6th IEEE International Workshop on 

Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE)

in conjunction with

16th IEEE International Conference on
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2011)
Toulouse, France, 05.-09. September 2011

Message from the SOCNE Chairs

With the Internet Protocol (IP) that has grown to become a quasi de-facto standard for communication in various application domains, domains are converging and hence build the foundation for many new application scenarios. These applications are increasingly designed as and supported by modular and orchestrated services that are distributed across heterogemeous platforms and network environments. Besides an intelligent service creation environment and tool support that allow to dynamically compose new services on top of existing ones, the service orchestration requires smart and reliable service management and coordination that ensures that requirements imposed by the application or the customer are matched against quantitative system parameters. Quality of  Service is an important challange for the service managment in order to to ensure a smart and reliable service access. Due to the growing complexity in these environments, the trend for self-configuration and self-management of these services is inevitable.

Aim and topics

Smart and reliable service interoperability and composition across heterogeneous platforms and networking environments build the foundation for added-value services. Such services have become a competitive factor for many industrial branches and various application domains such as automotive, avionics, home, tele-medicine, home and building automation or factory automation.

This IEEE workshop encourages communication and exchange of ideas between industrial experts, academic researchers and developers in the field of middleware, service-oriented architectures, programming paradigms, design, and engineering for heterogeneous networking environments. Important knowledge about future emerging directions for protocols, methodologies, middleware, network infrastructures, factory communication systems, and self-organizing software/service architectures can be gained.

From this perspective, the workshop is focused on (but not restricted to) the following subjects:

Architectures and Design Principals

• Design criteria of service-oriented and resource-oriented architectures
• Platforms, frameworks and tools support
• Support, configuration & management
• Creation, deployment, life cycle management
• System security, validation and testing
• Semantic web services & web services ontology
• Future trends in service-orientation and emerging issues

Device Centric Environments

• Device centric SOAs and RESTful web services
• Embedded web services
• Device integration in higher value infrastructures
• Real-time embedded networked applications and systems
• Web services and middleware for embedded environments
• Resource constrained and low power lossy networks
• Scalability, reliability, safety and security aspects

Applications and Best Practices

• Enterprise application integration (EAI)
• Deployments in industrial environments, logistics and products
• User centric home automation
• Smart grid, smart metering
• Assisted living and healthcare applications
• Ambient intelligence
• Urban sensor networks
• Lessons learned and case studies
• New emerging opportunities

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