[aosd-announce] Workshop on Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing

[Thomas Ledoux]

IEEE International Workshop on
Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing (MNPSC)

in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Services Computing 
(SCC 2008)

http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/mnpsc/

July 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii
(This workshop will take place in one day of July 8 to 11.)

Workshop's Aim
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In services computing, it is critical to better identify, specify, 
implement and manage non-functional properties separately from 
functional properties. Well-managed separation/synthesis of functional 
and non-functional properties can significantly improve reusability, 
maintainability, composability and performance of service-oriented 
applications. This workshop aims providing an opportunity for both 
academic researchers and industry practitioners to present, discuss and 
access the state of the art and practice of engineering non-functional 
properties in services computing.

Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all 
non-functional aspects in services computing are welcome.

Topics of Interest
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* Individual non-functional properties/requirements (e.g., security, 
fault tolerance, messaging, reliability, availability, service 
discovery, service orchestration/composition, data integration and data 
retention) in various (enterprise to embedded) service-oriented 
applications.
* Methodologies to map non-functional requirements and properties
* Non-functional properties/requirements in requirements engineering and 
business process engineering
* Architecture description languages, service description languages, 
modeling languages and domain-specific languages for non-functional 
properties/requirements
* Object-oriented and aspect-oriented techniques for non-functional 
properties
* Model-driven engineering for non-functional properties/requirements
* Software development process and non-functional properties/requirements
* QoS monitoring/provisioning and service level agreements for 
non-functional properties/requirements
* Regulatory compliance and non-functional properties/requirements
* Ontology frameworks for non-functional properties/requirements
* Middleware support for non-functional properties/requirements
* Tool support to separate/synthesize functional and non-functional 
properties
* Theoretical foundations/tools for non-functional properties/requirements
* Industrial experience and standardization on non-functional 
properties/requirements

Important Dates
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Abstract due: March 7
Paper due: March 14
Notification: April 4
Camera ready due: April 18

Paper Submissions and Presentations
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that 
are not longer than 8 pages with 10pt or 11pt font. Please follow the 
IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare 
your papers. Email your abstract and paper to both program chairs with 
the subject line of "IEEE MNPSC."
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the 
workshop and present the paper.

All accepted papers will be published in the SCC 2008 proceedings as an 
IEEE publication.

Best Papers and Book Chapter Promotion
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This workshop will select best papers. With substantial extensions, they 
will be promoted to chapters of a book in the "Advanced Web Services 
Research and Practices" book series (IGI Publishing).

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Jun Suzuki
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Boston
jxs at cs . umb . edu

Katsuya Oba
OGIS International, Inc.
oba at ogis-international . com

Technical Program Committee (Not final yet)
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* Antonio Ruiz Cortés, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
* Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
* Eduardo Fernandez-Medina, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
* Motohisa Funbashi, Hitachi Systems Development Laboratory, Japan
* Daniel Kerkow, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software 
Engineering, Germany
* Thomas Ledoux, Ecole des Mines de Nantes and INRIA, France
* Hiroshi Miyazaki, Fujitsu, Japan
* Nirmal Mukhi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab, USA
* Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, USA
* Ileana Ober, Université Paul Sabatier, France
* Christopher Pavlovski, IBM, Australia
* Stephan Steglich, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
* Said Tabet, Inferware/Rule ML Initiative, USA
* Shingo Takada, Keio University, Japan
* Akira Tanaka, Hitachi, Japan
* Changzhou Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA
* Liming Zhu, National ICT Australia, Australia
* Steffen Zschaler, Technical University of Dresden, Germany