transforming Service Oriented Programming into a mature discipline with both solid scientific foundations and software engineering development methodologies supported by dedicated tools. In particular, we will encourage works and discussions about what Service Oriented Architectures and Programming still needs in order to achieve its original goal, along with works proposing comparisons among different models and technological solutions.

Major topics of interest will include:

   * Approaches to Web Services specification
   * Formal methods and models for Service Oriented Computing
   * Methodologies for Service Oriented application design
   * Tools for service oriented application design
   * Service Oriented middlewares
   * Service Oriented languages
   * Test methodologies for Service Oriented applications
   * Analysis techniques and tools
   * Service systems performance analysis
   * Industrial deployment of tools and methodologies
   * Standards for Service Oriented Architectures and Programming
   * Service applications case studies
   * Dependable Services
   * Quality of Service
   * Security Issues in Service Oriented Computing
   * Comparisons between different approaches to Services
   * Statement papers about future possible directions for research

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                      Important Dates

   * August 23, 2008: Paper submissions (strict)
   * October 11, 2008: Author notification
   * October 25, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy
   * March 8-12, 2009: Conference 

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                        Submissions

   * Papers must follow the template reported at this 
     http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm 

   * The author(s) name(s) and address(s) must NOT appear in the
     body of the submitted paper, and self-references should be 
     in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review 
     required by ACM. All submitted papers must include the paper 
     identification number on the front page, above the title of 
     the paper provided to you by the eCMS when you register 
     your paper.

   * Submit your paper in electronic format by using the 
     eCMS site: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/

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                        PC Members

   * Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
   * Roberto Bruni, Universit? di Pisa, Italy
   * Reicko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
   * Kohei Honda, Queen Mary & Westfield College of London, UK
   * Nickolas Kavantzas, Oracle, USA
   * Nora Koch, LMU and Cirquent GmbH, Germany
   * Roberto Lucchi, European Commission - Joint Research Centre (Italy)
   * Li MA, IBM China Research Lab, China
   * Jing Mei, IBM China Research Lab, China
   * Hernan Melgratti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
   * Greg Meredith, Biosimilarity LLC, USA
   * Fabrizio Montesi, italianaSoftware s.r.l., Italy
   * Martin Wirsing, LMU, Germany
   * Gianluigi Zavattaro, Universit? di Bologna, Italy

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                      Track Chairs

   * Claudio Guidi
     cguidi @ cs.unibo.it
     Polo Scientifico e didattico di Cesena, University of Bologna, Italy

   * Ivan Lanese
     lanese @ cs.unibo.it
     Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Bologna, Italy

   * Manuel Mazzara
     manuel.mazzara @ newcastle.ac.uk
     School of Computing Science, Newcastle university, UK