Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is now firmly established in professional software development and is closely linked with the development of composite web-delivered applications, or mashups. Yet, a close look to the Internet reveals that the success of user-generated content, in terms of wikis, blogs, and personal spaces, is not replicated in the domain of mashups and service-based applications. This web-site aims to provide a set of resources focused on facilitating the development of service-based software and mashups by users who are not trained software developers. We believe that the academic community of End-User Development (EUD) can contribute to the successful resolution of this challenge, in close collaboration with the SOA community which has recently started to move away from the technicalities of software engineering to consider the final-user, and possibly even an end-user. Yet, the uptake of EUD within the SOA paradigm is hampered by a number of complex issues, including intrinsic difficulties stemming from the complexity of technology and distributed nature of computations.
To address these issues, we had organised the Second International Workshop on EUD4Services Methodologies, Tools, and Evaluations in conjunction with the Third International Symposium on End-User Development IS-EUD 2011. The event follows on the footsteps of the successful EUD4Services Workshop (in conjunction with AVI 2010) and the Panel on "Support for the uptake of user-developed-services - business versus community model" (at IEEE/VL HCC).
Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento, Italy
Nikolay Mehandjiev, The University of Manchester, UK