Special Issue on Modeling and Implementation of Service-Oriented
Enterprise Systems
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
Guest Editors: J. Leon Zhao, Alan Hevner, Dongsong Zhang
Editor-in-Chief of TSC: Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, USA
Call for Papers
With the advancement of
Services Computing technologies, most corporate and other institutions have
been implementing service-oriented architectures and Web services, resulting in
service-oriented transformation of enterprise information systems. This has led to a major shift in the way
enterprise systems are developed and managed.
For instance, major
software development tools such as JDeveloper from Oracle, Visual Studio from
Microsoft, and Eclipse from IBM have added new features to support planning,
analysis, design, and implementation of service-oriented systems. However, the recent progress and efforts in
industrial research and development have not been matched in intensity by
academic research in modeling and management of service-oriented enterprise
systems. As such, this special issue is
to advocate more concerted efforts from the academia and industrial
researchers.
The movement towards
Services Computing adoption for modernizing enterprise has appeared in a number
of forms such as service-oriented architectures, software as a service,
platform as a service, Web services, data center outsourcing, virtualization,
and cloud computing, all of which should have a significant impact on research
and education in enterprise systems.
These new technologies and new business practices require new methods of
modeling since the basic artifacts of system development are services and their
relationships as opposed to objects in object-oriented programming and
components in component-based software development. Furthermore, the realization of service-orientation in enterprise
systems often starts with business processes that in turn help identify
repeatable tasks that will use services.
The implementation of services requires the development of new
applications or integration with existing applications.
The special issue welcomes
original and cutting-edge theoretical and applied research that makes
innovative contributions to the following general issues:
(1) Rendering next-generation
modeling methodologies, frameworks and processes useful for the development of
service-oriented enterprise systems,
(2) Investigating effective
principles and techniques for developing enterprise services in real-world
institutions,
(3) Developing real world
tools and systems that balance technical significance and business concerns in
business processes and enterprise systems, and
(4) Discussing trends and
directions of next-generation enterprise system theories and applications.
Topics:
Original contributions, not
currently under review or accepted by another journal, are solicited in
relevant areas of Modeling and Implementation of Service-Oriented Systems
including (but not limited to) the following:
·
Mathematical foundations of enterprise modeling that includes business
process modeling, integration and management
·
Formal analysis and design of service-oriented systems
·
Modeling of hybrid human- and software-based service systems
·
Modeling & design of integrated human and computational services
·
Federations and integration of service systems
·
Formal models of negotiation and orchestration of service level
agreements
·
Model-driven architecture, development, and compliance issues in
services computing
·
Metrics and performance analysis of services systems
·
Modeling and development of interorganizational services systems
·
Modeling and design of event-driven and real-time service systems
·
Modeling and implementation of service-based utility, virtualization,
and/or cloud computing
·
Case studies of service-based systems in large-scale enterprises
Submission
Prospective authors should
prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors found at www.computer.org/tsc,
where more information about this special issue will be available soon.
Schedule
Deadline for paper
submission: 30-Apr-09
Completion of first review:
31-Jul-09
Revision due: 30-Oct-09
Final decision
notification: 30-Dec-09
Publication materials due:
31-Jan-10
Guest Editors
Dr. J. Leon Zhao
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Email: jlzhao@u.arizona.edu
Dr. Alan Hevner
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, USA
Email: ahevner@coba.usf.edu
Dr. Dongsong Zhang
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Email:
zhangd@umbc.edu