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Second International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition |
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In conjunction with December 4th 2006, Chicago, USA | |
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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 we invite papers that address 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.