New Generation Computing
Special Issue: “Methods and Tools for Knowledge Exploitation in SOA Systems”
Call for Papers
(planned for Vol.30, No.2, 2012)

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) paradigm enables to create systems which helps to make independent business solutions from technological constraints. Systems designed accordant to this paradigm are composed of service which are executed on user’s demand, where each service is an implementation of business functionality, which can be used in different business processes. The system according to SOA paradigm can combine complex services out of atomic ones. Moreover, in modeled business process it is possible to specify which services can and how their elements interacting with each other.

Today, the SOA paradigm is receiving new dimension in SOKU (Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities) that delivers methods for acquisition, processing and integration of knowledge. Because of the complexity of problems arising in SOKU systems, there is a great need for development of methods of representation of descriptive and procedural knowledge. Hence, ontologies are employed for representation of knowledge about users and services. The SOKU concept corresponds to the rapidly growing demand for reduction in management costs and increases in the effectiveness of business processes.

The SOKU approach involves flexible and effective design, implementation, provision and modification of services for many different application areas such as: economy, science, administration etc. The SOKU approach is a consequence of observable development trends in computer science and telecommunications, as well as in real practical applications in the field of distributed computing systems. It bases on the many different principles and methods for constructing collaborative and self-organizing data processing environments.

Guest Editor:

Adam Grzech and Janusz Sobecki

Topics

The guest editors welcome the submission of original papers addressing the problems of Methods and tools for knowledge exploitation in SOA systems. Authors should submit papers presenting novel approaches for existing problems as well as original and significant results in theoretical, methodological and application aspects.
Theory papers should present significant results and applications papers should demonstrate precise practical evaluations and/or comparisons that clearly make their technical and scientific contribution.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to following areas:

• Requirement analysis and automation of design and provision of services using knowledge engineering
• Decision making and service management in networked SOKU environments
• Qualitative analysis and estimation of SOKU services Requirement analysis and automation of design and provision of services using knowledge engineering
• Specialized Web Services for Web Services ontology management
• Semantic based Virtual Organization management
• Development of SOKU implementation infrastructures

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: July 15^th, 2011
• Notification of paper acceptance (by e-mail): October 15^th, 2011
• Revised version submission deadline: November 15^th, 2011
• Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due: December 15^th, 2011

To be fully considered for publication, papers must be received by the due date and meet the following requirements. Papers must be written in English and final versions should be from 20 to 30 pages long (including figures). The electronic data of the final version of papers must be prepared in NGC style (please see the instruction in http://www.ohmsha.co.jp/ngc/).

The paper version submitted for the revision should be send in an electronic version (.pdf) to the e-mail address listed below.

Janusz Sobecki
Wroclaw University of Technology
Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
e-mail: sobecki@pwr.wroc.pl
fax: +48-71-320-34-53

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