[AISWorld] Call for Papers - ICSOC 2014 - 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing

[Samir Tata]

CALL FOR PAPERS

ICSOC 2014 - 12th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Paris, France
November 3-6, 2014
http://www.icsoc.org

ICSOC is the top international forum for academics, industry 
researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share 
groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters 
cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various 
disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, 
computer networks, wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, 
networking, scientific workflows, services science, management science, 
and software engineering.

ICSOC 2014 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners 
from multiple disciplines to focus on service-oriented, cloud-based, 
innovative enterprises ready for the 21st century. The conference will 
feature research and industry presentations, forward-looking keynote 
presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. 
Please refer to http://www.icsoc.org for more details about these 
associated events.

Important Dates
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Abstracts due: May 9, 2014
Full papers due: May 16, 2014
Notification to authors: July 11, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2014

Topics of Interest
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ICSOC 2014 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including 
theoretical and empirical evaluations, as well as practical and 
industrial experiences, with emphasis on results that solve open 
research problems and have significant impact on the field of 
service-oriented computing.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Service Engineering
     * Service Design
                 * Service Description
                 * Service-Oriented Architecture
                 * Service Composition
                 * Theoretical Foundations
                 * Service Engineering Methods
                 * Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies
                 * Semantic Web Services
                 * RESTful Web Services
                 * Service Change Management
                 * Service Discovery and Mining
                 * Service Customization
                 * Service Governance
                 * Legacy System Migration to Service-Oriented Architectures
* Service Operations and Management
                 * Management Processes and Methods
                 * Managing Service Infrastructure
                 * Quality of Service
                 * Security, Privacy and Trust
                 * Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services
                 * Execution and Resource Allocation Services
                 * Web as a Platform
* Services in the Cloud
                 * XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, 
and SaaS)
                 * Service Integration and Orchestration in the Cloud
                 * Cloud Service Management
                 * Decentralized Cloud Platform Architectures
                 * Software Engineering Models, Methods and 
Methodologies for XaaS
                 * Cloud Workflow Management
                 * Cloud Brokers and Coordination across Multiple 
Resource Managers
* Services in Organizations, Business and Society
                 * Social Networks and Services
                 * Human-Provided and Outsourcing of Services
                 * Business Service Modeling
                 * Business Process Modeling
                 * Cost and Pricing of Services
                 * Service Marketplaces
                 * OpenAPI
Service Applications and Implementations
                 * Grid and Scientific Computing Services
                 * Pervasive and Mobile Services
                 * Services for Big Data
                 * Embedded and Real-Time Services
                 * Services in Specific Application Domains 
(Domain-Specific Services)
                 * Data- and/or Compute-Intensive Applications
                 * Internet of Things

Paper Submission
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The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice 
papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should 
clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the 
relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted 
papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, 
originality, technical quality, and exposition. All papers will be 
reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

Prospective authors must submit abstracts prior to submitting full 
papers. Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including all references 
and figures. All papers must be prepared in the Springer LNCS format and 
be submitted electronically in PDF to the conference submission system 
(https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2014)

Best Paper Award
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The award will be given to the paper submitted to the conference as 
judged by the program committee.

Proceedings
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All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2014 proceedings published 
by Springer Verlag under the Services Science series.

Program Co-Chairs
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* Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
* Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA

General Chair
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Samir Tata, Télécom SudParis, France


Contact
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* email: pc AT icsoc.org
* web: http://www.icsoc.org

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Grace A. Lewis                                              Carnegie 
Mellon Software Engineering Institute
Senior Member of the Technical Staff                   4500 Fifth Ave.
Software Solutions Division (SSD)             Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Advanced Mobile Systems (AMS) Initiative   Phone: (412) 268-5851
WWW: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/glewis       Fax: (412) 268-5758