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COMPUTING, SOFTWARE, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS |
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31st Annual IEEE
International Computer Software and Applications Conference Beijing, July 23-27, 2OO7 |
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The First IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering For Services (REFS'07) |
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The First IEEE
International Workshop on in conjunction with IEEE COMPSAC 2007, Beijing, July 23-27, 2007 |
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MOTIVATIONS AND BACKGROUND |
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Service
orientation is rapidly emerging as the leading network computing paradigm (Comm.
ACM Oct 2003 special issue). At the same time, services have become the
dominant form of economic activity and increasingly the basis for
socio-economic organization. The commonalities and synergies among service
concepts across the levels of IT infrastructure and business and social
organization will lead to powerful innovations and new developments,
triggering a call to establish a new discipline of “Services Science,
Management, and Engineering (SSME)” (Comm. ACM July 2006 special issue). A
common feature of service orientation across all levels is the need to
understand and characterize what the customer wants, including
socio-technical constraints, and to design services that can meet those
requirements effectively. |
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CALL
FOR PAPERS |
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In recent years,
requirements engineering (RE) has emerged as a critical area in software and
systems engineering, as many systems fail due to poorly understood,
ill-defined, or ill-conceived requirements. Requirements engineering research
aims to advance concepts, frameworks, theories, and techniques for
identifying, expressing, analyzing, validating, communicating, and
negotiating requirements, which are then used to guide and drive system
design and implementation. Much of the same concepts and techniques could
potentially be applied to services, with the benefit of systematic methods
and scientific inquiry. However, service orientation introduces many new
challenges. Service providers and service users interact much more closely.
Knowledge is created and exchanged among customers and suppliers. Instead of
a single set of requirements on a technical system, there are networks of providers
and users, each with requirements and expectations on each other – some based
on tacit social conventions, and each with requirements on their technical IT
systems. Service design and operation often proceed in parallel, as new
knowledge and experiences are incorporated into service systems and processes
on an ongoing basis. Automated processes are richly interwoven with human
action, decision, and judgment. Some of the interactions will adhere to open
standards, while others may be informally negotiated. There are highly
dynamic on-the-fly network configurations as well as long-term stable
relationships. Will existing requirements engineering methods and techniques be suitable for a service oriented environment? What adaptations, extensions, or re-conceptualizations will be needed? Should there be distinctive requirements frameworks especially for services? How can requirements engineering contribute to a new discipline of services science, management, and engineering? Will service orientation lead to a rethinking of the field of requirements engineering? These are some of the key questions to be explored at this workshop. |
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SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS |
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The workshop
aims to provide a forum for a highly interactive and in-depth discussion of
all issues related to requirements engineering for services. An objective of
the workshop is to define a research agenda for the area based on the
discussions and contributions from participants. We invite contributions from
researchers and practitioners on a wide range of topics, including but not
limited to: n
Service requirements models
and descriptions n
Service requirements
identification, elicitation, and acquisition n
Service requirements
communication, negotiation, and validation n
Service requirements
analysis and design methods n
Service engineering and
management processes n
Knowledge engineering and
management for Services n
Service ontologies,
metrics, and benchmarks n
Service design, management
and manufacturing n
QoS modeling and evaluation
frameworks n
Trust, delegation, and
negotiation models for services n
Security, privacy, and
safety for services n
Services related architecture
– Web Service Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture n
Service enabling
technologies n
RE techniques for business
process redesign n
RE techniques for business
model and value analysis n
RE techniques for services
discovery and composition n
RE techniques for service
quality n
Conceptual modeling for
services management and engineering n
Empirical evaluation of RE
for services n
Conceptual frameworks for RE
and Services n
RE techniques for aligning
business services and computational services n
RE techniques for
Service-Oriented Computing & Service-Oriented Architecture n
RE techniques for adaptiveness and agility in services n
RE techniques for
socio-technical analysis and design of services n
Services and requirements
engineering for pervasive computing and ambient intelligence n
RE and SSME techniques for
user experience n
RE and SSME techniques for
lifecycle management |
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE |
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Marco Aiello, Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan Luciano Baresi, Polit. of Milano, Italy Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Boualem Benatallah, Chi-hung Chi, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo D'Andrea, Schahram Dustdar, David
Edmond, Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Xavier Franch, Universitat Polit“cnica de Catalunya, Spain Yanbo Han, Chinese Paul Johanesson, Manolis Koubarakis,
National and Kapodistrian Jaap Gordijn, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, PUC-Rio, Brazil Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Qiang Liu, Tsinghua University, China Xinsheng Mao, IBM China Development Lab, China Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Massimo Mecella, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy John Mylopoulos, Enrico Nardelli, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy George
Papadopoulos, Dimitris Plexousakis,
FORTH, Matei Ripeanu, Colette Rolland,
Pascal van Eck, Michael Weiss, Hongyu Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Andrea Zisman, |
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IMPORTANT DATES |
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Paper Abstract Submission: Feb
18, 2007 Full Paper Submission: Feb
25, 2007 Paper Notification: March
30, 2007 Camera Ready Paper Submission and Author
Registration: April 30, 2007 |
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PAPER SUBMISSION |
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Papers must be
submitted electronically via the REFS 2007Submission Page. Please follow the instructions posted on the web site. The
format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference
proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Papers will be accepted (and can be submitted) as either regular
papers, short papers, or fast abstracts. Acceptance and final category
depends on reviewer feedback. Contribution may include: ·
Full research papers (max 6 pages, IEEE format) ·
Short papers –
research-in-progress, industrial experience, problem description (max 4
pages) · Position papers – (max 2 pages) |
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PAPER PUBLICATION |
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Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC
2007). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register
as a full participant in the workshop to have the paper published in the
COMPSAC 2007 Proceedings. It should be noted that all IEEE COMPSAC conference
proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing
Services (CPS). All CPS Publications are captured in the online IEEE Digital
Library, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's
Engineering Information Index). The authors of a number of selected papers of special merit will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue in a Journal which is to be determined. |
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WORKSHOP LAYOUT |
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This one-day workshop will include Keynote(s),
presentation sessions, a moderated panel session, and open discussions on
relevant Requirements Engineering for Services topics. |
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION |
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WORKSHOP INFORMATION AND GENERAL INQUIRIES |
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Jian Xiang (xiangj05 [at] mails.tsinghua.edu.cn), Wei Qiao (qiaow05 [at] mails.tsinghua.edu.cn) |