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The Second IEEE International Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud (FoSEC- 2012)

One day between June 24-29 2012, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
within IEEE SERVICES 2012

Description

Practitioners are very likely to beg, borrow, and steal from software engineering in-the-small to benefit the case of software engineering for the ultra-large-scale, as it is the case of the cloud. Though the fundamentals of engineering software in both paradigms exhibit resemblance, software engineering for the cloud require novel approaches, which address the interplay between technical, economics-driven considerations and shifts software engineering towards a utility-based engineering for software-, infrastructure-, data storage- and/or platform- as a services.

The goal of this workshop is to address these gaps by strengthening the cross-fertilization of advances from software engineering, service and cloud computing. The workshop will explore, debate, and increase our understanding to the following:
(i) how recent advances in software engineering (with an emphasis on software architectures, architecting dependable systems, self-adaptive software architectures, economics-driven software engineering, risk management, security software engineering, green software engineering and testing) can be directly related to the case of cloud.
(ii) what are the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the field that appraise the paradigm-shift in engineering software systems as cloud services and to develop a roadmap for future research directions in software engineering for the cloud.

The workshop thus aims to bridge the gap between software engineering and cloud computing by specifically addressing the software engineering challenges for software engineering for and in the cloud.

List of topics

• Requirements engineering in and for the cloud
• Relating non-functional requirements to architectures for cloud environments;
• Architecting applications using the cloud;
• Patterns and architectural styles for the cloud;
• Agile software development on the cloud;
• Engineering security, trust and privacy issues in architectures for cloud environments;
• Engineering for performance, reliability, heterogeneity, safety, scalability, real-time and dependability in cloud architectures;
• Service-level management for the cloud;
• Service engineering for the cloud;
• Model-driven engineering for the cloud;
• Environments and tools support for the cloud;
• Testing for the cloud;
• Maintenance and evolution for the cloud;
• Risk management in the cloud;
• Engineering sustainability in cloud architectures;
• Economics-driven engineering for the cloud;
• Empirical and industrial studies.

Important dates

• Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 29, 2012 (extended)
• Decision Notification (Electronic): April 20, 2012
• Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2012

Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (download instruction). All papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system

First time users need to register with the system first. All the accepted papers by the workshops will be included in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE 2012 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2012) which will be published by IEEE Computer Society.

Workshop chairs

• Rami Bahsoon, The University of Birmingham, UK, r.bahsoon@cs.bham.ac.uk
• Ivan Mistrík, Independent Consultant, i.j.mistrik@t-online.de
• Nour Ali, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Irealand, nour.ali@lero.ie
• T.S. Mohan, Infosys Technologies,Subramanian_Mohan@infosys.com

Program committee

• Nour Ali, Lero/The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
• Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen.
• Paris Avgeriou, Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands
• Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
• Rami Bahsoon, The University of Birmingham, UK
• Len Bass, SEI/CMU, USA
• Sarah Beecham, Lero/The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
• Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, AUS
• Clovis Chapman, University College London, UK
• Christine Choppy, Univ. Paris 13, France
• Lawrence Chung, Univ. of Texas Dallas, USA
• Paul Clements, SEI/CMU, USA
• Paolo Costa, Imperial College London, UK
• Daniel J. Crichton, NASA/JPL, USA
• Deepak Dhungana, Siemens AG, Germany
• Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Ian Gorton, Pacific, Northwest National Laboratory, USA
• Jon G. Hall, Open Univ., UK
• Rick Kazman, SEI/CMU, USA
• Mark Klein, SEI CMU, USA
• Kai Koskimies, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
• Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Grace Lewis, SEI, Carneige Mellon, USA
• Chris Mattmann, NASA/USC, USA
• Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
• Ivan Mistrik, Independent Consultant, Germany
• Mohanakrishna B.G, Infosys Technologies, India
• Vivek Nallur, The University of Birmingham, UK
• Mark Ryan, The University of Birmingham, UK
• Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
• Santonu Sarkar, Infosys Technologies, India
• Thorsten Schnier, Cercia, The University of Birmingham, UK
• Ian Sommerville, The University of St Andrews, UK
• Judith A. Stafford, Tufts Univ., USA
• Michael Stal, Siemens AG - Corporate Technology, Germany
• T. S. Mohan, Infosys Technologies, India
• Georgios Theodoropoulos, IBM, Ireland
• Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
• Eoin Woods, Artechra, UK

Workshop Organizers Short Bio

Rami Bahsoon is a Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He holds a PhD in Software Engineering from UCL for his research in software architectures. He also read for MBA in technology strategy, dynamics, and new communications industry in London Business School. He is currently leading a software engineering in and for the cloud interest group, where he currently supervised 5 PhD students on the topic. He has published in the area of economics-driven software engineering, relation between non-functional requirements and software architectures, software maintenance and evolution, and regression testing. He acted as a co-chair for the IEEE workshop on Software Architectural and Mobilit, affiliated with ICSE, the IEEE Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures; the IEEE Intl. Workshop on Software Stability at Work, and the OOPSLA Workshop on Unified Data Mining Engine. He is on the editorial board of the Int. Journal of Software Architectures and a guest editor for a special issue on stable and adaptive software architectures. He is a reviewer for various journals, conferences, and workshops in software engineering.

Ivan Mistrik is an independent consultant and researcher in software-reliant systems engineering. He is a computer scientist who is interested in software engineering (SE) and software architecture (SA), in particular: life cycle software engineering, requirements engineering, aligning enterprise/system/software architectures, knowledge management in software development, global software development, and collaborative software engineering. He has more than forty years’ experience in the field of computer systems engineering as an information systems developer, R&D leader, SE/SA research analyst, educator in computer sciences, and ICT management consultant. In the past 40 years, he has been primarily working at R&D institutions in USA and Germany and has done consulting on a variety of large international projects sponsored by ESA, EU, NASA, NATO, and UN. He has also taught university-level computer sciences courses in software engineering, software architecture, distributed information systems, and human-computer interaction. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 articles and papers in international journals, conferences, books and workshops, most recently a chapter Capture of Software Requirements and Rationale through Collaborative Software Development, a paper Knowledge Management in the Global Software Engineering Environment, and a paper Architectural Knowledge Management in Global Software Development. He has also written over 90 technical reports and presented over 70 scientific/technical talks. He has served in many program committees and panels of reputable international conferences and organized a number of scientific workshops, most recently two workshops on Knowledge Engineering in Global Software Development at International Conferences on Global Software Engineering in 2009 and in 2010 (proceedings of these workshops have been published by IEEE Computer Society, Conference Publishing Services). He has been a guest-editor of IEE Proceedings Software: A special Issue on Relating Software Requirements and Architectures published by IEE in 2005 and a lead-editor of the book Rationale Management in Software Engineering published by Springer in 2006. He has been a co-author of the book Rationale-Based Software Engineering published by Springer in May 2008. He has been a lead-editor of the book Collaborative Software Engineering published in 2010. Currently he is an editor of the book on Relating Software Requirements and Architectures and a lead editor of the Expert Systems Special Issue on Knowledge Engineering in Global Software Development.

Nour Ali is a Research Fellow at Lero-The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland. She graduated in Computer Science from Bir-Zeit University, Palestine and holds a PhD. in Software Engineering and Declarative Languages from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at University of Leicester, UK. Her PhD. is on specifying software architecture of distributed and mobile systems using model driven engineering techniques for generating and executing their code. She has been an active member of several research projects focusing on software architecture such as the Microsoft Research Cambridge funded Project: "PRISMA Model Compiler of aspect-oriented component-based software architectures". She is on the editorial board of the Int. Journal of Software Architectures. She also serves as reviewer for several venues and journals such as Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Information Systems and Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. She has co-chaired and organized the IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Service Oriented Systems (EMSOS). Her research interests are software architecture, service oriented engineering, distributed and mobile systems, aspect-oriented software development, model driven engineering and global software development.


T.S. Mohan works at Infosys Technologies E&R’s ECom Research Lab as a Principal Researcher. His research interests include distributed systems, high performance computing, cloud and grid as well as software architecture and Software engineering. He has over 22 years experience in the academia and industry. T.S. Mohan holds a Master and PhD in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where he worked for about a decade before moving into the industry. He was a young visiting scientist in the Lab for Computer Science, MIT in 1988 and a visiting scientist in NEC Research Institute, Princeton in the summer of 1994. He pursued his entrepreneurial interests in Bangalore in advanced computing technologies for about 6 years before joining Infosys.

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