================================================================== Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Service Oriented Computing in Logistics (SOC-LOG 2010)
In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2010)
December 7-10, San Francisco, CA, USA
Logistics is of paramount importance for many industries: It plans and realizes the flow of goods from sources to destinations by means of transformations in space, time, and quantity. Coordinating logistics activities faces organizational and technical boundaries of the participating firms as well as must resolve conflicting goals and strategies of such firms. Information plays a crucial role in logistics, in particular in today’s business environment, which is changing significantly due to, e.g., globalization of supply chains, stronger customer orientation and individualization, all increasing the need for more adaptive logistics systems. IT is the key enabler for managing these challenges, supporting supply chain collaboration, and managing increasing economic dynamics. Advanced IT support allows supply chains to advance their efficiency significantly, to better fulfill customer needs, and handle the growing organizational complexity and the associated supply chain risks.
While existing logistics IT systems provide solid support for static, self-contained logistics systems, research on managing the logistics in supply chains that are dynamically changing, is still less advanced. Service-oriented Computing (SOC) is a promising paradigm, which automates inter-organizational processes by loosely coupled software-based services. The focus of this workshop is the study and exploration of SOC’s potential to solve coordination problems in logistics systems and supply chains. Key research questions are: (1) How to represent logistics systems in service-based computing systems by employing and adopting constructs, models, and methods of the SOC technology stack, (2) how to describe software-based logistics services with service description languages, (3) how to coordinate software-based logistics services, by employing and adopting approaches for service discovery and service composition, (4) how to negotiate and agree about the delivery of software-based logistics services with approaches for SLA representation, SLA management, and SLA negotiation, and (5) how to control the delivery and how to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of software-based logistics services?
With the set of design principles, architectural models and concepts and last but not least with its existing and growing set of standards, SOC promotes adaptiveness of logistics systems and supply chains, a flexible and re-configurable provisioning along multiple supply chains, and their efficiency.
The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss recent significant developments at the intersection of service-oriented computing and logistics systems/supply chain management, and to promote cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas and techniques between these fields. The relation to ICSOC 2010 is that, on one hand, the conference addresses the core concepts such as interacting business processes, service composition, service operations, and quality of services, and on the other hand, would receive feedback, experiences, and requirements from a highly relevant application domain to validate and advance its current approaches.
In particular, we are inviting papers on the following topics: 1) Logistics services representation - Servicetization of logistics systems - Logistics service models - Reference models for logistics services - Semantic models for logistics services - Repositories and dictionaries for logistics services 2) Logistics services description - Syntactical description of logistics services - Semantic description of logistics services - Logistics ontologies / ontologies for logistics services - QoS attributes of logistics services 3) Coordination of logistics services - Discovery of logistics services - Composition of logistics services - Orchestration and choreography of logistics services - Market-based coordination of logistics services, i.e., auctions, exchanges 4) SLA Management of logistics services - Domain-specific SLA models - Semantic annotation of SLAs for logistics services - SLA negotiation protocols for logistics services - Pricing of logistics services - Integrating logistics services into SLA management infrastructures 5) Delivery of logistics services - Logistics service runtime management and monitoring - Verification of logistics services - Simulation and optimization of logistics services - Transactional safeguarding of logistics services - Service-oriented architectures for the setup and enactment of logistics services
Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers, as
on the listed or related topics.
Please, submit papers (in PDF format) via our electronic submission system which is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soclog10.
All workshop papers will be included in the combined workshop proceedings of ICSOC 2010 which are planned to be published in Springer’s LNCS series.
Thus, papers should be written in English and must be prepared in the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for more information).
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. For short position papers, clarity of exposition and the degree of innovation will be sufficient, while for full papers, a clear technical contribution is expected.
At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the work. Attendance of the workshop requires registration to the main ICSOC 2010 conference.
14 September 2010: Submissions due 30 September 2010: Notification of acceptance 07 December 2010: Workshop (1 day) 10 January 2011: Camera-ready Submission
Joerg Leukel , University of Hohenheim, Germany André Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany Alex Norta , University of Helsinki, Finland
(invitations pending)
Joerg Leukel
Department of Information Systems 2 University of Hohenheim Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +43 711 459-23968 E-Mail: joerg.leukel@uni-hohenheim.de
URI: http://www.joerg-leukel.net
André Ludwig Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 9733732 +49 341 9733732 E-Mail: ludwig@wifa.uni-leipzig.de URI: http://www.andre-ludwig.info
Alex Norta
Department of Computer Science University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland Phone: +358 44 0303720 +358 44 0303720 E-Mail: alexander.norta@cs.helsinki.fi
URI: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/anorta/