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

[Michael Sheng]

Call for Papers

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

Follow ICSOC 2016 at https://twitter.com/ICSOC2016


**Two Special Issues (ACM TOIT, Elsevier FGCS) have been planned for 
high quality papers accepted by ICSOC 2016.
**Three keynote speeches from world's top minds (Elisa Bertino, Richard 
Hull, and Valerie Issarny) in the area.


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.

SPECIAL ISSUES
High quality papers accepted by ICSOC 2016 will be invited to submit an 
extended version for consideration of two special issues, at ACM 
Transactions on Internet Technology,

and Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier.

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