CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing:
Consequences for Engineering Requirements (SOCCER 2005)

http://www.lsi.upc.edu/events/soccer

13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2005
http://conferences.computer.org/RE/

August 30th, 2005
Paris, France

The service-oriented approach is becoming more and more popular
to integrate highly heterogeneous systems. Web services are the
natural evolution of conventional middleware technologies to
support Web-based and enterprise-level integration, but the paradigm
can also serve as basis for other classes of systems. To realize
a service-oriented architecture we need techniques to identify and
specify requirements on services in a machine-interpretable way
to enable the dynamic composition and deployment of systems
that meet the expectations of the different stakeholders.
We need new capabilities to monitor the behavior of deployed
systems and reasoning on partial matches, deviations, and corrective
actions. We need to integrate service-oriented architectures with
existing component- and COTS-based architectures that deliver
capabilities not suited to services. And finally, we need to be
able to exploit the availability of services to discover new
opportunities that improve existing requirements processes and
techniques.

GOALS

The workshop intends to provide an opportunity for the communities
that work on requirements and service-oriented applications to meet
and share their knowledge to set appropriate theoretical foundations,
define special-purpose methodologies for requirements specification,
and develop supporting technology.


SCOPE

All topics listed here are not intended in their general formulation,
but must be slanted towards service-oriented applications. Areas
of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- Languages, models and methodologies for requirements
   elicitation and specification
- Quality assessment
- Discovering services that comply with requirements specifications
- New service-based requirements processes and techniques
- Requirements validation
- Run-time monitoring of system requirements and Quality of Service
   (QoS)
- Requirements for context-aware systems
- Requirements for adaptivity and adaptability
- Requirements for ambient computing
- Requirements for QoS
- Requirements for multi-channel applications
- Security requirements
- Service-level agreement
- Requirements-based testing


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers can be submitted to the workshop using the standard IEEE format
(see http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). Submissions should be
preceded by a front page including title, authors and a 150-word
abstract, and should identify the author responsible for correspondence.

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee members to
ensure high quality and relevance. Papers must be unpublished and
submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format to baresi@elet.polimi.it.

RESEARCH PAPERS AND EXPERIENCE REPORTS should be
original work, limited to 5,000 (research) or
2,000 (experience) words in IEEE CS format.
Papers must not have been previously published
nor have been submitted to, or be in
consideration for, any journal, book, or
conference. Acceptance criteria will be adequacy
to the topics of the workshop, technical
soundness and potential for generating discussion.

POSITION PAPERS may not exceed 2,000 words in
IEEE CS format. The aim of a position paper is to
contribute a specific position to a research
discussion. Position papers are judged on
novelty, sensibility of the viewpoint, key
insights, and relevant research results. Radical
and unconventional ideas are welcomed.

Authors are requested to present their accepted paper at the workshop.
Publication of extended versions of selected papers in a special issue
of an international journal is currently under consideration.

The final form of accepted submissions will be made available on the
workshop web-site for pre-workshop dissemination and post-workshop
reference.


IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission Date: June 13, 2005
* Acceptance/rejection: July 18, 2005
* Camera-ready Copy: August 1, 2005


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Luciano Baresi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy (baresi@elet.polimi.it)

Xavier Franch (contact person)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Catalunya, Spain
(franch@lsi.upc.es)

Neil Maiden
City University London - UK (N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE.
- Stefano de Panfilis, Engineering, Italy
- Carine Courbis, University College London, UK
- Steve Fickas, University of Oregon, USA
- Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Paul Grünbacher, Univ. of Linz, Austria
- Manfred Hauswirth, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
   Switzerland
- George Spanoudakis, City Univ. London, UK
- Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Andrea Zisman, City Univ. London, UK