IEEE CEC 2005

Service-oriented solutions are the most significant revolution in software engineering over the last few years. Services are realized by encapsulated software components. Their interfaces are self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services. An orchestrated set of services provide a powerful software system realizing machine-to-machine interactions over a network. Due to their nature service-oriented solutions address two key issues in today's software development: interoperability and portability.

The base standards for realizing service-oriented architectures have reached a mature level. As a result Web Services are more and more implemented in real world scenarios. However, most of these scenarios are still implemented within the scope of a single organization. Although service-oriented architectures promise to provide solutions beyond the boundaries of a single organization, implementations that span over multiple organizations are rather low.

This workshop concentrates on all facets of service-oriented solutions that support the co-operation between organizations (enterprises as well as public administration). By co-operation we understand both business processes supporting the design, creation, etc. of a product/service as well as business processes along a supply chain. A business process might be executed by two ("binary collaboration") or multiple partners ("multi-party collaboration"). Furthermore, a business process might span over one or more phases: information phase, negotiation phase, execution phase, and after sales phase. The choreography of a business process might not only be fixed at design time, but also dynamically be agreed upon during runtime. We are seeking approaches to requirements engineering, analysis & design, implementation, and maintenance of service-oriented solutions for business collaborations. Any aspects of describing, registering and (dynamically) binding complex services for business collaborations are welcome. Approaches might address the choreography of processes, the data handling between services, business collaboration-specific messaging, quality of service, etc.

relevant topics are but not limited to:

• Quality of Service negotiation
  
• implementation of Quality of Service
  
• handling different message formats
  
• trust within cooperations
  
• evolution and versioning of cooperations
  
• run-time model and life-cycles of cooperations
  
• establishment of cooperations
  
• privacy and non-repudiation wihtin cooperations
  
• service discovery above bilateral cooperations
  
• service discovery beyond UDDI
  
• distributed process management
  
• maintenance of cooperations
  
• operational models for cooperations
  
• distributed requirements engineering
  
• distributed long-running transactions
  
• transactions vs Quality of Service
  
  

• Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology
  
• Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
  
• Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau
  
• Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  
• Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG
  
• Peter Fankhauser, Fraunhofer IPSI
  
• Chris Bussler, (DERI), National University of Ireland
  
• William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University
  
• Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University
  
• Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
  
• Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan
  
• Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg
  
• Roger Tagg, University of South Australia
  
• Claus von Riegen, SAP AG, Germany
  
• Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany
  
• Klaus-Dieter Naujok, Global e-Business Advisory Council
  
• Roel Wieringa, University of Twente
  
• Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna
  
• Gunther Stuhec, SAP AG
  
• Jan Dietz, University of Technology Delft
  
• Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI