CFP Mashups'07: First Highlightr Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups ICSOC 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2007

["Nirmit Desai" <nirmitv@gmail.com>]

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Mashups'07: First 
Highlightr
Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups
ICSOC
2007, Vienna,
Austria, September 17, 2007

Sponsors
Mashups'07 is sponsored by

http://smoky.csc.ncsu.edu/home/
cfp

Services computing and Web
2.0 computing are converging into a programmable Web today. The interaction
and integration of services computing and Web 2.0 technologies, however,
exposes various complexities that have to be faced. This Highlightr

workshop looks specifically at Web APIs and Services Mashups – end-user-oriented
compositions of Web-accessible services and content.
Main challenges include:

• Programming models (languages, frameworks, platforms) for the composition of Web-accessible services and data of all kinds and architectural styles (SOAP, REST, RSS, Atom, and Atom Publishing Protocol (APP)) and development of integrated user-interfaces.
• Quality of mashups, including reliability and security, and management approaches to mashups.
• Understanding social and economic factors in the creation, acceptance, and sustainability of services mashups, including software-as-services markets and services marketplaces, digital communities, pricing and contracting models.

This
workshop aims to bring together several relevant communities: application
(mashup) developers, mashup technology developers and experts, end-users,
social networking and economics researchers, and the broader services computing
community.
In the spirit of mashups
this workshop is a Highlightr


event – using the Highlightr


site (http://highlightr.org

)
as a sharable, commentable, taggable, diggable, twittable, and mashable
way to keep online notes and highlights during the workshop. We encourage
and expect workshop participants to explore and use Highlightr to capture,
share, discuss, and mashup workshop contributions and outcomes.

Call for Papers
We are seeking two kinds
of paper contributions for peer-review:

• short papers (not to exceed 8 pages in Springer LNCS style format) describing mashups examples and positions on particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop, and
• long papers (not to exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS style format) describing research and novel solutions to relevant problems in more detail.

Topics of interest include:

• Languages, frameworks, and (runtime) platforms for the design, implementation, testing and maintenance of Web APIs and services mashups, including dynamic languages and frameworks such as Ruby/RoR, Javascript/Ajax, PHP, and others.
• Mashups examples and experience (design, architecture, implementation, usability and user-experience), in particular of those that use emerging tools such as IBM's QEDWiki, Google Web Toolkit, Google Mashup Editor, Dapper.net, OpenKappow, and Yahoo! Pipes, as well as using service marketplaces like StrikeIron.com and ProgrammableWeb.com.
• Quality of services mashups: reliability, security, and other non-functional aspects.
• Analysis of and experience with services mashups (creation, deployment, and usage) from social and economical perspectives; services markets and marketplaces, digital communities, pricing and contracting models.

Papers
will be accepted for full presentation (30 min. slot) or short presentation
(20 min. slot) at the workshop, or for demonstration as a poster.
All selected papers will
be published in 'conventional' workshop proceedings (details to be confirmed),
and will also be advertised through the Highlightr


site.

Submissions
Papers must be submitted
electronically in PDF format. The submission site is open at http://www.easychair.org/Mashups07/
.

Dates

• July 23: Submissions due
• August 13: Notification of acceptance
• Registration: Please see the ICSOC 2007 conference site.
• September 17: Workshop date

Agenda
Mashups'07 is a half-day
workshop comprising

• one invited presentation by Duane Nickull Sr. Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems, Inc.
• two full paper presentations (including demos, if applicable)
• four short paper presentations (including demos, if applicable)
• posters and demos
• active online community forum and discussions using Highlightr
• social event

Organization

Workshop Chairs

• E. Michael 'max' Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center
• Dave Nielsen, StrikeIron
• Stefan Tai, IBM Watson Research Center

Program Committee

• Chistopher Bussler, BEA
• Hank Chesbrough, UC Berkeley Haas (unconfirmed)
• Nirmit Desai, NC State University
• Schahram Dustdar, Vienna U of Technology
• Robert Ennals, Intel Research
• Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Center
• Jonathan Marsh, WSO2
• Steffen Meschkat, Google
• Ravi Nemana, Services Science at UC Berkeley
• Duane Nickull, Adobe Systems
• Ajith Ranabahu, Apache Software Foundation
• Adam Sah, Google
• Dan Theurer, Yahoo!
• Leslie Wu, Stanford University

Contact
icsoc.mashups07@gmail.com


(sent to the Workshop Chairs)