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                        INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
               SERVICE-ORIENTED ENGINEERING AND OPTIMIZATION
                            December 18, 2007
                   	        Goa, India
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                      http://pgroup.usc.edu/senopt/

The 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Engineering and Optimization 
(SENOPT'07) will take place in Goa, India on Tuesday, December 18, 2007.
SENOPT is intended to address issues in the design of scalable, configurable, 
and high-performance large-scale enterprise applications built on service-oriented 
architectures and web services technologies. Two aspects of interest to the 
workshop are engineering and optimization. Engineering encompasses issues 
in software engineering, software architecture and frameworks, development 
methodologies, design principles for web services and SOA, etc., that help 
create scalable, rapidly deployable, and configurable applications with 
reusable components and abstractions. Optimization includes quantifying 
and measuring aspects such as ease of integration and reuse, in addition 
to traditional metrics such as latency, throughput, response time, etc. 


Co-located with the 14th IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007)
http://www.hipc.org/


IMPORTANT DATES

September 15, 2007  Manuscript submission
October   22, 2007  Notification of acceptance/rejection
November  15, 2007  Camera-Ready paper due

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                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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CALL FOR PAPERS

IT-enabled operations are changing the face of global business. With the 
emergence of open standards such as HTTP, SOAP, and web services, 'web-enabled' 
enterprise applications are expected to revolutionize the nature of 
large-scale distributed computing in a eScience, eResearch, and eBusiness. 
The next generation of enterprise applications is being built on service-oriented 
architecture principles, emphasizing loose coupling and high reuse, with XML 
and web services as the underlying implementation technology. The proposed 
workshop will provide a venue for academic and industry researchers to present 
and discuss issues and solution approaches for the design of scalable, 
configurable, and high-performance large-scale enterprise applications. 

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate 
current research and/or practice on design, engineering, and optimization of 
such applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Processes, frameworks, and methodologies
    * Performance metrics and measurement strategies
    * Innovative applications and performance evaluation of semantic web 
      technologies
    * Software architectures for reusability and rapid reconfiguration
    * Large scale event modeling and management
    * Service discovery, composition, availability, and adaptive reconfiguration
    * Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, 
      fault-tolerance
    * Case studies related to engineering and optimization in real world deployments 

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 8 single-spaced pages using 11-point size font on 
8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition 
to the 8 pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical 
strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to 
the workshop attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under 
consideration for another workshop, conference, or a journal. Submission procedures 
will be made available at the workshop web site http://pgroup.usc.edu/senopt/

All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by September 15, 2007,
by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. Notification of review decisions will be mailed 
by October 15, 2007. Camera-ready papers will be due October 29, 2007.

Proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. 


WORKSHOP CHAIR

Amol Bakshi
University of Southern California
USA

PROGRAM CHAIR

Alok Choudhary
Northwestern Univ.
USA 

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                         SENOPT '07 ORGANIZATION
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WORKSHOP CHAIR

Amol Bakshi
University of Southern California
USA

PROGRAM CHAIR

Alok Choudhary
Northwestern Univ.
USA 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ravi Anupindi, Univ. of Michigan, USA
David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA
Anand V. Bodapati, UCLA, USA
Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., USA
Srividya Gopalan, Satyam Computer Services Limited, India
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA
N C Narendra, IBM India Research Lab, India
Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys Technologies Limited, India
Harry Perros, North Carolina State Univ., USA
M V Ramana, Satyam Computer Services Limited, India
M V Srinivas, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India
Kevin Ross, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab, India
S V Subrahmanya, Infosys Technologies Limited, India 

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

Ramakrishna Soma
University of Southern California
USA

K S Sateesh
IBM India Software Labs
Bangalore