1^st Workshop on Enterprise Service Web (ESW 2010)

in conjunction with
13th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2010)

Berlin, Germany
May 3-5, 2010

Deadline for submissions: (Extended Deadline!) March 28, 2010

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This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to share their experiences and their vision on the challenges that have to be faced to adopt services in industry, with the aim to establish a community around Enterprise Service Web technologies that will drive research in this area and its still open challenges. We intend to feed the workshop results into a report that will be presented to the Future Internet activity on Services and Architectures (http://services.future-internet.eu).


In the last years, a thriving research community has grown up in the area of the Internet of Services. We envision a future Web in which billions of services will be seamlessly found, composed and executed just as, in today's Web, we can find and browse billions of documents, and that this services infrastructure will be enabled by the use of semantic technologies. A fulfilment of this vision, which we call the Service Web, would lead also to a major disruption in business information systems. This vision will affect how enterprises store their data and access computing resources in an even greater manner than cloud storage and computing are already affecting it. This would lead potentially to business information systems using the Web to discover, chain, and execute processes on their data in a flexible, dynamic manner and even replace in-house or cloud-based information systems entirely. Performing business tasks could become a largely Web-based endeavour just as knowledge tasks are increasingly becoming today. To achieve such vision, it is clear that the Service Web must not only reflect the actual and ongoing research challenges but also adequately take into account critical business aspects such as privacy, trust, data quality, service policies, and cost of transition from current infrastructures.

Topics

• Transition from existing business information systems to an Enterprise Service Web
• Service quality measurement and description
• Service framework heterogeneity
• Trust and privacy
• Policies and negotiation
• Mapping explanations between business and IT people via formal representations
• Describing business tasks
• Chaining business tasks (service composition)
• Choosing business tasks (service selection)
• Adaptivity and flexibility
• Service ecosystems
• Service marketplaces

Submission

• Long papers: max. 12 pages
• Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages

Workshop format

Important dates

• (Extended Deadline!) March 28, 2010 - submission deadline for papers
• April 2, 2010 - notification of acceptance/rejection
• April 23, 2010 - submission of final papers
• May 3-5, 2010 - the workshop

Organizers

• STI International

Chairs

• Lyndon Nixon
• Federico M. Facca
• Norton Barry
• Agata Filipowska
• Dave Lambert

Program Committee

• Lyndon Nixon, STI International,
• Federico M. Facca, University of Innsbruck,
• Norton Barry, University of Innsbruck,
• Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics,
• Dave Lambert, Open University,
• Luciano Baresi, Politecnica Milano, Italy
• Salima Benbernou, Université Paris Descartes, France
• Zeta Dooly, Telecommunications Software and Services Group (TSSG), Ireland
• Kevin Doolin, Telecommunications Software and Services Group (TSSG), Ireland
• Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, Germany
• Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany
• Irene López de Vallejo, Tekniker, Spain
• Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, United Kingdom
• Klaus Satzke, Alcatel-Lucent, Deutschland
• Pedro Soria-Rodriguez, Atos Research and Innovation, Spain
• Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Tomas Vitvar, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Dominik Zyskowski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland