Second Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Software Systems (SEASS 2008)

Web services have been driving service-oriented architecture (SOA) that promises not only a new paradigm for B2B collaboration, but also an opportunity for the creation of value-added services and new business models. While SOA presents a harmonious and exciting picture for enterprise applications, a verity of classical and emerging challenges raise as deploying and operating SOA in the real dynamic environment, such as how to atomically discover and binding to a ‘right’ service; how to automatically negotiate a SLA among a group of collaborative services; how to check/resolve policy conflictions between these services; how to handle exceptions of long-running transactions across loosely coupling services etc. All of these challenges share a similar requirement for web services: building adaptability in web services so that they can adapt themselves to accommodate the heterogeneity of interface and QoS, resolve the conflictions and handle the fault in a dynamic environment at runtime.

In SEASS 2008, we want to bring together academic researchers and industry parishioners to present and discuss all adaptability-related research and experiences especially within SOA and web services domains. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Software architecture support for enhancing SOA adaptability, including
• Standards and protocols proposal or extension for dynamic collaborations among services
• Requirement analysis for adaptation in SOA
• Negotiation protocols for SLA and dynamic service binding
• Policy definition, confliction checking and resolving and enforcement at runtime
• Testing, configuration and deployment for adaptive service management
• Patterns, best practices and experience report in adaptation development for a class of web service applications
• Adaptive service development process
• Adaptive service engineering

Building adaptability into software systems including web services is under the grand vision of autonomic computing, which is now being covered in more and more top international conferences on software engineering and systems, including:

• International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
• ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware)
• The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
• The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
• The IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC)

This workshop complements the above conferences and workshops with the focus on exploring the connections between web services and adaptive software systems research.

1 day workshop, approximately 6~8 accepted papers into 2 sessions. Potentially a keynote speaker is to be invited from leading research organisations, such as IBM Research and/or Microsoft Research. Poster sessions and discussion panels may be used depending on the overall time schedule, and the number and quality of submissions.

• Submission deadline: May 30th, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2008
• Camera-ready copy: July 15th, 2008

Dr. Shiping Chen is a senior research scientist of CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of New South Wales, Master in Computer System Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Harbin University of Technology China. From 1985 to 1999, he worked on real-time control, parallel computing and CORBA-based Internet gaming systems in research institutes and IT industry. Since joining in CSIRO in 1999, he has worked on a number of middleware-related research and consultant projects. He published over 30 research papers in the above research areas on ICSE, CBSE, JSS etc. and co-authored a numbers of middleware-related technical at Cutter Consortium. He has been actively involved in research community services as a conferences/workshop organiser (Middlware2006 and SEASS2007) and PC member (CBSE2007, ICSOFT2007, ICCBSS2007, SPEC2008, SCC2008, ICWS2008). His current research interests include web services and SOA, data storage and trust computing.

Prof. Ian Gorton is a Senior Research Scientist in Computational and Information Sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he plays a role of the Chief Architect for PNNL’s Data Intensive Computing Initiative. Until July 2006, he led the software architecture R&D at National ICT Australia (NICTA) in Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He has organized several HICSS minitracks, and is Program Chair of CBSE 2006, WICSA 2007 and SEASS 2007. His interests include software architectures and component technologies.

Dr. Yan Liu is a researcher in NICTA’s Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) research program. She obtained her PhD degree from University of Sydney in 2004. Her research interests include software architecture, adaptive middleware systems, software performance engineering, and model driven development. She has published her research in international journals and conferences including TSE, JSS, WICSA, CBSE, and OOPSLA. She has been involved in organizing three international workshops including HICSS 40, Middleware 2006, ISPA 2006 and SEASS 2007.

Dr. Liming Zhu is a researcher at National ICT Australia. He practiced extensively in software technology industry before pursuing his PHD. His current research mainly involves model and architecture driven development, process engineering and service engineering. He has published his MDD research in international journals and conferences such as ICSE, OOPSLA and WICSA. He also developed innovative MDD tools, such as MDABench and authored book chapters on MDA. His research interests include software architectures, model driven approaches, component and service technologies. He has experience in leading the organization for international workshops including HICSS 40 and Middleware 2006.