IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic Service Discovery and Management (ASDM'08)

Service-oriented environments have special characteristics that distinguish them from other computing environments.

1. The environment is dynamic - meaning that service providers might become unavailable and new service providers offering similar services appear. This means the environment will change over time as the system operates. The same principle is applied for service consumers. It is also possible for a service to become unavailable while being used by a service consumer.
2. The number of service providers is unbounded, given that service providers can join the environment at any time. Services are owned by various stakeholders with different aims and objectives. There may be unreliable or even malicious service providers which make the environment insecure.
3. There is no central authority that can control all the service providers and consumers. In addition, service providers and consumers may be self-interested.
4. Service provider and consumer may negotiate Service Level Agreements (SLA) - identifying possible service properties that need to be guaranteed during service provision. However, an SLA may be fully or partially violated during provision, resulting in possible penalties being incurred by providers, and the need by consumer to discover new providers with equivalent capability.

The ability to locate services of interest in an open, dynamic, and distributed environment has become an essential requirement in many distributed systems. Traditional approaches to service discovery have generally relied on the existence of pre-defined registry services, which contain descriptions that follow some shared ontology. Often the description of a service is also very limited in existing registry services, with little or no support for problem-specific annotations that describe properties of a service. This workshop will address many issues of service discovery as suggested by the list of topics below, and focus on adaptation that is necessary for a service consumer or provider as the environment changes.  

Areas of Interest

• Service Discovery in Dynamic Environments
• De-centralized Service Discovery Environments
• Adaptive Service Discovery in Dynamic Environments
• Adaptive Discovery of Services
• Semantic Service Discovery
• Fuzzy-based Service Discovery
• Service Registries
• Secure Service Discovery
• QoS-enabled Service Discovery
• Service Discovery and Composition
• Service Level Agreements

Important Dates

• March 31, 2008: submission due
• April 7, 2008: decision notification
• April 15, 2008: camera-ready version due

Paper Submission

Authors should submit a Word or PDF files using the online submission and review system (see Submission Page). Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2008) by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.
Submitted papers are required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template (IEEE Latex Style). Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two or three reviewers from the program committee. The program committee will evaluate each research paper based on relevance, significance, clarity, originality and correctness.

Workshop Chairs

Simone Ludwig, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Program Committee

Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Mazin Yousif, CTO, Avirtec, USA
Frances Brazier, Vrije University, The Netherlands
Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK
Julian Padget, Bath University, UK
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale University, France
Giovanna di Marzo, Birkbeck College, London University, UK
Farhad Arbab, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands
Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK
Sam Joseph, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii
AbdelHakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Int. University, USA
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA
Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, University of Sevilla, Spain