SOA Industry Summit

Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that seeks to create a set of business-aligned IT services that collectively support an organization’s business processes and goals. As a cross discipline, this alignment of business and IT addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively.

This 5th industry summit on SOA is intended to bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models that are supported by them, with an emerging suite of ground-breaking technologies that includes SOA, business process modeling, integration and management, grid/utility/autonomic and cloud computing, enterprise service bus and Web 2.0. The relative placement of these emerging technologies, standards and concepts need to be clarified for the pragmatic needs of the industry.
 

Theme

The SOAIS event is focused on industry practitioners who work on real-world systems, applying the SOA principles, standards, technologies, tools, protocols, solutions and management. These practitioners had exhibited the ability to combine multiple technologies, standards and initiatives within the SOA world in order to create a viable and pragmatic solution that has successfully been demonstrated to solve problems.  In addition to best practices or, in the case of an emerging discipline, adequate practices that have proven successful are needed.  In addition warning examples of how not to apply projects are also welcome because they provide a venue and context for avoiding common pitfalls in the combination off SOA resources that are often confusing to practitioners in the field.

In consideration of the value of the time of such practitioners in writing a full-length paper, particularly for the people in the industry sectors, SOAIS 2009 is proposing a new format for paper submission. In place of the requirements of 8-page long research papers, we encourage the professionals and practitioners in the industry sectors to submit a 2-page abstract consisting of experience reports.

It is recommended that a presentation document is attached with the abstract. Experience reports are expected to provide and describe new insights gained in the context of case studies or the application of SOA in practice.

These papers will be evaluated on their relevance and significance to industries and the clarity of expression. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be included in the IEEE digital library and Engineering Index (EI) database.

Categories of Industries

The industry sectors include, but are not limited to:

  - Public Sector

* Defense and Domestic Security: Homeland Security, border control, registered traveler and other domestic security initiatives, as well as total asset visibility for armed services.
* Justice and Public Safety: integrated justice, law enforcement, courts, and corrections.
* Health and Human Services: Medicaid, human services and benefits for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations including children, the elderly and the poor.
* Citizens Services: motor vehicles departments and electronic voting solutions.

- Financial Services
* Banking and Mortgage
* Enterprise Payments
* Life and Pensions
* Property and Casualty/General Insurance
* Investment Management
* Credit card
* Loan

- Communications
* Networking
* Messaging
* Broadband
* Prepaid
* OSS/BSS

- Transportation
* Passenger Services
* Airports
* Logistics
* Weather Information Services

- Consumer and Industrial Products
* Life Sciences
* Consumer Products and Retail
* Industrial Products

- Healthcare

- Manufacturing

- Electronics

 
Call for contributions

The technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  Foundations of Services Computing

• Services Science
• Services Modeling and Implementation
• Services Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance
• Services Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
• Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks
• Services-based Grid/Utility/Autonomic Computing
• Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
• Services Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
• Services Security, Privacy and Trust
• Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
• Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
• Case Studies in Services Computing


Services-Centric Business Models
• Business Services Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
• Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities
• Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Services Control
• Services Revenue Models, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and Fee-for-Service.
• Services Strategic Alliance and Partners
• Services Network Economic Structures and Effects
• Ontology and Business Services Rules
• Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models
• Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business Models
• Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies
• Industry Services Solution Patterns
• Case Studies in Services-Centric Business Models

  Business Process Integration and Management

• Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, Integration and Management
• Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
• Business Process Management
• Collaborative Business Processes   
• Extended business collaboration architecture and solutions
• Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
• Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management
• Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Integration and Management
• Security, Privacy and Trust in Business Process Management
• Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management
• Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
• Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
• Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management

Service-Oriented Enterprise

• Implementation of Web Services-based Service Oriented Architecture
• Service-oriented Modeling (analysis and design for SOA)
• SOA governance and IT strategy
• Web Services Standards and Implementation Technologies
• Web Services Specifications and Enhancements (e.g., UDDI, SOAP, WSDL)
• Web Services Discovery
• Web Services Composition and Integration
• Web Services Invocation
• QoS for Web Services (e.g., security, privacy, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, etc.)
• Web Services Assessment (i.e., validation & verification)
• Web Services-based Testing Methodologies
• Service-oriented Software Engineering
• Service-oriented Project Management
• Semantic Web Services
• IT Infrastructure Management for Web Services
• Solution Management for Web Services
• Multimedia Web Services
• Web Services-driven Business Process Management
• Web Services-based Mobile Computing
• Web Services-based Grid Applications
• Domain Specific Web Services Applications and Solutions

Venue

Part of SERVICES 2010, SOAIS 2010 will be co-located in Miami, Florida, USA with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services Computing (ICWS 2010), the 7th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), and the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010).


Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due Date:  See submission page.
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 12, 2010
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due:  April 30, 2010

Inquiry

Contact Tony Shan (tonycshan AT gmail.com)

Paper submission

Please use the 2010 SOA Industry Summit  Paper Submission and Review System to submit your paper to SOAIS 2010 at SERVICES 2010.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to ICWS 2010, SCC 2010, CLOUD 2010, and other tracks of SERVICES 2010 simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from all conferences without review.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 2 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings Formatting Information page. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at www.servicescongress.org. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper.