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ACM SAC 2010
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For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been
a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers,
software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2010
is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP),
and is hosted by University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
and Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
SOAP Track: call for papers
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Although when considered from a purely technological point of view
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is not an enormous novelty, , when considered
from a programming paradigm perspective it is quickly changing our vision of
the Web. Originally, the Web was indeed mainly seen as a mean of presenting the
information to a wide spectrum of people, but SOC is triggering a radical shift
to a vision of the Web as a computational fabric where loosely coupled services
interact publishing their interfaces inside dedicated repositories, where they
can be searched by other services, retrieved and invoked, always abstracting
from the actual implementation. In the context of this modern paradigm we have
to cope with an old challenge, like in the early days of Object-Oriented
Programming when, until key features like encapsulation, inheritance, and
polymorphism, and proper design methodologies were defined, consistency in the
programming model definition was not achieved. The complex scenario of Service
Oriented Programming needs to be clarified on many aspects, both from the
engineering and from the foundational point of view.
>From the engineering point of view, there are open issues at many levels.
>Among others, at the system design level, both traditional approaches based on
>UML and approaches taking inspiration from business process modelling, e.g.
>BPMN, are used. At the composition level, although WS-BPEL is a de-facto
>industrial standard, other approaches are appearing, and both the
>orchestration and choreography views have their supporters. At the description
>and discovery level there are two separate communities pushing respectively
>the semantic approach (ontologies, OWL, ...) and the syntactic one (WSDL,
>...). In particular, the role of discovery engines and protocols is not clear.
>In this respect we still lack adopted standards: UDDI looked to be a good
>candidate, but it is no longer pushed by the main corporations, and its wide
>adoption seems difficult. Furthermore, a new different implementation
>platform, the so-called REST services, is emerging and competing with classic
>Web Services. Finally, features like Quality of Service, security and
>dependability need to be taken seriously into account, and this investigation
>should lead to standard proposals.
>From the foundational point of view, formalists have discussed widely in the
>last years, and many attempts to use formal methods for specification and
>verification in this setting have been made. Session correlation, service
>types, contract theories and communication patterns are only a few examples of
>the aspects that have been investigated. Moreover, several formal models based
>upon automata, Petri nets and algebraic approaches have been developed.
>However most of these approaches concentrated only on a few features of
>Service Oriented Systems in isolation, and a comprehensive approach is still
>far from being achieved.
The Service Oriented Architectures and Programming track aims at bringing
together, for the second year, researchers and practitioners having the common
objective of transforming Service Oriented Programming into a mature discipline
with both solid scientific foundations and software engineering development
methodologies supported by dedicated tools. In particular, we will encourage
works and discussions about what Service Oriented Programming still needs in
order to achieve its original goal, along with works proposing comparisons
among different models and technological solutions.
Major topics of interest will include:
Formal Methods for specification of Web Services Notations and models for
Service Oriented Computing Methodologies for Service Oriented application
design Tools for service oriented application design Service Oriented
Middlewares Service Oriented Programming languages Test methodologies for
Service Oriented applications Analysis techniques and tools Service systems
performance analysis Industrial deployment of tools and methodologies Standards
for Service Oriented Programming Service application case studies Dependability
and Web Services Quality of Service Security Issues in Service Oriented
Computing Comparisons between different approaches to Services Statement papers
about future possible directions for research Exception Handling in composition
languages Trust and Web Services
Important Dates (strict)
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September 8, 2009: Paper submissions
October 19, 2009: Author notification
November 2, 2009: Camera-Ready Copy
March 22-26, 2010: Conference
Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers using the eCMS site :
http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. Authors are
allowed up to 8 pages but with more than 5 pages in the final camera ready,
there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. Peer groups with expertise in
the track focus area will blindly review submissions. Accepted papers will be
published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be
found on SAC 2010 Website:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/
The author(s) name(s) and address(s) must NOT appear in the body of the
submitted paper, and self-references should be in the third person. (this is to
facilitate blind review required by ACM). All submitted papers must include the
paper identification number on the front page, above the title of the paper
provided to you by the eCMS when you register your paper.
PC Members
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Cristian Aflori, Ditech.RO & "Gh.Asachi" Technical University (Romania)
Roberto Bruni, Università di Pisa (Italy)
Michael Butler, University of Southampton (UK)
Ralph Deters, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, (Austria)
Nickolas Kavantzas, ORACLE (USA)
Reicko Heckel, University of Leicester (UK)
Michael Leuschel, University of Dusseldorf (Germany)
Roberto Lucchi, JRC (Italy)
Francisco Martins, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Hernàn Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Nicola Mezzetti, Di.Tech (Italy)
Fabrizio Montesi, italianaSoftware s.r.l. (Italy)
Luca Padovani, Università di Urbino (Italy)
Andreas Roth, SAP (Germany)
Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
Stefan Tilkov, innoQ (Germany)
Martin Wirsing, University of Muenchen (Germany)
Track Chairs
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Claudio Guidi
cguidi @ cs.unibo.it
Polo Scientifico e didattico di Cesena, University of Bologna
Ivan Lanese
lanese @ cs.unibo.it
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Bologna
Manuel Mazzara
manuel.mazzara @ newcastle.ac.uk
School of Computing Science, Newcastle university, UK
