Call for Papers

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) promise flexible process integration in heterogeneous environments. Existing SOA development approaches tend to focus on enterprise application integration scenarios rather than on business-to-business (B2B) scenarios, although due to the increasing heterogeneity of applications in an inter-organizational context, the most signicant benefits in terms of competitiveness and cost reduction can be expected from implementing SOAs for B2B integration. In such scenarios the processes involve both invoking business services provided by different organizations, e.g., in supply chain management and operation, and accessing horizontal shared services, e.g., run-time support for searching and selecting business services based on their SLAs in dynamic orchestration. Inter-organization orchestrations of business processes typically include the statement and enforcement of security and privacy policies involving selective encryption and signatures of data-in-transit. Key issues in this context are efficiency and interoperability of SOA systems, and especially the bearing of security mechanisms on this properties. This motivates a research effort for improving security and performance at the inter-organizationinterfaces of SOAs.

With this in mind, the target of this workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners that are engaged in all kinds of interoperability and efficiency issues related to SOA critical aspects, such as security, reliability and dependability. It is intended to be a forum for presenting and exchanging new ideas, discussing problems with existing specifications and exploring new fields in these areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Performance of Web Services security and dependability solutions
• Low-overhead security for Web Service compositions and business processes
• Streaming-based processing of Web Services data
• Efficient authentication and authorization for Web Services
• Cryptographic support for secure low-overhead Web-Service-based communication
• Software architectures for efficient SOA applications

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit regular papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages) of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Paper template in word format can be found at
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm
You can download the paper template in word format here.

Authors should submit a Word or PDF files using the online submission and review system available at the official workshop web site (to be published by 2/22). The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the SERVICES 2009 by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: March 16, 2009
Decision Notification (Electronic): no later than April 2, 2009
Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration: April 17, 2009

Organization

Workshop Co-chairs and Co-organizers

• Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
• Nils Gruschka, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
• Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  

Workshop Program Committee

• Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Antonia Azzini, University of Milan, Italy
• Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of Murcia, Spain
• Youakim Badr, INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne, Rhone-Alpes France
• Richard Chbeir, University de Bourgogne, France
• Sebastian Gajek, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Christian Geuer-Pollmann, Microsoft, Germany
• Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
• Luigi Lo Iacono, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
• Gabriel Lopez Millan, University of Murcia, Spain
• Ralph Herkenhoner, University of Passau, Germany
• Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
• Holger Junker, Federal Office for Information Security, Germany
• Stefania Marrara, University of Milan, Italy
• Fabio Martinelli, National Research Center (CNR), Italy
• Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
• Daniel Pahler, University of Koblenz-Lindau, Germany
• Seth Proctor, Sun Microsystems Labs, USA
• Jorg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Denis Trcek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA.