[AISWorld] IEEE SOCA 2015 in Rome, Italy - 1st Call-for-Papers

[Massimo Mecella]

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8th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and
Applications
(SOCA 2015)
WWW: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~soca2015
E-Mail: soca2015-committee at dis.uniroma1.it
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Important Dates
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Submission of Papers:  May 1, 2015
Notification:          June 30, 2015
Final Version Due:     July 15, 2015
Conference Dates:      October 19-21, 2015


Location
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Rome, Italy

Call for Papers
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Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key technology for
the development of robust and high quality intelligent Internet-scale
distributed and embedded applications. Extensive research and development
in the past few years has pushed SOC technology into state-of-the-art
applications in emerging areas such as Internet-of-Things (IoTs),
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), as
well as mobile and enterprise systems. However, many of the critical
components on building reliable, robust, and user-centric, cloud-based
service-oriented architecture applications and systems are still open for
research. Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented architecture (SOA)
research opportunities by addressing new research challenges on emerging
applications domains like smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories
and e-Health, to mention only a few.

Many of the service components are deployed on resource limited embedded
systems and are performance sensitive; others are deployed on cloud servers
providing highly parallel services and on edge servers in the middle of
resource-limited systems and high-end servers. These components are part of
complex applications and systems that span multiple execution environments.
Their capabilities are increasingly being managed and (re)configured via
emerging software-defined and elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have
to interact with humans in order to solve complex problems. Thus, on the
one hand, SOC may provide effective solutions for managing the
ever-increasing complexity while meeting the challenging requirements of
services on largely distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic resource
environments. On the other hand, the exploitation of emerging trends in
such environments to build SOC applications and systems for large-scale
service-based systems is an open research challenge.

The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and
Applications (SOCA 2015) provides an international forum for researchers
from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences, ideas,
and latest research results on all aspects of service-oriented computing.
The conference includes three days of parallel tracks program,
special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel discussion.

We invite submissions of high quality papers describing fully developed
results or ongoing work on the following topics and related areas:

- Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and applications
- Micro-services and reactive programming
- Cloud-based systems
- Cyber-physical systems
- SOC-based things, processes and people integration
- SOC-based business process and workflow management
- Elasticity-aware service composition
- Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service middleware
- Streaming and real-time data analytics in SOC-based systems
- Mobile service engineering and applications
- Context-aware computing for SOC
- Service ecosystems for large-scale SOC
- SOCA development, deployment and testing tools for smart applications
(cities, transportation systems, factories, homes and offices, etc.)
- Security and privacy for intelligent service applications
- End-to-end dependable and trustworthy services
- Business services and service innovation in emerging environments
- Big data services, including big data analytics applied to service
computing and service-based computing for big data analytics
- Green and energy-aware SOC, SOC applied to green and energy-aware
applications and computing


Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers in any
of the areas listed in the Call for Papers.
Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. Please follow the IEEE
Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare
your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. Only papers in English
will be accepted.
Information about the IEEE format can be found at:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the
covered topics (three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be
indicated at
the end of the abstract), preferably using the list of conference's topics.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system using
the following URL:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2015

Please upload a self-contained PDF file. Submissions not conforming to the
IEEE format, longer than 8 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of
the conference will be rejected
without review. In order to submit your paper, you will first need to
register into the system, if you are not registered already.
You may submit an abstract first and upload the actual paper at a later
time (this is in fact strongly recommended). Furthermore, you may revise
your
submission any number of times before the deadline. Please feel free to
contact the organizers with any questions you may have.

All papers submitted to SOCA 2015 will be peer-reviewed by at least 3
reviewers. Papers that are selected for presentation at SOCA 2015 will
appear
in the Proceedings of SOCA 2015, will be included in IEEE Xplore and
indexed by EI. Each paper accepted for SOCA 2015 requires at least one
author to register
at the full rate (IEEE member or non-IEEE member). At least one author is
required to attend the conference and present the paper.

The best papers from the proceedings will be invited to submit an extended
version for publication in the Springer Journal on Service-Oriented
Computing and Applications (SOCA).
Furthermore, a Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper
selected from the accepted full papers.



Workshops, Demos, Doctoral Consortium
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Specific call for workshop proposals and subsequent workshop papers, demos,
doctoral consortium papers will be issued in the next weeks. All papers in
these categories will appear in the Proceedings of SOCA 2015 and be
included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Papers accepted in these
categories will have to be prepared in their final version by 15 July 2015
and will require at least one author to register at the full rate (IEEE
member or non-IEEE member). At least one author is required to attend the
conference and present the papers in these categories.


General Chairs
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Massimo Mecella - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Kwei-Jay Lin - University of California, Irvine, USA

PC Chair
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Marco Aiello - University of Groningen, Netherlands

PC Vice-Chairs
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Heiko Ludwig - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Kuo Ming Chao - Coventry University, UK
Chris Stary - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Local Organizing Chair
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Andrea Marrella - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy

Workshop Chairs
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Chang-ai Sun - University of Science and Technology Bejing, China
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Pierluigi Plebani - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Publication Chair
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Jong-Chan Kim - Kookmin University, Korea

Web Chair
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Francesco Leotta, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Francesco Leotta - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Jun Shen - University of Wollongong, Australia
Chi-Sheng Shih - National Taiwan University, Taiwan

PhD Doctoral Consortium
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Hong-Linh Truong - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jian Yang - Macquarie University, Australia

Panel Co-Chairs
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Barbara Pernici - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alexander Lazovik - University of Groningen, Netherlands
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