The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on the advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC has evolved from the ECOWS (European Conference on Web Services) conference series, after the Steering Committee decided to renew and broaden its scope, and to start a new conference series on advanced topics of service-oriented and cloud computing.

The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2016 will include invited talks, and presentations of selected research papers with the participation of top researchers from academia and industry. ESOCC 2016 will also include a PhD Symposium and a series of satellite workshops.

Background

The continued success of service-oriented distributed applications has shown that tightly coupled software systems may be useful for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems have proven to be more flexible, adaptive and often more appropriate for practical applications.

Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other system components (including legacy systems) that have been developed independently somewhere in a heterogeneous universe of services. Thus, service-oriented applications can evolve more easily during their lifespan and adapt better to changing or even unpredictable environments. In such scenarios, cloud computing enables a new execution paradigm for distributed software applications where resources can be shared, optimally realized as well as utilized and exchanged between heterogeneous execution platforms and the cloud, so as to achieve fast response times and to ensure immersive and non-interrupted user experience.

Services today are developed independently, deployed as well as freely composed, and they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a fact which is of particular importance from a business perspective.

Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling mobility as well as device, platform and/or service independence by offering centralized sharing of resources. It promotes interoperability, portability and security standards, and raises a completely new set of security issues. On the implementation side, essential agreement has been reached on integration technologies and consensus has emerged in today’s middleware market. Customers use Web technologies extensively; however, service developers, providers, and integrators need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development and use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the cloud.

Topic of Interest

ESOCC 2016 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and cloud computing.

SOCC Core
- Big Data Management
- Business Process Management and Services
- Cloud Computing Business Models
- Cloud Interoperability and Federation
- Cloud Services Management and Composition
- Dynamic and Adaptive Services
- Economic and Business Models for Services
- Enterprise Architecture and Services
- Energy issues in Clouds
- Identity and Access Management using Services
- Service Composition
- Service Governance
- Service Marketplaces
- Services Life-Cycles

SOCC Engineering
- Agile Computing
- Architectural Models for Cloud Computing
- Big Data Management
- Frameworks for Building Service Based Applications
- Mashups
- Model-Driven Service Engineering
- Self-Organizing Service Oriented and Cloud Architectures
- Service Quality and Service Interface Design Guidelines
- Services Security and Privacy

Internet of Things and Mobility
- IoT Services and IoT Clouds
- Mobile Clouds and Mobile Services

Formal Methods for Services and Cloud Computing
- Compliance
- Self-Organizing Services and Clouds
- Service Composition
- Service Modeling, Analysis, and Design
- Service Science
- Services Security and Privacy
- Verification

Social Aspects
- Crowdsourcing Business Services
- Service-Oriented Business Collaboration
- Social and Crowd-based Cloud

Technologies
- DevOps in the Cloud
- Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds
- Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories
- RESTful Clouds and Services

Core Applications
- Commerce
- Energy
- Finance
- Health
- Scientific Computing
- Smart Cities
- Telecom


ESOCC 2016 solicits both new research papers (in the main track) as well as
reports on practical experiences from industry (industry track). However,
papers on existing products or product marketing information are not within
the scope of the ESOCC 2016 Industry Track.

Keynote speakers:
- David Costa, Vice President – Global SaaS Development & Innovation | SDL |
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Leymann, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart

Submissions

Original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2016

- Research papers
- Industry-Track papers
- Special Track on EU research projects on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
- PhD-Track (paper deadline: 05.07.2016)

Paper submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings
guidelines and the templates available at http://www.springer.com/computer/Incs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and they should not exceed 15 pages.

A paper might be accepted as a full paper (15 pages), as a short paper (8 pages) or as a poster (a 2-page abstract in the proceedings).
Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Organization

General Chair:
* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Program Chairs:
* Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway

Industry Track Chairs:
* Matteo Melideo, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA, Italy
* Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee, United States

Workshop Chairs:
* Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
* Alexander Lazovik, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

PhD Symposium Chairs:
* Wolf Zimmermann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
* Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy

IFIP WG Chairs:
* Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano
* Winfried Lamersdorf, Hamburg University, Germany

EU Projects Chair:
* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy

PC Members:
* Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
* Marcello Bonsangue, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
* Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy
* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
* Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA
* Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
* Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain
* Frank de Boer, CWI, The Netherlands
* Roberto di Cosmo, Université Paris Diderot, France
* Juergen Dunkel, FH Hannover, Germany
* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
* Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
* George Feuerlicht, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
* Claude Godart, University of Lorraine, France
* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Heerko Groefsema, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
* Reiner Haehnle, TU Darmstadt, Germany
* Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
* Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Kung Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, UK
* Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Universitaet Jena, Germany
* Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany
* Peep Kungas, University of Tartu, Estonia
* Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany
* Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden
* Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany
* Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany
* Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
* Alessandro Rossini, Sintef ICT, Norway
* Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
* Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
* Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Maarten van Steen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
* Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA
* Martin Wirsing, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany
* Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
* Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
* Olaf Zimmermann, HSR FHO Rapperswil, Switzerland
* Wolf Zimmermann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
* Christian Zirpins, KIT/Seeburger AG, Karlsruhe, Germany

Local Chair:
* Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria

Publicity Chair:
* Daniel Moldovan, TU Wien, Austria

Publication Chair:
* Ilche Georgievski, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Website Chair:
* Philipp Hoenisch, TU Wien, Austria

ESOCC Steering Committee:
* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
* Kung Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, UK
* Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany
* Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
* Ulf Schreier, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
* Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
* John Erik Wittern, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
* Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
* Olaf Zimmermann, HSR FHO Rapperswil, Switzerland
* Wolf Zimmermann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Contact Information
* s.schulte[AT]infosys.tuwien.ac.at
* http://esocc2016.eu
* Follow us on twitter @esocc