2nd Workshop on Software Services: Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services on 6-9JUne in Timisoara

Start: 2011-06-06 09:06

End: 2011-06-09 17:06

Timezone: Europe/Brussels

2nd WoSS

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WoSS intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners, and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current trends and scientific and technological challenges in software services. 2nd WoSS is dedicated to Cloud computing and Applications

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when	Jun 06, 2011 07:10 AM to Jun 09, 2011 10:10 PM
where	West University of Timisoara, Romania
contact name	Dana Petcu
contact phone	+40-745-405523
attendees	Keynote speakers: representatives of EC projects under FP7-ICT Obj.1.2 Researchers from new member states' teams working with software services Members of the expert group of SPRERS Researchers interested in the topics of the workshop
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WoSS

2nd Workshop on Software Services: Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services

Timisoara, June 6-9, 2011

Aim

The goal of the series of Workshops on Software Services (WoSS) is to present and discuss the recent significant developments in the field of software services.

WoSS intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners, and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current trends and scientific and technological challenges, such as service quality assurance, adaptability, reliability, interoperability, and automating service-oriented application construction and management.

The first three editions (September 2010, June 2011 and September 2011) are organized with the support of the FP7-ICT SPRERS project, with the aim to highlight the achievements of the on-going European collaborative projects subscribing to FP7-ICT programme and the activities of the teams from new member states in software services.

The second edition is dedicated to Cloud computing and Applications based on Software Services.

Topics

Cloud computing architectures and standards
Cloud compliant applications
Cloud oriented programming and middleware
Cloud application portability and scalability
Cloud services reliability, availability, performance and monitoring
Cloud security
Automatic computing
Virtualization technologies
Service oriented computing
Negotiation and service-level agreements

Quality of services and non-functional aspects
Business and applications based on software services
Service modeling, specification, composition, discovery and monitoring

Programme

Pdf format

Monday, June 6th

08:00-08:45 Registration

08:45-09:00 Opening

09:00-11:20 Session 1: Invited talks on automation and storage in Clouds

Paolo Romano (coordinator of Cloud-TM). Autonomic mechanisms for transactional replication in elastic cloud environments

Hillel Kolodner (representing VISION Cloud). Data-intensive Storage Services on Clouds: Limitations, Challenges and Enablers

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 2: Cloud technologies

Regular papers:

Viet Tran, Binh Minh Nguyen and Ladislav Hluchy. Abstraction layer for cloud computing

Joan Navarro, José Enrique Armendáriz Iñigo and August Climent. Cloud-based Replication Protocol on Power Smart Grids

Position papers:

Danny Harnik, Hillel Kolodner, Shahar Ronen, Julian Satran, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg and Sivan Tal. Secure Access Mechanism for Cloud Storage

Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj and Seenivasan Gunabalan. A simple delegation approach using RESTful Web Services in Storage Cloud

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:20 Session 1: Invited talks on Cloud security and open-source distribution

Charles Loomis (coordinator of StratusLab). The StratusLab Cloud Distribution

Alysson Bessani (representing TCLOUDS). The TCLOUDS Integrated Project – Privacy and Resilience for
Internet-scale Critical Infrastructures

16:20-16:40 Coffee break

16:40-18:30 Session 3: Brainstorming for FP7-Call 8

19:00-20:00 Welcome party

Tuesday, June 7th

09:00-11:20 Session 4: Invited talks on self-adaption and legacy applications in SOA

Elisabetta di Nitto (representing S-CUBE). Self-adaptation in service-oriented systems

Parastoo Mohagheghi (representing REMICS). Migrating legacy application to the Service Cloud Paradigm

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 5: Cloud initiatives

Corporate papers:

Matej Artač, Marjan Šterk, Uroš Jovanovič, Jaka Močnik, Gregor Pipan and Daniel Vladušič. XLAB – an SME with expertise in distributed systems and computationally intensive applications
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Karoly Bosa, Harald Lampesberger, Ji Ma and Boris Vleju. The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Client-Centric Cloud Computing - Application-Oriented Fundamental Research

Position papers:

Roman Wyrzykowski, Marek Zawadzki, Tomasz Chmiel, Piotr Dzierzak, Artur Kaszuba, Jacek Kochan, Jerzy Mikolajczak, Tomasz Olas, Sebastian Petruczynik, Krzysztof Rojek and Lukasz Szustak. Cloud Campus Services in PLATON e-Science Platform
Vaidas Giedrimas, Audrius Varoneckas and Algimantas Juozapavicius. The grid and cloud computing facilities in Lithuania

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:10 Session 6: Invited talk on service level in e-infrastructures

Matti Heikkurinen (representing gSLM). Service Level and Delivery Management in e‑Infrastructures – Lessons learned in gSLM project

15:10-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30 Session 7: Semantics and composition in SOA

Regular papers:

Karol Furdik, Peter Bednar and Gabriel Lukac. Support of Semantic Interoperability in a Service-based Business Collaboration Platform

Peter Kostelnik, Martin Sarnovsky and Karol Furdik. The Semantic Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems Applied in the Internet of Things and Services Domain

Cristina Bianca Pop, Viorica Rozina Chifu, Ioan Salomie, Ramona Bianca Baico, Mihaela Dinsoreanu, and Georgiana Copil. A Hybrid Firefly-inspired Approach for Optimal Semantic Web Service Composition

Dessislava Petrova-Antonova and Aleksandar Dimov. Towards a Taxonomy of Web Service Composition Approaches

Position papers:

Eric Schmieders, Andras Micsik, Marc Oriol, Khaled Mahbub and Raman Kazhamiakin. Combining SLA Prediction and Cross Layer Adaptation for Preventing SLA Violations

Mārtiņš Bonders and Jānis Grabis. A Holistic Method for Selecting Web Services in Design of Composite Applications

18:00-21:00 Social event

Wednesday, June 8th

09:00-11:20 Session 8: Invited talks on Cloud SLAs and management

Francesco D'Andria (coordinator of Cloud4SOA). Cloud4SOA project - Business Application governance and SLA Management in PaaS context

Johan Tordsson (representing OPTIMIS). OPTIMIS - towards holistic cloud management

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 9: Frameworks and efficiency

Regular papers:

Pawel Czarnul. Integration of Distributed Services into Workflow Applications with Optimization of Time, Cost and Energy Consumption
Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Ovidiu-Marian Achim and Valentin Cristea. Load-Balancing Metric for Service Dependability in Large Scale Distributed Environments
Ioan Salomie, Cioara Tudor, Ionut Anghel and Daniel Moldovan. Energy Aware Adaptation Methodology for Improving the Service Centers Energy Efficiency

Position papers:

Gianmarco Baldini, Ranga Rao Vencatesha Prasad, Abdur Rahim Biswas, Klaus Moessner, Matti Etelapera, Juha-Pekka Soininen, Septimiu-Cosmin Nechifor, Vera Stavroulaki and Panagiotis Vlacheas. COGMAN: A cognitive management framework to support exploitation of the Future Internet

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:20 Session 8: Invited talks on Cloud resource management

Yvon Jégou (representing CONTRAIL). Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services: Contrail Approach
Salvatore Venticinque (representing mOSAIC). Agent Based Services for Negotiation, Monitoring and Reconfiguration of Cloud Resources.

16:20-16:40 Coffee break

16:40-17:40 Session 9: Brainstorming for FP7-Call 8

17:40-19:00 Session 10: Parallel sessions for project ideas | Expert group (closed) meeting

Thursday, June 9th

09:00-11:20 Session 11: Invited talks on Cloud resource management

José Luis Vázquez-Poletti (representing 4CaaSt). Reducing Time to Market with the PaaS Cloud of the Future

Carlos Agostinho (representing UNITE). Interoperability and the software, services and semantic technologies challenges in the future of internet

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 12: Management and control of platforms

Regular papers:

Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop and Valentin Cristea. A Virtualization-based Approach to Dependability for Service Computing
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda. Multi-agent systems for access control in distributed informations systems
Łukasz Chomątek and Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda. Vehicle routing problems with the use of multi-agent system
Alexandru Stanciu, Bogdan Enciu and Gabriel Neagu. Auto-administration of gLite-based grid sites

Student paper:

Calin-Adrian Popa and Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan. Pattern neural networks: A case study

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-17:00 Session 13: Training on FP7 project proposals

17:00 Closing

Paper submission, publication and fees

Authors should submit extended abstracts of 3 to 6 pages using LNCS style through the submission portal.

Five types of contributions are expected relative to the above mentioned topics:

Invited paper (list closed at April 15th, see above talks): Contributions from FP7-ICT projects
Regular paper: Presenting accomplished research results
Position paper: Short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research
Student paper: PhD student reporting a PhD project and work so far
Corporate paper: Enabling companies to present recent developments and applications, showcase company’s noteworthy products and service.

The extended abstracts will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.

Depending on their merits, selected contributions will be qualified to be presented in full version in:

book chapters in a book by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
September issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

Conference fee: 250 Euros

(see bellow a potential coverage of this fee for several author categories )

Important dates:

Extended deadline for extended abstract submissions: April 27, 2011

Authors notifications: May 9, 2011

Application for SPRERS support (see details bellow): May 12, 2011

Applicant notification: May 16, 2011

Workshop participation: June 6-9, 2011

Invitations for full papers: June 15, 2011

Full version of the papers: July 15, 2011

Publication in the journal: September 30th, 2011

Publication in the book: December 30th, 2011

Event organization

The sessions will dedicated to:

invited talks
regular paper presentations
position paper presentations
PhD student presentations
company presentations
training for FP7-ICT projects
networking and brainstorming for FP7-ICT project ideas
awarding

Programme committee

Program chairs:

Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

José Luis Vázquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Program Committee :

Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France

Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, Poland, and UvA Amsterdam, Netherland

Paweł Czarnul, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC Consultant, Germany

Spyridon Gogouvitis, Technical University of Athen, Greece

Ladislav Hluchý, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Mārīte Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Cezary Mazurek, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland

Zsolt Nemeth, SZTAKI - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Tomás Pitner, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Paolo Romano, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Todor Stoilov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Huy Tran, University of Wien, Austria

Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Napoli, Italy

Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany

Support for participants from new member states of the European community

The participants to the workshop from new member states, authors of accepted papers of the workshop, are entitled to apply for the reimbursement of the travel, accommodation and conference fees.
Applications should be send to the contact point of the workshop and should contain a curriculum vitae and a list of publications.

The New Member States of EC are: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.

Support is also provided for representatives of FP7-ICT projects under Objective 1.2.