Book Series on Non-Functional Requirements and Properties in Service Oriented Architecture

  1. Methodologies for Non-Functional Requirements in Service Oriented Architecture: Requirements Engineering, Model-Driven Development and Security

  2. Developing Effective Service Oriented Architectures: Concepts and Applications in Service Level Agreements, Quality of Service and Reliability

  3. Service Composition, Business Process Engineering and Domain-Specific Challenges in Service Oriented Architecture: Engineering Non-Functional Requirements

Edited by: Junichi Suzuki
University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
To be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group) in 2010

Introduction

In service oriented architecture (SOA), it is critical to identify, model, implement and manage non-functional requirements separately from functional requirements. Well-managed separation/synthesis of functional and non-functional requirements can significantly improve reusability, maintainability and performance of service-oriented applications. As the diversity and complexity of non-functional requirements have been increasing, SOA faces new and more challenging issues such as leveraging non-functional requirements in the early development phases (e.g., requirement and business process analysis phases), mapping high-level non-functional requirements to low-level non-functional properties/mechanisms, detecting and solving conflicts among non-functional requirements/properties, and enforcing non-functional requirements at runtime.

By identifying these challenges and soliciting solutions to them, this book aims to provide an opportunity for both academic researchers and industry practitioners to report the state of the art and practice of engineering non-functional requirements in SOA.

Topics of Interest

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Important Dates

June 30, 2008: Chapter proposal (extended abstract) due
July 15, 2008: Chapter proposal acceptance notification
October 15, 2008: Full chapter due
November 17, 2008: Chapter acceptance notification
December 30, 2008: Revised chapter due
January 20, 2009: Final acceptance notification
February 5, 2009: Completed chapter due

Paper Submission

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 30, 2008 a 2-3 page chapter proposal (extended abstract) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. The chapter proposal should summarize the proposed chapter and describe how it addresses non-functional requirements/properties engineering in SOA. Authors may submit original, unpublished research papers. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 15, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters (approximately 7,000-9,000 words each) are expected to be submitted by October 15, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), www.igi-global.com, publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints, as part of the Advances in Web Services Research Book Series, found at www.igi-global.com/awsr.

Proposals/abstracts should be emailed to the book editor with the subject line of "IGI chapter proposal" by June 30.

Editor, Editorial Advisory Board Members and Reviewers

Editor:
Junichi Suzuki
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Boston
jxs _at_ cs.umb.edu
Editorial Advisory Board Members:
  1. Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
  2. Samik Basu, Iowa State University, USA
  3. Marko Boskovic, University of Oldenburg, Germany
  4. Lawrence Chung, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
  5. Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
  6. Kazi Farooqui, AT&T Labs, USA
  7. Hiroaki Fukuda, Keio University, Japan
  8. Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
  9. Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
  10. Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
  11. Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  12. Jan Jürjens, The Open University, UK
  13. Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
  14. Nikola Milanovic, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
  15. Katsuya Oba, OGIS International, Inc., USA
  16. Michael Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  17. Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano, Bicocca, Italy
  18. Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
  19. Marcel Tilly, Microsoft, European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany
  20. Changzhou Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA
  21. Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Reviewers:
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