[ecoop-info] CfP: International Workshop on Component and Service Interoperability (WCSI-10)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Component and Service Interoperability (WCSI-10)

Held in conjunction with Tools 2010 Federated Conferences

Málaga, Spain, June 28 - July 2, 2010

Web Site: http://wcsi10.lcc.uma.es


DESCRIPTION

The development of software systems requires mechanisms to structure
them in order to tackle their complexity. This has led to the
appearance of different kinds of abstractions to encapsulate system
functionality, e.g., modules, objects, components, and more recently,
services. Systems are then built as assemblies of these smaller and
reusable entities, which are commonly developed by third parties, and
that often present interoperability issues when assembled. Hence,
interoperability is one of the key aspects related to the construction
of large software systems, and can be defined as the ability of two or
more entities to communicate in a proper way.

Several levels of interoperability, and accordingly of interface
description languages (IDL), have been described. The signature level
deals with the static aspects of component interoperability. At this
level, IDLs (e.g.,CORBA-IDL, or WSDL descriptions in the case of Web
Services) provide operation names, type of arguments and return
values, as well as exception types. The behaviour or protocol level
specifies the order in which the operations described in the signature
interface should be invoked. Indeed, non-trivial software elements are
stateful, and operation availability depends on their internal
state. Some relevant examples of Behavioural IDLs (BIDLs) are Abstract
BPEL, automata-based languages such as UML state diagrams, Petri Nets,
high-level MSCs, etc. The service level includes the description of
non-functional properties like temporal requirements, security,
computational cost, etc. Quality of Service (QoS) descriptions and
their related notations, such as the QoS Modeling Language (QLM), are
examples of interface descriptions at this level. Finally, the
functional or conceptual level concerns the functional or semantic
specification of the component or service (i.e., what it actually
does). In the field of Web Services, this level of description
provides semantic information about services using ontology-based
notations such as OWL-S or WSMO, which are particularly interesting
for service discovery.

Interoperability problems may arise at any of the interface levels
above. Detecting mismatch and providing the means to solve it is
crucial for building systems out of components or services, enabling
composition of entities developed by third parties. Some important
objectives are the following: (i) proposing or extending existing
interface models and description languages, (ii) detecting
interoperability issues, (iii) controlling and ensuring correct
interactions among the entities that form the system, and (iv)
analyzing and verifying global system properties based on the features
of its constituent parts.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: March 31, 2010
Notification: May 14, 2010
Camera-ready: May 31, 2010
Workshop: June 29, 2010

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Extended Interface Description Languages.
- Component mining and service discovery.
- Component/service types and contracts.
- Interface-based compatibility and substitutability.
- Software composition and adaptation.
- Self-adaptive systems; context-awareness.
- Controller Synthesis.
- Model-based approaches to component and service interoperability.
- Synthesis, negotiation and refinement of composition contracts.
- Formal models and approaches to interface mismatch detection,
 including static analysis, run-time verification, testing and model
 checking techniques.
- Runtime support for dynamic composition, adaptation and
 reconfiguration.  Surveys, case studies and industrial or experience
 reports.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners interested in the aforementioned fields, to share and
identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the
context of component and service interoperability. It is expected that
formal paper presentations will be followed by lively discussions.

SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION

WCSI-10 calls for technical papers. Papers should be up to 12 pages,
use the EPTCS style, and include the authors' names, affiliation and
contact information. Submissions should be uploaded through the
workshop's Easychair submission site
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcsi2010) by March 31,
2010. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program
Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the
workshop in the EPTCS series.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University (UK)
Antoine Beugnard, ENST Bretagne (France)
Javier Cámara, INRIA (France)
Carlos Canal, University of Málaga (Spain)
Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent (UK)
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Markus Lumpe, Swinburne University (Australia)
Gordon Pace, University of Malta (Malta)
Pascal Poizat, University of Evry and LRI (France)
Razvan Popescu, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Iman Poernomo, King's College London (UK)
Gwen Salaün, Grenoble INP-INRIA-LIG (France)
Gerardo Schneider, IT University Göteborg (Sweden)
Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Karsten Wolf, University of Rostock (Germany)

PC Chairs

Javier Cámara, INRIA (France)
Carlos Canal, University of Málaga (Spain)
Gwen Salaün, Grenoble INP-INRIA-LIG (France)

Contact email: wcsi10 at lcc.uma.es