8th Symposium and Summer School On Service-Oriented Computing

June 30 – July 5, 2014 in Crete, Greece

The 8th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing (SummerSOC 14) continues a successful series of summer schools that started in 2007. The school regularly attracts world-class experts in Service Oriented Computing to present tutorials and state-of-the-art research during a week-long program organized in four thematic tracks:
Formal Methods for SOC, Computing in the Clouds, People in Services, Emerging Topics

Program 2014

Hours Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
09:00-09:30
09:30-10:00
10:30-11:30
11:30-12:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:20
18:20-18:40
18:40-19:00
20:00-22:00
1. Formal Methods for SOC
2. Computing in the clouds
3. Elasticity in the cloud
4. Emerging Topics
5. Social Events
6. Project Presentation
7. Training
8. Phd Candidates Session
9. IMSE Activities
Sunday, June 29

09:00-10:30
IMSE Students Master Thesis Defence
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-13:00
IMSE Students Master Thesis Defence
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-16:00
IMSE Students Master Thesis Defence
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
IMSE Students Master Thesis Defence
Monday, June 30
08:30-09:00
Welcome and Logistics

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09:00-12:00

Morning Session – Session Chair:
09:00-09:30
Industry talk (Cloud): “Cloud Environment” , Gerd Breiter (IBM)


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09:30-10:00
Industry talk (Cloud): “BlueMix” , Michael Behrendt (IBM)


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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Tutorial (Cloud): “Cloud Orchestration” , Frank Leymann (U of Stuttgart)


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11:30-12:00
Tutorial (Cloud): “Provisioning Techniques” , Johannes Wettinger (U of Stuttgart)


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12:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-18:00

Afternoon Session, Session Chair:
15:00-15:30
Tutorial (Cloud): “Provisioning Techniques” , Johannes Wettinger (U of Stuttgart)


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15:30-16:30
Tutorial (Cloud): “OpenTOSCA” , Uwe Breitenbucher (U of Stuttgart)


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16:30-17:00
Coffee break
17:00-17:30
Research talk (Cloud): “Pattern Repository” , Johanna Barzen (U of Stuttgart)


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17:30-18:00
Research talk (Cloud): “Dynamically adapting the deployment topology of cloud services for minimizing resources consumption and still meeting service level objective and performance goals”, Cataldo Mega (Enterprise Content Management, IBM Software Group)


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18:00-19:00
Welcome drink at Knossos Royal KAFENEIO
Tuesday, July 1
09:00-12:00

Morning Session – Session Chair:
09:00-09:30
Research talk (Elasticity on the Cloud): “Foundations and applications of SLAs for Elastic Computing” , Pablo Fernandez, (U of Sevilla)


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09:30-10:00
Research talk (Cloud): “Cloud Data Management for Scientific Workflows”, Holger Schwarz, (U of Stuttgart)


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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Tutorial (Elasticity on the Cloud): “Big Data platforms and cloud elasticity: use cases” , Ioannis Konstantinou (NTUA)


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11:30-12:00
Tutorial (Elasticity on the Cloud): “Software-defined machines and programming elastic IoT applications”, Stefan Nastic (TUV)


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12:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-18:30

Afternoon Session, Session Chair:
15:00-15:45
Tutorial (Elasticity on the Cloud): “Platform-as-a-Service for Software-defined Elastic Systems”, Hong-Linh Truong (TUV)


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15:45-16:30
Tutorial (Elasticity on the Cloud): “Demonstration on Elasticity Control”, Monitoring and Testing – Daniel Moldovan (TUV)


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16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:30
PhD session:

1. “The Architectural Template Method: Design-Time Engineering of SaaS Applications” , Sebastian Lehrig (U of Paderborn)


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2. “A Development Framework Enabling the Design of Service-based Cloud Applications…”, Fotis Gonidis (South-East European Research Centre (SEERC))


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3. “Monitoring Elastic Cloud Services”, Demetris Trihinas (U of Cyprus)


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4. “Novel Models and Techniques for Monitoring and Analysis of Software-defined Elastic Systems”, Daniel Moldovan (TUV)


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5. “The Open Source Cloud Stack – OpenStack and TOSCA”, Tim Weizenegger (U of Stuttgart)


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Wednesday, July 2
09:00-12:00

Morning Session – Session Chair:
09:00-10:00
Research Talk (Emerging Topics): “WattDB—a Rocky Road to Energy Proportionality in Database Systems”, Theo Haerder (U of Kaizerslautern)


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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Tutorial (Formal methods for SOC): “A survey on formal methods in SOC”, W. Reisig (HU Berlin)


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12:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-18:00

Afternoon Session, Session Chair:
15:00-16:30
Tutorial (Formal methods for SOC): “A survey on formal methods in SOC”, W. Reisig (HU Berlin)


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16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:00
Tutorial (Emerging topics): “Developing the Internet of Things: Opportunities and Challenges”, Carlos Pedrinaci, (The Open University)


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18:00-20:00
Free activities
20:00-22:00
Dinner at traditional Cretan Tavern
Thursday, July 3
09:00-12:00

Morning Session – Session Chair:
09:00-09:30
Research talk (Emerging topics): “The use of smartphones in respiratory medicine: The future” N. Siafakas (ECHO Project, U of Crete)


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09:30-10:00
Research talk (Emerging topics): “Intelligent Energy Systems” M. Vavalis (U of Thessaly)


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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Tutorial (Emerging topics): “Managing Big Data Graphs”, E.Pitoura (Univ. of Ioannina)


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12:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-18:00

Afternoon Session, Session Chair:
15:00-15:30
Tutorial (Emerging topics): “Evaluating Cloud Elasticity of an 3-Tier Application with Experiments and Simulations”, Christian Perez (INRIA)


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15:30-16:00
Tutorial (Emerging topics): “Multi-Clouds: from models to runtime support”, Dana Petcu (U of Timisoara)


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16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:00
Tutorial (Emerging topics): Automatic application elasticity in the clouds, Ioannis Konstantinou, (NTUA)


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Friday, July 4
09:30-12:00
IMSE Graduation Ceremony (@UoC campus)

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10:30 Doors Open Welcome drink / coffee

11:00 Beginning of Ceremony

Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Evripidis Stefanou,

Rector of University of Crete

11:10 Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Panos Trachanias,

Chairman of Computer Science Department, University of Crete

11:15 Welcome note by Prof. Dr. Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

Partner Coordinator Tilburg University

11:20 Welcome note by Prof. Dr. Christos Nikolaou,

Partner Coordinator University of Crete

11:25 Welcome note by Prof. Dr. -Ing. habil. Bernhard Mitschang

Partner Coordinator University of Stuttgart

11:30 Music break with Strings Ensemble, performing:

12:00 Address by Key Note Speaker, Dr. J. Sairamesh (Ramesh),

Managing Director, Advisory Board Company, ex-CEO, 360Fresh Inc.

Title: Disruption through Untamed Data Driven Innovation

12:30 Awards Ceremony

13:00 End of Ceremony
13:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-18:00
Afternoon Session (@UoC Campus)
15:00-18:00
Student Group presentations (@UoC Campus)
Saturday, July 5
10:00-13:00
Visit to the archaeological museum of Heraklion and the archaeological site of Knossos.