Final CFP - WISS’10, 2nd ICDE Workshop on Information & Software as Services

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Second IEEE Workshop on Information & Software as Services (WISS'10) (Collocated with 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering in Long Beach, CA, USA) + Paper due: October 16, 2009 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Workshop web site: http://www.sap.com/china/about/ocs/en/wiss10/wiss10.htm Workshop date: March 1, 2010 (Monday) Workshop general chair: + Divyakant Agrawal (UC, Santa Barbara) agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu Workshop program co-chairs: + K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University) candan@asu.edu + Wen-Syan Li (SAP Technology Lab, China) wen-syan.li@sap.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Workshop Theme and Topics of Interest Following the success of WISS'09, the second IEEE Workshop on Information & Software as Services (WISS'10), co-located with ICDE 2010 conference, will focus on the challenges associated with the design, deployment, and management of information and software as a service. The high cost of creating and maintaining software and hardware infrastructures for delivering services to businesses has led to a notable trend toward the use of third-party service providers, which rent out network presence, computation power, and data storage space to clients with infrastructural needs. These third party service providers can act as data stores as well as entire software suites for improved availability and system scalability, reducing small & medium businesses' burden of managing complex infrastructures. This is called information/application outsourcing or software as a service (SaaS). Emergence of enabling technologies, such as J2EE, .Net, XML, virtual machines, and web services contribute to this trend. Scientific Grid computing, on-line software services and business service networks are typical examples exploiting database and software as service paradigm. While the financial incentives for the database and software as service deployments are obvious, convincing potential customers that outsourcing their data is a viable alternative to deploying complex infrastructures require research and technological advances in + Business model, pricing, regulation + Legal aspects of SaaS + Security and information assurance + SLA, QoS, and differential services + Service class guarantees + Service delivery and tracking + Database support for SaaS and multi-tenant databases + Dynamic service composition + Workflow modeling + Service deployment and provisioning + New architectural designs and middleware support + Caching and replication + Cloud computing as a service We also solicit papers describing real world applications and case studies. Publication: The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE digital library. In addition, the authors of the selected papers will be invited to contribute with extended versions of their papers to a book published by Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series - pending publisher approval. Submission Guidelines and Important Dates All submitted papers will be refereed for quality and originality by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on these review results. Manuscripts should be in English and must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE format. Submissions should include the title, author(s), authors' affiliations, e-mail addresses, tel/fax numbers, postal address, and an abstract on the first page. The full paper should be submitted via https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WISS2010 Important Dates: + Paper due: October 16, 2009 + Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2009 + Final camera version due: December 15, 2009 + Workshop date: March 1, 2010 Workshop format: In addition to technical paper presentations, the workshop will feature two invited keynote speakers and an invited talk session with three case studies followed by a brief panel discussion on these real world scenarios. PC members: + Gustavo Alonso (ETH, Zurich) + Huiping Cao (Arizona State University, USA) + Michael Carey (UC, Irvine, USA) + Bin Cui (Peking University, China) + Jinquan (Jason) Dai (Intel R&D AP, China) + Yoshinori Hara (Kyoto Univ., Grad. School of Management, Japan) + Howard Ho (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) + Dean Jacobs (SAP AG, Germany) + Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) + Ling Liu (Georgia Tech, USA) + Qiong Luo (HKUST, China) + L. Venkata Subramaniam (IBM India Research Laboratory, India) + Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Laboratory, India) + Tamer Ozsu (University of Waterloo, Canada) + Luis Rodrigues (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal) + Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University, China) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%