Call for Participation: MESOA 3009 - 3rd International Workshop on Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems

Call for Participation 3rd International Workshop on Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems (MESOA 2009) September 21, 2009 Co-located with the 25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2009) Edmonton, AB Canada The workshop program is available at: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/workshops/mesoa/2009/ REGISTRATION FOR ICSM INCLUDES ALL WORKSHOPS. THERE IS NO EXTRA COST TO ATTEND WORKSHOPS. OVERVIEW There are many successful case studies of SOA adoption, mainly in commercial enterprises, where the main goal for SOA implementation is internal integration and business process improvement. Despite recent reports that "SOA is Dead", the reality is that SOA is currently the best option available for systems integration and leverage of legacy systems. According to a 2007 Gartner Group report, 50% of new mission-critical operational applications and business processes were designed in 2007 around SOA, and that number will be more than 80% by 2010. The technologies to implement SOA will most probably change over time, but the concepts will remain. This means that from a maintenance and evolution perspective there are two concerns: (1) deployed service-oriented systems will have to be maintained and evolved and (2) legacy systems will migrate to SOA environments to make their legacy functionality available to other systems and applications. The main goal of this workshop is to create a focal point and an ongoing forum for researchers and practitioners to share results and open issues in the area of maintenance and evolution of service-oriented systems. During MESOA 2007, topics such as service identification, concept location, and service testing were presented as techniques to support maintenance and evolution of service-oriented systems. In addition, the effect of business value and autonomic computing on maintenance and evolution of service-oriented systems were discussed. In MESOA 2008 the focus was on the research and advances in areas that have been identified by the SOA Research Agenda as critical for maintenance and evolution in a dynamic, heterogeneous and potentially distributed development and maintenance environment. The goal for MESOA 2009 is to continue sharing current efforts in the maintenance and evolution of service-oriented systems and identify areas of future work to address existing gaps and problems. - Session 1: Case Studies in Systems Migration to SOA Environments - Session 2: Tools for Migration to SOA Environments - Session 3: SOA Governance and Service-Oriented Systems Evolution - Session 4: Longer-Term Research Topics in Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems - Session 5: Panel: Challenges for Maintenance and Evolution of Deployed Service-Oriented Systems WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Grace Lewis, Software Engineering Institute, U.S.A. Ned Chapin, InfoSci Inc., USA Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Dennis Smith, Software Engineering Institute, U.S.A. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Liam O'Brien, National ICT, Australia Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Hausi Muller, University of Victoria, Canada Harry Sneed, ANECON GmbH, Austria Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA