Workshop Topics

The 6th International Workshop on SOA and Web services aims to bring together the knowledge and experience of different organizations and individuals both in practical and theoretical aspects of SOA development.

Workshops goals:

to identify shortcomings of current software engineering approaches when applied to SOA projects.
to discuss novel software engineering techniques to promote practical solutions to the currently identified problems.
to identify patterns for the development of best practice in SOA application development.

In the context of the workshop goals, the following are some of the potential workshop topics on which experiences and work will be shared and presented:

Business and Organizational Issues

SOA adoption
SOA governance
Maturity models
Enterprise architecture and SOA

Process and Methods

Methodologies for SOA development
UML profiles for SOA
Metrics for SOA
SOA patterns

Architectural Models

Architectural decisions for SOA
Separation of concerns in SOA
Modeling tools/techniques for SOA
Testing and verification of SOA
Applicability of formal methods in SOA
Standardization

Development Issues

Experiences in developing Web services
Evaluation methods/techniques of SOA
Autonomic Web services

Operational Issues

Web services management
Security and Web services
Registries and repositories

SOA 2.0

Event-driven architecture and SOA
Semantics

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