Special Issue on Software Services and Service-Based Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Special Issue on SOFTWARE SERVICES AND SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE Guest Editors: Carlo Ghezzi - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Klaus Pohl - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Abstract submission deadline: 01 NOVEMBER 2009 (extended) Paper submission deadline: 17 NOVEMBER 2009 (extended) Website: http://www.s-cube-network.eu/tse NOTE: Abstract submission by 01 November 2009 is MADATORY TOPICS OF INTEREST The special issue aims at providing a comprehensive view of the different software engineering approaches investigated by current research on software services and service-based systems. Submitted articles can range from theoretical foundations to empirical studies. In any case, a validation of the proposed approaches is required. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Adaptation and evolution, including human in the loop adaptation and self-adaptation - Business-process alignment - Capturing and analyzing context - Composition and orchestration of software services - Design and architecture of software services and service-based systems - Infrastructure and middleware support - Life-cycle models and processes for service-based systems - Monitoring, testing and verification of services and service-based systems - Negotiation and service-level agreements - Quality assurance of service-based systems - Requirements engineering for services and service-based systems - Service quality modelling BACKGROUND The service-oriented paradigm is emerging as a new way to engineer systems that are composed of and exposed as services for use through standardized protocols. Service-based systems are pushing traditional software engineering problems - such as requirements, specification, distribution, componentization, composition, verification, and evolution - to their extreme. Different stakeholders, with diverse and possibly conflicting goals are involved: Clients may use or compose existing services for their own benefit. Service integrators may compose third-party services to provide new, added-value services. Service providers develop, deploy, manage, and evolve software services for a marketplace. When a service is exposed, a specification of its functional and quality properties is made available to allow other parties to search, discover, negotiate, use, and bind them dynamically. Service-based systems can be seen as a radical evolution from traditional component-based systems. They are made out of services, which are autonomous parts that may evolve at runtime and that are independently conceived and developed by different stakeholders. Service-based systems must be able to cope with this and other kinds of changes such as changes in the requirements, in business processes, in the context or in the services they rely on. Moreover, they should offer a variety of strategies to cope with changes ranging from self-adaptation to human in the loop adaptation Extreme flexibility and continuous change may conflict with dependability. Most traditional software engineering approaches understand quality assurance as a development-time concern. Service-based systems require that quality assurance is extended over the entire lifetime of a system, including runtime, when it is operational and providing service. For example, it is necessary to monitor a running system and its context, and check whether it continues to fulfil its requirements, after an adaptation of the system has occurred or a new or even different service has been included in the system. SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be e-mailed to the guest editors at carlo.ghezzi@polimi.it and klaus.pohl@sse.uni-due.de followed by the online full paper submission at the IEEE TSE submission site (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee) with a note/tag designating the manuscript to this special issue. Submissions must conform to the journal’s submission guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/ web/peerreviewjournals/author). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission deadline (mandatory): 01 November 2009 (extended) Submission deadline: 17 NOVEMBER 2009 (extended) First review results: 31 January 2010 Revisions due: 15 March 2010 Second review results: 15 May 2010 Final version due: 15 June 2010 Publication: Nov/Dec 2010