Call for Book Chapter Proposals - Service Life Cycle Tools and Technologies: Methods, Trends and Advances

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010 Service Life Cycle Tools and Technologies: Methods, Trends and Advances A book edited by Prof. Jonathan Lee, Prof. Alan Liu, and Dr. Shang-Pin Ma National Central Univ., National Chung Cheng Univ., National Taiwan Ocean Univ., Taiwan To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=764 Introduction As Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) gains wide acceptance, the need of understanding its life cycle becomes inevitable, not only for developers, but also for the users. Just like object-oriented paradigm, in which software engineering played an important role in describing its software life cycle and providing fundamental and advanced technologies, SOC has become a new paradigm which is in demand of software engineering technologies. The development of service-oriented applications does not only depend on constructing service providers, but its composition and delivery must also be considered. Both service requesters and service providers, along with developers, will benefit from the views and models in a service life cycle. At present, research has been conducted in both industry and academia to alleviate issues in the SOC domain, including service discovery, service composition, and service management. SOC changes the way software applications are designed, architected, delivered, and consumed, and supports the development of interoperable, configurable, and evolvable composite applications. Moreover, it has emerged as a major trend of computing paradigm in the past few years. Objective of the Book Based on software engineering view points, this book uses the concept of software life cycle to explain SOC from a variety of disciplines including programming languages, distributed systems, database systems, information security, and knowledge representation. To provide a clear and consolidated view for current academic and industrial efforts in SOC, this book features different phases in the service life cycle to detail extant and promising methods, tools and technologies along the life cycle of Web services, including service analysis and design, service provision, service discovery, service composition, service delivery, as well as service management. The participants, operations, and standard specifications will be considered and integrated in these chapters for a comprehensive understanding of SOC. Target Audience This book is designed for professionals and researchers working in the field of service computing, both from theoretical and practical point of views. The book will also provide insights to the executives responsible for understanding the technology. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Phase I: Service Analysis and Design - Service-Oriented Development Processes and Methods - Service Modeling - Service-Oriented Analysis/Design Patterns Phase II: Service Provision - Service Wrapping and Adaptation - Service-Oriented Programming Language - Service Validation & Verification Phase III: Service Discovery - Semantic Web Services - Service Query, Matchmaking, and Brokering - Quality of Web Services Phase IV: Service Composition - Composite Service Deployment and Execution - Service Transaction, Rollback and Compensation - Web Services Level Agreement and Contract Phase V: Service Management - Web Service Monitoring - Web Service Reliability & Availability - Adaptive and Dynamic Service Composition Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 30, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2010. Important Dates March 15, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline March 30, 2010: Notification of Acceptance April 30, 2010: Full Chapter Submission July 31, 2010: Review Results Returned October 30, 2010: Final Chapter Submission December 30, 2010: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to: Jonathan Lee Professor Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Central University, Taiwan E-mail: yjlee@selab.csie.ncu.edu.tw fax: (886)3-422-7534