Workshop topics

This workshop aims to share the knowledge and experience of different organizations and individuals in both practical and theoretical aspects of SOA development.

The main goal of the 4th International Workshop on Service-oriented Architecture and Web Services is to explore best-practices in the adoption, design, implementation, management and monitoring of SOA and Web services related methods, tools and technologies of this rapidly maturing discipline.
We will bring industry and academia together to publish a compendium of best-practices.

Topics for SOA & Web Services Best-Practices

The following are some of the potential topics on which experiences and work will be shared and presented:

Business and Organizational Issues:

• Adoption
• Ownership and responsibilities
• Governance
• Maturity

Process and Methods:

• Methodologies for SOA development
• Notations for SOA
• Metrics for SOA
• Information modeling and semantics

Architectural Models and reference Architectures for SOA:

• SOA Layers and SOA architectural patterns
• Architectural Decisions for SOA
• Separation of Concerns in SOA
• Modeling tools/techniques for SOA
• Design by contract in SOA
• Testing and verification of SOA
• Service characteristics – what constitutes a good service?
• Standards and specifications

Development Issues:

• Experiences in developing web-services and SOA
• Evaluation methods/techniques of SOA
• Autonomic Web-services

Operational Issues:

• Web Services management
• Security and Web Services
• Registries and repositories

We hope to to share experience, assess the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice, consolidate successful techniques, and identify the most promising application areas and open issues for future work.