Second IEEE Workshop on Information & Software as Services

March 1, 2010 (Monday)

Venue

The second workshop on "Information and Software as Services" (WISS) is associated and co-located with 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) as a pre-conference event.

Workshop theme

Following the success of WISS'09 in Shanghai, China, the second IEEE workshop on "Information and Software as a Service" (WISS) will focus on the challenges associated with the design, deployment, and management of information and software as a service.

The high cost of creating and maintaining software and hardware infrastructures for delivering services to businesses led to a notable trend toward the use of third-party service providers, which rent out network presence, computation power, and data storage space to clients with infrastructural needs. These third party service providers can act as data stores as well as entire software suites for improved availability and system scalability, reducing small & medium businesses' burden of managing complex infrastructures. This is called information/application outsourcing or software as a service (SAAS). Emergence of enabling technologies, such as J2EE, .Net, XML, virtual machines, and web services contribute to this trend. Scientific Grid computing, on-line software services and business service networks are typical examples exploiting database and software as service paradigm.

Workshop format

In addition to technical paper presentations, the workshop will feature two invited keynote speakers and one invited talk session with three case studies followed by a brief panel discussion on these real world scenarios.