CALL FOR PAPERS IBM Ph.D. Symposium on Service-Oriented Computing Vienna, Austria September 17, 2007 http://infolab.uvt.nl/phd-icsoc07/ Following the past successes of the IBM Ph.D. Symposia in 2005 and 2006, the Third International IBM Ph.D. Symposium on Service-Oriented Computing will take place in Vienna, in conjunction with the International Conference in Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007). Objectives ------------ The ICSOC Ph.D. Symposium is focused on mentoring doctoral students who are close to finishing their dissertations. Participating students will present their work in front of a mock thesis committee of 4-5 senior researchers in the field who will act as mentors and will provide extensive feedback and advice for preparing a successful Ph.D. dissertation. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions about research careers in industry and academia during a panel discussion. The goals of the Symposium are to expose students to constructive criticism before their thesis defense, to serve as a networking opportunity with other students at a similar stage in their careers, and to provide guidance related to future career perspectives. Scope --------- The Symposium has a similar technical scope to ICSOC. We seek original papers in the field of service-oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the following: * Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, decomposition into business services, business processes, business policies, modeling, analysis, and simulation, specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements * Service Assembly: Development and discovery, model-driven development, service composition architectures, service registries, service discovery mechanisms, semantic matching, methods and tools for service development, governance, verification and validation, deployment strategies * Service Management: Instrumentation and service-related data aggregation, end-to-end measurement, analysis, modeling and capacity planning, definition of deployment topology, infrastructure configuration, problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, change management in live systems * SOA Runtime: Service bus for mediation, transformation and routing, runtime development and service registries, integration of legacy applications, information services for data access and data integration, scalability, topology and optimization, service-oriented middleware, policy based configuration & workload management * Quality of Service: Reliable service-oriented computing, security and privacy in service-oriented computing, SLA and policy specification, QoS negotiation, autonomic management of service levels, empirical studies and benchmarking of QoS, performance and dependability prediction in SOA * Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, data and compute intensive applications, execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, business-value based allocation, innovative strategies for creation and management of virtual enterprises and organizations, prototype systems and toolkits Submissions ------------- Each submission must have a Ph.D. student as the sole author. The student's research must be advanced enough to constitute a concrete research proposal with some preliminary results, and the student should be interested in receiving constructive feedback on his/her Ph.D. dissertation. Ideal participants are typically, but not exclusively, one year away from completing their theses. The submission should highlight the novel ideas of the author's Ph.D. dissertation. The author's contributions should be framed in the context of related work (previous approaches, relevant standards, etc.), emphasizing the deficiencies and limitations of the state-of-the-art, as well as the author's proposed strategies for addressing these issues. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Ph.D. Symposium technical program committee. The main evaluation criteria are: the maturity of the dissertation research, the quality of the research, the potential for impact, and the relevance to service-oriented computing. Submissions are strictly limited to six pages, following the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format from Springer-Verlag ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The proceedings of the workshop will be published online as an IBM research report and possibly in other online forums. Papers can be submitted online at http://infolab.uvt.nl/phd-icsoc07/. Travel Grants -------------- A limited number of travel grants will be awarded to students whose papers are accepted for the Symposium; the grant will cover part of the travel costs for the student to attend the Symposium. Details will be announced at the Symposium website. Keynote -------------- Dr. Paolo Traverso will deliver a keynote speech titled "Service-Oriented Computing from Design-Time to Run-Time: Some Research Challenges". The keynote will identify several open questions related to the shift to a service-oriented computing paradigm, providing many opportunities for high-impact Ph.D. research. Dr. Traverso is director of research at the Centro per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologica (IRST) in Trento, Italy, where he leads a division working on software and services, knowledge management and embedded systems. His career included positions in academia as well as in industry. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and he has been the General and Program Chair of ICSOC in 2004 and 2005. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: July 9, 2007 Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2007 Camera-ready submission deadline: August 26, 2007 Symposium: September 17, 2007 Symposium Organization * Andreas Hanemann (Leibniz Supercomputing Center, DE) * Benedikt Kratz (Tilburg University, NL) * Tudor Dumitras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Jyotishman Pathak (Iowa State University, USA) (Preliminary) Technical Program Committee * Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA) * Rik Eshuis (University of Eindhoven, NL) * Willem-Jan van den Heuvel (Tilburg University, NL) * Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, DE) * Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Elisabetta di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, IT) * Paolo Traverso (ITC/IRST, IT) * Petr Tuma (Charles University, Prague, CZ) (Preliminary) Mentoring Committee * Willem-Jan van den Heuvel (Tilburg University, NL) * Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Paolo Traverso (ITC/IRST, IT) * Petr Tuma (Charles University, Prague, CZ) -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak