Program
The
complete 3M4EC 2008 workshop
proceedings are available.
10:30 - 12:00 Opening and
Keynote presentation:
"Supporting Non-functional
and Quality Characteristics in Service-Oriented Enterprise Designs"
Prof. Peter F. Linington (University of Kent)
Abstract: There is an inevitable
tension between the quest for the weak coupling between services that
is needed to ease reuse and the desire to provide predictable
non-functional and quality properties across a complete enterprise
design. Ideally, we wish to make the service orchestration process as
flexible as possible, so that a variety of services can be used,
depending on what is available in some particular environment. However,
doing this introduces greater variability in system properties.
Applying separate constraints to these properties makes the
orchestration itself into a complex piece of optimization, and so much
harder to manage.
The talk will examine this conflict as a problem in model
transformation and in the weaving of aspect models, and will suggest
how the challenges may be met when using model driven techniques.
12:00 - 12:30 Session I
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session II
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30 Discussions and closing
About
the Workshop
Recent developments in meta-modelling and model transformation
techniques have led to increasing adoption of model-driven engineering
practices. The increase in interest and significance of the
model-driven approach has also accelerated its application in the
development of large (distributed) IT systems to support
(collaborative) enterprises. Shifting attention from source code to
models permits enterprises to focus on their core concerns, such as
business processes, services and collaborations, without being forced
to simultaneously consider the underlying technologies. Different
concerns are typically addressed by different models, with
transformations between the models and ultimately to the source code.
Although the model-driven approach offers theoretical benefits for the
development, maintenance and evolution of enterprise computing systems,
a number of issues for the practical application of the approach still
exist. In order to solve these issues further advances in models and
model-driven methods (design concepts, languages, metamodels, profiles
and specification frameworks) are necessary.
This workshop aims at helping the convergence of research on
model-driven development and practical application of the model-driven
approach in the area of enterprise computing. The workshop addresses
questions with respect to the requirements on, concepts for, properties
of and experience with models and model-driven methods for enterprise
computing in general and in specific application domains. A special
focus will be on the application of the model-driven approach to
enterprise service-oriented architecture computing.
Topics
The workshop invites original submissions from both
researchers and practitioners in the following (non-exhaustive) list of
topics:
- Model-driven service-oriented design process,
milestones and design guidelines for service engineering;
- Business process modelling and model-driven design of
process-oriented enterprise systems;
- Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Architecture
Modelling (design concepts, languages, metamodels, profiles and
specification frameworks);
- Modelling techniques for Service-Oriented
Architectures (design concepts, languages, metamodels, profiles and
specification frameworks);
- Modelling of non-functional and Quality-of-Service
characteristics;
- Modelling, analysis and execution of service
compositions;
- Platform-independent modelling techniques;
- Mappings and transformation patterns from
platform-independent models to specific technology platforms (Web
Services, J2EE, .NET, etc.);
- Limitations of UML for MDA-SOA, alternative languages;
- Model-driven service description, publication and
discovery;
- Platform models and generic platform types;
- Use of viewpoints, relations and correspondences
between viewpoints for model-driven service-oriented design;
- Implications of (middleware) platform characteristics
for the model-driven design process;
- Empirical studies and experience reports on models
and model-driven methods.
Submission Guidelines and
Workshop Format
The workshop welcomes submissions of full papers (8 to
12 pages long) and position papers (around 4 pages) in the IEEE
Computer Society format (a package with
formatting instructions and a template for Word and style files for
Latex is available here.)
Submissions should be sent by e-mail as postscript or PDF files
before 13 June 2008, to jpalmeida 'at' ieee.org.
All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at
least three reviewers. Accepted papers will be published on-line in the
IEEE Digital Library and in print by the University of Twente as part
of the CTIT Workshop Proceedings Series (ISSN 1381-3625). At least one
author of each accepted paper should participate in the workshop.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 18 July 2007.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 13 June 2008
Paper acceptance notification: 18 July 2008
Camera ready of papers: 28 July 2008
Workshop days: 16 September 2008
Organising Committee
João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito
Santo (Brazil)
Luís Ferreira Pires (University of Twente. The Netherlands)
Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Maarten W.A. Steen (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands)
Program Committee
Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Mariano Belaunde (France Telecom R&D, France)
Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University, The Netherlands)
Jeff Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil &
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy)
Roy Grønmo (SINTEF, Norway)
Slimane Hammoudi (ESEA, France)
Patrick Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Maria-Eugenia Iacob (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Peter Linington (University of Kent, UK)
Oscar Pastor (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Alfonso Pierantonio (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Dick Quartel (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands)
Richard Soley (Object Management Group, USA)
Antonio Vallecillo (University of Málaga, Spain)
Branimir Wetzstein (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
