Call for Participation Deadline is Approaching for the Composability wit

["Jane Harnad" <jane.harnad@oasis-open.org>]

Open Standards 2008: Composability within Service Oriented Architectures
Symposium
28 April - 1 May 2008
Santa Clara, California  USA
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008

Call for Participation:  Deadline for submission is 17 December 2007

At the core of Service Oriented Architectures currently deployed in
businesses and governments is the ability to compose or coordinate various
pieces of applications - legacy and novel - that may be developed on
different platforms and languages, provide different interfaces, and be
managed by different owners. We use the term "composability" to denote this
quality.

This symposium addresses the various technical and business facets of
composability in SOA.  This symposium will be an opportunity for both
researchers and business practitioners to state their challenges, best
practices and experiences.  It will also be a forum where technology
architects provide a fair assessment of the current status of composability
standards and implementations, including opportunities for improvement and
potential obstacles.

OASIS invites proposals for talks, panel sessions and tutorials with a clear
focus on answering technical or business questions on composability within
Service Oriented Architectures.  Potential topics include, but are not
limited to:

•  Orchestration and choreography of services: making composite applications
work 
•  Use Cases, lessons learned and best practices for a successful SOA
deployment of composability technologies 
•  Use of semantic technologies to enhance SOA composability 
•  The standards for SOA relating to composability: how do various standards
support composability, how do they compose with each other 
•  Composition of service components using Service Component Architecture
(SCA)
•  Management and governance of distributed composite applications,
including policy management as well as the control of service interfaces and
implementations 
•  Client-side composability through Web 2.0 style mash-ups using AJAX,
JSON and related technologies 
•  The dynamic aspect of composite applications: change management,
discovery, upgrades, migrations and transitions 
•  Organizational aspects of designing composite applications: multi-owner
systems, transitioning from smokestack solutions to reusable service
components 
•  Coordination and mediation enablers: Enterprise Service Bus, rule-based
engines, service directories, etc.
•  Testing of composite applications, including the challenges of testing
across business boundaries 
•  The security and identity management aspects of composability:  discovery
of service failure semantics, fine grained versus coarse grained policy
propagation and enforcement, the role of identity in composability, ensuring
end to end security, privacy, and accountability within a security realm or
across security realms 
•  Transactions and compensations within composite applications including
ACID transactions and long running activities across business boundaries 
•  Management of composite applications – monitoring and control across
distributed heterogeneous services 
•  Business, military, or government specific challenges and solutions for
SOA and composability

Submission guidelines and a list of frequently asked questions may be found
on the event web site:
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/call-for-participation

>> To Submit a Proposal:
Please send you submission using the online abstract submission form found
at: http://events.oasis-open.org/home/node/add/submission

All submissions will be acknowledged.

>> Important Dates:

• Proposals Due: 17 December 2007
• Notification by: 30 January 2008
• Final Materials Deadline: To Be Announced in Confirmation Letter
• Symposium: 28 April – 1 May 2008