This volume contains the conference proceedings of ICSOC 2008, the 6th Inter- tional Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, which took place in Sydney, A- tralia, December 1-5, 2008; it comprises research, industry and demo papers. ICSOC 2008 built upon the tradition of ?ve previous successful editions that were held in Vienna, Austria (2007), Chicago, USA (2006), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2005), New York City, USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003). ICSOC is recognized as the premier conference for service-oriented computing research; it covers the entire sp- trum from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations to practical and industrial experiences. In addition, ICSOC 2008 has successfully demonstrated the cross-disciplinary nature of service engineering by building bridges with the business community, and by attracting contributions on service-oriented systems of systems integration. Service-orientedcomputing(SOC) hasemergedas anapproachto tacklingthe c- plexity we face in developing, operating and maintaining Internet-scale applications of highquality. SOCshiftsthefocusfrommonolithicsystemsto?exibleintegrationofs- vices using novel approaches to dynamic discovery, orchestration, assembly and m- agement, policy and governance, quality of service, and information assurance. SOC is also a key enablerof the emergingtrendstowardsgridandcloudcomputing, which play an integral role in enabling novel applications in E-Sciences, E-Government and ult- large-scale software-intensive systems, to name just a few examples. This shift toward ?exible service integration also requires a deep understanding and, often, rethinking of end-to-end systems engineering processes, including the corresponding business and economic drivers for de?nition of, or changes to, enterprise architectures

Software development for the automotive domain has become the enabling te- nologyforalmostallsafety-criticalandcomfortfunctionso?eredtothecustomer. Ninety percentofallinnovations inautomotive systems aredirectly or indirectly enabled by embedded software. The numbers of serious accidents have declined in recent years, despite constantly increasing tra?c; this is correlated with the introduction of advanced, software-enabled functionality for driver assistance, such as electronic stability control. Software contributes signi?cantly to the - tomotive value chain. By 2010 it is estimated that software will make up 40% of the value creation of automotive electrics/electronics. However, with the large number of software-enabled functions, their int- actions, and the corresponding networking and operating infrastructure, come signi?cant complexities both during the automotive systems engineering p- cess and at runtime. A central challenge for automotive systems development is the scattering of functionality across multiple subsystems, such as electronic control units (ECUs) and the associated networks. As an example, consider the central locking systems (CLS), whose functionality is spread out over up to 19 di?erent ECUs in some luxury cars. Of course, this includes advanced functi- ality, such as seat positioning and radio tuning according to driver presets upon entry, as well as unlocking in case of a detected impact or accident. However, thisexampledemonstratesthatmodernautomotivesystemsbridgecomfort-and safety-critical functionality. This induces particular demands on safety and - curity, and, in general, software and systems quality. The resulting challenges and opportunities were discussed, in depth, at the second Automotive Software Workshop San Diego (ASWSD) 2006, on whose results we report here.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First Automotive Software Workshop, ASWD 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in January 2004. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 lectures held at the workshop that brought together experts from industry and academia, working on highly complex, distributed, reactive software systems related to the automotive domain.