[AISWorld] CFP: The 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016)

[Lina Yao]

Dear Colleagues,


The 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016)
October 10-13, 2016, Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://icsoc.org

ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, 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, cyber-physical systems,
networking, scientific workflows, services science, data science,
management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC 2016, the 14th event in this series, will take place in Banff,
Alberta, Canada on October 10-13. Following on the ICSOC tradition, it will
feature forward-looking keynote presentations, research and industry
presentations, workshops, tool demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
ICSOC 2016 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
  Legacy systems migration to SOA
  Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and
deployment
  Service change management
  Service innovation
  Theoretical foundations

* Run-time Service Operations and Management
  Service execution middleware
  Service monitoring and adaptive management
  Quality of service
  Security, privacy, and trust
  Service governance

* Services and Data
  Services for Big Data
  Service for compute-intensive applications
  Mining and analytics
  Data-provisioning services
  Services related linked open data

* Services on the Cloud
  Migration to virtual infrastructures
  XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
  Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud
  Cloud service management
  Cloud workflow management
  Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers

* Services in the Internet of Things
  Embedded and real-time services
  RFID, sensor data and services related to the Internet of Things
  Services for IoT applications

* Services in organizations, business and society
  Services science
  Social networks and services
  Cost and pricing of services
  Service marketplaces and ecosystems
  Service business models
  Enterprise architecture and services

PAPER SUBMISSION
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.

Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS formatting
guidelines (for instructions and style sheets, see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0).
Submissions must be in English and not to exceed 15 pages including all
references and figures. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF
to the conference submission system (https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2016).

For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference and
present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this
individual will be at the time when the camera-ready version is submitted.

BEST PAPER AWARD
The award will be given to the paper that the Program Committee judges to
be the best in quality, execution and impact among all the accepted papers
in the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract & full paper due: May 15, 2016
Notification to authors:   Jun 30, 2016
Camera-ready papers due:   Jul 15, 2016
Author registration due:   Jul 15, 2016
Early registration due:    Aug 15, 2016
Conference dates:          Oct 10-13, 2016

PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
Samir Tata, Institute Mines-Telecom, France