Collaboration
Service Engineering Working Group
The European Commission, DG Information Society, “Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures” (SSA&I) Unit organised a two day event in March 2008.
The objective of the event was to prepare the Work Programme 2009-10 and to launch the FP7 projects (concertation meeting). As a result of the concertation meeting,
initial SSAI&E Collaboration Working Groups (CWGs) have been set up.
Amongst these CWGs is the “Service Engineering” group, which is coordinated by Schahram Dustdar and Uwe Zdun (coordinator of the NESSI project COMPAS and participant in S-CUBE).
The objective of the CWG is to enable the creation of a research agenda and plan for the area of Service Engineering.
In the first meeting in Brussels several projects and people signed in their interest in participating in this working group.
An invitation was sent out to all of those addresses provided by the EU commission and representatives of the following projects attended the first meeting of the working group
in Vienna: COMPAS, S-CUBE, DiVA, SHAPE, PERSIST, ROMULUS, DEPLOY, MOST
In the first meeting the working group participants identified the following research challenges:
- Specification of Services
- Engineering of Service Compositions
- Service Engineering Methodology
- Relationship to Software Engineering Methodology
- Relationship to Business Process Modeling techniques
- Relationship to Ontology-driven techniques
- Model-driven approaches
- Mashup-approaches
- Autonomic Adaptation - Service Engineering Techniques
- Engineering of Self-* properties
- Service Testing and Simulation
- Service Governance Techniques
- Management and Monitoring techniques for services
- Service Evolution and Versioning
- Engineering techniques for Human provided Services
These research challenges will provide the basic underlying structure of the planned manifesto and scientific book publication and a meeting with publisher Springer is already
planned for September 2008 to discuss the details of producing this book.
The book will be based on one case study which will be the basis of all chapters discussing the novel research contributions. Hence, the plan is that the book is not merely an
aggregation of project outcomes but all novel contributions in the field of Service Engineering will be focusing on a shared case study. This will make it easier for the reader
to fully grasp and value the novelties as well as make it easier to follow the current state of the art of the involved EU research projects in this area.
