Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a computing paradigm that exploits both web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as fundamental elements for developing software systems. It changes the way software systems are designed, architected, delivered and consumed. Moreover, it has emerged as a major trend of computing paradigm in the past few years.

     The Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2008) intends to provide a forum for researchers to exchange latest findings, results, and visions in Service-Oriented Computing. Continuing the tradition of the past SOSE Symposiums, SOSE'08 covers a wide range of topics related to techniques to explore state-of-the-art in modeling, assembly, deployment and management of SOC related methods, tools and technologies.

     SOSE 2008 invites original contributions in all areas of Service-Oriented Computing. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

I. Service-Oriented System Engineering

• Service-Oriented Development Processes and Methods
• Service Modeling
• Standards and Specifications of Service-Oriented Computing
• Service-Oriented Analysis/Design Patterns
• Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Brokering, and Negotiation
• Services and Semantic Web
• Services and Agents
• Service Creation, Adaptation, and Management
• Service Assembly, Composition and Aggregation
• Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance
• Quality of Web Services
• Verification, Validation, and Testing of Service-Oriented Systems
• Service Policy Management
• Service Reputation and Trust
• Service Security and Privacy
• Web Services Agreement and Contract
• Service Interoperability and Collaboration
• Formal Methods of Service-Oriented Computing
• Mathematical Foundation of Service-Oriented Computing
• Service Specification and Model Checking
• Service-Oriented Programming Language

II. Service-Oriented Applications

• Service Management for Large-Scaled Service-Oriented Systems
• Business Process Integration and Management using Web Services
• Services on Grid Network
• Solution Frameworks for Building Service-Oriented Applications
• Linkage between IT Services and Business Services
• Legacy Transformation to Service-Oriented Architecture
• Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture
• Service-Oriented Real-time and Embedded Systems

In addition, the following invited sessions are being planned:

• Hardware as a Service
• Semantic Web Services
• SaaS for Telematics
• SaaS for Telecommunication
• Web Service Reliability
• Web Service Security
• SOA and Consumer Electronics
• Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)

IMPORTANT DATES

(update on July 14, 2008)

Paper submission deadline:	July 15, 2008 July 31, 2008
Notification of Acceptance:	September 1, 2008
Camera Ready Copy Due:	September 24, 2008
Symposium:	December 18-19, 2008

PAPER SUBMISSION

     Original, previously unpublished technical papers are welcome. We also encourage work-in-progress reports on new problems and novel ideas. Please submit papers in PDF format through the submission web site: http://sose2008.ncu.edu.tw/openconf/openconf.php.

     Manuscript should be prepared following the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html, Two-Column Format). Manuscript length is limited to 6 pages.

     All papers will be evaluated based on the relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. All accepted papers will be included in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present the work.

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION

• Symposium Chair:
  Jonathan Lee, National Central University, Taiwan
• Steering Committee Chair:
  Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA
• Program Co-Chair:
  Deron Liang, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
  Yu Chin Cheng, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
• Publicity Chair:
  William C. Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan
• Finance Chair:
  Alan Liu, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
• Publication Chair:
  Mu-Chun Su, National Central University, Taiwan
• Industry Application Chair:
  Lung Lung Liu, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
• Local Arrangement Chair:
  Jung-Yih Kuo, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     Omar Abuelma'atti (UK)
     Mikio Aoyama (Japan)
     M. Brian Blake (USA)
     Christoph Bussler (USA)
     Heung Seok Chae (Korea)
     Ing-Yih Chen (Taiwan)
     T.Y. Chen (Australia)
     Ernesto Damiani (Italy)
     Tharam Dillon (Australia)
     Schahram Dustdar (Australia)
     Ping-Tsai Chung (USA)
     Paul Fergus (UK)
     Yanbo Han (China)
     Chen-Chiung Hsieh (Taiwan)
     Chua-Huang Huang (Taiwan)
     Teh-Sheng Huang (Taiwan)
     Chih-Cheng Hung (USA)
     Tsang-Ming Jiang (Taiwan)
     Jung-Sing Jwo (Taiwan)
     Seok-Won Lee (USA)
     Juanzi Li (China)
     Kin Fun Li (Canada)
     Xiaolin Li (USA)
     Yinsheng Li (China)
     Jonathan C. L. Liu (USA)
     Jian Lu (China)
     Hsing Mei (Taiwan)
     Chunming Rong (Norway)
     Toshiro Takase (Japan)
     Stefan Wallin (Sweden)
     Hongbin Wang (China)
     Andreas Wombacher (Netherlands)
     Hongji Yang (UK)
     Ling Yen (USA)
     Hong Zhu (UK)

SPECIAL ISSUE FOR SOSE 2008

Best papers will be selected for publication in Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory Journal (Indexed by SCI and EI). More detail can be found at: http://asusrl.eas.asu.edu/srlab/Research/SOSE08SI.pdf

FOR INQUIRY

More information about SOSE2008 is available at: http://sose2008.ncu.edu.tw/
If you have additional questions, please contact sose2008@selab.csie.ncu.edu.tw