[hpc-announce] CFP: Design Methods for Software Architectures in the Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms (special issue in the SPE journal)

[Rajkumar Buyya]

*Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)*

Special Issue on

*/Design Methods for Software Architectures in the
Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms/*

Guest Editors: Manuel Mora, Rory V. O’Connor, Frank Tsui, Jorge Marx Gómez

Edited by: Rajkumar Buyya and R. Nigel Horspool

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**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****

The design of the architecture of a system has been a critical relevant
activity in the systems engineering discipline from several decades for
the design of physical man-made systems. However, a reduced set of
design methods and complementary decision-making techniques have been
consistently used with successful results. In contrast, in the software
engineering discipline there is a body of academic research on the
foundations, methods, and complementary techniques with a scarce
accumulative knowledge. Every design stream on software architecture
elaborates their own vocabulary and methods and usually ignores other
design streams. Additionally, there are most proprietary than open
access design methods, and a reduced set of well-accepted methods,
techniques and practices are still missing. Thus, software architecture
design methods are inconsistently or little used in the practice during
the application of software development methodologies except by the
large system and software development companies.

In particular software systems are widely demanded at present in two
co-existing paradigms:Software-oriented Computing (SOC) and the Cloud
Computing paradigms. SOC paradigm aims the development of medium-sized
and large distributed inter-organizational systems by assembling it
(ideally) as a system of service providers and consumers, known as a
Service-oriented Computing Application (SOCA). Thus, the design of SOCAs
inherently includes the challenges of high quality software architecture
design, given its naturalcomposition by services provided by some
entities and consumed by others (independently of the self-services in
the same SOCA). In turn, the Cloud Computing paradigm aims to provide a
cost-effective, scalable and dynamic provision of IT resources
(processing, storage, networking) for elastic demands. This convergence
of SOC and this emergent paradigm, introduces new software architecture
design challenges and trade-off problems for achieving functional and
non-functional requirements of Software as Service (SaaS) as a whole
entity assembled by other composed and atomic services in the cloud.

Hence, we consider that: 1) the SOC and Cloud Computing applications
strongly dependently of their architectural designs; 2) practitioners
demand well-structured and practically applicable software architecture
design methods: 3) there are a scarcity of well-accepted software
architecture design methods; and 4) there is a wide gap between
theoretical recommendations and their daily utilization in the practice
for software engineers working in small, medium-sized and large
companies. Thus, a call for papers is required for high quality
conceptual proposals or already applied software architecture design
methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms.This special issue aims
lately to improve our understanding and encourage the utilization of
software architecture design methods by being perceived as useful, ease
of use, ease of learn, compatible, and highly valued by practitioners.
Accepted papers must demonstrate clearly how their contributions advance
the current status of scholastic software architecture design methods.

*The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not
limited to:*

•Case studies of successful applied software architecture design methods
for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms

•Case studies of failed utilizations of software architecture design for
SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms

•Usability studies on specific software architecture design methods for
SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms

•Successful examples of inclusion of software architecture design
methods into agile software development methodologies for SOC and Cloud
Computing paradigms from practitioners perspectives.

•Software architecture design methods for SOC and Cloud Computing
paradigms based on ISO/IEC standards (e.g. ISO 42010, ISO 12207, ISO
15288, among others).

•Comparative studies of most recognized software architecture design
methods for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms.

•Cases on the development of prototype tools for supporting the software
architecture design tasks for SOC and Cloud Computing paradigms.

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

*Open for manuscript submission in ScholarOne: May 1, 2016*

*Closed for submissions: June 1, 2016*

*Results of first round of reviews: August 1, 2016*

*Submission of revised manuscripts: September 1, 2016*

*Results of second round of reviews: November 1, 2016*

*Publication materials due: December 1, 2016***

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*Major Guidelines*

The special issue requests original applied research papers that
challenge or confirm the current status of software architecture design
methods and complementary techniques through the report of usable
well-structured software architecture design methods in the SOC and
Cloud Computing paradigms.Papers based on original ideas are expected.
Papers elaborated as extended versions of previous published research
must provide at least 50% of new material. For this case, authors must
submit a cover letter/document with: 1) a comparative table of findings,
contributions and limitations from extended and initial paper; and 2) a
brief justification on the extended sections in the new paper. Each
submitted paper will be reviewed by two international reviewers at
least. The editorial review committee will be conformed by academic and
industry based people involved in the special issue themes.Selection and
Evaluation Criteria are:

- Evidences of advances on the current status of scholastic software
architecture design methods

- Practical relevance to use and apply the method or contributions of
the paper

- Scope and criticality of the application domain of the method or
contributions of the paper

- Correctness of the applied research method (problem definition, work
hypothesis, materials and methods, application of materials and methods,
discussion of results, contributions and limitations, and conclusions).

-Clarity and readability of the paper

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*Author Submission Guidelines*

Papers should be formatted according to the SPE Author Guidelines below:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X/homepage/ForAuthors.html

Manuscript length:

Regular papers should not exceed the length of 15 pages including
figures and tables (in SPE format). Please note, the special issue’s
page limit is different from SPE regular paper submissions. Papers that
exceed the length of 15 pages may not be considered for review and
publication. In special cases, up to 20 pages will be allowed subject to
approval from the Guest Editors. Authors desiring a 20 page limit should
contact the Guest Editors in advance.

*Submission Instructions*

The article will be submitted in the usual way via the online submission
site (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe). When submitting a
manuscript for this special issue, authors should take care to select
“Special Issue: Practical Design Methods for Software Architectures in
the Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms: Challenging or
Confirming Extant Scholastic Methods” as the Manuscript Type and to
select Manuel Mora as the preferred editor.

*GUEST EDITORS:*

*Prof. Manuel Mora**,– Corresponding Guest Editor*

Information Systems Department, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes,

Ave. Universidad 940, Aguascalientes, AGS. Mexico 20131

Email: mmora at correo.uaa.mx <mailto:mmora at correo.uaa.mx>

*Prof. Rory V. O’Connor*

School of Computing, Dublin City University

Glasnevin,Dublin 9, Ireland

Email: rory.oconnor at dcu.ie <mailto:rory.oconnor at dcu.ie>

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*Assoc. Prof. Frank Tsui *

Department of Software Engineering and Game Design, Kennesaw University

1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA

Email: ftsui at kennesaw.edu <mailto:ftsui at kennesaw.edu>

*Prof.Jorge Marx Gómez*

Department of Informatics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118, 26129 Oldenburg / Germany

Email: jorge.marx.gomez at uni-oldenburg.de
<mailto:jorge.marx.gomez at uni-oldenburg.de>