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Call for Papers

23rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2025)
December 1-4, 2025, Shenzhen, China
https://icsoc2025.hit.edu.cn
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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 2025, the 23rd event in this series, will take place in Shenzhen, China from 1 to 4 December 2025.

Submissions / Review Model
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Early submissions: Authors are invited to consider early submissions (deadline May 9, 2025). In the early submission round, only papers submitted as full/regular papers will be considered, and they will go through a full peer-review process. An early submitted paper that is accepted will be included in the proceedings. An early submitted paper that is rejected can be still revised and submitted to the normal submission round by the given deadline. If the authors of an early submitted paper that is rejected decide to resubmit their paper to the normal submission round, they will have to include an appendix (maximum 2 pages) describing how they have addressed the comments received by the reviewers from the early submission.

Regular submissions: Authors are welcome to submit papers to the regular submission round by the given deadline. To do so, they need to submit an abstract by 1 July 2025. After the regular submission deadline, the papers resubmitted from the early submission round and those submitted only to the regular submission round will undergo the same review process as other submissions. The decisions made from this regular review procedure will be final, and no resubmission will be permitted afterwards.

Anonymous submissions: ICSOC implements a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be referred to in the third person. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

Important dates
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Early paper submissions due: 9 May 2025
Regular paper abstract submissions due: 7 July 2025
Regular paper submissions due: 14 July 2025
Final notification to authors: 15 September 2025
Camera-ready manuscripts due: 1 October 2025
Author registration: 30 September 2025
All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth time (AOE = GMT - 12). Check the time in the AOE Zone here: https://time.is/AOE

Special Issues
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As per its tradition, ICSOC 2025 will also feature special issues in high-impact journals. A selection of the top accepted papers will be invited for special issues in journals.


Areas of interest
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ICSOC is the premier international forum for presenting the most recent and significant research contributions in service-oriented computing. These are organized in four focus areas:

Focus Area 1: Service-Oriented Technology Basics and Trends
Focus Area 2: AI for Services and as-a-Service
Focus Area 3: Novel Service Frameworks for Cloud Continuum and Smart Environments
Focus Area 4: Emerging Technologies

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and deployment
Service change management
Theoretical foundations of Service Science and Engineering
Service monitoring and adaptive management
Secure service lifecycle development
Privacy management aspects for services
Secure service lifecycle development
Privacy management aspects for services
Trust management for services
Service mining and analytics
Data-provisioning services
Cloud service management
Cloud and fog computing
Cloud Edge continuum
Edge service orchestration
AI as service
AI tools for service science and engineering
Green ICT and Sustainability of Service Systems
Metaverse services
IoT services
Lightweight service deployment and management
Social networks and services
Innovative service business models
Service-based business process management

We invite high-quality submissions of research papers describing original contributions that are unpublished and not under review elsewhere. The research papers will focus on traditional areas or in a specific focus area mentioned above. Research in each area will be considered strictly in the context of service-oriented computing. No papers would be accepted unless they clearly illustrate the contribution to the ICSOC areas of interest. Failure to provide such information can result in desk rejection.

Reproducibility Certification
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Research reproducibility is essential for scientific integrity and further scientific discovery. At ICSOC, we promote rigorous evaluation and sharing of data, code, and methodologies to enhance the credibility and impact of scientific contributions. Authors are urged to publicly share all research artifacts such as datasets, source code, and supplementary materials as part of their submission. To encourage reproducibility, ICSOC incorporates formal verification into its review process and introduces the respective badges. During paper submission, authors are requested to provide the Artifact Availability and Reproducibility Statement, which will be taken into account by the reviewers. Moreover, all accepted papers will be invited to be considered under the Artifact Evaluation track, to undergo a rigorous formal process of verifying the reproducibility of the results. Participating papers that successfully pass this process will get either Open Artifacts or Verified Artifacts badge.

Paper Submission
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Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission System. Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided deadlines. Authors are kindly invited to respect the abstract submission deadline, which is set one week before the paper submission. The limit length of accepted papers should be 15 pages (including abstract, figures and references). The final submission should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS Camera-ready instructions.

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 is together with the camera-ready submission.

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