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

Mohamed Sellami mohamed.sellami at isep.fr
Fri Mar 11 08:21:16 EST 2016


Call for Papers

The 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016)
October 10-13, 2016, Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://icsoc.org <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 Springerís LNCS formatting guidelines (for instructions and style sheets, see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0 <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 <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








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