CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Working Session on Maintenance and Evolution of SOA-Based Systems
jmo...@sei.cmu.edu
Working Session on Maintenance and Evolution of SOA-Based Systems -
MESOA 2007
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/isis/workshops/ws-mesoa-2007
October 4 , 2007 - Full Day Working Session
Co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software
Maintenance (ICSM 2007) - Paris, France
OVERVIEW
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is having a significant impact on
the way software systems are developed, maintained, and evolved over
time. Organizations as diverse as banks, health care providers, and
government organizations are focusing on SOA as a way to reach a
previously unachievable level of interoperability among systems and
agility within business practices.
As SOA-based systems are deployed, a main concern is now their
maintenance and evolution. The main goal of this working session is to
identify open research issues, present a draft version of a research
agenda, and obtain feedback from researchers and practitioners who do
work and research in the area of maintenance and evolution of SOA-
based systems. Potential research topics of relevance to software
maintenance and evolution include the following:
* Tools, techniques and environments to support maintenance
activities
* Multilanguage system analysis and maintenance
* Monitoring of service level agreements (SLA)
* Organizational change when moving to SOA
* ROI issues in an SOA migration decision process
* Changes to evolution and maintenance processes (e.g., SOA change
management, SOA testing, SOA release management)
* Roles for SOA systems maintenance and evolution
* Evolution patterns
* Reengineering processes
* Round-trip engineering in SOA environments
* Strategic reuse of legacy components as services
* Service adaptation in response to changes in business processes
SUBMISSIONS
Contributors are requested to submit their position papers through
EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/MESOA-2007/. All submissions are
due no later than August 31, 2007 . They should be in the standard
IEEE double column format and have a minimum length of 2 and a maximum
length of 10 pages. They should be submitted as pdf files. The
contributions to the working session will be consolidated into an SEI-
published summary report and used to help evolve the SOA research
agenda.
All contributors and participants of the working session will be
granted access to the Wiki site where the research agenda is
maintained.
ORGANIZERS
Grace A. Lewis, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Dennis B. Smith, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of
Technology, Sweden
Ned Chapin, InfoSci Inc., USA