Objectives:
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Practitioners are very likely to beg, borrow and steal from software
engineering in-the-small to benefit the case of software engineering
for the ultra-large-scale, as it is the case of the cloud. Though the
fundamentals of engineering software in both paradigms exhibit
resemblance, software engineering for the cloud require novel
approaches, which address the interplay between technical,
economics-driven considerations and shifts software engineering
towards a utility-based engineering for software-, infrastructure-,
data storage and/or platform- as services.

The goal of this workshop is to address these gaps by strengthening
the cross-fertilization of advances from software engineering,
services and cloud computing. The workshop will explore, debate and
increase our understanding to the following: (i) how recent advances
in software engineering (with an emphasis on software architectures,
architecting dependable systems, self-adaptive software architectures,
economics-driven software engineering, risk management, security
software engineering, green software engineering and testing) can
(not) relate to the case of cloud; (ii) what are the most recent
innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the field
that appraise the paradigm-shift in engineering software systems as
cloud services or in support of cloud infrastructures; (iii) what are the open
research directions for software engineering FOR the cloud?; (iv) how
the paradigm will shape the future of engineering software IN the
cloud, i.e. benefiting from the cloud infrastructure, virtualisation
and economics of scale.

The workshop thus aims to bridge the gap between software engineering,
services, business and cloud computing communities by specifically
addressing the challenges for software engineering FOR and IN the
cloud.

List of topics
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* Requirements engineering in and for the cloud;
* Relating non-functional requirements to architectures for cloud environments;
* Architecting for the cloud;
* Patterns and architectural styles for the cloud;
* Agile software development on the cloud;
* Engineering security, trust and privacy in architectures for cloud
environments;
* Engineering for performance, reliability, heterogeneity, safety,
scalability, real-time and dependability in cloud architectures;
* Service-level management for the cloud;
* Services engineering for the cloud;
* Model-driven engineering for the cloud;
* Environments and tools support for the cloud;
* Testing for the cloud;
* Maintenance and evolution for the cloud;
* Risk management in the cloud;
* Engineering sustainability in cloud architectures;
* Economics-driven engineering for the cloud;
* Cloud services as utilities;
* Empirical and industrial studies;
* Cloud Software Engineering education.

Important dates
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Paper Submission March 14, 2011 (Extended)
Decision Notification March 21, 2011
Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration April 8, 2011

Submission Information:
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Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short
papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines
(http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). All papers should be
in PDF and submitted via the submission system at
http://www.confhub.com/MyPapers.php?cid=228. First time users need to
register with the system first. All the accepted papers by the
workshops will be included in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE 2011
World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2011) which will be published by
IEEE Computer Society.

Papers will be reviewed by three program committee members and will be
selected depending on their originality, quality and relevance to the
workshop. Each accepted paper will have to be presented in person by
(one of) the author(s). To foster lively and productive discussions,
each author will be encouraged to present open questions to the forum
and one or two main statements for discussion at the workshop
brainstorming session. We aim to arrange for a special thematic
journal issue, featuring the best papers presented in the workshop for
this year. We also plan to have a book on the theme.

Workshop chairs:
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Rami Bahsoon, The University of Birmingham, UK, r.bahsoon@cs.bham.ac.uk
Ivan Mistrik, Independent Consultant, i.j.mistrik@t-online.de
T.S. Mohan, Infosys Technologies Subramanian_Mohan@infosys.com
Nour Ali, Lero-The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland, nour.ali@lero.ie


International Program Committee:
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Nour Ali, Lero-The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Norway
Paris Avgeriou, Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands
Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Rami Bahsoon, The University of Birmingham, UK
Len Bass, SEI/CMU, USA
Sarah Beecham, Lero-The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
Behzad Bordbar, The University of Birmingham, UK
Clovis Chapman, University College London, UK
Christine Choppy, Univ. Paris 13, France
Lawrence Chung, Univ. of Texas Dallas, USA
Paul Clements, SEI/CMU, USA
Paolo Costa, Imperial College London, UK
Lorcan Coyle, Lero-The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland
Daniel J. Crichton, NASA/JPL, USA
Deepak Dhungana, Siemens AG - Corporate Technology, Austria
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ian Gorton, Pacific, Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Jon G. Hall, Open Univ., UK
Rick Kazman, SEI/CMU, USA
Mark Klein, SEI CMU, USA
Kai Koskimies, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Grace Lewis, SEI, Carneige Mellon, USA
Chris Mattmann, NASA/USC, USA
Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
Ivan Mistrik, Independent Consultant, Germany
Mohanakrishna B.G, Infosys Technologies, India
Vivek Nallur, The University of Birmingham, UK
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Santonu Sarkar, Infosys Technologies, India
Thorsten Schnier, Cercia, The University of Birmingham, UK
Ian Sommerville, The University of St Andrews, UK
Judith A. Stafford, Tufts Univ., USA
Michael Stal, Siemens AG - Corporate Technology, Germany
T. S. Mohan, Infosys Technologies, India
Georgios Theodoropoulos, The University of Birmingham, UK
Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Eoin Woods, Artechra, UK