Call for Papers

Mashups'09

Third International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups (Mashups09) at OOPSLA 2009, Orlando, Florida, 25 October 2009

http://www.mashup-oopsla.org/

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 workshop looks specifically at Services Mashups – end-user-oriented compositions of Web APIs, Web content and Web data sources.

BACKGROUND

The Web is now programmable. Part of this programmability comes from the many Web APIs available from Web sites and services. An interesting consequence of these APIs is the ability to combine the resulting data and process into new data and processes achieving higher-level value than originally exposed by the initial APIs.

A classic example is to combine mapping APIs (e.g., Google Maps) and the Atom data APIs from Craigslist or the REST API from Eventful database to have a new service that displays listing or events on the map. These resulting new Web applications, or mashups, add new value to the initial Web APIs that individually they would not be able to do alone.

While mashups have taken off and 1000s of mashups are currently widely available for various purposes, there remains various challenges and opportunities, that if addressed would make mashups even more widely available and accessible on the Web. Some of the main challenges are:

1. Devising programming models (languages, frameworks, platforms) for the composition of Web-accessible services and data of all kinds and architectural styles (REST, Atom, RSS, AtomPub, and SOAP/WSDL) and development of integrated user-interfaces
2. Ensuring quality of service for mashups, including performance, reliability, and security
3. Understanding social and economic factors in the creation, acceptance, and sustainability of services mashups, including software-as-services markets, services marketplaces and intermediaries, digital communities, and pricing, incentive and contracting models
4. How to integrate mashups into social computing platforms, such as Facebook and OpenSocial-enabled social networks, which provide a huge user base with profile and social graphs data
5. How to scale mashups, maybe taking advantage cloud computing infrastructure
6. How to provide the necessary primitives to secure resulting data from mashups and also maintain privacy concerns of the original data and APIs
7. Can mashups platforms and tools be simplified to a point that they could be generated by end-users with minimal programming
8. What about mashups for mobile platforms, such as smartphones, which also expose interesting new kind of information such as location and profile data

In this third installment of the International Mashups Workshop we will solicit contributions addressing these issues. We plan to continue the tradition of the two previous Mashups workshops (2007 in Vienna and 2008 in Sydney) of not only selecting a broad range of papers in the space but also getting keynote speakers from leading industry groups that are currently offering mashups tools and platforms for wide-consumptions and availability.

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 software service engineering community.

Peer-reviewed workshop papers will be published as part of the ACM Digital Library (Approval Pending). Two kinds of contributions are sought: short position papers (not to exceed 4 pages in ACM style format) describing particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop, and full research papers (not to exceed 8 pages in the ACM style format) describing novel solutions to relevant problems. Mashup and technology demonstrations are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Languages, frameworks, and platforms for the design, implementation, testing and maintenance of services mashups, including dynamic languages and frameworks such as Ruby/RoR and Javascript/Ajax, and solutions such as Yahoo! Pipes, Microsoft Popfly, IBM Mashup Center
* New approaches to mashup construction: dataflow, spreadsheet and process-oriented mashups, end-user mashup development, mashups on the cloud
* Novel applications of mashups, e.g., mobile mashups, location-aware mashups, wiki-based mashups
* Specific services mashup application and technology examples: design, architecture, implementation, usability and user-experience
* Mashups within and using social software platforms, e.g., OpenSocial or the Facebook platform
* Mashups within enterprises and across enterprises
* Quality of service and mashups: performance, 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
* Experience reports on short-term and long-term maintenance and evolution of mashups

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submit at the Mashups09 EasyChair installation. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mashups09

IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstract Submission: 31.8.2009 (Extended)
* Paper Submission: 7.9.2009 (Extended)
* Paper Acceptance Notification: 28.9.2009
* Camera Ready: 15.10.2009
* Mashups'09 Workshop: 25.10.2009

PROGRAM CHAIRS

* Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Stefan Tai, Karlsruhe University, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* M. Brian Blake, Notre Dame University
* Christoph Bussler, MercedSystems, Inc, USA
* Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
* Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* George Feuerlicht, University of Technology, Sydney
* Robert Ennals, Intel Research, Berkeley, CA
* Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands
* Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Rania Khalaf, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
* Agnes Koschmider, KIT, Germany
* Jonathan Marsh, WSO2
* Duane Nickull, Adobe Systems
* Dave Nielsen, Independent Consultant
* Ajith Ranabahu, Apache Foundation
* Amit Sheth, Wright State University
* Kunal Verma, Accenture Research
* Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA
* Eric Wohlstadter, UBC, Canada
* Christian Zirpins, KIT, Germany

CONTACT

mashups09@mashup-oopsla.org
http://www.mashup-oopsla.org/