1st Workshop on Software Services

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WoSS intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners, and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current trends and scientific and technological challenges in software services. 1st WoSS is organized in the frame of SYNASC Symposium.

What	Workshops on Software Services
When	Sep 23, 2010 04:00 PM to Sep 25, 2010 04:00 PM
Where	Room: 045C, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Contact Name	Dana Petcu
Contact Phone	+40-745-405523
Attendees	Researchers involved in software services
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WoSS

1st Workshop on Software Services: Frameworks and Platforms

organized as satellite workshop of SYNASC symposium

Timisoara, September 23-25, 2010

Aim

The goal of the series of Workshops on Software Services (WoSS) is to present and discuss the recent significant developments in the field of software services.
WoSS intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners, and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current trends and scientific and technological challenges, such as service quality assurance, adaptability, reliability, interoperability, and automating service-oriented application construction and management.

The first three editions (September 2010, June 2011 and September 2011) are organized with the support of the FP7-ICT SPRERS project, with the aim to highlight the achievements of the on-going European collaborative projects subscribing to FP7-ICT programme and the activities of the teams from new member states in software services.

The first edition is dedicated to Platforms and Frameworks.

Topics

frameworks for software services;
platforms for software services;
service oriented computing;
cloud computing;
software service life-cycle;
dynamic discovery, matching and composition of services;
formation and management of virtual organisations;
semantic interoperability of software services;
service-based autonomic computing;
trust, security and privacy in software services;
quality of services and non-functional aspects;
negotiation and service-level agreement;
socio-cultural factors influencing software service business models.

Proceedings

Post-proceedings available through IEEE Computer Press portal.

Extended papers published in the SCPE vol 12, no. 1 from March 2011.

Paper submission, publication and fees

Authors should submit draft papers using IEEE style through SYNASC submission portal. The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
Accepted and presented paper will be published in the conference proceedings to appear in December 2010 ( Conference Publishing Service (CPS)) and will be included in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue from March 2011 of the Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience journal.

Conference fees are those applied for SYNASC 2010 main track.

Important dates:

Paper submissions (EXTENDED): June 30th, 2010

Notifications: August 15th, 2010

Application for SPRERS support (participants from new member states of EC): August 23th, 2010

Workshop participation: September 23-25, 2010

Post-proceeding publication: December 31th, 2010

Extended versions of selected papers in a journal: March 10th, 2011

Programme committee

Program chairs:

Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Program Committee:

   Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
   Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Andrej Brodnik, University of Primorska, Slovenia
   Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
   Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
   Ladislav Hluchý, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
   Zsolt Nemeth, SZTAKI - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
   Ignacio Llorente, Complutese University of Madrid, Spain
   Beniamino di Martino, Second University of Napoli, Italy
   Cezary Mazurek, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland
   John P. Morrison, University of Cork, Ireland
   Tomás Pitner, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
   Florian Rosenberg, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
   Ioan Salomie, Tehnical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
   Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
   Mircea Trifu, Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany
   Dominik Zyskowski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Support for new member states participants from European community

The participants to the workshop from new member states, authors of accepted papers of the workshop, are entitled to apply for the reimbursement of the travel, accommodation and conference fees.
Applications should be send to the contact point of the workshop and should contain a curriculum vitae and a list of publications.

The New Member States of EC are: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.