[AISWorld] CFP: The 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2018) - Nov 12-15, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Mon Apr 9 05:56:21 EDT 2018

====================== ICSOC2018 ======================

The 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing

November 12-15, 2018, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

http://icsoc.org/

Abstract Submission Due: May 28, 2018
Full Paper Submission: June 4, 2018
Notification to Authors: July 23, 2018
Camera Ready Papers Due: August 6, 2018
Author Registration Due: August 8, 2018
Early Registration Due: September 24, 2018
Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2018

==================== ABOUT ICSOC2018 ===================

ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is
the premier 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 2018, the 16th event in this series, will take place in
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China on November 12-15, 2018. Following on the
ICSOC tradition, it will feature visionary keynote presentations,
research and industry presentations, workshops, tool demonstrations,
tutorials, and a PhD track.

=================== TOPICS OF INTEREST =================

ICSOC 2018 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:

1. Service Engineering
    Legacy systems migration and modernization
    Service design, specification, discovery, customization,
composition, and deployment
    Service change management
    Service innovation
    Theoretical foundations of Service Engineering
2. Run-time Service Operations and Management
    Service execution middleware
    Service monitoring and adaptive management
    Quality of service
    Security, privacy, and trust
    Workload compliance management
    Service governance
    Architectures for multi-host container deployments
    Microservices deployment and management
3. Services and Data
    Services for Big Data
    Service for compute-intensive applications
    Mining and analytics
    Data-provisioning services
    Services related linked open data
    Automated Knowledge Graph creation
4. 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
    Edge computing vs Cloud computing
    Workload transformation
5. 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 oriented protocols for IoT applications
    REST APIs and services for IoT applications
6. 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
    Service Chatbots
7. Services at the Edge
    Analytics and knowledge generation services
    Edge service orchestration
    Lightweight service deployment and management
    Services and edge gateway architectures
    Quality of Service (QoS) in edge services
    Security, privacy, and trust of edge services
    Paper Submission

====================== SUBMISSIONS =====================

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. Submissions must be in English and not exceed 15 pages
including all references and figures. All papers must be submitted
electronically in PDF to the Conference Submission System.

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

==================== BEST PAPER AWARD ==================

The Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer, 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 Submission Due: May 28, 2018
Full Paper Submission: June 4, 2018
Notification to Authors: July 23, 2018
Camera Ready Papers Due: August 6, 2018
Author Registration Due: August 8, 2018
Early Registration Due: September 24, 2018
Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2018

====================== PROCEEDINGS =====================

All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings
published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.

======================== CONTACTS =======================

General Co-Chairs: gc at icsoc.org
Program Co-Chairs: pc at icsoc.org