Workshop on Real-time SOA
IEEE CEC'09 (Vienna, Austria, July 20, 2009)
http://cec2009.isis.tuwien.ac.at/

Motivation

Our society is drastically moving forward to "Network-centric Computing Infrastructure" in recent years. Automobile, aircraft, factory, digital electronic apparatus, and enterprises involve various communication channels and devices, which generate new applications and are expanding continuously. Along with this movement, a new paradigm is expected to lead future direction on related technologies. Most of applications in the above-mentioned areas can benefit from using the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) paradigm, as a natural migration and evolution from the OO (Object-Oriented) architecture into the more flexible and powerful SOA. Up-to-date or emerging applications will need to be able to control their real-time responses. Therefore, we need to extend the current SOA into Real-time SOA. Real-time SOA is the new paradigm for building next generation real-time infrastructure and devices under service-oriented computing. Real-time computing and SOA have independent roots from computing points of views, which means rigorous study is required for setting agenda and milestones for RT-SOA, not by simply combining both capabilities. From the real-time side, real-time embedded systems doctrine may provide substantial support such as safety, secure and reliability. From the SOA side, enterprise SOA doctrine may provide technologies such as powerful modeling, protocol, API, and dynamic configuration. Real-time SOA therefore may produce many desirable system capabilities.

Call

Real-time SOA will be hot issues in the coming years, but still is a nascent area beyond current real-time computing and SOA. This workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners, and academics involved in the design, development, and solution provider of both technologies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Real-time service provisioning and assurance of timing
• Event-based distributed architecture system (and integration to the conventional message-based architecture)
• Quality issues including reliability, security, and performance
• Standardization
• Modeling and analysis of emerging services
• Management on integrated applications derived from real-time systems and SOA solution
• Evaluation methodology

Workshop invitation, selection and publication

Submissions describing original research are categorized as follows.

• full papers (up to 8 pages)
• position papers (up to 4 pages)
• posters (2-page extended abstracts or final posters)

In addition to the above, hands-on demonstrations (2-page descriptions of the demo) are welcome.

All types (including hands-on demonstrations) of submissions will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted full papers must demonstrate technical quality, relevance to the workshop topic, and proper quality of writing. Workshop proceedings will be made available for the workshop in electric form via CD and the workshop Web page. Full papers will be published in the IEEE CEC proceedings.

Important dates and deadlines

Submission guidelines

Full paper submissions should follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. Submissions should be submitted electronically as PDF documents before the submission deadline of March 1 to the workshop chair akiyoshi@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Organizers

Masanori Akiyoshi(Contact Organizer)
akiyoshi@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Osaka University

Mikio Aoyama
mikio.aoyama@nifty.com
Nanzan University

Kwei-Jay Lin
klin@uci.edu
Univ California, Irvine