Service industry is a major constituent of developed economies. Providing services is a knowledge-intensive, customer-specific, on-demand business. In information systems, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Web Services (WS), as an emerging approach to moving services into the computing world, are two of the most discussed topics in the areas related to Internet research.
Compared to electronic products like off-the shelf software, managing electronic services might share the same Internet-based infrastructure for production and delivery. However, the processes of describing, composing and utilization of electronic products and electronic services are different.
Today, technical questions of distributed computing, service description, composition, architectures and utilisation prevail. Future research is bound to focus on similar questions to those in the services business industry: the advantages of improved scalability, decentralized management, fault-tolerance and reduced operating costs. New forms and dimensions of intra- and inter-enterprise integration, coordination and availability of resources might appear.
This special issue is intended to represent the state-of-the art of Service-oriented Architectures and Web Services research, in the technical as well as the business area. Contributions are sought both from researchers and from practitioners and consultants.
Topics include:
Semantics for Services
·Services Specifications and Enhancements
·Services Modeling
·Semantic Web Services and Web Service Ontologies
Services Composition and Workflow Planning
·Services Discovery and Filtering
·Matchmaking and Resource Allocation
·Services Composition and Enactment
·Interoperability and Integration of External Services
·Semantic Business Process Management
·QoS for Web Services
·Service Monitoring
·Service Profiling
·Standardization Issues
Service Centric Applications
·Industrial SOA/WS Solutions
·e-business and e-government Applications
·Business Aspects and Business Models of Services
·Evaluation and Assessment Issues
·Web 2.0, MashUps and AJAX – the next wave or SOA/WS by a different name?
Guidelines:
All papers are reviewed double-blind by three peer referees. They should contain max. 9 pages (corresponds to about 45.000 characters incl. spaces and figures). Please adhere to the formal requirements of the WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK journal. The papers should be written in German or English language and should be in a format like *.doc or *.rtf. Figures of accepted articles are needed as separate files.
Schedule Paper submission for review: 2007-04-01 Camera-ready papers submission: 2007-11-15 Publication date: 2008-01
Please contact the editors of this special issue if you have any questions.
