International Workshop on
Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing (MNPSC)

July 8 (Tue), 2008
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008)

In cooperation with Object Management Group

Workshop's Aim

In services computing, it is critical to better identify, specify, implement and manage non-functional properties separately from functional properties. Well-managed separation/synthesis of functional and non-functional properties can significantly improve reusability, maintainability, composability and performance of service-oriented applications. This workshop aims providing an opportunity for both academic researchers and industry practitioners to present, discuss and access the state of the art and practice of engineering non-functional properties in services computing.

Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all non-functional aspects in services computing are welcome.

Topics of Interest

• Individual non-functional properties/requirements (e.g., QoS, security, fault tolerance, messaging, reliability, availability, service discovery, service orchestration/composition, data integration and data retention) in various (enterprise to embedded) service-oriented applications.
• Methodologies to map non-functional requirements and properties
• Non-functional properties/requirements in requirements engineering
• Non-functional properties/requirements in business process/rule engineering
• Architecture description languages, service description languages, modeling languages and domain-specific languages for non-functional properties/requirements
• Object-oriented and aspect-oriented techniques for non-functional properties
• Model-driven engineering for non-functional properties/requirements
• Software development process and non-functional properties/requirements
• QoS monitoring/provisioning and service level agreements for non-functional properties/requirements
• Regulatory compliance and non-functional properties/requirements
• Ontology frameworks for non-functional properties/requirements
• Middleware support for non-functional properties/requirements
• Tool support to separate/synthesize functional and non-functional properties
• Theoretical foundations/tools for non-functional properties/requirements
• Industrial experience and standardization on non-functional properties/requirements

Accepted Papers and Presentation Schedule

• Nikola Milanovic, Bratislav Milic and Miroslaw Malek, "Modeling Business Process Availability," TU Berlin, Germany.

• Jose Antonio Parejo, Pablo Fernandez, Antonio-Ruiz Cortés and Jose Maria Garcia, "SLAWs: Towards a Conceptual Architecture for SLA Enforcement," University of Seville, Spain.

• Ashley Sterritt and Vinny Cahill, "Customisable Model Transformations based on Non-functional Requirements," Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

• Joe Zou and Christopher J. Pavlovsk, "Control Cases during the Software Development Life-Cycle," IBM, Australia.

• Matthias Galster and Eva Bucherer, "A Taxonomy for Identifying and Specifying Non-functional Requirements in Service-oriented Development," University of Calgary, Canada, and SAP Research Switzerland and University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

• Hiroshi Wada, Paskorn Champrasert, Junichi Suzuki and Katsuya Oba, "Multiobjective Optimization of SLA-aware Service Composition," University of Massachusetts, Boston and OGIS International, Inc., USA.

• Yong Lee, Jaeil Lee and GooYeon Lee, "Wireless Certificate Management Protocol Supporting Mobile Phone," ChnugJu National University and Korea Information Security Agency, Korea.

• Brendan Jennings, Lei Xu and Eamonn de Leastar, "Specifying Flexible Charging Rules for Composable Services," Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.

• Pruet Boonma and Junichi Suzuki, "Middleware Support for Pluggable Non-functional Properties in Wireless Sensor Networks," University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

• Jose Maria Garcia, David Ruiz, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés and Jose Antonio Parejo, "QoS-Aware Semantic Service Selection: An Optimization Problem," University of Seville, Spain.

• Fumiko Satoh, Yuichi Nakamura, Nirmal Mukhi, Michiaki Tatsubori and Kouichi Ono, "Methodology and Tools for End-to-End SOA Security Configurations," IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan, IBM Global Business Services, Japan, and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA.

Important Dates

Abstract due: March 7
Paper due: March 14
Notification: April 4
Camera ready due: April 25

Paper Submissions and Presentations

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not longer than 8 pages with 10pt or 11pt font. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Email your abstract and paper to both workshop chairs with the subject line of "IEEE MNPSC." At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper.

All accepted papers will be published in the SCC 2008 proceedings as IEEE publications.

Best Papers and Book Chapter Promotion

This workshop will select best papers. With substantial extensions, they will be promoted to chapters of a book in the "Advanced Web Services Research and Practices" book series (IGI Publishing).

Workshop Co-Chairs

Jun Suzuki
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Boston
jxs at cs . umb . edu

Katsuya Oba
OGIS International, Inc.
oba at ogis-international . com

Technical Program Committee

• Antonio Ruiz Cortés, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
• Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Motohisa Funbashi, Hitachi Systems Development Laboratory, Japan
• Daniel Kerkow, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
• Thomas Ledoux, Ecole des Mines de Nantes and INRIA, France
• Hiroshi Miyazaki, Fujitsu, Japan
• Nirmal Mukhi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab, USA
• Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Ileana Ober, Université Paul Sabatier, France
• Christopher Pavlovski, IBM, Australia
• Sebastian Richly, TU Dresden, Germany
• Dave Rosenberg, MuleSource Inc., USA
• Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA
• Stephan Steglich, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• Said Tabet, Inferware/Rule ML Initiative, USA
• Shingo Takada, Keio University, Japan
• Akira Tanaka, Hitachi, Japan
• Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan
• Changzhou Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA
• Liming Zhu, National ICT Australia, Australia
• Steffen Zschaler, Technical University of Dresden, Germany