Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on
SOA, Globalization, People, & Work (SG-PAW 2009)
November 23/24, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
This workshop will be held within the "Business models and Architecture" workshop track of the 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009), which takes place November 24-27, Stockholm, Sweden; http://www.icsoc.org/
++ Position Papers, Vision papers, and Full papers invited
++ Workshop Post-Proceedings to be published in the Springer Verlag
Services Science book series
++ Papers will be included in SpringerLink
Workshop website: http://tinyurl.com/sgpaw2009
Workshop Schedule, Monday November 23
14.30-16.00 Session 1 (joint with TEAR)
Workshop Introduction: SOA, Globalization, People, and Work
Daniel Oppenheim
Public Disclosure versus Private Practice: Challenges in Business Process Management
Stacy Hobson, Sameer Patil
Cross-organizational Security – The Service-oriented Difference
André Miede, Nedislav Nedyalkov, Dieter Schuller, Nicolas Repp and Ralf Steinmetz
Automated Realization of Business Workflow Specification
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Session 2 (discussion open to other workshop participants)
Enterprise Oriented Services
Daniel Oppenheim, Krishna Ratakonda and Yi-Min Chee
People Cloud for Globally Integrated Enterprise
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: September 21st, 2009
Notifications: October 5th, 2009
Camera Ready version for pre-proceedings: Nov 1st, 2009
Workshop: Nov 23/24, 2009
Jan TBA, 2010 Submission of camera-ready version for LNCS post-proceedings
Workshop Theme and Objectives
Globalization is having a profound impact on all aspects of business,
work, organization, and the enterprise. As the business community
describes the emerging Globally Integrated Enterprise (GIE), they
envision how: “new technology and business models are allowing companies
to treat their different functions and operations as component pieces,
firms can pull those pieces apart and put them back together again in
new combinations” (Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85 No. 3, 2006). Whereas this
vision has not yet fully materialized, SOA seems especially well
positioned to provide the enterprise with such capabilities.
There are clear trends that indicate the transformation of the enterprise
into coordinated but independent units which can be composed in new ways
in order to address new needs. Outsourcing of IT, but especially of
organizational functions, such as HR, shipping, or accounting services
are low-maturity examples of this trend. The new notion of Virtual
Enterprises takes the idea of organizational encapsulation a step
further and introduces the idea of loosely coupled organizations. They
advocate the formation of ad-hoc alliances between enterprises in order
to share skills, core competencies, and/or resources so they can better
respond to business opportunities.
Globalization is also creating new kinds of organizational resources. The
ongoing competition for business differentiation is spawning new
organizational silos that provide a highly specialized service, both
within an enterprise and in the global marketplace. This is as evident
in Health-Care offerings of new treatments as it is in every other
business domain, such as in financial, software, or IT services. These
emerging service providers are characterized by limited overhead, fast
market entry, high scalability requirements and a global approach in the
search of its customer base.
The problem this workshop is focusing on is enabling an enterprise to
leverage internal and external global services and combine them in new
ways that optimize its end-to-end operations. The premise is that the
SOA methodology is well suited to address this problem by encapsulating
organizational work as services that can cross geographical,
organizational, and cultural boundaries.
We invite academia and industry that represent a wide range of disciplines
in business, science, and engineering, to examine the problem from
multiple perspectives. The goal is to identify together core issues,
research challenges, learn from successful attempts or approaches, and
propose new formalisms, models, architectures, frameworks, methodologies,
or approaches. Some of the key preliminary research questions that we
encourage position papers to address include, but are not limited to:
- Modeling of work as a service. What is a service in the new context of people and work? How can work be encapsulated as a service? Changes and extensions to current thinking that will better address human related factors.
- Enactment of process and workflow in the context of the global organization, people and work. Especially the notion of dynamic processes that can continually morph themselves to respond and adapt to environmental demands and changes without compromising operational efficiencies.
- Enacting, managing, and coordinating End-to-End business processes that span geographical, organizational, and cultural boundaries.
- What constitutes Quality-of-Service from the perspectives of people, work, and the enterprise?
- Global governance, its application and implications in complex organizational eco-systems.
- Composability and interchangeability of work-services and people-services.
- Alignment of people and work with process, tools, and IT.
- What are the relevant architectural principles when considering different dimensions of people and work?
- How can traditional formalisms support the flexibility inherent in contexts that involve people and larger social groupings?
- Methodologies for process, flow, architectures, and solution design.
- Business Processes and Business Process Management (BPM) in the context of people and work.
In addition, we welcome submissions covering the following topics:
- Requirements
- Case studies examining issues relevant to this workshop
- Models that examine multiple enterprise perspectives, and address operations utilizing globally distributed organizations, collaborators, and partners.
- Applicability of Cross-Enterprise Architectures (CEA) and service-enabled approaches to the problem of organizing the global enterprise.
- The fulfillment of enterprise End-to-End processes that cross geographical, organizational, and cultural boundaries.
- Extensions and applications of BPM and/or data centric approaches to modeling, execution and management.
- New SOA runtime environments for the enterprise that support service assembly and management of globally distributed resources, including the utilization of new models such as Grid or Cloud.
- Dynamic composition and selection of IT, human resources and other organizational resources.
- Case studies that explore SOA as enabler of globally distributed work.
- Governance approaches applicable to global enterprises or processes that cross organizational and geographic boundaries.
Finally, our workshop also aims at bringing together researchers from different
academic perspective to collectively develop a deeper understanding of the
implication of applying SOA principles in contexts that not only consider the
technical dimension but also the people and work dimensions to collectively
identify the core directions for future research.
The Conference
This year ICSOC and European ServiceWave conference are particularly pleased to join forces, with the aim to provide a world-leading forum and unique opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on groundbreaking research work in service oriented computing.
The joint conference fosters the creation of cross-community scientific excellence by gathering industrial and academic experts from various disciplines such as businesses process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile communication networks, grid computing, networking, service science and software engineering.
Scientific Workshops
Workshops take place on Monday the 23rd of November and the morning of the 24th of November, the conference starts on the afternoon of the 24th of November until the 27th of November. Scientific workshops are an important part of the conference and their proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the new Services Science book series.
Full information can be found at www.servicewave.eu and www.icsoc.org.
Related workshops in the “Business Models and Architecture” track
The Business Models and Architecture track focuses on the overall modern enterprise. The ability to react quickly to ongoing changes in the marketplace or customer requirements is one of the biggest challenges facing every business. To react, business may need to change their business models and processes, their IT infrastructure, the topology or distribution of the organization and business units, form alliances with partners or co-producers, outsource missing capabilities, contract services, or even acquire and merge with other businesses. Business models and architectures help plan the optimal changes. The speed in which such architectures can be made fully operational is what differentiates winners from losers.
The three workshops in this track address different, yet complementing, facets of the problem. TEAR is aligning the Enterprise Architecture with its business models: adapting the IT infrastructure and changing application so that they optimally support the new business needs. GLOBALIZATION (SG-PAW) is looking at enacting the new business processes by encapsulating organizational work as services that can be combined in new ways and optimize its end-to-end operations across geographical, organizational, and cultural boundaries. Finally, SOC-LOG is focusing on addressing the challenges of a specific application domain, namely, logistic through developing SOC based solutions and examining aspects of Knowledge Management while bringing together researchers from different, though overlapping areas (logistics/supply chain management and service-oriented computing/systems).
Submission
We welcome submissions of two types: position and vision papers (2-5 pages
including all references and figures) and full papers (up to 15 pages including
all references and figures). As this is a new area we are encouraging the
submission of shorter position and vision papers that can form a basis for
team discussion and brainstorming.
All submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.
Paper submission is open for all, including the PC members and organizers.
Submissions should be made in PDF format via our electronic submission system
which is available at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=sgpaw2009
The proceeding of ICSOC-ServiceWave 2009 are currently planned to be published
in the Springer Verlag Services Science book series. Papers should be written
in English and must follow the Springer LNCS guidelines. Please refer to
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for more information.
Workshop Website
Additional information can be found on the workshop website:
Contact Information
Daniel Oppenheim, IBM Research, music@us.ibm.com
Marcelo Cataldo, Bosch Research, marcelo.cataldo@us.bosch.com
Organizers
Marcelo Cataldo, Bosch Corporate Research, USA
Francisco Curbera, IBM Research, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institue of Technology, USA
Daniel Oppenheim, IBM Resarch, USA
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Stephan Tai, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Program Committee
Rama K. Akkiraju, IBM Research, USA
Brian Blake, University of Notre Dame, USA
Marcelo Cataldo, Bosch Corporate Research, USA
Francisco Curbera, IBM Research, USA
Cleidson de Souza, Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil
Christoph Dorn, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Grace Lewis, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
Daniel Oppenheim, IBM Resarch, USA
Florian Rosenberg, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Daniel Schall, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Jianwen Su, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Liang (Leon) Zhang, Fudan University, China