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              C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N

   2nd INT. WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE ORIENTED APPLICATIONS:
                  DESIGN AND COMPOSITION (WESOA'06)

   In conjunction with the 4th Int. Conference on Service Oriented
             Computing (ICSOC 2006) http://www.icsoc.org/

                  Chicago, USA, December 4th, 2006

             WESOA Workshop Website with detailed program
         soa06/" target="_blank">http://fresco-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesoa06/

 OBJECTIVES
 ==========

 With the growing acceptance of service-oriented computing and
 increasing number of large-scale Web Services projects there is an
 urgent need for the research community and industry practitioners to
 combine in an effort to develop comprehensive methodologies that
 support the entire life-cycle of service oriented applications. To
 ensure that the resulting services are stable, reusable and
 extendable such methodologies must be based on sound engineering
 principles and guide the developers through the analysis, design,
 implementation and deployment phases of services life-cycle.

 A key challenge that needs to be addressed involves the unification
 of service design and composition methods. Service -oriented design
 needs to determine what constitutes a service component and decide
 about the appropriate level of service granularity. It is equally
 important to correctly define the assembly of complex composite
 services over multiple levels of abstraction, and to use these
 aggregated services to construct application systems. The current
 lack of agreement about basic principles that should guide service
 design and composition makes it difficult for comprehensive service
 life-cycle methodologies to emerge.

 Both service design and service composition are active research
 areas at present. However, the two problem areas overlap and can
 benefit from interchange of ideas and unification of approaches. To
 reflect on dependencies and synergies between service design and
 service composition the WESOA'06 workshop combines two successful
 previous ICSOC 2005 workshops: those on "Design of Service
 -Oriented Applications" (WDSOA'05) and on "Engineering
 Service Compositions" (WESC'05), focusing on unified design and
 composition methods for reusable service components.

 WESOA'06 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses
 the challenges of service design and composition in the context of
 domains such as travel, financial services, government, education,
 and virtual organizations. A key objective of the WESOA'06 workshop
 is to bring together researchers and practitioners and provide a
 platform for exchange of ideas about issues concerning service life
 -cycle with specific focus on design and composition of services.

 TOPICS
 ======

 WESOA'06 focuses on topics related to design and composition
 aspects of engineering service-oriented applications, including but
 not limited to those listed below:

• Engineering methods supporting service-oriented development life - cycle
• Service assembly, composition and aggregation models and languages
• Engineering methods for design of reusable and composable services
• Design by visual and textual specification of service structures
• Adapting existing software engineering methods, e.g. MDA, AOP, Test-Driven development for service-oriented applications
• SOA architectural styles and standards
• Contract and policy design for service components and compositions
• Choreography and orchestration design
• Quality assurance and evaluation methods for complex service- oriented applications
• Tools support for service-oriented design and composition
• Web Service design and development case studies and best practice

 KEYNOTE
 =======

• Rebecca Parsons, Vice President Global Innovation, ThoughtWorks, Inc.

 VENUE
 =====

 Hilton Chicago Hotel
 720 S. Michigan Avenue
 Chicago, Illinois 60605 USA

 REGISTRATION
 ============

 Please register at http://www.icsoc.org/

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 =================

• Marco Aiello, University of Trento, Italy
• Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS, France
• Andrew Blair, Biz Integration, Australia
• Paul Brebner, CSIRO Canberra, Australia
• Mark Cameron, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
• Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
• Vincenzo D'andrea, University of Trento, Italy
• Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Wolfgang Emmerich, University College London, United Kingdom
• Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel
• George Feuerlicht, Sydney University of Technology, Australia
• Howard Foster, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Paul Greenfield, CSIRO, Australia
• Roy Gronmo, SINTEF ICT, Norway
• John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Manfred Hauswirth, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Juan Hernandez, University of Extremadura, Spain
• Cai Hong, IBM China Research Lab, China
• Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Mark Little, Arjuna, USA
• Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
• E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma LA SAPIENZA, Italy
• Harald Meyer, HPI Potsdam, Germany
• Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Josef Noll, Telenor R&D, Norway
• Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Extremadura, Spain
• Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• Greg Pavlik, Oracle, USA
• Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer Society, Germany
• Colette Rolland, University of Paris, France
• Dumitru Roman, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
• Subbu N. Subramanian, Tavant Technologies, USA
• Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• Jim, Webber ThoughtWorks, Australia
• Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Christian Zirpins, University College London, United Kingdom

 ORGANISING COMMITTEE
 ====================

  Jen-Yao Chung
  IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA

  Wolfgang Emmerich
  University College London, UK

  George Feuerlicht
  University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  Winfried Lamersdorf
  University of Hamburg, Germany

  Guadalupe Ortiz
  University of Extremadura, Spain

  Christian Zirpins
  University College London, UK

 If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on:
 wesoa06 <at> cs.ucl.ac.uk

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