[ Apologies for multiple copies of this message ] ICSOC 2006: Call for Papers ---------------------------------------- The 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing December 4-7 2006, Chicago Submission deadline: June 12 Detailed info: http://www.icsoc.org Important dates: Workshop proposal submission: May 30, 2006 Paper abstract submission: June 12, 11:59pm, PST Full paper submission: June 19, 11:59pm, PST Tutorial and panel submission: July 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance: September 12, 2006 Final manuscript due: September 25, 2006 Workshops: December 4, 2006 Main conference (includes tutorials): December 5-7, 2006 --------------------------- ICSOC'06 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, Decomposition into business services, Business processes, Business policies, Modeling, analysis, and simulation, Specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements; Service Assembly: Development and Discovery: Model-driven development, Service composition architectures, Service registries, Service discovery mechanisms, Semantic matching, Methods and tools for service development, Governance, Verification and validation, Deployment strategies; Service Management: Instrumentation and service related data aggregation, end-to-end Measurement, Analysis, Modeling and Capacity planning, Definition of deployment topology, Infrastructure configuration, Problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, Change management in live systems. SOA Runtime: Service Bus for mediation, transformation and routing, Runtime registry, Integration of legacy applications, Information services for data access and data integration, Scalability, Topology and Optimization, Service oriented middleware, Policy based configuration & Workload management Quality of Service: Reliable Service-Oriented Computing, Security and Privacy in Service-Oriented Computing, SLA and Policy specification, QoS Negotiation, Autonomic management of service levels, Empirical Studies and Benchmarking of QoS, Performance and Dependability prediction in SOA; Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, Data and Compute intensive applications, Execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, Protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, Business value based allocation, Innovative Strategies for Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations, Prototype systems and Toolkits. ---------------------------- General Chairs: Ian Foster (The University of Chicago) Carlo Ghezzi (Politechnico di Milano) Program Chairs: Asit Dan (IBM) Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University) Industrial Track Chairs: Robert Johnson (IBM) Jeff Mischkinsky (Oracle) Workshop Coordination: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Telcordia) Norbert Ritter (Hamburg University) Tutorial Chairs: Frank Leymann (Univ. of Stuttgart) Heiko Ludwig (IBM) Local Arrangements Chair: Julie Wulf (Univa Corporation) Financial Chair: Vincenzo D'andrea (Univ. of Trento) Registration Chair: Martin Swany (Univ. of Delaware) Publicity Chair: Matei Ripeanu (Univ. of British Columbia) Publication Chair: Boualem Benatallah (UNSW) Area Coorfinators: Service Modeling: Wolfgang Emmerich (UC London) Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam) Service Assembly: Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University) Service Management: Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano) Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) SOA Runtime: Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University) Steve Vinoski (Iona) Quality of Service: Priya Narasimhan (CMU) Jim Pruyne (HP) Grid Services: Dennis Gannon (Indiana University) Paul Watson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Steering Committee: Fabio Casati (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA) Paco Curbera (IBM Research, USA) Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Nederland) Paolo Traverso (ITC-IRST, Italy)